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)