Anniversaries 2 November

Birth

Umar II3

Umayyad caliph 681–720

Mahmud of Ghazni39

Sultan of Ghazni 971–1030

Marie Antoinette3

last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution 1755–1793

Stephen Grellet4

American Quaker missionary 1773–1855

James K. Polk15

American politician, 11th President of the United States (i… 1795–1849

Joseph Edwards Carpenter2

British composer, songwriter and playwright 1813–1885

George Boole39

English mathematician, philosopher and logician 1815–1864

Henry John Stephen Smith6

mathematician 1826–1883

Paul de Lagarde3

German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist 1827–1891

Georges Sorel19

French philosopher and sociologist 1847–1922

Warren G. Harding33

American politician, 29th president of the United States (i… 1865–1923

Pál Prónay1

Hungarian soldier 1874–1945

Aga Khan III12

48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community 1877–1957

Odysseas Elytis1

Greek poet and art critic 1911–1996

Burt Lancaster5

American actor and producer 1913–1994

Гершон Легман1

1917–1999

Włodzimierz Ptak21

immunologist 1928–2019

Beverly White4

American politician 1928–2021

Paul Johnson4

journalist, historian and speechwriter from England 1928

Melvin Schwartz1

American experimental physicist 1932–2006

H. Jay Dinshah5

American proponent of veganism and Jain ethics 1933–2000

David Lane (white nationalist)56

American white supremacist, convicted felon 1938–2007

Patrick Buchanan111

American politician and commentator 1938

Richard Serra11

American sculptor 1939

Dalil Boubakeur1

1940

Arun Shourie51

Indian journalist and politician 1941

Suzanne Gordon1

American journalist 1945

Harold Wallace Rosenthal1

American terrorist victim 1947–1976

Rodney Williams1

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947) 1947

Lois McMaster Bujold383

Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

Mineko Iwasaki2

Japanese Geisha 1949

Tim Storey3

motivational speaker 1960

K.d. lang2

Canadian singer-songwriter 1961

Brian Kemp2

American politician, Governor of Georgia 1963

Shahrukh Khan75

Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965

John Lee Juo-Wang1

bishop of the roman-catholic church 1966

Simon Hill11

Australian television presenter 1967

Chris Walla2

American musician 1975

Andreas Mogensen1

Danish astronaut 1976

Maajid Nawaz14

British activist 1977

Esha Deol1

Indian actress 1981

Cub Swanson4

American mixed martial artist 1983

Death

Samuel Romilly3

British politician 1757–1818

Esaias Tegnér7

Swedish poet, professor and bishop 1782–1846

Alfred Domett1

Prime Minister of New Zealand 1811–1887

George Bernard Shaw413

Irish playwright 1856–1950

Louise Imogen Guiney3

American writer 1861–1920

Sadao Araki19

Japanese general 1877–1966

Peter Debye1

Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist 1884–1966

James Thurber90

American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961

Джеймс Тербер1

1894–1961

Jimmy Quillen2

American politician 1916–2003

Peter Hellings1

Royal Marines general 1916–1990

Han Suyin1

physician and author 1917–2012

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan3

Sheikh of Abu Dhabi (1918-2004) 1918–2004

Herbert Fingarette2

Philosopher 1921–2018

Pier Paolo Pasolini3

Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual 1922–1975

Robert Cormier50

American author, columnist and reporter 1925–2000

Annette Baier5

New Zealand philosopher 1929–2012

Charles Sheffield41

British scientist, American science fiction writer 1935–2002

Phillip E. Johnson11

American Law clerk 1940–2019