November 2 – Famous Birthdays
Shah Rukh Khan (MOVIE ACTOR) 1965
David Schwimmer (TV ACTOR) 1966
Nelly (RAPPER) 1974
November 2 – Famous Birthdays
1903 – Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1987)
1905 – James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1905 – Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (d. 1989)
1906 – Daniil Andreyev, Russian poet and mystic (d. 1959)
1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1976)
1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
1908 – Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (d. 1942)
1910 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian lawyer and politician, Egyptian Minister of Interior (d. 1999)
1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1911 – Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist (d. 1995)
1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
1914 – Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1997)
1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
1915 – Sidney Luft, American film producer (d. 2005)
1917 – Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012)
1918 – Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot (d. 2015)
1919 – Warren Stevens, American actor (d. 2012)
1920 – Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
1921 – Shepard Menken, American actor (d. 1999)
1921 – Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1994)
1922 – Seánie Duggan, Irish hurler (d. 2013)
1924 – David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)
1924 – Rudy Van Gelder, American record producer and engineer (d. 2016)
1926 – Myer Skoog, American basketball player
1926 – Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and DJ (d. 2008)
1927 – Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator
1927 – John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and politician
1928 – Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (d. 2011)
1928 – Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian, and author
1929 – Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)
1929 – Robert Gover, American journalist and author (d. 2015)
1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan
1929 – Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1931 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2015)
1932 – Ron Sproat, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 2009)
1933 – Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
1934 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
1935 – Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Indian author
1936 – Rose Bird, American lawyer and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (d. 1999)
1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1937 – Earl Carroll, American singer (d. 2012)
1938 – Jay Black, American singer
1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
1938 – David Eden Lane, American white supremacist (d. 2007)
1938 – Queen Sofía of Spain
1939 – Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, English broadcaster and politician, Minister for Security
1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor and academic
1940 – Jim Bakken, American football player
1940 – Phil Minton, English singer and trumpet player
1941 – Brian Poole, English pop-rock singer (The Tremeloes)
1941 – Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications
1941 – Dave Stockton, American golfer
1941 – Bruce Welch, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1942 – Shere Hite, German sexologist, author, and educator
1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
1944 – Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1944 – Keith Emerson, English pianist, keyboard player, and composer (d. 2016)
1945 – Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (d. 2013)
1945 – Larry Little, American football player
1945 – J. D. Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1946 – Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and sportscaster
1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
1947 – Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer
1949 – Lois McMaster Bujold, American author
1951 – Thomas Mallon, American novelist, essayist, and critic
1951 – Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer (The Go-Betweens)
1952 – Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer
1954 – Pat Croce, American businessman and author
1955 – Chris Burnett, American saxophonist and composer
1955 – Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager
1956 – Dale Brown, American author and pilot
1957 – Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer
1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager
1959 – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
1960 – Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player
1961 – k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1961 – Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach
1962 – David Brock, American journalist and author
1962 – Mireille Delunsch, French operatic soprano
1962 – Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager
1963 – Bobby Dall, American bass player
1963 – Jonas Gardell, Swedish author and screenwriter
1963 – Ron McGovney, American bass player
1963 – Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia
1963 – Craig Saavedra, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1963 – Park Young-seok, South Korean mountaineer and explorer (d. 2011)
1964 – Britta Lejon, Swedish lawyer and politician
1965 – Nick Boles, English businessman and politician
1965 – Arnold Clavio, Filipino journalist
1965 – Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host
1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
1967 – Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter
1967 – Simon Hill, English-Australian journalist and sportscaster
1967 – Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin
1968 – Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer
1969 – Reginald Arvizu, American rock musician (Korn; StillWell)
1972 – Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach
1972 – Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1972 – Samantha Womack, British actress, singer and director
1973 – Ben Graham, Australian footballer
1973 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 – Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
1974 – Nelly, American rapper
1974 – Prodigy, (Albert Johnson), American rapper (d. 2017)
1974 – Sofia Polgar, Hungarian chess player
1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver
1975 – Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1976 – Margus Hernits, Estonian figure skater
1976 – Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1977 – Rodney Buford, American basketball player
1977 – Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
1977 – Emma Reynolds, English politician
1977 – Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster
1978 – Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1979 – Simone Puleo, Italian footballer
1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
1980 – Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player
1980 – Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1981 – Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
1981 – Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer
1981 – Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer
1981 – Roddy White, American football player
1981 – Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress
1982 – Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player
1982 – Charles Itandje, French footballer
1983 – Darren Young, American wrestler
1986 – Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player
1987 – Danny Cipriani, English rugby player
1988 – Julia Görges, German tennis player
1989 – Stevan Jovetić, Montenegrin footballer
1989 – Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player
1989 – Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer
1994 – Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer
1995 – Hanna Öberg, Olympic Biathlete
1997 – Davis Keillor-Dunn, English footballer
