On this day: 2 September
Events, births and deaths on 2 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Kazuko Yoshiyuki
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Islam Karimov
- Deaths · Jerry Heller
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1922 · Births · Arthur Ashkin
- 1924 · Births · Daniel arap Moi
- 1933 · Births · Mathieu Kérékou
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1031 · Deaths · Saint Emeric of Hungary
- 1083 · Deaths · Munjong of Goryeo
- 1022 · Deaths · Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill
Events · 25
- 31 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Actium — 31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
- 911(Julian date)Rus'–Byzantine Treaty — Treaty signed between Byzantium and Kievan Rus' in 911
- 1192(Julian date)Third Crusade — attempt by European leaders to reconquer the Holy Land from Egypt
- 1666Great Fire of London — disaster in 17th century England
- 1789United States Department of the Treasury — United States federal executive department
- 1792September Massacres — Wave of killings in France in 2–7 Sept. 1792 during the French Revolution, in which half the prison population of Paris (that is, approximately 1200–1400 people) were summarily executed
- 1856Tianjing Incident — 1856 internal conflict within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- 1861Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation between China and Germany — 1861 China-Prussia treaty
- 1885Rock Springs massacre — incident that occurred on September 2, 1885 in Rock Springs
- 1898Battle of Omdurman — battle between the Mahdists and Anglo-Sudanse in 1898.
- 1945North Vietnam — former country in Southeast Asia that existed from 1945 to 1976
- 1945Japanese Instrument of Surrender — 1945 agreement ending hostilities in WWII
- 1958China Central Television — Chinese media organization providing a Communist Party-run propaganda channel network
- 19581958 C-130 shootdown — 1958 shootdown of a USAF C-130A reconnaissance aircraft over Armenia
- 1963CBS Evening News — Flagship evening television news program of CBS News
- 1964Aeroflot Flight 721 — plane crash
- 1967Principality of Sealand — micronation in the North Sea
- 1968Operation OAU — 1968 military operation of the Biafran War
- 1970Aeroflot Flight 3630 — aviation accident
- 1998Swissair Flight 111 — Aviation accident in 1998
- 20092009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash — Crash which led to the death of Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
- 20112011 Chilean Air Force CASA 212 crash — 2011 aircraft crash in Chile
- 2018National Museum of Brazil fire — 2018 museum fire at Rio de Janeiro
- 2019Sinking of MV Conception — 2019 maritime disaster
- 20242024 Makala prison jailbreak attempt — 2024 attempted jailbreak at the Makala Central Prison
Births · 60
- 1548(Julian date)Vincenzo Scamozzi — 16th century Italian architect (1548–1616)
- 1753Marie Joséphine of Savoy — princess
- 1778Louis Bonaparte — king of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846)
- 1814Ernst Curtius — German archaeologist and historian (1814–1896)
- 1838Liliʻuokalani — monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom (1838–1917)
- 1839Henry George — American political economist and journalist (1839–1897)
- 1852Paul Bourget — French writer, playwright and critic (1852–1935)
- 1853Wilhelm Ostwald — Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
- 1877Frederick Soddy — English radiochemist (1877–1956)
- 1878Werner von Blomberg — German Army field marshal and Military Chief of the Wehrmacht Military Forces (Heer,Luftwaffe,Kriegsmarine) (1878-1946)
- 1878Maurice René Fréchet — French mathematician (1878–1973)
- 1879An Jung-geun — Korean independence activist (1879–1910)
- 1894Joseph Roth — Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
- 1913Bill Shankly — Scottish footballer and manager (1913-1981)
- 1919Marge Champion — American dancer and actress (1919–2020)
- 1922Arthur Ashkin — American physicist (1922-2020)
- 1923René Thom — French mathematician (1923–2002)
- 1924Daniel arap Moi — Kenyan President (2nd) (1924-2020)
- 1928Horace Silver — American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
- 1929Hal Ashby — American film director and film editor (1929-1988)
- 1933Mathieu Kérékou — politician (1933-2015)
- 1934Chuck McCann — American voice actor and comedian (1934-2018)
- 1936Andrew Grove — Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936–2016)
- 1941Sadhana Shivdasani — Indian actress (1941–2015)
- 1946Billy Preston — American R&B musician (1946–2006)
Deaths · 60
- 421(Julian date)Constantius III — Western Roman Emperor (370-421)
- 459(Julian date)Simeon Stylites — Christian ascetic saint
- 595(Julian date)John IV of Constantinople — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1031(Julian date)Saint Emeric of Hungary — son of King St. Stephen I of Hungary and Giselle of Bavaria.
- 1083(Julian date)Munjong of Goryeo — the king of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea
- 1274(Julian date)Munetaka-shinnō — son of emperor Go-Saga; shogun of Kamakura
- 1332(Julian date)Jayaatu Khan — Yuan dynasty emperor from 1328 to 1332
- 1397Francesco Landini — Italian composer (c. 1325 – 1397)
- 1540Lebna Dengel — emperor of Ethiopia (1496-1540)
- 1651Kösem Sultan — Consort of Ahmed, Valide Sultan and regent of Murad IV and Ibrahim I, grandmother and regent of Mehmed IV
- 1690Philip William, Elector Palatine — German nobleman (1615-1690)
- 1764Nathaniel Bliss — English astronomer (1700-1764)
- 1790Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim — historian, auxiliary bishop of Trier, originator of Febronianism
- 1813Jean Victor Marie Moreau — French General (1763–1813)
- 1820Jiaqing Emperor — Chinese emperor (1760-1820) of the Qing dynasty
- 1832Franz Xaver von Zach — astronomer (1754-1832)
- 1834Thomas Telford — Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason (1757–1834)
- 1845Bernardino Rivadavia — First President of Argentina (born 1780-1845)
- 1865William Rowan Hamilton — Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
- 1872Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig — Danish Lutheran pastor, theologian, hymn-writer and educator (1783-1872)
- 1877(Julian date)Konstantinos Kanaris — Greek admiral and politician
- 1891August von Pelzeln — Austrian ornithologist (1825–1891)
- 1898Wilford Woodruff — President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1807-1898)
- 1910Henri Rousseau — French painter (1844–1910)
- 1918John Forrest — Australian explorer and politician (1847-1918)
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