Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 2

Births

• 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

• 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)