On This Day — March 2
4372 noted people were born and 2033 died on March 2 in our archive, including Robert Allardice, Sergei Kovalev and Abbas Ibrahim.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 2
Robert Allardice
1862 – 1928
Sergei Kovalev
1930 – 2021
Abbas Ibrahim
b. 1959
Alastair McPhail
b. 1961
Alessandro Benetton
b. 1964
Alexander Oparin
1894 – 1980
Ambrosius Hubrecht
1853 – 1915
Andrei Linde
b. 1948
Anne Vondeling
1916 – 1979
Antonio Castro Leal
1896 – 1981
Carl de Neergaard
1800 – 1850
Carmen Lawrence
b. 1948
Chris Carney
b. 1959
Cornelis Benjamin Biezeno
1888 – 1975
Elizabeth J. Feinler
b. 1931
Felix Unger
b. 1946
Gianfelice Rocca
b. 1948
Hossein Dehghan
b. 1957
Ivo Daalder
b. 1960
James W. Pennebaker
b. 1950
Jeff Kennett
b. 1948
Joel Emer
b. 1954
Leonard Colebrook
1883 – 1967
Margarida Marques
b. 1954
Michael Sela
1924 – 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev
1931 – 2022
Mitsumasa Yonai
1880 – 1948
Mogens Høgh Jensen
b. 1955
Norbert Hofer
b. 1971
Norman Hackerman
1912 – 2007
Otmar Emminger
1911 – 1986
Paul Arkwright
b. 1962
Ricardo Lagos
b. 1938
Richard Foerster
1843 – 1922
Russ Feingold
b. 1953
Shōmei Yokouchi
1942 – 2020
Stefan Korboński
1901 – 1989
Stepan Zhiryakov
1948 – 2025
Thomas Bodley
1545 – 1613
Thomas Perlmann
b. 1959
Thoraya Obaid
b. 1945
Valeriy Zaporozhan
b. 1947
Vladimir Grachev
1942 – 2026
Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn
b. 1956
Wander Johannes de Haas
1878 – 1960
Wendy Larner
b. 1963
Yuri Matiyasevich
b. 1947
Ángel Viñas
b. 1941
Abd al-Aziz Boutafliqa
1937 – 2021
Abdurrahim El-Keib
1950 – 2020
Achille Loria
1857 – 1943
Adam Conover
b. 1983
Adrian VI
1459 – 1523
Alain Paul Lebeaupin
1945 – 2021
Ales Bachyla
1918 – 1983
Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
1777 – 1861
Alfred Mansfeld
1912 – 2004
Alois Emanuel Biedermann
1819 – 1885
Anthony Albanese
b. 1963
Anthony G. M. Barrett
b. 1952
Antony Green
b. 1960
Arjen K. Lenstra
b. 1956
Arthur Edward Hardinge
1828 – 1892
Augusto Mancini
1875 – 1957
Avard Fairbanks
1897 – 1987
Axel Gustav Adlercreutz
1821 – 1880
Axel Kock
1851 – 1935
Bandar bin Sultan
b. 1949
Barbara Neßler
b. 1991
Basil Hume
1923 – 1999
Bernard Rands
1934 – 2026
Camille Desmoulins
1760 – 1794
Carl Andreas Fougstad
1806 – 1871
Carl Edvard Rotwitt
1812 – 1860
Charles Q. Brown Jr.
b. 1962
Cornelius Edward Gallagher
1921 – 2018
Cy Thao
b. 1972
Cyril Falls
1888 – 1971
Daniel Tilas
1712 – 1772
David Satcher
b. 1941
DeWitt Clinton
1769 – 1828
Dean F. Sittig
b. 1961
Doris Soliz
b. 1958
Dudley Marjoribanks, 3rd Baron Tweedmouth
1874 – 1935
Eduardo Rodríguez
b. 1956
Edward Condon
1902 – 1974
Frances Spence
1922 – 2012
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone
b. 1943
Franz von Liszt
1851 – 1919
Friedebert Tuglas
1886 – 1971
Félix Lázaro Martínez
b. 1936
Félix de Vuillefroy-Cassini
1841 – 1916
Gennady Orlov
b. 1945
George Alexander Macfarren
1813 – 1887
George C. Whipple
1866 – 1924
Greg Bilton
b. 1965
Hansen Clarke
b. 1957
Harri Moora
1900 – 1968
Henri Galinié
b. 1946
Henri Ponsot
1877 – 1963
Henry Billings Brown
1836 – 1913
Henry Marion Howe
1848 – 1922
Herman Schaepman
1844 – 1903
Hirata Tosuke
1849 – 1925
Hugh Edwin Strickland
1811 – 1853
Ingeborg Gräßle
b. 1961
Irina Bogacheva
1939 – 2019
Ivan Dérer
1884 – 1973
Iyad bin Amin Madani
b. 1946
J. P. R. Williams
1949 – 2024
Jack Austin
b. 1932
James Purnell
b. 1970
Janet Welch
1894 – 1959
Jim Baggott
b. 1957
Joel Roberts Poinsett
1779 – 1851
Johann Viktor Bredt
1879 – 1940
John Brademas
1927 – 2016
John Dawkins
b. 1947
John Hely-Hutchinson, 5th Earl of Donoughmore
1848 – 1900
John Irving
b. 1942
John Tusa
b. 1936
Johnny Chiang
b. 1972
Justo Gonzalo
1910 – 1986
Kiyohiko Ushihara
1897 – 1985
Kurt Kretschmann
1914 – 2007
Lars Christian Lilleholt
b. 1965
Leif Segerstam
1944 – 2024
Lev Berg
1876 – 1950
Lothar de Maizière
b. 1940
Lou Reed
1942 – 2013
Louis Olivier Bourbeau
1811 – 1877
Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld
b. 1985
Louise Rummel
1937 – 2025
Lubert Stryer
1938 – 2024
Luigi Maglione
1877 – 1944
Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
1890 – 1969
Marcelle Lentz-Cornette
1927 – 2008
Margaret Buckingham
b. 1945
Margaret Sibella Brown
1866 – 1961
Mark Price
b. 1961
Marko Torm
b. 1980
Marlene Kairouz
b. 1975
Marlyn Meltzer
1922 – 2008
Matt Taibbi
b. 1970
Max Hymans
1900 – 1961
Michael Duffy
b. 1938
Michael Frenzel
b. 1947
Michel Demazure
b. 1937
Mikhail Bogdanov
b. 1952
Moe Berg
1902 – 1972
Mogens Koch
1898 – 1992
Nina Starr Braunwald
1928 – 1992
Oszkár Jászi
1875 – 1957
Philip E. Tetlock
b. 1954
Philippe-Charles Schmerling
1790 – 1836
Pilou Asbæk
b. 1982
Pino Mlakar
1907 – 2006
Pius XII
1876 – 1958
Richard Hely-Hutchinson, 6th Earl of Donoughmore
1875 – 1948
Richard William Timm
1923 – 2020
Rick Zbur
b. 1957
Robert H. Michel
1923 – 2017
Roberto Cipriani
b. 1945
Roberto Dañino
b. 1951
Rod Phillips
b. 1965
Rosa DeLauro
b. 1943
Saeed Mohammad
b. 1969
Scott Thomson
b. 1966
Sergei Stepashin
b. 1952
Sergey Kuksin
b. 1955
Simone Young
b. 1961
Slava Zaitsev
1938 – 2023
Ted Jolliffe
1909 – 1998
Theodor Nöldeke
1836 – 1930
Thomas Mrsic-Flogel
b. 1975
Tilman Spengler
b. 1947
Tina Lagostena Bassi
1926 – 2008
Tomasz Tomczykiewicz
1961 – 2015
Tomoko Sasaki
b. 1955
Ute Granold
b. 1955
Vasily Demut-Malinovsky
1779 – 1846
Viktor von Lang
1838 – 1921
Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
1756 – 1845
Vincenzo Brunacci
1768 – 1818
Volodymyr Kostyantynovych Vysokovych
1854 – 1912
Walter Haeussermann
1914 – 2010
Walter Liddall
1884 – 1963
William B. Allison
1829 – 1908
William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson
1845 – 1918
William Waldegrave, 9th Earl Waldegrave
1851 – 1930
Willis H. Shapley
1917 – 2005
Yoram Peri
b. 1944
Zuhal Demir
b. 1980
Émile Roubaud
1882 – 1962
Absalón Vásquez
b. 1950
Adam Tarnowski
1892 – 1956
Adhar Lal Sen
1855 – 1885
Adolf Pansch
1841 – 1887
Adoniram J. Holmes
1842 – 1902
Adrianne Pieczonka
b. 1963
… and 4,172 more
Died on March 2
Arthur Louis Day
1869 – 1960
August W. Eichler
1839 – 1887
Bernhard Vogel
1932 – 2025
Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada
1941 – 2021
Ernst Benda
1925 – 2009
Ferdinand Regelsberger
1831 – 1911
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
1758 – 1840
Jacob T. Schwartz
1930 – 2009
James Lipton
1926 – 2020
Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand
1713 – 1787
Joel Sussman
1910 – 1982
Leopold Gratz
1929 – 2006
Lodewijk Willem Christiaan van den Berg
1845 – 1927
Luigj Gurakuqi
1879 – 1925
Nikolay Kolyada
1957 – 2026
Robert Spence Watson
1837 – 1911
Sir James Wylie
1768 – 1854
Suzanne Bastid
1906 – 1995
Søren Pape Poulsen
1971 – 2024
Tillie K. Fowler
1942 – 2005
Umar Dzhabrailov
1958 – 2026
Yamagiwa Katsusaburō
1863 – 1930
Yannis Behrakis
1960 – 2019
Zdeněk Švestka
1925 – 2013
Adolfo Sarti
1928 – 1992
Ahmed Badawi
1927 – 1981
Alain Gerolami
1926 – 2024
Alexandre Kniajevitch
1792 – 1872
Andrey Sukhovetsky
1974 – 2022
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio
1810 – 1871
Arnulf Baring
1932 – 2019
Autherine Lucy
1929 – 2022
Bassma Kodmani
1958 – 2023
Benoît Lacroix
1915 – 2016
Bohuslav Havránek
1893 – 1978
Champ Clark
1850 – 1921
Charles-Jean de la Vallée Poussin
1866 – 1962
Chung Chi Yung
1920 – 2014
Edward Hobart Seymour
1840 – 1929
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley
1782 – 1839
Emmanuel-Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, Cardinal de Bouillon
1643 – 1715
Enrique Curiel
1947 – 2011
Eriya Kategaya
1945 – 2013
Erwin von Neipperg
1813 – 1897
Eugen Johannessen
1892 – 1975
Francis Alexander Anglin
1865 – 1933
Frederick Seitz
1911 – 2008
Friedrich Kraus
1858 – 1936
George Bass
1932 – 2021
George Mercer Dawson
1849 – 1901
Hendrik Jacob Hamaker
1844 – 1911
Henry Steele Commager
1902 – 1998
Horace Walpole
1717 – 1797
Howard Carter
1874 – 1939
Ida Maclean
1877 – 1944
J. Carson Mark
1913 – 1997
Jack P. F. Gremillion
1914 – 2001
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton
1703 – 1743
James P. Riseley
1898 – 1992
James Q. Wilson
1931 – 2012
Jean Alaux
1786 – 1864
Jean-Pierre Pernaut
1950 – 2022
Jerome Hall
1901 – 1992
John B. Kelly Jr.
1927 – 1985
John Cracroft Wilson
1808 – 1881
John Percy Page
1887 – 1973
Joseph d'Arbaud
1874 – 1950
Jules Van Dievoet
1844 – 1917
Karl Bowman
1888 – 1973
Kenji Manabe
1935 – 2024
Kenneth Duberstein
1944 – 2022
Kiyokata Kaburaki
1878 – 1972
Kohei Otsuka
1959 – 2026
Lauri Hakulinen
1899 – 1985
Louis Leygue
1905 – 1992
Lucien Bodard
1914 – 1998
Luigi Firpo
1915 – 1989
Maamun al-Kuzbari
1914 – 1998
Marysa Navarro
1934 – 2025
Michael Gudinski
1952 – 2021
Mikheil Tsereteli
1878 – 1965
Molly Bobak
1920 – 2014
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov
1850 – 1929
Paul Marion
1899 – 1954
Pauline Gower
1910 – 1947
Pierre Guérin de Tencin
1680 – 1758
Rafael Viñoly
1944 – 2023
Robert Joseph Pothier
1699 – 1772
Rudolph Rummel
1932 – 2014
Rudolph Snellius
1546 – 1613
Ryhor Baradulin
1935 – 2014
Salambek Khadzhiev
1941 – 2018
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
1755 – 1830
Sigurd Frosterus
1876 – 1956
Sir Justinian Isham, 2nd Baronet
1610 – 1675
Takayuki Sasaki
1830 – 1910
Tauno Frans Mustanoja
1912 – 1996
Try Sutrisno
1935 – 2026
Vera Pless
1931 – 2020
Verne J. McCaul
1903 – 1968
Viktor Josef Dammertz
1929 – 2020
Vinkentij Makušev
1837 – 1883
Wojciech Trąmpczyński
1860 – 1953
Wu Jieping
1917 – 2011
Yanar Mohammed
1960 – 2026
Yngvar Nielsen
1843 – 1916
Yves Pérotin
1922 – 1981
Zerah Colburn
1804 – 1839
Abd al-Karim al-Jundi
1932 – 1969
Abraham Brill
1874 – 1948
Achille Zo
1826 – 1901
Adalbert Duchek
1824 – 1882
Adam Ignatius Komorowski
1699 – 1759
Adam McMullen
1872 – 1959
Alberto Gerchunoff
1883 – 1950
Aleksandr Verzhbilovich
1849 – 1911
Alessandro Farnese
1520 – 1589
Alfred von Gutschmid
1831 – 1887
Alfred-Nicolas Normand
1822 – 1909
Andrés Ocaña
1954 – 2017
Angelo Jacobini
1825 – 1886
Antoine Predock
1936 – 2024
Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez
1797 – 1869
Antoine-Guillaume Rampon
1759 – 1842
Antonín Heveroch
1869 – 1927
Aris Poulianos
1924 – 2021
August Buxtorf
1877 – 1969
Axel Johannessen
1849 – 1926
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
1932 – 2023
Ben Hasselman
1898 – 1984
Bernhard Bergmeyer
1897 – 1987
Berta Cáceres
1973 – 2016
Bettina Graziani
1925 – 2015
Blackshear M. Bryan
1900 – 1977
Buvaisar Saitiev
1975 – 2025
Carl Gustaf Pilo
1711 – 1793
Carlo Romussi
1847 – 1913
Charles B. Moore
1920 – 2010
Charles Carleton Coffin
1823 – 1896
Charles E. Wiggins
1927 – 2000
Charlie Christian
1916 – 1942
Chris Barber
1930 – 2021
Cormac McAnallen
1980 – 2004
D. H. Lawrence
1885 – 1930
Dale F. Rudd
1935 – 2018
Daniel P. Markey
1857 – 1946
David Jayne Hill
1850 – 1932
Dean Hess
1917 – 2015
Denis Gavini
1820 – 1916
Donald Hardman
1899 – 1982
Dudley M. Du Bose
1834 – 1883
Edgar Ansel Mowrer
1892 – 1977
Edgar Jadwin
1865 – 1931
Edmund Wyndham
1600 – 1681
Edward James Devitt
1911 – 1992
Edward Percival Wright
1834 – 1910
Edward Perry
1800 – 1869
Egon Mayer
1917 – 1944
Ellis L. Perry
1919 – 2002
Emily Carr
1871 – 1945
Enos K. Sawyer
1879 – 1933
Erling Kroner
1943 – 2011
Ernest Squires
1882 – 1940
Ethel Walker
1861 – 1951
Eudore Pirmez
1830 – 1890
Eugenio Pio Zolli
1881 – 1956
Eugène Ernest Hillemacher
1818 – 1887
Farrell McElgunn
1932 – 2020
Felix Frank
1876 – 1957
Francesco Bianchini
1662 – 1729
Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
1768 – 1835
Francisco Ada
1934 – 2010
Francisco González Ledesma
1927 – 2015
Franjo Iveković
1834 – 1914
Franjo Maixner
1841 – 1903
Frank C. Partridge
1861 – 1943
Frank Dickson
1931 – 2023
Frank Gray
1880 – 1935
Frank N. Costa
1945 – 1987
Frank S. Giles Jr.
1915 – 1991
Frans Maurits Jaeger
1877 – 1945
François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet
1771 – 1843
Geneva Mercer
1889 – 1984
George E. Outland
1906 – 1981
George Edwards
1908 – 2003
George Firestone
1931 – 2012
Georges Fontès
1924 – 2020
Georges Robert
1875 – 1965
Germán Borregales
1909 – 1984
Gillo Dorfles
1910 – 2018
Giuseppe La Loggia
1911 – 1994
Grace Morris Allen Jones
1876 – 1928
Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russia
1875 – 1895
Gustaf Peyron the Younger
1828 – 1915
Gustave de Reiset
1821 – 1905
Guy Alfred Wyon
1883 – 1924
Hans Ledwinka
1878 – 1967
Harcourt Butler
1869 – 1938
Harold E. Talbott
1888 – 1957
Harry Cust
1861 – 1917
… and 1,833 more