Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 2


 * 1602 - Birth of Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher
 * 1772 - Birth of romantic author Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
 * 1886 - Birth of author Gottfried Benn
 * 1892 - Birth of Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen
 * 1945 - Capitulation of German forces in Berlin after the Battle of Berlin