Anniversaries 2 November
Birth
![Mahmud of Ghazni photo]()
Sultan of Ghazni
971–1030
![Marie Antoinette photo]()
last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution
1755–1793
![Stephen Grellet photo]()
American Quaker missionary
1773–1855
![James K. Polk photo]()
American politician, 11th President of the United States (i…
1795–1849
![Joseph Edwards Carpenter photo]()
British composer, songwriter and playwright
1813–1885
![George Boole photo]()
English mathematician, philosopher and logician
1815–1864
![Paul de Lagarde photo]()
German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist
1827–1891
![Georges Sorel photo]()
French philosopher and sociologist
1847–1922
![Warren G. Harding photo]()
American politician, 29th president of the United States (i…
1865–1923
![Pál Prónay photo]()
Hungarian soldier
1874–1945
![Aga Khan III photo]()
48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community
1877–1957
![Odysseas Elytis photo]()
Greek poet and art critic
1911–1996
![Burt Lancaster photo]()
American actor and producer
1913–1994
![Beverly White photo]()
American politician
1928–2021
![Paul Johnson photo]()
journalist, historian and speechwriter from England
1928
![Melvin Schwartz photo]()
American experimental physicist
1932–2006
![H. Jay Dinshah photo]()
American proponent of veganism and Jain ethics
1933–2000
![David Lane (white nationalist) photo]()
American white supremacist, convicted felon
1938–2007
![Patrick Buchanan photo]()
American politician and commentator
1938
![Arun Shourie photo]()
Indian journalist and politician
1941
![Harold Wallace Rosenthal photo]()
American terrorist victim
1947–1976
![Rodney Williams photo]()
Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)
1947
![Lois McMaster Bujold photo]()
Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
1949
![Tim Storey photo]()
motivational speaker
1960
![K.d. lang photo]()
Canadian singer-songwriter
1961
![Brian Kemp photo]()
American politician, Governor of Georgia
1963
![Shahrukh Khan photo]()
Indian actor, producer and television personality
1965
![John Lee Juo-Wang photo]()
bishop of the roman-catholic church
1966
![Simon Hill photo]()
Australian television presenter
1967
![Cub Swanson photo]()
American mixed martial artist
1983
Death
![Samuel Romilly photo]()
British politician
1757–1818
![Esaias Tegnér photo]()
Swedish poet, professor and bishop
1782–1846
![Alfred Domett photo]()
Prime Minister of New Zealand
1811–1887
![George Bernard Shaw photo]()
Irish playwright
1856–1950
![Louise Imogen Guiney photo]()
American writer
1861–1920
![Sadao Araki photo]()
Japanese general
1877–1966
![Peter Debye photo]()
Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist
1884–1966
![James Thurber photo]()
American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
1894–1961
![Jimmy Quillen photo]()
American politician
1916–2003
![Peter Hellings photo]()
Royal Marines general
1916–1990
![Han Suyin photo]()
physician and author
1917–2012
![Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan photo]()
Sheikh of Abu Dhabi (1918-2004)
1918–2004
![Pier Paolo Pasolini photo]()
Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual
1922–1975
![Robert Cormier photo]()
American author, columnist and reporter
1925–2000
![Annette Baier photo]()
New Zealand philosopher
1929–2012
![Charles Sheffield photo]()
British scientist, American science fiction writer
1935–2002
![Phillip E. Johnson photo]()
American Law clerk
1940–2019
