Anniversaries 2 October
Birth
![Richard III of England photo]()
English monarch
1452–1485
![David Mushet photo]()
Scottish metallurgist
1772–1847
![Théodore Guérin photo]()
Catholic saint and nun from France
1798–1856
![Theodore Tilton photo]()
American newspaper editor
1835–1907
![Sergey Nechayev photo]()
Russian revolutionary
1847–1882
![Paul von Hindenburg photo]()
Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and president of …
1847–1934
![Ferdinand Foch photo]()
French soldier and military theorist
1851–1929
![William Ramsay photo]()
Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
1852–1916
![Patrick Geddes photo]()
British scientist and town planner
1854–1932
![Mahatma Gandhi photo]()
pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul…
1869–1948
![Cordell Hull photo]()
American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1…
1871–1955
![Winnifred Harper Cooley photo]()
American author and lecturer
1874–1967
![Carl Hayden photo]()
American federal politician
1877–1972
![Groucho Marx photo]()
American comedian
1890–1977
![Roy Campbell (poet) photo]()
South African poet
1901–1957
![Graham Greene photo]()
English writer, playwright and literary critic
1904–1991
![Lal Bahadur Shastri photo]()
The second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a le…
1904–1966
![Fumiko Enchi photo]()
Japanese writer
1905–1986
![Yoshimi Takeuchi photo]()
Japanese academic
1910–1977
![Jack Finney photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1911–1995
![Christian de Duve photo]()
Belgian biochemist, cytologist
1917–2013
![Edmund Crispin photo]()
British composer
1921–1978
![Eugenio Cruz Vargas photo]()
Chilean poet and painter
1923–2014
![Gilbert Simondon photo]()
20th century French philosopher
1924–1989
![Wolfhart Pannenberg photo]()
German theologian
1928–2014
![Howard Roberts photo]()
American guitarist
1929–1992
![Эрл Уилсон photo]()
American baseball player
1934–2005
![Sandra Seacat photo]()
American acting teacher and actress
1936
![Johnnie Cochran photo]()
American lawyer
1937–2005
![Vernor Vinge photo]()
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fic…
1944
![Don McLean photo]()
American Singer and songwriter
1945
![Susan McClary photo]()
American musicologist
1946
![Donna Karan photo]()
American fashion designer
1948
![Annie Leibovitz photo]()
American photographer
1949
![Antonio Di Pietro photo]()
Italian politician, magistrate and lawyer
1950
![Larry Winget photo]()
American motivational speaker
1952
![Wang Ju-hsuan photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1961
![Elizabeth Wein photo]()
American children's writer
1964
![Fabien Cousteau photo]()
French filmmaker and oceanographer
1967
![Ayumi Hamasaki photo]()
Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
1978
![Stephanie Okereke Linus photo]()
Nigerian Actress and singer
1982
![Samantha Barks photo]()
Manx singer and actress
1990
Death
![Owen Swiny photo]()
Irish theatre manager
1676–1754
![Fukuda Chiyo-ni photo]()
Japanese writer
1703–1775
![Samuel Adams photo]()
American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political p…
1722–1803
![William Ellery Channing photo]()
United States Unitarian clergyman
1780–1842
![François Arago photo]()
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician
1786–1853
![John Whiteaker photo]()
American politician
1820–1902
![Ernest Renan photo]()
French philosopher and writer
1823–1892
![P. D. Ouspensky photo]()
Russian esotericist
1878–1947
![Marcel Duchamp photo]()
French painter and sculptor
1887–1968
![Narada Maha Thera photo]()
Sri Lankan monk and missionary
1898–1983
![Oskar R. Lange photo]()
Polish economist
1904–1965
![Alec Issigonis photo]()
British car designer
1906–1988
![Heinz von Foerster photo]()
Austrian American scientist and cybernetician
1911–2002
![Paul R. Halmos photo]()
American mathematician
1916–2006
![Nipsey Russell photo]()
American entertainer
1918–2005
![Marek Edelman photo]()
Jewish resistance member
1922–2009
![Brian Friel photo]()
Irish dramatist, author and theatre director
1929–2015
![J. Philippe Rushton photo]()
Canadian psychology professor
1943–2012
![August Wilson photo]()
American playwright
1945–2005
![Paul Otellini photo]()
former president & CEO of Intel
1950–2017
![Tom Petty photo]()
American musician
1950–2017
![Jamal Khashoggi photo]()
Saudi Arabian journalist
1958–2018
