Editing May 2 (section)

===1601–1900===
*[[1627]] &ndash; [[Lodovico Grossi da Viadana]], Italian composer and educator (b. 1560)
*[[1667]] &ndash; [[George Wither]], English poet and author (b. 1588)
*[[1683]] &ndash; [[Stjepan Gradić]], Croatian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1613)
*[[1711]] &ndash; [[Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester]], English politician, [[First Lord of the Treasury]] (b. 1641)
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo]] (b. 1740)
*[[1802]] &ndash; [[Herman Willem Daendels]], Dutch general and politician, [[List of colonial governors of the Dutch Gold Coast|Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast]] (b. 1762)
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Henry Jerome de Salis]], English priest (b. 1740)
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[Mary Moser]], English painter and academic (b. 1744)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[James Gates Percival]], American poet, surgeon and geologist (b. 1795)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Pearson |first1=William H. |title=James Gates Percival |magazine=The Wisconsin Magazine of History |date=1924 |volume=8 |issue=2 |page=131 |jstor=4630539 |issn=0043-6534}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Alfred de Musset]], French dramatist, poet, and novelist  (b. 1810)
*[[1864]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]], German composer and educator (b. 1791)
*[[1866]] &ndash; [[José Gálvez Egúsquiza]], Peruvian politician (b. 1819)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.congreso.gob.pe/Docs/participacion/museo/congreso/files/files/jose_g_galvez.pdf |title=JOSÉ GABRIEL GÁLVEZ EGÚSQUIZA |website=[[Congress of Peru]] |access-date=2023-01-01 |archive-date=2022-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809224511/https://www.congreso.gob.pe/Docs/participacion/museo/congreso/files/files/jose_g_galvez.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1880]] &ndash; [[Eberhard Anheuser]], German-American businessman, co-founded [[Anheuser-Busch]] (b. 1805)
*  1880   &ndash; [[Tom Wills]], Australian cricketer, co-created [[Australian rules football]] (b. 1835)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Terézia Zakoucs]], Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Lars Oftedal (born 1838)|Lars Oftedal]], Norwegian priest, social reformer, politician, and newspaper editor (b. 1838)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Lars Oftedal (prest) |first=Magnus A. |last=Mardal |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=23 August 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad |editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Lars_Oftedal_-_prest |language=no |access-date=24 March 2024 |archive-date=24 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240324011544/https://snl.no/Lars_Oftedal_-_prest |url-status=live }}</ref>