(-) Artist, scientist, engineer, mathematician and polymath Leonardo di ser Piero Da Vinci dies at the age of 67 in Amboise, Indre-et-Loire, France.
477 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 May 1536
(x) Second wife of Henry VIII Anne Boleyn is arrested and charged with adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft in London, London City of, United Kingdom.
284 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 May 1729
(+) Catharina the Great is born in Stettin, Poland.
241 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 May 1772
(+) Writer and philosopher Novalis originally Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, is born in Oberwiederstedt, Sachsen, Germany.
153 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 May 1860
(+) Playwright, journalist and founder of the World Zionist Organisation Theodor Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl is born in Budapest, Hungary.
126 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 May 1887
(+) War pilot Manfred Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron, is born in Breslau, Silesia, Poland.
(+) Paediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock is born in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
94 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 May 1919
(-) Advocate of Communist Anarchism Gustav Landauer is stoned to death by Freikorps troopers at the age of 49 in München, Stadelheim Prison, Bayern, Germany.
83 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 May 1930
(x) 59-year-old Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is arrested for vagrancy in Newark, New Jersey, United States.
82 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 May 1931
(-) Murderer Erich Tetzner aka The Murderer Who Died Twice, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 26 in Regensburg, Germany.
77 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 May 1936
(+) Musician Engelbert Humperdinck originally Arnold George Dorsay, is born in Madras, India.
75 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 May 1938
(-) William Ramsey is shot dead by Joseph Earlywine at the age of 34 in Penfield, Illinois, United States.
71 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 2 May 1942
(-) Ivy McLeod is strangled by Edward Leonski aka The Singing Strangler, at the age of 40 in Melbourne, Australia.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 May 1945
(-) Nazi-leader Martin Bormann commits suicide by cyanide-poisoning at the age of 44 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
His skeleton was only found on 28 december 1972, during construction works near the Lehrter Station.
68 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 2 May 1945
(x) The German radio officially anounces the death of the 56-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
67 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 May 1946
(+) Singer-songwriter Lesley Gore originally Lesley Sue Goldstein, is born in New York City, New York, United States.
56 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 May 1957
(-) Politician and Communist-hunter Joseph Raymond McCarthy dies of acute hepatitis and an inflammation of the liver due to alcoholism at the age of 48 in Bethesda, Naval Hospital, Maryland, United States.
53 YEARS AGO - on Monday 2 May 1960
(-) Robber, kidnapper and rapist Caryl Whittler Chessman aka The Red Light Bandit, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 38 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, United States.
41 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 May 1972
(-) FBI-boss John Edgar Hoover dies of the effects of high blood pressure at the age of 77 in Washington, District Columbia, United States.
39 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 2 May 1974
(x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, is sentenced to death in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
18 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 May 1995
(-) Murderer Keith Zettlemoyer is executed by lethal injection at the age of 39 in Rockview Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, United States.
It was the first execution in Pennsylvania in 33 years.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 May 1997
(-) Triple murderer Walter Hill is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 62 in Atmore, Alabama, United States.
16 YEARS AGO - on Friday 2 May 1997
(x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Ahmad Suraji aka Nasib Datuk Kalewang aka The Sorcerer, is arrested in Jakarta, Indonesia.
He confessed to the murders of 42 women whom he ‘treated’ as a sorcerer, this involved the drinking of their saliva, and strangling them while half buried.
14 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 2 May 1999
(-) Actor Oliver Robert Reed dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Valetta, Malta.
He supposedly drank three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer and numerous whiskies in a bar on the night he died.
7 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 2 May 2006
(x) 113 Die in Armavia Airbus 320 crash in Sotsji, Russia.
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