On This Day — November 2
3827 noted people were born and 1981 died on November 2 in our archive, including Fei Xiaotong, Henry John Stephen Smith and Ab Klink.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on November 2
Fei Xiaotong
1910 – 2005
Henry John Stephen Smith
1826 – 1883
Ab Klink
b. 1958
Adel Sedra
b. 1943
Adriaan van Wijngaarden
1916 – 1987
Andrii Rozumovskyi
1752 – 1836
Angelo Messedaglia
1820 – 1901
Baltazar Mathias Keilhau
1797 – 1858
Barbara Borys-Damięcka
1937 – 2023
Charles Singer
1876 – 1960
Dalil Boubakeur
b. 1940
Ed van den Heuvel
b. 1940
Ernst Georg Ferdinand Küster
1839 – 1930
Farhad N. Fatkullin
b. 1979
François Pierrot
b. 1961
Ge Wang
b. 1977
Geneviève Laurenceau
b. 1977
Georg Ludwig von Maurer
1790 – 1872
Gerard Béhague
1937 – 2005
Gyula Illyés
1902 – 1983
Harlow Shapley
1885 – 1972
Henrik Schück
1855 – 1947
Jacob Bjerknes
1897 – 1975
Jaroslav Šabata
1927 – 2012
Johan Sigismund von Mösting
1759 – 1843
John Kopchick
b. 1950
John Newport Langley
1852 – 1925
Jonathan Knott
b. 1966
Larry Fink
b. 1952
Leonid Levin
b. 1948
Melvin Schwartz
1932 – 2006
Paul Johnson
1928 – 2023
Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
b. 1939
Paweł Adamowicz
1965 – 2019
Queen Sofía of Spain
b. 1938
Raymond Unwin
1863 – 1940
Robert Solomon
1931 – 2024
Robert von Zimmermann
1824 – 1898
Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
b. 1968
Ronald Oxburgh, Baron Oxburgh
b. 1934
Scott Plous
b. 1959
Scott Walker
b. 1967
Sergey Lebedev
1902 – 1974
Sigrid Kaag
b. 1961
Simon Gass
b. 1956
Vladimir Yaroshenko
b. 1985
Yuri Trutnev
1927 – 2021
Adolf Appellöf
1857 – 1921
Adolphe Charles Le Flô
1804 – 1887
Aga Khan III
1877 – 1957
Akio Mimura
b. 1940
Alan Frampton
1929 – 2026
Alfredo Morabia
b. 1952
Andrea Kdolsky
b. 1962
Andreas Mogensen
b. 1976
Arun Shourie
b. 1941
Audie Cornish
b. 1969
Barber Conable
1922 – 2003
Bengt Edlén
1906 – 1993
Borut Pahor
b. 1963
Calvin C. Moore
1936 – 2023
Christine Devine
b. 1965
Colin Clark
1905 – 1989
Constance Mabel Winchell
1896 – 1983
Consuelo Madrigal
b. 1956
Corine Pelluchon
b. 1967
Daniel W. Armstrong
b. 1949
David Bauer
1924 – 1988
David Sirota
b. 1975
Debbie Millman
b. 1962
Denise Pumain
b. 1946
Dmytro Antonovych
1877 – 1945
Don Walsh
1931 – 2023
Douglas Lilburn
1915 – 2001
E. Gerald Meyer
b. 1919
Engelbert Sterckx
1792 – 1867
Erling Størmer
b. 1937
Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell
1837 – 1899
Fernand Jacquet
1888 – 1947
Frédérique Bredin
b. 1956
Georg Beseler
1809 – 1888
George Bowen
1821 – 1899
Goji Sakamoto
1944 – 2018
Grażyna Staniszewska
b. 1949
Guillem Balagué
b. 1968
Gyula Németh
1890 – 1976
György Sebők
1922 – 1999
Hans Loch
1898 – 1960
Harald Lindberg
1871 – 1963
Harry Harkimo
b. 1953
Huang Chieh
1902 – 1995
Ivan Obolensky
1853 – 1910
James Turner Johnson
b. 1938
Jan Grabiec
b. 1972
Jean-Baptiste Marchand
1863 – 1934
Jean-Jack Queyranne
b. 1945
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
1883 – 1947
Jeffrey A. Hoffman
b. 1944
Jerzy Osiatyński
1941 – 2022
John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton
1928 – 2020
John N. Heiskell
1872 – 1972
John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover
1927 – 2022
John Walter Scott
1845 – 1919
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
1766 – 1858
Kal Naga
b. 1966
Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
1829 – 1902
Kartiki Gonsalves
b. 1986
L. M. Shaw
1848 – 1932
Li Minhua
1917 – 2013
Lynn Nottage
b. 1964
Mahendralal Sarkar
1833 – 1904
Maksim Łužanin
1909 – 2001
Maria Tam
b. 1945
Marian Suski
1905 – 1993
Marta Casals Istomin
b. 1936
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
1940 – 2026
Maurice Blondel
1861 – 1949
Michka Assayas
b. 1958
Miguel Uribe Londoño
b. 1952
Mikhail Anisimov
b. 1941
Moshe Brawer
1919 – 2020
Mushahid Hussain Sayed
b. 1952
Pam Duncan-Glancy
b. 1981
Park Young Seok
1963 – 2011
Patrice Chéreau
1944 – 2013
Patty Judge
b. 1943
Paul Chalfin
1874 – 1959
Peter Seabrook
1935 – 2022
Poul Heegaard
1871 – 1948
Raimon Panikkar
1918 – 2010
Richard E. Taylor
1929 – 2018
Rodney Williams
b. 1947
Romano L. Mazzoli
1932 – 2022
Rose Bird
1936 – 1999
Roy W. Brown
b. 1947
Rudolf Magnus
1873 – 1927
Rutger Sernander
1866 – 1944
Sara Annie Burstall
1859 – 1939
Shah Rukh Khan
b. 1965
Shere Hite
1942 – 2020
Shulamith Shahar
1928 – 2025
Stjepan Damjanović
b. 1946
Stuart Cull-Candy
b. 1946
Teng Daiyuan
1904 – 1974
Theo Koritzinsky
b. 1941
Theodore Caldwell Janeway
1872 – 1917
Thomas Dean
b. 1950
Thomas Mallon
b. 1951
Tomáš Zdechovský
b. 1979
Torleif Ericson
b. 1930
Urtė Neniškytė
b. 1983
Urve Tauts
b. 1935
Vaqif Sadiqov
b. 1956
Victor Crutchley
1893 – 1986
William Adams Richardson
1821 – 1896
William Donald Schaefer
1921 – 2011
Winthrop W. Aldrich
1885 – 1974
Włodzimierz Ptak
1928 – 2019
Yevgeny Kosminsky
1886 – 1959
Yonggang Huang
b. 1962
Zenon Klemensiewicz
1891 – 1969
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu
b. 1965
Abba Ahimeir
1897 – 1962
Abid Sadykov
1913 – 1987
Adalbert Merx
1838 – 1909
Adam Hadwin
b. 1987
Adolf Gottstein
1857 – 1941
Adrian Madaro
b. 1988
Aharon Megged
1920 – 2016
Akira Ishida
b. 1967
Alan Jones
b. 1946
Alan Louis Eggers
1895 – 1968
Albert Houssiau
b. 1924
Alex Kushnir
b. 1978
Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov
1866 – 1934
Alexander John McLachlan
1872 – 1956
Alexander Vraciu
1918 – 2015
Alfred Augustus Stockton
1842 – 1907
Alfred C. Carr, Jr.
b. 1965
Alfred Edwards
1848 – 1937
Ali Naseer Mohamed
b. 1969
Aline Archimbaud
b. 1948
Allan Walters
1905 – 1968
Ally Condie
b. 1978
Aloys Jousten
1937 – 2021
Andreas Gruber
b. 1954
Andriy Kit
b. 1971
Andriy Odarchenko
b. 1978
Andrzej Marek Chołdzyński
b. 1960
André Postema
b. 1969
Andy Borg
b. 1960
Andy Rautins
b. 1986
Ann Rutherford
1917 – 2012
Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné
1728 – 1811
Antonio Maíllo
b. 1966
Antony Edwards-Stuart
b. 1946
António Barbosa de Melo
1932 – 2016
Anu Malik
b. 1960
Arthur Ernest Guinness
1876 – 1949
Arthur Stockdale Cope
1857 – 1940
… and 3,627 more
Died on November 2
Thomas Midgley
1889 – 1944
Adrien Douady
1935 – 2006
Albert von Kölliker
1817 – 1905
Angelo Celli
1857 – 1914
Edith Aitken
1861 – 1940
Ela Bhatt
1933 – 2022
Irwin Fridovich
1929 – 2019
James John Hornby
1826 – 1909
Jean Hubert
1885 – 1927
Kurt Schmitt
1886 – 1950
Leo Baeck
1873 – 1956
Marie-Jean-Léon d'Hervey de Saint Denys
1822 – 1892
Martin Lowry
1874 – 1936
Peter Debye
1884 – 1966
Sadao Araki
1877 – 1966
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
1930 – 2012
Themistocles Zammit
1864 – 1935
Thomas Anderson
1819 – 1874
Tokutomi Sohō
1863 – 1957
Vladimir Kovalevsky
1848 – 1934
Walter Kistler
1918 – 2015
William Seeds
1882 – 1973
Yan Jici
1901 – 1996
Đuro Kurepa
1907 – 1993
Abram Besicovitch
1891 – 1970
Ahmed Laraki
1931 – 2020
Alfred Domett
1811 – 1887
Amir Pnueli
1941 – 2009
Angas Parsons
1872 – 1945
Annette Baier
1929 – 2012
Antoine Schwerer
1862 – 1936
Auguste-Emmanuel Vaucorbeil
1821 – 1884
Charles Hanbury Williams
1708 – 1759
Claude Verlon
1958 – 2013
Constantin Popescu
1928 – 2018
Domenico Cavagnari
1876 – 1966
Donald L. Shell
1924 – 2015
Duan Qirui
1865 – 1936
Edward Soja
1940 – 2015
Egon Wolff
1926 – 2016
Ernst Christian Julius Schering
1833 – 1897
Esaias Tegnér
1782 – 1846
Federico Tedeschini
1873 – 1959
Franz Eilhard Schulze
1840 – 1921
Françoise Lengellé
1944 – 2025
Frederic Vester
1925 – 2003
Frederick Montizambert
1843 – 1929
Félix Paiva
1877 – 1965
Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
1812 – 1895
Ghislaine Dupont
1956 – 2013
Guy-Victor Duperré
1775 – 1846
Gösta Ehrensvärd
1885 – 1973
Heinrich Burkhardt
1861 – 1914
Henri Lopès
1937 – 2023
Herbert Holdsworth Ross
1908 – 1978
Herbert Lightfoot Eason
1874 – 1949
Hiroshi Ogawa
1949 – 2021
Hokuma Gurbanova
1913 – 1988
Hugh Kerr Anderson
1865 – 1928
Hugo Osvald
1892 – 1970
István Fáry
1922 – 1984
Ivan Sechenov
1829 – 1905
James Alexander Lougheed
1854 – 1925
Jan van Paradijs
1946 – 1999
John La Montagne
1943 – 2004
John Mathai
1886 – 1959
Konstantin Glinka
1867 – 1927
Leonard Schapiro
1908 – 1983
Louisa Parsons
1855 – 1916
Luigi Bodio
1840 – 1920
Menachem Savidor
1917 – 1988
Narcissus Marsh
1638 – 1713
Nathaniel P. Conrey
1860 – 1936
Neal Edward Smith
1920 – 2021
Ngô Đình Diệm
1901 – 1963
Paul Hallez
1846 – 1938
Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor
1917 – 1994
Rasuna Said
1910 – 1965
Richard Cushing
1895 – 1970
Rutherford Alcock
1809 – 1897
Samuel Hoar
1778 – 1856
Virgínia Rau
1907 – 1973
William Damasus Lindanus
1525 – 1588
William Morgan
1828 – 1883
Wolfgang Börnsen
1942 – 2024
Álvaro Gómez Hurtado
1919 – 1995
A. Thomas Kraabel
1934 – 2016
Adonis Sepúlveda
1919 – 2005
Ahmed al-Mirghani
1941 – 2008
Albert Ganado
1924 – 2025
Albert William Atwater
1856 – 1929
Aleksey Kozlov
1934 – 2015
Alexander Menshikov
1673 – 1729
Alexander Sibiryakov
1849 – 1933
Alexandre Darracq
1855 – 1931
Alma Ostra-Oinas
1886 – 1960
Andrzej Ciechanowiecki
1924 – 2015
Anthony Carlisle
1768 – 1840
Antonio Aranda Lomeña
1942 – 2023
Asko Ivalo
1901 – 1968
Augustin Gérard
1857 – 1926
Augustus Wall Callcott
1779 – 1844
Ben Lear
1879 – 1966
Bettisia Gozzadini
1209 – 1261
Bogaletch Gebre
1960 – 2019
Brenda Snipes
1943 – 2023
Carl Henrik Boheman
1796 – 1868
Carlo Laurenzi
1821 – 1893
Carlos Maia Pinto
1866 – 1932
Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
1915 – 2003
Charles FitzClarence
1865 – 1914
Charles Joseph, comte Bresson
1798 – 1847
Charles Reginald Schirm
1864 – 1918
Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc
1772 – 1802
Charles de Wailly
1730 – 1798
Chen Shufan
1885 – 1949
Clifford Nass
1958 – 2013
Clyde King
1924 – 2010
Daniel Dee Burnes
1851 – 1899
David L. Cornwell
1945 – 2012
David Weininger
1952 – 2016
Demetrio B. Lakas
1925 – 1999
Denise Barthomeuf
1934 – 2004
Dennis Moore
1945 – 2021
Dimitri Mitropoulos
1896 – 1960
Domenico Leccisi
1920 – 2008
Dwight H. Perkins
1867 – 1941
Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild
1926 – 1997
Edmond James de Rothschild
1845 – 1934
Edward Frome
1802 – 1890
Edward L. Hamilton
1857 – 1923
Edward S. Matthias
1873 – 1953
Eivind Heiberg
1870 – 1939
Elazar Shach
1898 – 2001
Elizabeth Hawley Gasque
1886 – 1989
Elzada Clover
1897 – 1980
Emily Huntington Miller
1833 – 1913
Emília Viotti da Costa
1928 – 2017
Erich Reich
1935 – 2022
Euan MacKie
1936 – 2020
Everett Scott
1892 – 1960
Felix Berber
1871 – 1930
Frances Carpenter
1890 – 1972
Francis Allotey
1932 – 2017
Francis Bates Pond
1825 – 1883
Francis J. Finn
1859 – 1928
Francis Mitchell Caird
1853 – 1926
Francis Turner
1637 – 1700
Frank McCloskey
1939 – 2003
Frank McNamara
1894 – 1961
Frants Berg
1504 – 1591
Frederick Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond
1904 – 1989
Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
1813 – 1891
Frederick Knab
1865 – 1918
Garry L. Rempel
1944 – 2018
Gaspar de Ávalos de la Cueva
1485 – 1545
George Barton Cutten
1874 – 1962
George Bernard Shaw
1856 – 1950
George Henry Shelton
1871 – 1920
George Makins
1853 – 1933
George Sacco
1936 – 2025
Gigi Proietti
1940 – 2020
Giuseppe Berto
1914 – 1978
Giuseppe Ottolenghi
1838 – 1904
Gottlieb Christoph Harless
1738 – 1815
Greasy Neale
1891 – 1973
Guido Venturoni
1934 – 2025
Gustav Deutsch
1952 – 2019
H. V. Evatt
1894 – 1965
Hakushū Kitahara
1885 – 1942
Hal Roach
1892 – 1992
Hannes Messemer
1924 – 1991
Hans Erich Nossack
1901 – 1977
Hardie Scott
1907 – 1999
Harriet Taylor Upton
1853 – 1945
Harry C. Gahn
1880 – 1962
Harry H. Seldomridge
1864 – 1927
Hector Cameron
1832 – 1896
Helen Stevenson Meyner
1929 – 1997
Henry Curtis-Bennett
1879 – 1936
Henry Loomis
1919 – 2008
Henry R. Frankel
1944 – 2019
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
1455 – 1483
Henry Wynn
1945 – 2024
Herbert Alonzo Howe
1858 – 1926
Hjalmar Falk
1859 – 1928
Hollister Jackson
1875 – 1927
Horace G. Knowles
1863 – 1937
Howard Wayne
1948 – 2023
Huriye Öniz Baha
1887 – 1950
Igor Moiseyev
1906 – 2007
Inés Arredondo
1928 – 1989
Jacob Speyer
1849 – 1913
Jacob Weinberg
1879 – 1956
Jaider Esbell
1979 – 2021
James I. Robertson, Jr.
1930 – 2019
James Thurber
1894 – 1961
James Z. Spearing
1864 – 1942
Jean Carson
1923 – 2005
Jean Jules Godefroy Calès
1828 – 1899
… and 1,781 more