Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 2

Births

 * 1902 - Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy (d. 1972)
 * 1904 - Dr. Seuss, American author (d. 1991)
 * 1917 - Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and musician (d. 1986)
 * 1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (pictured)


 * 1942 - John Irving, American author
 * 1962 - Jon Bon Jovi, American singer, songwriter, and actor

Deaths

 * 1791 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
 * 1797 - Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
 * 1895 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
 * 1930 - D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)