Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 2
Births edit
- 1734 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
- 1755 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793) (pictured)
- 1795 - James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
- 1865 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
- 1913 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1938 - Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
Deaths edit
- 1618 - Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (b. 1568)
- 1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
- 1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
- 1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)
- 2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)