Anniversaries 2 September

Birth

Attila22

King of the Hunnic Empire 406–453

William Somervile9

English poet 1675–1742

Henry George61

American economist 1839–1897

George Robert Sims1

English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist 1847–1922

Paul Bourget44

French writer 1852–1935

Adolphe Tavernier1

French writer, art critic, collector and journalist 1853–1945

Hiram Johnson1

Governor of California 1866–1945

Frederick Soddy3

chemist and physicist from England 1877–1956

Werner von Blomberg6

German field marshal 1878–1946

Joseph Roth1

austrian novelist and journalist 1894–1939

Deane Montgomery2

American mathematician 1909–1992

Donald Watson2

English vegan activist 1910–2005

Bill Shankly5

Scottish footballer and manager 1913–1981

Cleveland Amory1

American writer 1917–1998

Martha Beall Mitchell3

Wife of American politician 1918–1976

Ramón Valdés7

Mexican actor 1923–1988

Alan Simpson11

American politician 1931

William Packard1

American writer 1933–2002

Andrew S. Grove22

Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author 1936–2016

Derek Fowlds1

British actor 1937–2020

Mary Jo Catlett1

actress 1938

Henry Mintzberg14

Canadian busines theorist 1939

Ivar Jacobson6

Swedish computer scientist 1939

Paavo Väyrynen11

Finnish politician 1946

Christa McAuliffe6

American educator and astronaut 1948–1986

Hans-Hermann Hoppe21

Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalis… 1949

Mark Harmon4

actor from the United States 1951

Ahmad Shah Massoud8

Afghan military leader 1953–2001

Chris Grabenstein2

American writer 1955

Daniel J. Siegel1

American psychiatrist 1957

Zdravko Krivokapić1

Montenegrin politician and professor 1958

Eric Dickerson2

American football player 1960

John S. Hall55

Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

Keir Starmer5

British politician and barrister 1962

Keanu Reeves39

Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964

Bradley Joseph10

Composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger, producer, recordi… 1965

Lionel Aingimea1

Nauruan politician, president from 2019 1965

Lennox Lewis10

British-Canadian boxer 1965

Melanie Joy16

American psychologist 1966

Salma Hayek31

Mexican-American actress and producer 1966

Chris Kuzneski1

American writer 1969

Robert Habeck1

German politician 1969

Katt Williams1

American stand-up comedian 1973

Daniel Vávra5

Czech entrepreneur 1975

Joey Barton2

English association football player 1982

Scott Moir14

Canadian figure skater 1987

Zhiar Ali9

Kurdish human rights activist and artist 1999

Death

William Rowan Hamilton4

Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician 1805–1865

Wilford Woodruff2

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1807–1898

Henry Austin Dobson2

English poet and essayist 1840–1921

Harrington Emerson9

American efficiency engineer and business theorist 1853–1931

Kakuzo Okakura16

Japanese scholar, author of The Book of Tea 1862–1913

Pierre de Coubertin5

Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian 1863–1937

Henry Lawson4

Australian writer and poet 1867–1922

Marsden Hartley33

American artist 1877–1943

Yasuji Okamura1

Japanese general 1884–1966

Alvin C. York24

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient 1887–1964

Ho Chi Minh34

Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam 1890–1969

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien78

British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy … 1892–1973

Laura Riding Jackson42

poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901–1991

Barbara McClintock2

American scientist and cytogeneticist 1902–1992

Viktor E. Frankl64

Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust surviv… 1905–1997

Ronald H. Coase19

British economist and author 1910–2013

Gordon Latto (doctor)2

1911–1998

Johannes Bobrowski1

German author 1917–1965

Frederik Pohl36

American science fiction writer and editor 1919–2013

Sun Myung Moon58

Korean religious leader 1920–2012

Christiaan Barnard4

South-African physician 1922–2001

O.B. Hardison Jr.1

1927–1990

Seraphim Rose1

American Orthodox writer and saint 1934–1982