Anniversaries 2 September
Birth
![Attila photo]()
King of the Hunnic Empire
406–453
![Henry George photo]()
American economist
1839–1897
![George Robert Sims photo]()
English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist
1847–1922
![Adolphe Tavernier photo]()
French writer, art critic, collector and journalist
1853–1945
![Hiram Johnson photo]()
Governor of California
1866–1945
![Frederick Soddy photo]()
chemist and physicist from England
1877–1956
![Werner von Blomberg photo]()
German field marshal
1878–1946
![Joseph Roth photo]()
austrian novelist and journalist
1894–1939
![Deane Montgomery photo]()
American mathematician
1909–1992
![Donald Watson photo]()
English vegan activist
1910–2005
![Bill Shankly photo]()
Scottish footballer and manager
1913–1981
![Cleveland Amory photo]()
American writer
1917–1998
![Martha Beall Mitchell photo]()
Wife of American politician
1918–1976
![William Packard photo]()
American writer
1933–2002
![Andrew S. Grove photo]()
Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
1936–2016
![Henry Mintzberg photo]()
Canadian busines theorist
1939
![Ivar Jacobson photo]()
Swedish computer scientist
1939
![Christa McAuliffe photo]()
American educator and astronaut
1948–1986
![Hans-Hermann Hoppe photo]()
Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalis…
1949
![Mark Harmon photo]()
actor from the United States
1951
![Ahmad Shah Massoud photo]()
Afghan military leader
1953–2001
![Daniel J. Siegel photo]()
American psychiatrist
1957
![Zdravko Krivokapić photo]()
Montenegrin politician and professor
1958
![Eric Dickerson photo]()
American football player
1960
![John S. Hall photo]()
Poet, author, singer, lawyer
1960
![Keir Starmer photo]()
British politician and barrister
1962
![Keanu Reeves photo]()
Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
1964
![Bradley Joseph photo]()
Composer, pianist, keyboardist, arranger, producer, recordi…
1965
![Lionel Aingimea photo]()
Nauruan politician, president from 2019
1965
![Lennox Lewis photo]()
British-Canadian boxer
1965
![Melanie Joy photo]()
American psychologist
1966
![Salma Hayek photo]()
Mexican-American actress and producer
1966
![Katt Williams photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1973
![Joey Barton photo]()
English association football player
1982
![Scott Moir photo]()
Canadian figure skater
1987
![Zhiar Ali photo]()
Kurdish human rights activist and artist
1999
Death
![William Rowan Hamilton photo]()
Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician
1805–1865
![Wilford Woodruff photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1807–1898
![Henry Austin Dobson photo]()
English poet and essayist
1840–1921
![Harrington Emerson photo]()
American efficiency engineer and business theorist
1853–1931
![Kakuzo Okakura photo]()
Japanese scholar, author of The Book of Tea
1862–1913
![Pierre de Coubertin photo]()
Founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
1863–1937
![Henry Lawson photo]()
Australian writer and poet
1867–1922
![Marsden Hartley photo]()
American artist
1877–1943
![Yasuji Okamura photo]()
Japanese general
1884–1966
![Alvin C. York photo]()
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
1887–1964
![Ho Chi Minh photo]()
Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
1890–1969
![John Ronald Reuel Tolkien photo]()
British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy …
1892–1973
![Laura Riding Jackson photo]()
poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
1901–1991
![Barbara McClintock photo]()
American scientist and cytogeneticist
1902–1992
![Viktor E. Frankl photo]()
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust surviv…
1905–1997
![Ronald H. Coase photo]()
British economist and author
1910–2013
![Frederik Pohl photo]()
American science fiction writer and editor
1919–2013
![Sun Myung Moon photo]()
Korean religious leader
1920–2012
![Christiaan Barnard photo]()
South-African physician
1922–2001
![Seraphim Rose photo]()
American Orthodox writer and saint
1934–1982
