Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/September 2

Births

 * 1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
 * 1879 - An Jung-geun, Japanese assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910)
 * 1894 - Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939)
 * 1924 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya (d. 2020)
 * 1951 - Mark Harmon, American actor
 * 1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
 * 1959 - Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque du Soleil
 * 1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
 * 1965 - Lennox Lewis, British-born boxer
 * 1966 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress

Deaths

 * 1834 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (b. 1757)
 * 1910 - Henri Rousseau, (pictured) French painter (b. 1844)
 * 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (b. 1863)
 * 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (b. 1890)
 * 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
 * 1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1902)
 * 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (b. 1922)