On this day: 2 October
Events, births and deaths on 2 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Events · 2025 Manchester synagogue attack
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Neville Marriner
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jan Morris
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 939 · Deaths · Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
- 939 · Events · Battle of Andernach
Events · 26
- 939Battle of Andernach — battle
- 1263(Julian date)Battle of Largs — 1263 battle of the Scottish-Norwegian War
- 1766Nottingham cheese riot — 1766, riot at Nottingham Goose fair
- 1835Texas Revolution — war between Texans and Mexico, 1835-1836, resulting in the independent Republic of Texas
- 1835Battle of Gonzales — 1835 first military engagement of the Texas Revolution
- 1864First Battle of Saltville — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1913Shubert Theatre — Broadway theater in Manhattan, New York
- 1928Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei — Personal Prelature of the Catholic Church
- 1937Parsley massacre — Haitian genocidal massacre carried out in fall 1937
- 1944Warsaw Uprising — major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army
- 1950Peanuts — comic strip by Charles M. Schulz
- 1950Charlie Brown — character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
- 1958Guinea — sovereign state in West Africa
- 1968Tlatelolco massacre — Social movement of Mexico
- 1970Wichita State University football team plane crash — 1970 aviation accident in Colorado
- 1971British European Airways Flight 706 — aviation accident
- 1971
- 19901990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions — 1990 aircraft collisions at Guangzhou airport
- 1992Carandiru massacre — 1992 massacre in the Carandiru penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil
- 19941994 Asian Games — 12th edition of the Asian Games
- 1996Aeroperú Flight 603 — airplane crash in Pacific Ocean in October 1996 en route to Chile
- 2004parkrun — free weekly timed 5k run event
- 2006Amish school shooting — 2006 school shooting in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- 2018assassination of Jamal Khashoggi — 2018 murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil
- 20192019 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash — vintage World War II heavy bomber crash during tourist flight
- 20252025 Manchester synagogue attack — 2 October 2025 vehicle ramming and stabbing in the United Kingdom
Births · 60
- 1452(Julian date)Richard III of England — king of England from 1483 to 1485
- 1470(Julian date)Isabel of Aragon — queen consort of Portugal (1470-1498)
- 1538(Julian date)Charles Borromeo — Italian Catholic prelate (1538–1584)
- 1798Carlo Alberto I of Sardinia — King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849
- 1832Edward Burnett Tylor — English anthropologist (1832–1917)
- 1847Paul von Hindenburg — Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany (1847–1934)
- 1851Ferdinand Foch — French marchal and military theorist (1851–1929)
- 1852William Ramsay — Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
- 1854Patrick Geddes — British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
- 1869Mahatma Gandhi — Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
- 1871Cordell Hull — American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944
- 1879Wallace Stevens — American poet (1879–1955)
- 1882Boris Shaposhnikov — Marshal of the Soviet Union (1882-1945)
- 1883Karl von Terzaghi — Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics" (1883–1963)
- 1886Jisaburō Ozawa — Japanese admiral (1886–1966)
- 1887Violet Jessop — Titanic crew member (1887–1971)
- 1890Groucho Marx — American comedian (1890–1977)
- 1897Bud Abbott — American actor, producer and comedian (1897–1974)
- 1902Leopold Figl — Austrian politician, minister, chancellor (1902–1965)
- 1904Graham Greene — British writer, playwright and literary critic (1904–1991)
- 1904
- 1907Alexander Todd — British biochemist and Nobel laureate (1907-1997)
- 1907Víctor Paz Estenssoro — 45th President of Bolivia
- 1917Christian de Duve — Belgian biochemist, cytologist (1917–2013)
- 1920Ștefan Kovács — Romanian association football player (1920-1995)
Deaths · 60
- 534Athalaric — Ostrogothic king and King Of Italy (526–534)
- 829(Julian date)Michael II — Byzantine emperor
- 939(Julian date)Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine — Duke of Lotharingia
- 1244(Julian date)Saionji Kintsune — Japanese poet
- 1264(Julian date)Urban IV — Head of the Catholic Church from 1261 to 1264 (1185–1264)
- 1629Pierre de Bérulle — French Catholic priest and cardinal
- 1629Antonio Cifra — Italian composer
- 1674George Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Siegen — Prince of Nassau-Siegen
- 1678Wu Sangui — Chinese general and rebel (1612-1678)
- 1708Anne Jules de Noailles — Second Duke of Noailles
- 1724François-Timoléon de Choisy — French abbé and writer (1644–1724)
- 1764William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire — former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1780John André — British Army officer during the American Revolutionary War
- 1782Charles Lee — British military diplomat and general of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence (1731-1782)
- 1786Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel — Royal Navy admiral (1725-1786)
- 1803Samuel Adams — American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803)
- 1804Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot — French inventor (1725–1804)
- 1847Vasil Aprilov — Bulgarian educator (1789—1847)
- 1850Sarah Biffen — English painter born with no arms (1784-1850)
- 1853François Arago — French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
- 1892Ernest Renan — French philosopher and writer (1823–1892)
- 1920Max Bruch — German romantic composer and conductor (1838-1920)
- 1927Svante August Arrhenius — Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
- 1935Georg Jensen — Danish silversmith (1866-1935)
- 1938Alexandru Averescu — Marshal and former Prime Minister of Romania (1859-1938)
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