Template:Selected anniversaries/May 2
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1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan_Gradi%C4%87
2002 – W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1917)
1802 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)