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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, October 02


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Births

* 1978 Ayumi Hamasaki Japanese pop singer.
* 1974 Paul Teutul One of the stars of the American reality television program American Chopper.
* 1955 Philip Oakey Aka Phil Oakey, is a British pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1970s, early 1980s as a founder member and lead singer of the Sheffield-based synthpop group The Human League, a group which continues today.
* 1952 Larry Winget American motivational speaker, bestselling author, and television personality.
* 1950 Antonio Di Pietro Italian politician.
* 1947 Ward Churchill American writer and activist.
* 1946 Susan McClary Musicologist considered to be a significant figure in the "New Musicology".
* 1945 Don McLean American singer-songwriter most famous for his 1971 songs "American Pie" and "Vincent".
* 1944 Vernor Vinge Computer scientist and science fiction author, as well as a retired San Diego State University Professor of Mathematics.
* 1937 Johnnie Cochran Famed African American defense attorney best known for his role in the "Dream Team" of legal defense for O J Simpson during his highly publicized murder trial.
* 1924 Gilbert Simondon French philosopher best known for his theory of individuation and his interest in technology.
* 1917 Christian de Duve Belgian cytologist and biochemist.
* 1904 Graham Greene Prolific English novelist, playwright, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world.
* 1902 Walter Thomas Monnington English painter.
* 1901 Roy Campbell South African poet, satirist and translator.
* 1890 Groucho Marx Primarily known as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian and actor, famous for his work in the Marx Brothers comedy team, and his solo film and television career.
* 1879 Wallace Stevens American poet and businessman.
* 1877 Carl Hayden U S Representative from Arizona (1912-1927) and U S Senator from Arizona (1927-1969).
* 1871 Cordell Hull United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations.
* 1869 Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi Commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi.
* 1852 William Ramsay Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air".
* 1851 Ferdinand Foch French soldier and writer.
* 1847 Sergey Nechayev Russian revolutionary figure associated with the Nihilist movement and known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including political violence.
* 1800 Nat Turner American slave who led a 1831 slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia.
* 1798 Theodore Guerin Born Anne-Thιr?se Guιrin, was a Roman Catholic saint of French descent and the foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana.
* 1452 Richard III of England King of England during the Wars of the Roses, and was the last monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty.

Deaths

† 2012 J. Philippe Rushton Psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada best known for his controversial work on racial differences.
† 2009 Marek Edelman Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist.
† 2006 Paul Halmos Hungarian-born Jewish American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, functional analysis, and mathematical logic.
† 2005 Nipsey Russell Comedian best known for his appearances as a guest panelist on many game shows in the 1970s and 80s, and for his performance as the Tin Man in the film The Wiz.
† 1996 Henri Nouwen Dutch Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books on the spiritual life.
† 1988 Alec Issigonis Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959.
† 1987 Peter Medawar Brazilian-born English scientist best known for his work on how the immune system rejects or accepts organ transplants.
† 1968 Marcel Duchamp French artist who became an American citizen in 1955.
† 1947 P. D. Ouspensky Russian mystic philosopher,.
† 1911 John Bascom Professor of rhetoric at Williams College from 1855 to 1874, and was president of the University of Wisconsin from 1874 to 1887.
† 1906 Raja Ravi Varma Indian painter who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana.
† 1902 John Whiteaker American politician, a Democrat, and served as the first state Governor of Oregon from 1859 until 1862.
† 1853 Francois Arago French Catalan mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.
† 1842 William Ellery (preacher) Channing Foremost Unitarian theologian and preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century.
† 1803 Samuel Adams American revolutionary and organizer of the Boston Tea Party.
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