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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of November 1410 | EVENT | The Peace of Bicetre between the Armagnac and Burgundian factions is signed. |
| 2nd of November 1570 | EVENT | A tsunami in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people. |
| 2nd of November 1675 | EVENT | King Philip's War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts. |
| 2nd of November 1769 | EVENT | Don Gaspar de Portola leads the the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay. |
| 2nd of November 1772 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence. |
| 2nd of November 1783 | EVENT | In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army". |
| 2nd of November 1795 | EVENT | The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France. |
| 2nd of November 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter. |
| 2nd of November 1868 | EVENT | Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally |
| 2nd of November 1882 | EVENT | Oulu, Finland is decimated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882 |
| 2nd of November 1889 | EVENT | North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. |
| 2nd of November 1895 | EVENT | The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000 |
| 2nd of November 1898 | EVENT | Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. |
| 2nd of November 1899 | EVENT | The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. |
| 2nd of November 1909 | EVENT | Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University. |
| 2nd of November 1914 | EVENT | Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. |
| 2nd of November 1917 | EVENT | The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities". |
| 2nd of November 1920 | EVENT | In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920. |
| 2nd of November 1930 | EVENT | Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. |
| 2nd of November 1936 | EVENT | The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. |
| 2nd of November 1936 | EVENT | Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers. |
| 2nd of November 1936 | EVENT | The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. |
| 2nd of November 1947 | EVENT | In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. |
| 2nd of November 1953 | EVENT | The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. |
| 2nd of November 1957 | EVENT | The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity. |
| 2nd of November 1959 | EVENT | Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. |
| 2nd of November 1959 | EVENT | The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway |
| 2nd of November 1960 | EVENT | Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case |
| 2nd of November 1963 | EVENT | South Vietnamese President Ngo ?inh Diem is assassinated following a military coup. |
| 2nd of November 1964 | EVENT | King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal. |
| 2nd of November 1965 | EVENT | Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war. |
| 2nd of November 1966 | EVENT | The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. |
| 2nd of November 1967 | EVENT | Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war. |
| 2nd of November 1973 | EVENT | The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura. |
| 2nd of November 1974 | EVENT | 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started. |
| 2nd of November 1983 | EVENT | U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. |
| 2nd of November 1984 | EVENT | Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. |
| 2nd of November 1988 | EVENT | The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. |
| 2nd of November 1995 | EVENT | Former South African defense minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted). |
| 2nd of November 2000 | EVENT | The first resident crew to the ISS docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31 |
| 2nd of November 1082 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135) |
| 2nd of November 1470 | BIRTHDAY | King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower (d. 1483) |
| 2nd of November 1475 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Anne of York, Countess of Surrey (d. 1511) |
| 2nd of November 1636 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721) |
| 2nd of November 1667 | BIRTHDAY | James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (d. 1737) |
| 2nd of November 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (d. 1766) |
| 2nd of November 1696 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (d. 1760) |
| 2nd of November 1699 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, French painter (d. 1779) |
| 2nd of November 1709 | BIRTHDAY | Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759) |
| 2nd of November 1734 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Boone American explorer (d. 1820) |
| 2nd of November 1739 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799) |
| 2nd of November 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (d. 1784) |
| 2nd of November 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1794) |
| 2nd of November 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793) |
| 2nd of November 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858) |
| 2nd of November 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848) |
| 2nd of November 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zo?kowski, Polish actor (d. 1822) |
| 2nd of November 1795 | BIRTHDAY | James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849) |
| 2nd of November 1799 | BIRTHDAY | John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885) |
| 2nd of November 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (d. 1889) |
| 2nd of November 1815 | BIRTHDAY | George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864) |
| 2nd of November 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (d. 1899) |
| 2nd of November 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (d. 1904) |
| 2nd of November 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891) |
| 2nd of November 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1918) |
| 2nd of November 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Schuck, Swedish literary historian (d. 1947) |
| 2nd of November 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923) |
| 2nd of November 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (d. 1933) |
| 2nd of November 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (d. 1957) |
| 2nd of November 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915) |
| 2nd of November 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (d. 1930) |
| 2nd of November 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (d. 1947) |
| 2nd of November 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (d. 1972) |
| 2nd of November 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (d. 1971) |
| 2nd of November 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Moa Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1964) |
| 2nd of November 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Nishinoumi Kajiro III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933) |
| 2nd of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1939) |
| 2nd of November 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (d. 1966) |
| 2nd of November 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976) |
| 2nd of November 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, known from Seven Years in Tibet (d. 1973) |
| 2nd of November 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1987) |
| 2nd of November 1905 | BIRTHDAY | James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967) |
| 2nd of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (d. 1959) |
| 2nd of November 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976) |
| 2nd of November 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983) |
| 2nd of November 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (d. 1999) |
| 2nd of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Odysseus Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1996) |
| 2nd of November 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (d. 1995) |
| 2nd of November 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 2nd of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of November 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (d. 2000) |
| 2nd of November 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005) |
| 2nd of November 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Rutherford, American actress |
| 2nd of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Shepard Menken, American voice actor (d. 1999) |
| 2nd of November 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (d. 1994) |
| 2nd of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer |
| 2nd of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | (Father) David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988) |
| 2nd of November 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Ditko, American artist |
| 2nd of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Johnson, British historian |
| 2nd of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan |
| 2nd of November 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 2nd of November 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Gothard, American minister and speaker |
| 2nd of November 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player |
| 2nd of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989) |
| 2nd of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999) |
| 2nd of November 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs |
| 2nd of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician |
| 2nd of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans) |
| 2nd of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David Lane, American white nationalist (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Sofia of Spain |
| 2nd of November 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist |
| 2nd of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bakken, American football player |
| 2nd of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows) |
| 2nd of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Shere Hite, American-German author |
| 2nd of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Stefanie Powers, American actress |
| 2nd of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) |
| 2nd of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Patrice Chereau, French director, actor and producer |
| 2nd of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Jones, Australian race car driver |
| 2nd of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (d. 2010) |
| 2nd of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic |
| 2nd of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) |
| 2nd of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Maxine Nightingale, English singer |
| 2nd of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Croce, American entrepreneur |
| 2nd of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer |
| 2nd of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Burnett, American musician |
| 2nd of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mullan, Scottish actor |
| 2nd of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Notis Sfakianakis, Greek singer |
| 2nd of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band) |
| 2nd of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Willie McGee, American baseball player |
| 2nd of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | k.d. lang, Canadian musician |
| 2nd of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Tedford, head coach of the California Golden Bears |
| 2nd of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | David Brock, American political commentator, pundit |
| 2nd of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mireille Delunsch, French soprano |
| 2nd of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Hill, English-Australian football commentator |
| 2nd of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Dall, American musician Poison (band) |
| 2nd of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Gardell, Swedish writer |
| 2nd of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ron McGovney, American musician |
| 2nd of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker |
| 2nd of November 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Park Young Seok, South Korean mountaineer |
| 2nd of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Britta Lejon, Swedish politician |
| 2nd of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Clavio, Filipino broadcast journalist |
| 2nd of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor |
| 2nd of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Le Bihan, French actor |
| 2nd of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Kanan, American actor |
| 2nd of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker |
| 2nd of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | David Schwimmer, American actor |
| 2nd of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshinari Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 2nd of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor |
| 2nd of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician |
| 2nd of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist |
| 2nd of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Walker, American politician |
| 2nd of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ultra Nate, American musician |
| 2nd of November 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, American bassist (Ko?n) |
| 2nd of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet |
| 2nd of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ely Buendia,Filipino vocalist (Eraserheads) |
| 2nd of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dario Silva, Uruguayan footballer |
| 2nd of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Mountfield, English football player |
| 2nd of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Janus, British entertainer |
| 2nd of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marisol Nichols, American actress |
| 2nd of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player |
| 2nd of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep) |
| 2nd of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nelly, American rapper |
| 2nd of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Sarrazin, French rally driver |
| 2nd of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie) |
| 2nd of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player |
| 2nd of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Harrison, American actor |
| 2nd of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player |
| 2nd of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Buford, American basketball player |
| 2nd of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos) |
| 2nd of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Cali, American baseball player |
| 2nd of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist |
| 2nd of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Erika Flores, American actress |
| 2nd of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Lund, Danish actress |
| 2nd of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Puleo, Italian footballer |
| 2nd of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress |
| 2nd of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Amos Roberts Australian Rugby League player |
| 2nd of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player |
| 2nd of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Avy Scott, American pornographic actress |
| 2nd of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Roddy White, American football player |
| 2nd of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yunel Escobar, Cuban baseball player |
| 2nd of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Itandje, French footballer |
| 2nd of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer |
| 2nd of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tamara Hope, Canadian actress |
| 2nd of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Stegner, German model |
| 2nd of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lara Sacher, Australian actress |
| 2nd of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player |
| 2nd of November 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Cipriani, English rugby union player |
| 2nd of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Katelyn Tarver, American singer |
| 2nd of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Schenn, Canadian hockey player |
| 2nd of November 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin soccer player |
| 2nd of November 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Kendall Schmidt, American singer and actor (Big Time Rush) |
| 2nd of November 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Soo Hoo, American-Chinese actor |
| 2nd of November 0943 | DEATH | Queen Emma of France, (Born 894) |
| 2nd of November 1083 | DEATH | Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (Born 1031) |
| 2nd of November 1285 | DEATH | King Peter III of Aragon (Born 1239) |
| 2nd of November 1327 | DEATH | King James II of Aragon (Born 1267) |
| 2nd of November 1483 | DEATH | Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (Born 1454) |
| 2nd of November 1610 | DEATH | Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1544) |
| 2nd of November 1618 | DEATH | Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (Born 1568) |
| 2nd of November 1716 | DEATH | Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (Born 1651) |
| 2nd of November 1807 | DEATH | Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (Born 1730) |
| 2nd of November 1846 | DEATH | Esaias Tegner, Swedish writer, educator, and bishop (Born 1782) |
| 2nd of November 1852 | DEATH | Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (Born 1782) |
| 2nd of November 1863 | DEATH | Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (Born 1826) |
| 2nd of November 1877 | DEATH | Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (Born 1784) |
| 2nd of November 1887 | DEATH | Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (Born 1820) |
| 2nd of November 1898 | DEATH | George Goyder, English surveyor (Born 1826) |
| 2nd of November 1905 | DEATH | Albert von Kolliker, Swiss anatomist (Born 1817) |
| 2nd of November 1935 | DEATH | Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of November 1944 | DEATH | Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor (Born 1889) |
| 2nd of November 1945 | DEATH | Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (Born 1880) |
| 2nd of November 1949 | DEATH | Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (Born 1872) |
| 2nd of November 1950 | DEATH | George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1856) |
| 2nd of November 1958 | DEATH | Jean Couzy, French mountaineer (Born 1923) |
| 2nd of November 1959 | DEATH | Michael Considine, Australian politician (Born 1885) |
| 2nd of November 1960 | DEATH | Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (Born 1896) |
| 2nd of November 1961 | DEATH | James Thurber, American humorist (Born 1894) |
| 2nd of November 1963 | DEATH | Ngo ?inh Diem, South Vietnamese politician (Born 1901) |
| 2nd of November 1966 | DEATH | Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of November 1966 | DEATH | Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (Born 1892) |
| 2nd of November 1970 | DEATH | Richard Cushing, cardinal and archbishop of Boston (Born 1895) |
| 2nd of November 1971 | DEATH | Robert Mensah, Ghanaian Olympian and association football player(Born 1939) |
| 2nd of November 1975 | DEATH | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of November 1979 | DEATH | Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (Born 1936) |
| 2nd of November 1982 | DEATH | Lester Roloff, American religious personality (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of November 1984 | DEATH | Velma Barfield, American convicted murderer (Born 1932) |
| 2nd of November 1986 | DEATH | Paul Frees, American voice actor (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of November 1991 | DEATH | Irwin Allen, American film producer (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of November 1992 | DEATH | Hal Roach, American director and producer (Born 1892) |
| 2nd of November 1996 | DEATH | Eva Cassidy, American singer (Born 1963) |
| 2nd of November 1998 | DEATH | Vincent Winter, British actor (Born 1957) |
| 2nd of November 2000 | DEATH | Robert Cormier, American author, columnist and reporter (Born 1925) |
| 2nd of November 2002 | DEATH | Tonio Selwart, German actor (Born 1896) |
| 2nd of November 2002 | DEATH | Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (Born 1935) |
| 2nd of November 2003 | DEATH | Frank McCloskey, American politician (Born 1939) |
| 2nd of November 2004 | DEATH | Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (Born 1951) |
| 2nd of November 2004 | DEATH | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, United Arab Emiratesian politician (Born 1918) |
| 2nd of November 2004 | DEATH | Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (Born 1957) |
| 2nd of November 2005 | DEATH | Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of November 2007 | DEATH | Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (Born 1978) |
| 2nd of November 2007 | DEATH | Witold Kie?tyka, Polish metal drummer (Born 1984) |
| 2nd of November 2007 | DEATH | Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (Born 1906) |
| 2nd of November 2007 | DEATH | Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (Born 1923) |
| 2nd of November 2007 | DEATH | Henry Cele, South African actor (Born 1949) |
| 2nd of November 2010 | DEATH | Andy Irons, American professional surfer (Born 1978) |
| 2nd of November 2010 | DEATH | Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (Born 1924) |