May 1
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[edit] Events
- 1351 - Zurich becomes part of Switzerland.
[edit] Births
- 1672- Joseph Addison, author and essayist
- 1924- Terry Southern, writer
[edit] Deaths
- 408 - Arcadius, Roman emperor
- 1308 - Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (born 1255)
- 1572 - Pope Pius V (born 1504)
- 1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (born 1677)
- 1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman
- 1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (born 1719)
- 1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (born 1768)
- 1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (born 1813)
- 1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (born 1824)
- 1904 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (born 1841)
- 1937 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (born 1868)
- 1945 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (born 1897)
- 1965 - Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (born 1911)
- 1970 - Yi, Eun, Crown Prince Korea (born 1897)
- 1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek politician and poet (born 1939)
- 1978 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (born 1903)
- 1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (born 1903)
- 1989 - Douglass Watson, American actor (born 1921)
- 1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (suicide) (born 1925)
- 1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1924)
- 1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (born 1960)
- 1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (born 1935)
- 2000 - Steve Reeves, American actor (born 1926)
