Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/May 2
- 1683 - Death of Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
- 1802 - Birth of Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870)
- 1927 - Death of Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
- 1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported.
- 1939 - Birth of Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
- 1946 - Death of Simon Flexner, American pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
- 1979 - Death of Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 1997 - Death of John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- 2002 - Death of W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician (b. 1917)