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| November 2nd, 2007 (November 02 2007) | Death | Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (born in 1978) | |
| November 2nd, 2007 (November 02 2007) | Death | Witold Kieltyka, Polish metal drummer (Decapitated) (born in 1984) | |
| November 2nd, 2007 (November 02 2007) | Death | Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (born in 1906) | |
| November 2nd, 2007 (November 02 2007) | Death | Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (born in 1923) | |
| November 2nd, 2007 (November 02 2007) | Death | Henry Cele, South African Actor; best known for his onscreen portrayal of the legendary Shaka Zulu | |
| November 2nd, 2005 (November 02 2005) | Death | Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach. | |
| November 2nd, 2004 (November 02 2004) | Death | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (born in 1918) | |
| November 2nd, 2004 (November 02 2004) | Death | Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (born in 1957) | |
| November 2nd, 2004 (November 02 2004) | Death | Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (born in 1951) | |
| November 2nd, 2003 (November 02 2003) | Death | Frank McCloskey, American politician (born in 1939) | |
| November 2nd, 2002 (November 02 2002) | Event | The Godless Americans March on Washington brings together 2,000 atheists, freethinkers, and humanists in a mile-long parade down the National Mall. | |
| November 2nd, 2002 (November 02 2002) | Death | Tonio Selwart, German actor (born in 1896) | |
| November 2nd, 2002 (November 02 2002) | Death | Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (born in 1935) | |
| November 2nd, 2000 (November 02 2000) | Event | The first crew arrives at the International Space Station. | |
| November 2nd, 1998 (November 02 1998) | Death | Vincent Winter, British actor (born in 1957) | |
| November 2nd, 1996 (November 02 1996) | Death | Eva Cassidy, American singer (born in 1963) | |
| November 2nd, 1995 (November 02 1995) | Event | Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted). | |
| November 2nd, 1992 (November 02 1992) | Death | Hal Roach, American director and producer (born in 1892) | |
| November 2nd, 1991 (November 02 1991) | Event | Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. | |
| November 2nd, 1991 (November 02 1991) | Death | Irwin Allen, American film producer (born in 1916) | |
| November 2nd, 1989 (November 02 1989) | Birth | Katelyn Tarver, American singer | |
| November 2nd, 1988 (November 02 1988) | Event | The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. | |
| November 2nd, 1988 (November 02 1988) | Birth | Lindze Letherman, American actress (General Hospital) | |
| November 2nd, 1987 (November 02 1987) | Birth | Danny Cipriani English rugby union player. | |
| November 2nd, 1986 (November 02 1986) | Birth | Erika Jo, American musician | |
| November 2nd, 1986 (November 02 1986) | Birth | Lara Sacher, Australian actress | |
| November 2nd, 1986 (November 02 1986) | Death | Paul Frees, American voice actor (born in 1920) | |
| November 2nd, 1984 (November 02 1984) | Event | Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. | |
| November 2nd, 1984 (November 02 1984) | Birth | Tamara Hope, Canadian actress | |
| November 2nd, 1984 (November 02 1984) | Birth | Julia Stegner, German supermodel | |
| November 2nd, 1984 (November 02 1984) | Death | Velma Barfield, American murderer (born in 1932) | |
| November 2nd, 1983 (November 02 1983) | Event | U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1982 (November 02 1982) | Event | Channel 4 begins transmission in the UK | |
| November 2nd, 1982 (November 02 1982) | Birth | Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer | |
| November 2nd, 1982 (November 02 1982) | Birth | Charles Itandje, French footballer | |
| November 2nd, 1982 (November 02 1982) | Death | Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher. | |
| November 2nd, 1981 (November 02 1981) | Birth | Wilson Betemit, Dominican baseball player | |
| November 2nd, 1981 (November 02 1981) | Birth | Avy Scott, American actress | |
| November 2nd, 1980 (November 02 1980) | Birth | Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress | |
| November 2nd, 1979 (November 02 1979) | Birth | Julie Lund, Danish actress | |
| November 2nd, 1979 (November 02 1979) | Death | Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (born in 1936) | |
| November 2nd, 1978 (November 02 1978) | Birth | Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro, Brazilian mixed-martial artist and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion | Martial Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1977 (November 02 1977) | Birth | Jason Cerbone, American actor (The Sopranos) | |
| November 2nd, 1977 (November 02 1977) | Birth | Randy Harrison, American actor | |
| November 2nd, 1976 (November 02 1976) | Birth | Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player | |
| November 2nd, 1975 (November 02 1975) | Birth | Chris Walla, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie) | |
| November 2nd, 1975 (November 02 1975) | Death | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (born in 1922) | |
| November 2nd, 1974 (November 02 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. | |
| November 2nd, 1974 (November 02 1974) | Birth | Orlando Cabrera, Colombian baseball player | |
| November 2nd, 1974 (November 02 1974) | Birth | Nelly, American rapper | |
| November 2nd, 1974 (November 02 1974) | Birth | Prodigy, American rapper (Mobb Deep) | |
| November 2nd, 1974 (November 02 1974) | Birth | Stephane Sarrazin, French rally driver | |
| November 2nd, 1973 (November 02 1973) | Event | The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India forms a United Front in the state of Tripura. | |
| November 2nd, 1973 (November 02 1973) | Birth | Marisol Nichols, American actress | |
| November 2nd, 1972 (November 02 1972) | Birth | Samantha Janus, British entertainer | |
| November 2nd, 1972 (November 02 1972) | Birth | Dario Silva, Uruguayan footballer | |
| November 2nd, 1972 (November 02 1972) | Birth | Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player | |
| November 2nd, 1970 (November 02 1970) | Birth | Sharmell Sullivan, American professional wrestling valet | |
| November 2nd, 1970 (November 02 1970) | Death | Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston (born in 1895) | |
| November 2nd, 1969 (November 02 1969) | Birth | Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoŸn) | |
| November 2nd, 1968 (November 02 1968) | Birth | Ultra Nate, American musician | |
| November 2nd, 1967 (November 02 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. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1967 (November 02 1967) | Birth | Kurt Elling, American jazz vocalist | |
| November 2nd, 1967 (November 02 1967) | Birth | Marc van Roon, Dutch improvising musician | |
| November 2nd, 1966 (November 02 1966) | Event | The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. | |
| November 2nd, 1966 (November 02 1966) | Birth | Sean Kanan, American actor | |
| November 2nd, 1966 (November 02 1966) | Birth | Tim Kirkman, American filmmaker | |
| November 2nd, 1966 (November 02 1966) | Birth | Khaled Abol Naga, Egyptian actor | |
| November 2nd, 1966 (November 02 1966) | Birth | David Schwimmer, American actor | |
| November 2nd, 1966 (November 02 1966) | Death | Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1884) | |
| November 2nd, 1966 (November 02 1966) | Death | Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (born in 1892) | |
| November 2nd, 1965 (November 02 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. | |
| November 2nd, 1965 (November 02 1965) | Birth | Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor | Shahrukh Khan Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1964 (November 02 1964) | Event | King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal. | |
| November 2nd, 1964 (November 02 1964) | Birth | Britta Lejon, Swedish politician | |
| November 2nd, 1963 (November 02 1963) | Event | South Vietnamese President Ngo ?inh Di?m is assassinated following a military coup. | |
| November 2nd, 1963 (November 02 1963) | Birth | Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker | |
| November 2nd, 1963 (November 02 1963) | Death | Ngo Dinh Di?m, President of South Vietnam (born in 1901) | |
| November 2nd, 1962 (November 02 1962) | Birth | David Brock, American political commentator, pundit | |
| November 2nd, 1962 (November 02 1962) | Birth | Mireille Delunsch, French soprano | |
| November 2nd, 1962 (November 02 1962) | Birth | Simon Hill, English-Australian Football commentator | |
| November 2nd, 1961 (November 02 1961) | Birth | K.D. Lang, Canadian musician | |
| November 2nd, 1961 (November 02 1961) | Birth | Jeff Tedford, head coach of the California Golden Bears | |
| November 2nd, 1961 (November 02 1961) | Death | James Thurber, American humorist (born in 1894) | James Thurber Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1960 (November 02 1960) | Event | Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley s Lover case | |
| November 2nd, 1960 (November 02 1960) | Birth | Tihomir Blaskic, Croatian war criminal | |
| November 2nd, 1960 (November 02 1960) | Death | Dimitris Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (born in 1896) | |
| November 2nd, 1959 (November 02 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. | |
| November 2nd, 1959 (November 02 1959) | Event | Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play. | |
| November 2nd, 1959 (November 02 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 | |
| November 2nd, 1958 (November 02 1958) | Birth | Willie McGee, American baseball player | |
| November 2nd, 1957 (November 02 1957) | Event | The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history. | |
| November 2nd, 1957 (November 02 1957) | Birth | Carter Beauford, American drummer (Dave Matthews Band) | Dave Matthews Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1957 (November 02 1957) | Birth | Rita Crockett, American Olympic volleyball player | |
| November 2nd, 1956 (November 02 1956) | Birth | Peter Mullan, Scottish actor | |
| November 2nd, 1955 (November 02 1955) | Birth | Chris Burnett, American musician | |
| November 2nd, 1954 (November 02 1954) | Birth | Pat Croce, American entrepreneur | |
| November 2nd, 1953 (November 02 1953) | Event | The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan. | |
| November 2nd, 1952 (November 02 1952) | Birth | Maxine Nightingale, English singer | |
| November 2nd, 1951 (November 02 1951) | Birth | Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic | |
| November 2nd, 1951 (November 02 1951) | Birth | Lindy Morrison, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) | |
| November 2nd, 1950 (November 02 1950) | Death | George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (born in 1856) | George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1949 (November 02 1949) | Birth | Simon Augustini, Albanian politician | |
| November 2nd, 1949 (November 02 1949) | Death | Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (born in 1872) | |
| November 2nd, 1947 (November 02 1947) | Event | In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. | |
| November 2nd, 1946 (November 02 1946) | Birth | Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and one-time F1 world champion | |
| November 2nd, 1946 (November 02 1946) | Birth | Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (died in 2001) | |
| November 2nd, 1945 (November 02 1945) | Death | Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (born in 1880) | |
| November 2nd, 1944 (November 02 1944) | Birth | Patrice Chereau, French director, actor and producer | |
| November 2nd, 1944 (November 02 1944) | Birth | Keith Emerson, British keyboardist and composer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) | |
| November 2nd, 1944 (November 02 1944) | Death | Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (born in 1889) | |
| November 2nd, 1942 (November 02 1942) | Birth | Shere Hite, American author | |
| November 2nd, 1942 (November 02 1942) | Birth | Stefanie Powers, American actress | |
| November 2nd, 1941 (November 02 1941) | Birth | Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter (The Shadows) | |
| November 2nd, 1940 (November 02 1940) | Birth | Jim Bakken, American football player | |
| November 2nd, 1939 (November 02 1939) | Birth | Richard Serra, American sculptor and video artist | |
| November 2nd, 1938 (November 02 1938) | Birth | Jay Black, American singer (Jay and the Americans) | |
| November 2nd, 1938 (November 02 1938) | Birth | Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician | |
| November 2nd, 1938 (November 02 1938) | Birth | Queen Sofia of Spain | |
| November 2nd, 1937 (November 02 1937) | Birth | Earl Carroll, lead vocalist of The Cadillacs | |
| November 2nd, 1936 (November 02 1936) | Event | The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. | |
| November 2nd, 1936 (November 02 1936) | Event | Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers. | Benito Mussolini Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1936 (November 02 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. | |
| November 2nd, 1936 (November 02 1936) | Birth | Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler | |
| November 2nd, 1936 (November 02 1936) | Birth | Rose Bird, American judge (died in 1999) | |
| November 2nd, 1936 (November 02 1936) | Birth | Jack Starrett, American actor and director (died in 1989) | |
| November 2nd, 1935 (November 02 1935) | Death | Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (born in 1905) | |
| November 2nd, 1934 (November 02 1934) | Birth | Bill Gothard, American speaker | |
| November 2nd, 1934 (November 02 1934) | Birth | Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player | |
| November 2nd, 1930 (November 02 1930) | Event | Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. | |
| November 2nd, 1929 (November 02 1929) | Birth | Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan | |
| November 2nd, 1929 (November 02 1929) | Birth | Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| November 2nd, 1928 (November 02 1928) | Birth | Paul Johnson, British historian | |
| November 2nd, 1927 (November 02 1927) | Birth | Steve Ditko, American artist | |
| November 2nd, 1924 (November 02 1924) | Birth | Father David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1988) | |
| November 2nd, 1924 (November 02 1924) | Birth | Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer | |
| November 2nd, 1921 (November 02 1921) | Birth | Shepard Menken, American voice actor (died in 1999) | |
| November 2nd, 1921 (November 02 1921) | Birth | Bill Mosienko, National Hockey League player (died in 1994) | |
| November 2nd, 1920 (November 02 1920) | Event | In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920. | |
| November 2nd, 1920 (November 02 1920) | Event | QANTAS makes its first commercial passenger flight, in Queensland, Australia. Qantas is now the second-oldest airline operating today. | |
| November 2nd, 1920 (November 02 1920) | Birth | Ann Rutherford, American actress | |
| November 2nd, 1917 (November 02 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". | |
| November 2nd, 1915 (November 02 1915) | Birth | Beryl McBurnie, Trinidadian dancer (died in 2000) | |
| November 2nd, 1915 (November 02 1915) | Birth | Sidney Luft, American movie director (died in 2005) | |
| November 2nd, 1914 (November 02 1914) | Event | Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire. | |
| November 2nd, 1914 (November 02 1914) | Birth | Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (died in 1997) | |
| November 2nd, 1913 (November 02 1913) | Birth | Burt Lancaster, American actor (died in 1994) | |
| November 2nd, 1911 (November 02 1911) | Birth | Odysseus Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel laureate (died in 1996) | |
| November 2nd, 1911 (November 02 1911) | Birth | Raphael Robinson, US mathematician (died in 1995) | |
| November 2nd, 1910 (November 02 1910) | Birth | Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (died in 1999) | |
| November 2nd, 1909 (November 02 1909) | Event | Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University. | |
| November 2nd, 1908 (November 02 1908) | Birth | Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (died in 1983) | |
| November 2nd, 1906 (November 02 1906) | Birth | Daniil Andreev, Russian poet (died in 1959) | |
| November 2nd, 1906 (November 02 1906) | Birth | Luchino Visconti, Italian director (died in 1976) | |
| November 2nd, 1905 (November 02 1905) | Birth | James Dunn, American actor (died in 1967) | |
| November 2nd, 1905 (November 02 1905) | Death | Albert von Kolliker, Swiss anatomist (born in 1817) | |
| November 2nd, 1903 (November 02 1903) | Birth | Travis Jackson, American baseball player (died in 1987) | |
| November 2nd, 1899 (November 02 1899) | Event | The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War. | |
| November 2nd, 1898 (November 02 1898) | Event | Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. | |
| November 2nd, 1898 (November 02 1898) | Death | George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (born in 1826) | |
| November 2nd, 1895 (November 02 1895) | Event | The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000 | |
| November 2nd, 1894 (November 02 1894) | Birth | Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (died in 1976) | |
| November 2nd, 1893 (November 02 1893) | Birth | Battista Farina, founder of Pininfarina company (died in 1966) | |
| November 2nd, 1892 (November 02 1892) | Birth | Alice Brady, Academy Award-winning American actress (died in 1939) | |
| November 2nd, 1889 (November 02 1889) | Event | North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states. | |
| November 2nd, 1887 (November 02 1887) | Death | Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (born in 1820) | |
| November 2nd, 1886 (November 02 1886) | Birth | Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (died in 1971) | |
| November 2nd, 1885 (November 02 1885) | Birth | Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (died in 1972) | |
| November 2nd, 1883 (November 02 1883) | Birth | Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, cardinal and archbishop of Quebec (died in 1947) | |
| November 2nd, 1877 (November 02 1877) | Birth | Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (died in 1933) | |
| November 2nd, 1877 (November 02 1877) | Birth | Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (died in 1915) | |
| November 2nd, 1877 (November 02 1877) | Birth | Aga Khan III, Shia Imam (died in 1957) | |
| November 2nd, 1877 (November 02 1877) | Death | Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (born in 1784) | |
| November 2nd, 1868 (November 02 1868) | Event | Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally | |
| November 2nd, 1865 (November 02 1865) | Birth | Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (died in 1923) | Warren G. Harding Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1863 (November 02 1863) | Death | Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (born in 1826) | |
| November 2nd, 1861 (November 02 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter. | |
| November 2nd, 1852 (November 02 1852) | Death | Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (born in 1782) | |
| November 2nd, 1844 (November 02 1844) | Birth | Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (died in 1918) | |
| November 2nd, 1837 (November 02 1837) | Birth | Emile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (died in (1891) | |
| November 2nd, 1833 (November 02 1833) | Birth | Mahendralal Sarkar, Indian doctor (died in 1904) | |
| November 2nd, 1821 (November 02 1821) | Birth | Sir George Bowen, British provincial governor (died in 1899) | |
| November 2nd, 1815 (November 02 1815) | Birth | George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died in 1864) | Philo Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1808 (November 02 1808) | Birth | Jules Barbey d Aurevilly, French writer (died in 1889) | |
| November 2nd, 1807 (November 02 1807) | Death | Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (born in 1730) | |
| November 2nd, 1795 (November 02 1795) | Event | The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France. | |
| November 2nd, 1795 (November 02 1795) | Birth | James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States (died in 1849) | |
| November 2nd, 1783 (November 02 1783) | Event | In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army". | George Washington Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1777 (November 02 1777) | Birth | Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Zolkowski, Polish actor (died in 1822) | |
| November 2nd, 1777 (November 02 1777) | Birth | Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (died in 1848) | |
| November 2nd, 1772 (November 02 1772) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence. | Samuel Adams Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1766 (November 02 1766) | Birth | Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (died in 1858) | |
| November 2nd, 1755 (November 02 1755) | Birth | Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (died in 1793) | Marie Antoinette Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1741 (November 02 1741) | Birth | Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (died in 1784) | |
| November 2nd, 1739 (November 02 1739) | Birth | Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (died in 1799) | |
| November 2nd, 1716 (November 02 1716) | Death | Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (born in 1651) | |
| November 2nd, 1709 (November 02 1709) | Birth | Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (died in 1759) | |
| November 2nd, 1699 (November 02 1699) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, French painter (died in 1779) | |
| November 2nd, 1696 (November 02 1696) | Birth | Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania s ambassador to the Native Americans (died in 1760) | |
| November 2nd, 1692 (November 02 1692) | Birth | Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (died in 1766) | |
| November 2nd, 1675 (November 02 1675) | Event | A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip s War. | |
| November 2nd, 1667 (November 02 1667) | Birth | James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (died in 1737) | |
| November 2nd, 1636 (November 02 1636) | Birth | Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (died in 1721) | |
| November 2nd, 1618 (November 02 1618) | Death | Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (born in 1568) | |
| November 2nd, 1610 (November 02 1610) | Death | Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1544) | |
| November 2nd, 1570 (November 02 1570) | Event | A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people. | |
| November 2nd, 1483 (November 02 1483) | Death | Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (born in 1454) | Henry Ford Quotes |
| November 2nd, 1475 (November 02 1475) | Birth | Princess Anne of York (died in 1511) | |
| November 2nd, 1327 (November 02 1327) | Death | King James II of Aragon (born in 1267) | |
| November 2nd, 1285 (November 02 1285) | Death | King Peter III of Aragon (born in 1239) | |
| November 2nd, 1083 (November 02 1083) | Death | Matilda of Flanders, Queen consort (born in 1031) | |
| November 2nd, 1082 (November 02 1082) | Birth | Emperor Huizong of China (died in 1135) | |
| November 2nd, 0943 (November 02 0943) | Death | Queen Emma of France, (born in 894) | |
