About the day » Monday May 2, 1955Calender converter

• Anna Agnes - Agnes - Aggie Bruns, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2004)
• Maria Daamen, Hulsberg, Limburg, Nederland († 2012)
• T.M.J. Janssen, Wijchen († 2013)
• Greg Michael Ralston, Aspen, Colorado
• Gerardus Johannes Maria (Gerard) Ratterman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Linda Dianne Pike, Springfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States († 2005)
• Amaury comte d'Ursel, Louvain (Belgique) († 1955)
• peter silvester cornelis marie (piet) thiesen, helden-egchel
• Thomas C Huisman, Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa († 2017)
• ton van grimbergen, baexem

• Bertha Francisca BOGAERTS (53), Mechelen, 12025, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Catharina Brouwer (88), Nederweert, Zuid-Limburg, Nederland
• Aloisius Johannes de Roij (87), Alphen en Riel
• Aleida Tempelaar (74), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonia Stroeve (65), Nordhorn (Bentheim Hannover)
• Anne Jans Mulder (71)
• Adrianus Johannes Josephus Schijvens (34), Tilburg
• Aleida Tempelaar(s) (74), Emmen (NL)
• Antonie ROSENBRAND (81), 'S Gravenmoer, Gemeente Dongen, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Charles Morris Childs (78), Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States

• 1952 » Chris Anderson, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1952 » Christine Baranski, American actress and singer
• 1953 » Jamaal Wilkes, American basketball player
• 1953 » Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor and director
• 1954 » Dawn Primarolo, English politician
• 1954 » Elliot Goldenthal, American composer and conductor
• 1954 » Stephen Venables, English mountaineer and author
• 1955 » Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
• 1955 » Willie Miller, Scottish footballer
• 1956 » Régis Labeaume, Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City

• 1941 » Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
• 1945 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)
• 1953 » Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)
• 1957 » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)
• 1963 » Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)
• 1969 » Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
• 1972 » J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Peter
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. John
10. Petrus
11. Gerrit
12. Dirk
13. David
14. Adrianus
15. Johan
16. Jacobus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Elisabeth
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Yvonne
11. Petronella
12. Marianne
13. Margaretha
14. Gerda
15. Marie
16. Helena

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
• July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
• September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
• September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
• September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
• December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
• December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.

The temperature on May 2, 1955 was between 8.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.