What happened on May 1 ?
Deaths
408 - Arcadius, Roman emperor
1118 - Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)
1308 - Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (b. 1255)
1572 - Pope Pius V (b. 1504)
1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman
1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813)
1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
1904 - AntonÃn Dvo?ák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
1937 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868)
1945 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (b. 1897)
1965 - Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911)
1968 - Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (b. 1886)
1970 - Yi, Eun, Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897)
1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (b. 1939)
1978 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)
1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
1989 - Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
1989 - Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921)
1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (suicide) (b. 1925)
1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1960)
1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
2000 - Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
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