Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 2

Births

 * 885 – Li Cunxu, Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty (d. 926)
 * 1846 – Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, 68th Prime Minister of France (d. 1904)
 * 1859 – Georges Seurat, French Post-Impressionist painter (d. 1891)
 * 1863 – Charles Edward Ringling, co-founder of the Ringling Brothers Circus (d. 1926)
 * 1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
 * 1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, 1st President of Kosovo (d. 2006)

Deaths

 * 1547 – Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conquistador (b. 1485)
 * 1814 – Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, French author (b. 1740)
 * 1969 – Kliment Voroshilov, 3rd Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (b. 1881)
 * 1972 – Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (b. 1893)
 * 1980 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
 * 1987 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)