About the day » Sunday May 2, 1886Calender converter

• * Geertruida van den Berg († 1958)
• Albertus Antonius Vercauteren, Sint-Niklaas
• Albert VISSER, Visvliet (Grijpskerk) Groningen Netherlands († 1897)
• Anna Alberta Räkers, Uelsen
• Ambrosio Repetto, Ocumare de la Costa Venezuela
• , OCHTEN (Neder-Betuwe), GD, NL († 1972)
• Ale Meintes de Groot, Akkrum, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1887)
• Adriana E G Graauwmans, Ginneken en Bavel,Noord-Brabant,Nederland († 1886)
• Aaltje (ella) Konjer, weerwille Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Nederland († 1967)
• Adriana Elisabeth Gerarda Graauwmans, Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1886)

• Adrianus (2) van der Sanden (43), Princenhage
• Zaal (0), Hekendorp
• Adriaan Boudewijnse Bakker (84), Nieuwerkerk
• Sanders (0), Valburg
• Aagje Baks (17), Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aagje Baks (17), Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafke Huizinga (39), Toornwerd
• Anna-Catharina Wierinckx (76), Lubbeek
• Andries van Klij (2), Meerkerk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Willemsz van Klij (2), Meerkerk, zh.nld

• 1879 » James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and politician, 49th United States Secretary of State († 1972)
• 1880 » Bill Horr, American football player, discus thrower, and coach († 1955)
• 1882 » Isabel González, Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship († 1971)
• 1885 » Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip columnist († 1966)
• 1886 » Gottfried Benn, German author and poet († 1956)
• 1887 » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager († 1951)
• 1887 » Vernon Castle, English-American dancer († 1918)
• 1889 » Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian philosopher, academic, and politician († 1959)
• 1890 » E. E. Smith, American engineer and author († 1965)
• 1892 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot († 1918)

• 1857 » Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (b. 1810)
• 1864 » Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)
• 1880 » Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)
• 1880 » Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)
• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)
• 1925 » Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
• May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
• June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
• June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
• June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
• July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.

The temperature on May 2, 1886 was about 7.7 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%.