Famous Deaths In May - 02

0373  Death of Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298) on this day in history.   

0649  On May - 02 maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies   

0756  On May - 02 death of emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701)   

0907  On May - 02 death of boris I of Bulgaria   

1230  Death of William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197) on May - 02.   

1250  Death of Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered on May - 02.   

1300  On May - 02 death of blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)   

1450  On May - 02 death of william de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)   

1459  Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies on May - 02.   

1488  On this day in history jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies   

1519  Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67 on May - 02.   

1564  Death of Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500) on this day in history.   

1567  Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies on this day in history.   

1627  Death of Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560) on this day in history.   

1667  Death of George Wither, English writer (b. 1588) on this day in history.   

1669  Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 on May - 02.   

1683  Death of Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613) on this day in history.   

1685  On May - 02 death of adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried   

1711  Death of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641) on this day in history.   

1727  Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 on May - 02.   

1736  On May - 02 albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71   

1799  On May - 02 henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58   

1802  On this day in history death of herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)   

1810  Death of Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b.1740) on this day in history.   

1818  Herman W Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55 on May - 02.   

1819  Death of Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744) on May - 02.   

1845  August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48 on this day in history.   

1849  David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84 on May - 02.   

1857  On May - 02 lC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies   

1864  On this day in history giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72   

1892  Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1897  William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63 on May - 02.   

1919  On May - 02 gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies   

1927  On May - 02 death of ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)   

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1360  On May - 02 birth of yongle, Emperor of China (d. 1424)   

1451  On May - 02 birth of rené II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)   

1458  On this day in history birth of leonor of Viseu, queen of Portugal (d. 1525)   

1551  William Camden, English historian (Brittania, Annales) was born on this day in history.   

1601  On this day in history birth of athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)   

1660  Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane) was born on May - 02.   

1695  Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born architect (d. 1766) was born on this day in history.   

1702  On this day in history birth of friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)