Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 2

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[edit] Births

• 1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia (d.1796)
• 1892 - Manfred von Richthofen, German World War I pilot - the Red Baron (d. 1918)(pictured)
• 1903 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
• 1903 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author (d. 1998)
• 1935 - King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
• 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, British-born singer
• 1975 - David Beckham, English footballer

[edit] Deaths

• 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
• 1957 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
• 1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
• 1997 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)