November 2
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Art and culture
- 1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
Births
- 1699 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779)
- 1709 - Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
- 1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
- 1739 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
- 1741 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784)
- 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
- 1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
- 1777 - Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor (d. 1822)
- 1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
- 1808 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889)
- 1815 - George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
- 1821 - Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899)
- 1837 - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
- 1844 - Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918)
- 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
- 1877 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933)
- 1877 - Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
- 1877 - Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957)
- 1883 - Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947)
- 1885 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972)
- 1886 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971)
- 1892 - Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1939)
- 1893 - Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966)
- 1894 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976)
- 1903 - Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987)
- 1905 - James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
- 1906 - Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959)
- 1906 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
- 1908 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
- 1910 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999)
- 1911 - Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
- 1911 - Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995)
- 1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1914 - Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
- 1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Ann Rutherford, American actress
- 1921 - Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999)
- 1921 - Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994)
- 1924 - Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
- 1927 - Steve Ditko, American artist
- 1929 - Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan
- 1929 - Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1934 - Bill Gothard, American speaker
- 1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
- 1936 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
- 1936 - Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
- 1937 - Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs
- 1938 - Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
- 1938 - Queen Sofia of Spain
- 1938 - Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans)
- 1940 - Jim Bakken, American football player
- 1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows)
- 1942 - Shere Hite, American author
- 1942 - Stefanie Powers, American actress
- 1944 - Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- 1944 - Patrice Chéreau, French director, actor and producer
- 1946 - Alan Jones, Australian race car driver
- 1946 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
- 1949 - Simon Augustini, Albanian politician
- 1951 - Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
- 1951 - Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens)
- 1952 - Maxine Nightingale, English singer
- 1954 - Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
- 1955 - Chris Burnett, American musician
- 1957 - Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band)
- 1958 - Willie McGee, American baseball player
- 1960 - Tihomir Blaškić, Croatian war criminal
- 1961 - k.d. lang, Canadian musician
- 1962 - Mireille Delunsch, French soprano
- 1963 - Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker
- 1964 - Britta Lejon, Swedish politician
- 1965 - Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
- 1966 - Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker
- 1967 - Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist
- 1967 - Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician
- 1968 - Ultra Naté, American musician
- 1969 - Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
- 1970 - Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet
- 1972 - Samantha Janus, British entertainer
- 1972 - Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer
- 1972 - Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
- 1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
- 1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player
- 1974 - Stéphane Sarrazin, French rally driver
- 1974 - Nelly, American rapper
- 1975 - Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie)
- 1976 - Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
- 1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor
- 1977 - Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos)
- 1978 - Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion
- 1979 - Julie Lund, Danish actress
- 1980 - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
- 1981 - Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 - Avy Scott, American actress
- 1982 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
- 1984 - Julia Stegner, German supermodel
- 1986 - Erika Jo, American musician
- 1986 - Lara Sacher, Australian actress
- 1988 - Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital)
- 1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer
Deaths
- 943 - Queen Emma of France, (b. 894)
- 1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (b. 1031)
- 1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
- 1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
- 1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
- 1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
- 1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
- 1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)
- 1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)
- 1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
- 1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)
- 1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)
- 1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
- 1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
- 1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)
- 1935 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
- 1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
- 1945 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
- 1949 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (b. 1872)
- 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
- 1960 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
- 1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
- 1963 - Ngô Đình Diệm, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)
- 1966 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
- 1966 - Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
- 1970 - Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (b. 1895)
- 1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
- 1979 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (b. 1936)
- 1984 - Velma Barfield, American murderer (b. 1932)
- 1986 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)
- 1991 - Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
- 1991 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (b. 1916)
- 1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
- 1996 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
- 1998 - Vincent Winter, British actor (b. 1957)
- 2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)
- 2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
- 2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
- 2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)
- 2004 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (b. 1951)
Notes
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