On This Day — September 2
4044 noted people were born and 1889 died on September 2 in our archive, including Andrew Grove, Maurice René Fréchet and René Thom.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on September 2
Andrew Grove
1936 – 2016
Maurice René Fréchet
1878 – 1973
René Thom
1923 – 2002
Abel Caballero
b. 1946
Adriana Albini
b. 1955
Aimé Lepercq
1889 – 1944
Alan Simpson
1931 – 2025
Alexander Holevo
b. 1943
Alfons Gorbach
1898 – 1972
Allen Drury
1918 – 1998
Andrej Babiš
b. 1954
Arthur Ashkin
1922 – 2020
Bernard Bourgeois
1929 – 2024
Carel Polak
1909 – 1981
Deane Montgomery
1909 – 1992
Eric Allman
b. 1955
Ernst Curtius
1814 – 1896
Fariz Ismailzade
b. 1978
Franz Karmasin
1901 – 1970
Frederick Soddy
1877 – 1956
Henri Krasucki
1924 – 2003
Henry Mintzberg Storch
b. 1939
Huang Kun
1919 – 2005
Héctor Béjar
b. 1935
Isidro Ayora
1879 – 1978
J Harlen Bretz
1882 – 1981
Jack Lang
b. 1939
Jean-Paul Béchat
1942 – 2014
Keir Starmer
b. 1962
Lluís Pericot i Garcia
1899 – 1978
Marc Augé
1935 – 2023
Marrack Goulding
1936 – 2010
Mihhail Lotman
b. 1952
Paavo Väyrynen
b. 1946
Pru Goward
b. 1952
Richard A. Brualdi
b. 1939
Rudolf Weigl
1883 – 1957
Ryszard Terlecki
b. 1949
Régis Debray
b. 1940
Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet
1753 – 1822
Toshmuhammad Qori-Niyoziy
1897 – 1970
Wilhelmina Iwanowska
1905 – 1999
Woldemar Voigt
1850 – 1919
Władysław Dziewulski
1878 – 1962
Yosef Rom
1932 – 1997
Adam Liptak
b. 1960
Adolf Schöll
1805 – 1882
Agatangel Savvin
b. 1938
Ahmad Shah Massoud
1953 – 2001
Aleksandr Filippenko
b. 1944
Anastasia Udaltsova
b. 1978
Anatoly Pakhomov
b. 1960
Angelo Raffaele Jervolino
1890 – 1985
Antonio Mennini
b. 1947
Archie Gamboa
b. 1964
Armando Trovajoli
1917 – 2013
Augustin Pouyer-Quertier
1820 – 1891
Ayman Sadiq
b. 1992
Ben Hueso
b. 1960
Benjamin Z. Kedar
b. 1938
Bernard E. Trainor
1928 – 2018
Bernard Lievegoed
1905 – 1992
Betty de Boer
b. 1971
Bohdan Kytsak
b. 1992
Catherine Pogonat
b. 1976
Cheung Ming-man
b. 1956
Chiang Wei-ling
b. 1957
Chile Eboe-Osuji
b. 1962
Christa McAuliffe
1948 – 1986
Christopher Williams
b. 1952
Claude Nicollier
b. 1944
Cory Barlog
b. 1975
D. I. Suchianu
1895 – 1985
Dan Kiley
1912 – 2004
Daniel arap Moi
1924 – 2020
David J. Stevenson
b. 1948
David Teece
b. 1948
Deividas Matulionis
b. 1963
Diana Laidlaw
b. 1951
Dmitry Konov
b. 1970
Donald Margulies
b. 1954
Düzen Tekkal
b. 1978
Edmond Alphandéry
b. 1943
Edmund Herring
1892 – 1982
Elaine Keillor
b. 1939
Esko Kiviranta
b. 1950
Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg
1725 – 1795
Francisco Gil Díaz
b. 1943
Franz, Prince of Thun and Hohenstein
1847 – 1916
François Bacqué
1936 – 2023
Freddy Willockx
1947 – 2024
Frederick M. Ausubel
b. 1945
Georg Diederichs
1900 – 1983
George Simpson
1878 – 1965
Glenn J. Lesniak
b. 1954
Guy Laliberté
b. 1959
Guy Rolnik
b. 1968
Gérard Leclerc
1951 – 2023
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
b. 1949
Harold Roper
1891 – 1971
Harumi Hiroyama
b. 1968
Harvey Levin
b. 1950
Heinrich Knirr
1862 – 1944
Helen Hart
1900 – 1971
Henry Brougham, 3rd Baron Brougham and Vaux
1836 – 1927
Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch
1746 – 1812
Hiram Johnson
1866 – 1945
Hugh Gladney Grant
1888 – 1972
Hélène Louvart
b. 1964
Ibrahim Najjar
b. 1941
Ike Franklin Andrews
1925 – 2010
Ingeborg Rapoport
1912 – 2017
Isaac Grünewald
1889 – 1946
James Duhig
1871 – 1965
James Robart
b. 1947
Jim Moody
1935 – 2019
Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum
1829 – 1890
John Boileau
1794 – 1869
John Bowser
1856 – 1936
John McCallum
1883 – 1967
Josep Rull i Andreu
b. 1968
Joshua Henry
b. 1984
Jörg Kuebart
1934 – 2018
Jörg Schönbohm
1937 – 2019
Karsten S. Heckl
b. 1964
Kashim Shettima
b. 1966
Kiyokazu Washida
b. 1949
Knud Ejler Løgstrup
1905 – 1981
Laddie Lucas
1915 – 1998
Leslie Cockburn
b. 1952
Lev Ponomaryov
b. 1941
Liisa Jaakonsaari
b. 1945
Liliʻuokalani
1838 – 1917
Louis Laugier
b. 1965
Louis-Auguste-Victor, Count de Ghaisnes de Bourmont
1773 – 1846
Lucinda Backwell
b. 1966
Lynne Kosky
1958 – 2014
Léopold Lacour
1854 – 1939
Lütfi Ömer Akad
1916 – 2011
Magnus Brahe
1790 – 1844
Malcolm Robertson
1877 – 1951
Marcus Wallenberg
b. 1956
Marie-Charlotte Garin
b. 1995
Martha Crenshaw
b. 1945
Max Page
1882 – 1963
Melanie Joy
b. 1966
Michel Destot
b. 1946
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov
1907 – 1970
Milan Nedić
1878 – 1946
Mireille Ballestrazzi
b. 1954
Moira Stuart
b. 1949
Muir Stephen Fairchild
1894 – 1950
Nicola Armaroli
b. 1966
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
1908 – 1983
Noam Soker
b. 1958
Osamu Uno
b. 1947
Osmo Soininvaara
b. 1951
Pak Song-chol
1913 – 2008
Paul Bourget
1852 – 1935
Paul Matthieu Hermann Laurent
1841 – 1908
Peter Ueberroth
b. 1937
Pierre François Xavier de Ram
1804 – 1865
Rachel Carling-Jenkins
b. 1975
Rajko Grlić
b. 1947
Ralph Greenberg
b. 1944
Richard Bourke
b. 1965
Rita Bullwinkel
b. 1988
Robert Habeck
b. 1969
Robert Pollack
b. 1940
Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo
1942 – 2000
Sandrine Bélier
b. 1973
Sarah T. Roberts
b. 1975
Shigeru Yoshida
1885 – 1954
Shmuel Yeivin
1896 – 1982
Sigurd A. Sjoberg
1919 – 2000
Stefan Pawlicki
1839 – 1916
Tani Masayuki
1889 – 1962
Tony Windsor
b. 1950
Ulrich Grillo
b. 1959
Valentina Buliga
b. 1961
Valery Ivanovich Pikalyov
b. 1968
Walt Simonson
b. 1946
Walter McAfee
1914 – 1995
Wang Zaoshi
1903 – 1971
Werner von Blomberg
1878 – 1946
Wiesław Kuc
b. 1949
William Fox
1812 – 1893
Yevgeny Leonov
1926 – 1994
Yoo Jin-ryong
b. 1956
Yıldırım Akbulut
1935 – 2021
Zenjirō Horikiri
1884 – 1979
Abdul Mu'ti
b. 1968
Abraham B. Gardner
1819 – 1881
Adam Kszczot
b. 1989
Agostino Mascardi
1590 – 1640
Aksel Hansen
1853 – 1933
Albert Scharm
b. 1964
Aldo R. Boccaccini
b. 1962
Aleksandra Jerkov
b. 1982
Alexander Bruce Tulloch
1838 – 1920
… and 3,844 more
Died on September 2
William Rowan Hamilton
1805 – 1865
A. C. Bradley
1851 – 1935
Alfonso García Robles
1911 – 1991
Allen Drury
1918 – 1998
Arthur Smith Woodward
1864 – 1944
Carlton J. H. Hayes
1882 – 1964
Frank Drake
1930 – 2022
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892 – 1973
Joan Oró
1923 – 2004
John Bowlby
1907 – 1990
John Macadam
1827 – 1865
Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy
1794 – 1878
Levon Ananyan
1946 – 2013
Léon van Hove
1924 – 1990
Nathaniel Bliss
1700 – 1764
Philippe Daverio
1949 – 2020
Sylvanus Morley
1883 – 1948
Vasyl Oleksandrovych Sukhomlynsky
1918 – 1970
Viktor Frankl
1905 – 1997
William Henry
1774 – 1836
Ada Wójcik
1905 – 1982
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky
1852 – 1927
Alexander Aigner
1909 – 1988
Alexander Macalister
1844 – 1919
Alexandru Paleologu
1919 – 2005
Alfonso Giacomo Gaspare Corti
1822 – 1876
Alison Munro
1914 – 2008
Allan Hubbard
1928 – 2011
Amos de-Shalit
1926 – 1969
Anton Julius Carlson
1875 – 1956
Anton von Jaksch
1810 – 1887
Barbara McClintock
1902 – 1992
Bernard Smith
1916 – 2011
Bill Melendez
1916 – 2008
Bob Mathias
1930 – 2006
Calvin Beale
1923 – 2008
Charles Williams-Wynn
1775 – 1850
David Franklin Houston
1866 – 1940
David Graeber
1961 – 2020
Dragotin Cvetko
1911 – 1993
Edgar Benson
1923 – 2011
Edmund Bartłomiejczyk
1885 – 1950
Ehsan Yarshater
1920 – 2018
Elling Holst
1849 – 1915
Eric Neal
1924 – 2025
Evan Durbin
1906 – 1948
Eveline M. Burns
1900 – 1985
F. J. M. Stratton
1881 – 1960
Francisco Craveiro Lopes
1894 – 1964
Franz Meyen
1804 – 1840
François Nau
1864 – 1931
Gloria Steinem
1934 – 2026
Halim El-Dabh
1921 – 2017
Henri Dulac
1870 – 1955
Herbert Mataré
1912 – 2011
Ho Chi Minh
1890 – 1969
Islam Karimov
1938 – 2016
Issac Koga
1899 – 1982
Ivan Yumashev
1895 – 1972
James Tate
1771 – 1843
Jehangir Sabavala
1922 – 2011
Jemma Ananyan
1931 – 2018
Johan Collett Falsen
1817 – 1879
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
1701 – 1790
Joseph Louis Anne Avenol
1879 – 1952
Julius Tafel
1862 – 1918
Kang Kek Iew
1942 – 2020
Kiyoshi Hasegawa
1883 – 1970
Leo Trepp
1913 – 2010
Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit
1932 – 2023
Léon Eugène Bérard
1870 – 1956
Léon Fredericq
1851 – 1935
Léonce Vieljeux
1865 – 1944
Manuel Bartolomé Cossío
1857 – 1935
Margaret McIntyre
1886 – 1948
Mary Sears
1905 – 1997
Mathias Bonsach Krogh
1754 – 1828
Maude Abbott
1868 – 1940
Mieczysław Gębarowicz
1893 – 1984
Mihály Kupa
1941 – 2024
Mikhail Tikhomirov
1893 – 1965
Mikis Theodorakis
1925 – 2021
Niels Neergaard
1854 – 1936
Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
1783 – 1872
Norman Manley
1893 – 1969
Okakura Kakuzō
1863 – 1913
Paul Scoon
1935 – 2013
Peter Eckersley
1978 – 2022
Peter Freuchen
1886 – 1957
Pierre Paul Royer-Collard
1763 – 1845
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 – 1937
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
1941 – 2026
Robert A. Lamb
1950 – 2023
Ronald Coase
1910 – 2013
Sergey Martinson
1899 – 1984
Shigeru Yoshida
1885 – 1954
Shirō Takasu
1884 – 1944
Shmuel Eisenstadt
1923 – 2010
Sidharth Shukla
1980 – 2021
Su Nan-cheng
1936 – 2014
Sun Myung Moon
1920 – 2012
Tadeusz Baird
1928 – 1981
Tancred Borenius
1885 – 1948
Thomas Burr Osborne
1798 – 1869
Timotheus van der Vliet
1775 – 1843
Valérie Benguigui
1961 – 2013
Victor Quelch
1891 – 1975
Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez
1852 – 1920
Viktor Cherepkov
1942 – 2017
Warner Tjardus Koiter
1914 – 1997
Werner Schwarz
1900 – 1982
William Craigie
1867 – 1957
William F. Kernan
1946 – 2025
William Harrison Nebergall
1914 – 1978
William Nicol
1770 – 1851
Wyndham Deedes
1883 – 1956
Addison Clay Harris
1840 – 1916
Adrianus Johannes Simonis
1931 – 2020
Alain Testart
1945 – 2013
Albert de Rochas
1837 – 1914
Aleksandr Medved
1937 – 2024
Alexander Thomas Cameron
1882 – 1947
Alexei Fedchenko
1844 – 1873
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean
1926 – 1987
Amarnath Jha
1888 – 1947
Andreas Cappelen
1915 – 2008
André Chastagnol
1920 – 1996
Andy Tonkovich
1922 – 2006
Anto Gvozdenović
1853 – 1935
Antoine Deparcieux
1703 – 1768
Antonina Seredina
1929 – 2016
Archibald Billing
1791 – 1881
Archibald Strong
1876 – 1930
Arifin Bey
1925 – 2010
Armand Marc, Count of Montmorin
1745 – 1792
Arthur Dillon
1834 – 1922
Arthur Gilbert
1913 – 2001
Bernardino Rivadavia
1780 – 1845
Bill G. Lowrey
1862 – 1947
Bill Hefner
1930 – 2009
Bob Denver
1935 – 2005
Bob Kinney
1920 – 1985
Boris Brunov
1922 – 1997
Borys Klimchuk
1951 – 2014
Carl Eduard Napiersky
1793 – 1864
Cemil Bilsel
1879 – 1949
Charles A. Ferguson
1921 – 1998
Charles A. Rawson
1867 – 1936
Charles Anderson
1814 – 1895
Charles Antoine Morand
1771 – 1835
Charles-François Poerson
1653 – 1725
Chester I. Reed
1823 – 1873
Christiaan Barnard
1922 – 2001
Clara Shortridge Foltz
1849 – 1934
Clyde H. Hamilton
1934 – 2020
César del Villar y Villate
1843 – 1917
Dewey Redman
1931 – 2006
Edmund Knoll-Kownacki
1891 – 1953
Edward H. Moore
1871 – 1950
Edward Walter Hamilton
1847 – 1908
Elizabeth Ann Wells Cannon
1859 – 1942
Enid Lyons
1897 – 1981
Ernest Renshaw
1861 – 1899
Ewart G. Plank
1897 – 1982
Ezra Hall Gillett
1823 – 1875
Fadhil al-Milani
1944 – 2024
Fazlollah Zahedi
1892 – 1963
Felix Aylmer
1889 – 1979
Felix Svetov
1927 – 2002
Francis M. McAlister
1905 – 1965
Francis Ouimet
1893 – 1967
Frank Murchison Moore
1894 – 1918
Frankie Welch
1923 – 2021
Franz Xaver von Zach
1754 – 1832
Frederick V. McNair Jr.
1882 – 1962
Frederik Pohl
1919 – 2013
Frederik Storch
1805 – 1883
Friedrich Heinrich Ranke
1798 – 1876
Geminiano de Ocampo
1907 – 1987
Gennady Ladyzhensky
1852 – 1916
George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester
1737 – 1788
George Reginald Starr
1904 – 1980
George Stewart Henry
1871 – 1958
George T. Marye, Jr.
1849 – 1933
George W. Norris
1861 – 1944
Georges Leygues
1857 – 1933
Georgy Oppokov
1888 – 1937
Gisbert Hasenjaeger
1919 – 2006
Grigol Lordkipanidze
1881 – 1937
Gustav Aschaffenburg
1866 – 1944
H. Jeff Kimble
1949 – 2024
Hans von Rosen
1888 – 1952
Harrington Emerson
1853 – 1931
Harrison Grey Fiske
1861 – 1942
Hector Fabre
1834 – 1910
Helmut Rauch
1939 – 2019
Henry B. Anthony
1815 – 1884
Henry Huntly Haight
1825 – 1878
Herman J. Severson
1869 – 1950
Holden Chester Richardson
1878 – 1960
… and 1,689 more