Anniversaries 2 October

Birth

Richard III of England6

English monarch 1452–1485

David Mushet2

Scottish metallurgist 1772–1847

Théodore Guérin30

Catholic saint and nun from France 1798–1856

Theodore Tilton7

American newspaper editor 1835–1907

Sergey Nechayev10

Russian revolutionary 1847–1882

Paul von Hindenburg13

Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and president of … 1847–1934

Ferdinand Foch32

French soldier and military theorist 1851–1929

William Ramsay1

Scottish chemist (1852–1916) 1852–1916

Patrick Geddes1

British scientist and town planner 1854–1932

Mahatma Gandhi238

pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

Cordell Hull2

American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1… 1871–1955

Winnifred Harper Cooley1

American author and lecturer 1874–1967

Carl Hayden8

American federal politician 1877–1972

Wallace Stevens278

American poet 1879–1955

Groucho Marx117

American comedian 1890–1977

Roy Campbell (poet)10

South African poet 1901–1957

Walter Thomas Monnington1

British artist 1902–1976

Graham Greene164

English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991

Lal Bahadur Shastri24

The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a le… 1904–1966

Fumiko Enchi1

Japanese writer 1905–1986

Yoshimi Takeuchi1

Japanese academic 1910–1977

Jack Finney15

Novelist, short story writer 1911–1995

Christian de Duve1

Belgian biochemist, cytologist 1917–2013

Edmund Crispin1

British composer 1921–1978

Eugenio Cruz Vargas2

Chilean poet and painter 1923–2014

Gilbert Simondon3

20th century French philosopher 1924–1989

Jan Morris1

British historian 1926

Geert Hofstede11

Dutch psychologist 1928

Wolfhart Pannenberg2

German theologian 1928–2014

Howard Roberts1

American guitarist 1929–1992

Эрл Уилсон1

American baseball player 1934–2005

Sandra Seacat10

American acting teacher and actress 1936

Johnnie Cochran2

American lawyer 1937–2005

Michael Campbell (bishop)1

Catholic bishop 1941

Vernor Vinge34

American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fic… 1944

Don McLean20

American Singer and songwriter 1945

Susan McClary5

American musicologist 1946

Ward Churchill14

Political activist 1947

Donna Karan1

American fashion designer 1948

Annie Leibovitz1

American photographer 1949

Antonio Di Pietro2

Italian politician, magistrate and lawyer 1950

Sting16

English musician 1951

Larry Winget2

American motivational speaker 1952

Philip Oakey2

English pop singer 1955

Brian Regan (comedian)4

American comedian 1957

Wang Ju-hsuan4

Taiwanese politician 1961

Elizabeth Wein34

American children's writer 1964

Fabien Cousteau3

French filmmaker and oceanographer 1967

Matthew Pearl1

American writer 1975

Ayumi Hamasaki71

Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress 1978

Stephanie Okereke Linus6

Nigerian Actress and singer 1982

Samantha Barks1

Manx singer and actress 1990

Death

Owen Swiny1

Irish theatre manager 1676–1754

Fukuda Chiyo-ni3

Japanese writer 1703–1775

Samuel Adams57

American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political p… 1722–1803

William Ellery Channing71

United States Unitarian clergyman 1780–1842

François Arago8

French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician 1786–1853

John Whiteaker1

American politician 1820–1902

Ernest Renan11

French philosopher and writer 1823–1892

Raja Ravi Varma2

Indian painter 1848–1906

P. D. Ouspensky41

Russian esotericist 1878–1947

Marcel Duchamp66

French painter and sculptor 1887–1968

Narada Maha Thera11

Sri Lankan monk and missionary 1898–1983

Oskar R. Lange3

Polish economist 1904–1965

Alec Issigonis1

British car designer 1906–1988

Heinz von Foerster11

Austrian American scientist and cybernetician 1911–2002

Norman O. Brown3

classicist 1913–2002

Peter Medawar40

scientist 1915–1987

Paul R. Halmos9

American mathematician 1916–2006

Nipsey Russell1

American entertainer 1918–2005

Marek Edelman3

Jewish resistance member 1922–2009

Brian Friel2

Irish dramatist, author and theatre director 1929–2015

J. Philippe Rushton2

Canadian psychology professor 1943–2012

August Wilson13

American playwright 1945–2005

Paul Otellini2

former president & CEO of Intel 1950–2017

Tom Petty127

American musician 1950–2017

Jamal Khashoggi5

Saudi Arabian journalist 1958–2018