Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 2

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

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)