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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of September 1649 | EVENT | The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro. |
| 2nd of September 1666 | EVENT | The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral. |
| 2nd of September 1752 | EVENT | Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe. |
| 2nd of September 1789 | EVENT | The United States Department of the Treasury is founded. |
| 2nd of September 1792 | EVENT | During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers. |
| 2nd of September 1807 | EVENT | The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. |
| 2nd of September 1833 | EVENT | Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio is founded by John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart. |
| 2nd of September 1856 | EVENT | The Tianjing Incident takes place in Nanjing, China. |
| 2nd of September 1859 | EVENT | A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service. |
| 2nd of September 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run. |
| 2nd of September 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city. |
| 2nd of September 1867 | EVENT | Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijo. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko. Since her death in 1914, she is called by the posthumous name Empress Shoken. |
| 2nd of September 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan : Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner. |
| 2nd of September 1885 | EVENT | Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town. |
| 2nd of September 1898 | EVENT | Battle of Omdurman : British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan. |
| 2nd of September 1901 | EVENT | Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. |
| 2nd of September 1925 | EVENT | The U.S. Zeppelin USS Shenandoah crashes, killing 14. |
| 2nd of September 1935 | EVENT | Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423. |
| 2nd of September 1939 | EVENT | World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany. |
| 2nd of September 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
| 2nd of September 1945 | EVENT | Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. |
| 2nd of September 1946 | EVENT | The Interim Government of India is formed with Jawaharlal Nehru as Vice President with the powers of a Prime Minister. |
| 2nd of September 1957 | EVENT | President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. |
| 2nd of September 1958 | EVENT | United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed. |
| 2nd of September 1960 | EVENT | The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, in history of Tibet. The Tibetan community observes this date as the Democracy Day. |
| 2nd of September 1963 | EVENT | CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. |
| 2nd of September 1970 | EVENT | NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19. |
| 2nd of September 1990 | EVENT | Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void. |
| 2nd of September 1991 | EVENT | The United States recognize the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. |
| 2nd of September 1992 | EVENT | An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people. |
| 2nd of September 1998 | EVENT | The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide. |
| 2nd of September 1998 | EVENT | Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed. |
| 2nd of September 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Bohm, German organist (d. 1733) |
| 2nd of September 1675 | BIRTHDAY | William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742) |
| 2nd of September 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, Italy-born queen consort of France and wife of King Louis XVIII of France (d. 1810) |
| 2nd of September 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (d. 1846) |
| 2nd of September 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban Echeverria, Argentine writer (d. 1851) |
| 2nd of September 1810 | BIRTHDAY | William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (d. 1897) |
| 2nd of September 1830 | BIRTHDAY | William P. Frye, American politician (d. 1911) |
| 2nd of September 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917) |
| 2nd of September 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Henry George, American economist (d. 1897) |
| 2nd of September 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Wolcott, 39th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1900) |
| 2nd of September 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Spalding, American baseball player and co-founder of the A.G. Spalding sporting goods company (d. 1915) |
| 2nd of September 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919) |
| 2nd of September 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (d. 1935) |
| 2nd of September 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1932) |
| 2nd of September 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Jaeger, Norwegian writer and political activist (d. 1910) |
| 2nd of September 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Groube, Australian cricketer (d. 1927) |
| 2nd of September 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Franjo Krezma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881) |
| 2nd of September 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer (d. 1943) |
| 2nd of September 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1956) |
| 2nd of September 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (d. 1920) |
| 2nd of September 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (d. 1946) |
| 2nd of September 1879 | BIRTHDAY | An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (d. 1910) |
| 2nd of September 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, "The Red Archduchess" (d. 1963) |
| 2nd of September 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Frank Laubach, American Christian missionary (d. 1970) |
| 2nd of September 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Roth, Austrian novelist (d. 1939) |
| 2nd of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Embirikos, Greek surrealist poet (d. 1975) |
| 2nd of September 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (d. 1977) |
| 2nd of September 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Romare Bearden, African American painter (d. 1988) |
| 2nd of September 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Bromley, Australian cricketer (d. 1967) |
| 2nd of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Israel Gelfand, Russian mathematician (d. 2009) |
| 2nd of September 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager (d. 1981) |
| 2nd of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Glazer, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Meinhardt Raabe, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 2nd of September 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Aaron, American labor law expert (d. 2007) |
| 2nd of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1995) |
| 2nd of September 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Cleveland Amory, American author (d. 1998) |
| 2nd of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya |
| 2nd of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader (d. 1981) |
| 2nd of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Milo Hamilton, American Hall of Fame sports broadcaster |
| 2nd of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Horace Silver, American jazz pianist and composer |
| 2nd of September 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988) |
| 2nd of September 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Jordan, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1993) |
| 2nd of September 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor |
| 2nd of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck McCann, American voice actor. |
| 2nd of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Grady Nutt, American humorist (d. 1982) |
| 2nd of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer |
| 2nd of September 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer |
| 2nd of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Ueberroth, American sport executive |
| 2nd of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Fowlds, British actor |
| 2nd of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Jo Catlett, American actress |
| 2nd of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor |
| 2nd of September 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Felder, American actor |
| 2nd of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Gooden, American singer (The Impressions) |
| 2nd of September 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Clanton, American singer |
| 2nd of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Bale, South African : born American animal rights activist (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Thompson, Jr., American college basketball coach |
| 2nd of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Langlands, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 2nd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalind Ashford, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas) |
| 2nd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and executive |
| 2nd of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Simon, American singer |
| 2nd of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Simpson, British track and field athlete (d. 2010) |
| 2nd of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Preston, American keyboardist (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Yamanaka, Japanese singer (Flower Travellin' Band) |
| 2nd of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dan White, American assassin (d. 1985) |
| 2nd of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Simonson, American comic book artist and writer |
| 2nd of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Avalos, Cuban actor |
| 2nd of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Coughlan, English drummer and percussionist (Caravan) |
| 2nd of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986) |
| 2nd of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Archibald, American basketball player |
| 2nd of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Bradshaw, American football player |
| 2nd of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rother, German guitarist and keyboardist (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster) |
| 2nd of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Rosanna DeSoto, American actress |
| 2nd of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman |
| 2nd of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jim DeMint, American politician |
| 2nd of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Harmon, American actor |
| 2nd of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Feltheimer, American film executive |
| 2nd of September 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Gray, American actor |
| 2nd of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Connors, American tennis player |
| 2nd of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Shah Massoud, Afghan commander (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Zorn, American composer, arranger and saxophonist |
| 2nd of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Angelo Fusco, Northern Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army member |
| 2nd of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Tremblay, Canadian hockey player and coach |
| 2nd of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Alva, American skateboarder |
| 2nd of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Grouillard, French racing driver |
| 2nd of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Laliberte, Canadian founder of Cirque du Soleil |
| 2nd of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Halvorsen, Norwegian politician |
| 2nd of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Hudler, American baseball player |
| 2nd of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Dickerson, American football player |
| 2nd of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Hideo Yoshizawa, Japanese video game designer and executive, General Manager at Namco Bandai Holdings |
| 2nd of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John S. Hall, American poet and spoken-word artist |
| 2nd of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer |
| 2nd of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Prachya Pinkaew, Thai film director |
| 2nd of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Berkeley, Irish author and illustrator |
| 2nd of September 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenio Derbez, Mexican comedian and actor |
| 2nd of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Mitchell, American basketball player and coach |
| 2nd of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor |
| 2nd of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Lennox Lewis, British-born Canadian boxer |
| 2nd of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Partho Sen-Gupta, Indian filmmaker |
| 2nd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marcello Cuttitta, Italian rugby player |
| 2nd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Massimo Cuttitta, Italian rugby player and coach |
| 2nd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Panis, French race car driver |
| 2nd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dino Cazares, Mexican-born American guitarist (Fear Factory) |
| 2nd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tuc Watkins, American actor |
| 2nd of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Salma Hayek, Mexican actress |
| 2nd of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Moller, German footballer |
| 2nd of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Watros, American actress |
| 2nd of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kristen Cloke, American actress |
| 2nd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer |
| 2nd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Matteau, French-Canadian ice hockey player |
| 2nd of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Peall, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 2nd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kjetil Andre Aamodt, Norwegian alpine skier |
| 2nd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pawan Kalyan, Indian actor |
| 2nd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shauna Sand, American actress and Playboy Playmate |
| 2nd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Sanchez, Spanish footballer |
| 2nd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Maddox, American football player |
| 2nd of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Steels, Belgian cyclist |
| 2nd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Dunn, Australian swimmer |
| 2nd of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Coles, English professional golfer |
| 2nd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Katt Williams, American comedian, actor and rapper |
| 2nd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Blake, American ice hockey player |
| 2nd of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Indika de Saram, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 2nd of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Johnson, Australian racing driver |
| 2nd of September 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Inari Vachs, American adult film actress |
| 2nd of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | MC Chris, American rapper |
| 2nd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Lipscomb, American bassist (Taproot) |
| 2nd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian sprinter |
| 2nd of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Hershey Presley, American actress |
| 2nd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Kanoute, Malian footballer |
| 2nd of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Marcotte, American feminist blogger |
| 2nd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tomer Ben Yosef, Israeli footballer |
| 2nd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Chu, Korean singer |
| 2nd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor |
| 2nd of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Westbrook, American football player |
| 2nd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dany Sabourin, French-Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
| 2nd of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroki Yoshimoto, Japanese racing driver |
| 2nd of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Tremlett, English cricketer |
| 2nd of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bracha van Doesburgh, Dutch actress |
| 2nd of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fariborz Kamkari, Iranian film director-producer |
| 2nd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress |
| 2nd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Barton, English footballer |
| 2nd of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Hammel, American baseball player |
| 2nd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Foster, English rugby player |
| 2nd of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Aimee Osbourne, English singer, actress and columnist |
| 2nd of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model and singer |
| 2nd of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Penate, English singer |
| 2nd of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Udita Goswami, Indian model and actress |
| 2nd of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Hines, American basketball player |
| 2nd of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer |
| 2nd of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ishant Sharma, Indian cricketer |
| 2nd of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer |
| 2nd of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian playback singer (d. 2008) |
| 2nd of September 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Ericsson, Swedish racing driver |
| 2nd of September 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Sungha Jung, South Korean guitar prodigy |
| 2nd of September 0421 | DEATH | Constantius III, Roman Emperor (birth year unknown) |
| 2nd of September 1031 | DEATH | Saint Emeric of Hungary (born between 1000 and 1007) |
| 2nd of September 1274 | DEATH | Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (Born 1242) |
| 2nd of September 1397 | DEATH | Francesco Landini, Italian composer (Born 1325 or 1335) |
| 2nd of September 1540 | DEATH | Emperor Dawit II of Ethiopia (Born 1501) |
| 2nd of September 1680 | DEATH | Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman (Born 1602) |
| 2nd of September 1688 | DEATH | Sir Robert Viner, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (Born 1631) |
| 2nd of September 1690 | DEATH | Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (Born 1615) |
| 2nd of September 1764 | DEATH | Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (Born 1700) |
| 2nd of September 1765 | DEATH | Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer (Born 1719) |
| 2nd of September 1768 | DEATH | Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (Born 1703) |
| 2nd of September 1790 | DEATH | Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (Born 1701) |
| 2nd of September 1813 | DEATH | Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle) (Born 1763) |
| 2nd of September 1820 | DEATH | Jiaqing Emperor of China (Born 1760) |
| 2nd of September 1832 | DEATH | Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer (Born 1754) |
| 2nd of September 1834 | DEATH | Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (Born 1757) |
| 2nd of September 1865 | DEATH | William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician (Born 1805) |
| 2nd of September 1872 | DEATH | Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher (Born 1783) |
| 2nd of September 1877 | DEATH | Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician (Born 1793) |
| 2nd of September 1896 | DEATH | Nat Thomson, Australian cricketer (Born 1839) |
| 2nd of September 1898 | DEATH | Wilford Woodruff, American fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1807) |
| 2nd of September 1910 | DEATH | Henri Rousseau, French painter (Born 1844) |
| 2nd of September 1921 | DEATH | Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born American oil pioneer (Born 1855) |
| 2nd of September 1921 | DEATH | Henry Austin Dobson, English poet (Born 1840) |
| 2nd of September 1927 | DEATH | Umegatani Totaro II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 20th Yokozuna (Born 1878) |
| 2nd of September 1934 | DEATH | Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of September 1934 | DEATH | James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player (Born 1860) |
| 2nd of September 1934 | DEATH | Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of September 1937 | DEATH | Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games (Born 1863) |
| 2nd of September 1941 | DEATH | Lloyd Seay, American stock car driver (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of September 1942 | DEATH | Tom Williams, Irish republican (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of September 1944 | DEATH | Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-born American wife of Marc Chagall and subject of many of his paintings (Born 1895) |
| 2nd of September 1948 | DEATH | Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (Born 1883) |
| 2nd of September 1953 | DEATH | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (Born 1883) |
| 2nd of September 1962 | DEATH | William Wilkerson, American founder of the Hollywood Reporter and the Flamingo Hotel and nightclub owner (Born 1890) |
| 2nd of September 1964 | DEATH | Samuel Joseph Hirschman, 13th President of Portugal (Born 1894) |
| 2nd of September 1964 | DEATH | Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (Born 1900) |
| 2nd of September 1964 | DEATH | Alvin York, American soldier (Born 1887) |
| 2nd of September 1965 | DEATH | Johannes Bobrowski, German writer (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of September 1969 | DEATH | Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam (Born 1890) |
| 2nd of September 1971 | DEATH | Robert Mensah, Ghanaian football goalkeeper (Born 1939) |
| 2nd of September 1973 | DEATH | Carl Dudley, American film director (Born 1910) |
| 2nd of September 1973 | DEATH | J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (Born 1892) |
| 2nd of September 1976 | DEATH | Stanis?aw Grochowiak, Polish writer (Born 1934) |
| 2nd of September 1978 | DEATH | Fred G. Meyer, American businessman, founder of Fred Meyer, Inc. (Born 1886) |
| 2nd of September 1979 | DEATH | Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (Born 1903) |
| 2nd of September 1984 | DEATH | Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of September 1985 | DEATH | Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (Born 1920) |
| 2nd of September 1985 | DEATH | Jay Youngblood, American professional wrestler (Born 1955) |
| 2nd of September 1991 | DEATH | Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of September 1992 | DEATH | Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of September 1994 | DEATH | Roy Castle, British entertainer (Born 1932) |
| 2nd of September 1996 | DEATH | Paddy Clift, Zimbabwean cricketer (Born 1953) |
| 2nd of September 1997 | DEATH | Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born British opera manager (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of September 1997 | DEATH | Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of September 1998 | DEATH | Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer (Born 1933) |
| 2nd of September 1998 | DEATH | Allen Drury, American novelist (Born 1918) |
| 2nd of September 2000 | DEATH | Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of September 2000 | DEATH | Curt Siodmak, German-born American screenwriter (Born 1907) |
| 2nd of September 2001 | DEATH | Troy Donahue, American actor (Born 1936) |
| 2nd of September 2001 | DEATH | Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of September 2002 | DEATH | Dick Reynolds, Australian rules footballer and coach (Born 1915) |
| 2nd of September 2004 | DEATH | Joan Oro, Catalan biochemist (Born 1923) |
| 2nd of September 2004 | DEATH | Eleni Zafeiriou, Greek actress (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of September 2005 | DEATH | Bob Denver, American actor (Born 1935) |
| 2nd of September 2006 | DEATH | Willi Ninja, American dancer and choreographer (Born 1961) |
| 2nd of September 2006 | DEATH | Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (Born 1930) |
| 2nd of September 2007 | DEATH | Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (Born 1957) |
| 2nd of September 2007 | DEATH | Max McNab, Canadian National Hockey League executive (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of September 2007 | DEATH | Rajae Belmlih, Moroccan singer (Born 1962) |
| 2nd of September 2008 | DEATH | Bill Melendez, American character animator (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of September 2009 | DEATH | Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, India (Born 1949) |