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October 2 in recent years
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October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 90 days remain until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor .
939 – Battle of Andernach : Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor , crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
1187 – Siege of Jerusalem : Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule .
1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
1470 – The Earl of Warwick 's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands , restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1528 – William Tyndale publishes The Obedience of a Christian Man , which advocates the divine right of kings.
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the present site of Montreal.
1552 – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan .
1780 – American Revolutionary War : John André , a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
1814 – Chilean War of Independence: Royalist troops defeat Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and José Miguel Carrera.
1835 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales , but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 – American Civil War : Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
1870 – A plebiscite held in Rome , supports annexation of city of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy .
1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him incapacitated for several weeks.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei , is founded.
1937 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
1941 – World War II : In Operation Typhoon , the Wehrmacht attempts to capture Moscow before the onset of winter.
1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner Template:RMS accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa , killing 337 crewmen aboard Curacoa .
1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising .
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 – Rod Serling 's anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1968 – Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students , ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics .
1970 – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War .
1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
1992 – Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
1996 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
2000 – The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2004 – The first parkrun , then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park , London , UK.[1]
2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
2016 – Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
Births [ ]
1452 – Richard III of England (d. 1485)[2]
1470 – Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)
1470 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal , Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
1527 – William Drury , English politician (d. 1579)
1538 – Charles Borromeo , Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1584)
1589 – Muhammad Parviz , Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1626)
1644 – François-Timoléon de Choisy , French historian and author (d. 1724)
1704 – František Tůma , Czech organist and composer (d. 1774)
1718 – Elizabeth Montagu , English author and critic (d. 1800)
1727 – Ignaz Schiffermüller , Austrian entomologist and academic (d. 1806)
1760 – Empress Xiaoshurui , Empress consort of the Qing dynasty (d. 1797)
1768 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford , English general and politician (d. 1854)
1798 – Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831–49) (d. 1849)
1800 – Nat Turner , American slave and uprising leader (d. 1831)
1815 – James Agnew , Northern Irish-Australian politician, 16th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1901)
1821 – Alexander P. Stewart , American general (d. 1908)
1824 – Henry C. Lord , American businessman (d. 1884)
1828 – Charles Floquet , French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)
1832 – Edward Burnett Tylor , English anthropologist and academic (d. 1917)
1847 – Paul von Hindenburg , German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (d. 1934)
1851 – Ferdinand Foch , French field marshal and theorist (d. 1929)
1852 – William Ramsay , Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1854 – Patrick Geddes , Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932)
1869 – Mahatma Gandhi , Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (d. 1948)
1871 – Cordell Hull , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1871 – Martha Brookes Hutcheson , American landscaper and author (d. 1959)
1873 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill , American lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
1873 – Pelham Warner , English cricketer and manager (d. 1963)
1875 – Pattie Ruffner Jacobs , American suffragist (d. 1935)[3]
1879 – Wallace Stevens , American poet and educator (d. 1955)
1882 – Boris Shaposhnikov , Russian colonel (d. 1945)
1883 – Lesley Ashburner , American hurdler (d. 1950)
1883 – Karl von Terzaghi , Czech-American geologist and engineer (d. 1963)
1890 – Groucho Marx , American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1893 – Leroy Shield , American composer and conductor (d. 1962)
1895 – Ruth Cheney Streeter , American colonel (d. 1990)
1897 – Bud Abbott , American comedian (d. 1974)
1902 – John G. Crommelin , American admiral and politician (d. 1996)
1902 – Leopold Figl , Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1965)
1904 – Graham Greene , English novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri , Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
1905 – Franjo Šeper , Croatian cardinal (d. 1981)
1906 – Thomas Hollway , Australian politician, 36th Premier of Victoria (d. 1971)
1906 – August Komendant , Estonian-American engineer and academic (d. 1992)
1907 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro , Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
1907 – Alexander R. Todd , Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1909 – Alex Raymond , American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (d. 1956)
1911 – Jack Finney , American author and playwright (d. 1995)
1912 – Frank Malina , American engineer and painter (d. 1981)
1914 – Jack Parsons , American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952)
1914 – Bernarr Rainbow , English organist, conductor, and historian (d. 1998)
1915 – Chuck Williams , American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma (d. 2015)
1917 – Christian de Duve , English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1917 – Charles Drake , American actor (d. 1994)
1919 – John W. Duarte , English guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1919 – Jan Flinterman , Dutch race car driver and pilot (d. 1992)
1921 – Edmund Crispin , English writer and composer (d. 1978)
1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield , American pilot and engineer (d. 2006)
1921 – Robert Runcie , English archbishop (d. 2000)
1925 – Wren Blair , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
1926 – Jan Morris , English-Welsh historian and author
1928 – George McFarland , American actor (d. 1993)
1928 – Wolfhart Pannenberg , Polish-German theologian and academic (d. 2014)
1929 – Peter Bronfman , Canadian businessman (d. 1996)
1929 – Moses Gunn , American actor (d. 1993)
1930 – Dave Barrett , Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2018)
1932 – Maury Wills , American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
1933 – John Gurdon , English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Phill Niblock , American composer and director
1933 – Dave Somerville , Canadian singer (The Diamonds ) (d. 2015)
1934 – Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote , South African-English lawyer and judge
1934 – Earl Wilson , American baseball player and coach (d. 2005)
1935 – Omar Sívori , Italian-Argentine footballer and manager (d. 2005)
1936 – Dick Barnett , American basketball player and educator
1936 – Feliciano Belmonte Jr. , Filipino lawyer and politician, 20th Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
1936 – Connie Dierking , American basketball player (d. 2013)
1937 – Johnnie Cochran , American lawyer (d. 2005)
1938 – Nick Gravenites , American singer–songwriter and guitarist
1938 – Waheed Murad , Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1938 – Rex Reed , American film critic
1939 – Budhi Kunderan , Indian cricketer (d. 2006)
1941 – Diana Hendry , English poet and author
1941 – Ron Meagher , American rock bass player
1942 – Steve Sabol , American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (d. 2012)
1943 – Anna Ford , English journalist and academic
1943 – Franklin Rosemont , American poet, painter, and historian (d. 2009)
1943 – Henri Szeps , Australian actor
1944 – Vernor Vinge , American computer scientist and author
1944 – Ton Koopman , Dutch conductor, organist, and harpsichordist
1945 – Martin Hellman , American cryptographer and academic
1945 – Don McLean , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1946 – Sonthi Boonyaratglin , Thai general and politician
1946 – Peter Kellner , English journalist and author
1947 – Ward Churchill , American author and activist
1947 – Paul Jackson , English director and producer
1948 – Trevor Brooking , English footballer and manager
1948 – Avery Brooks , American actor and singer
1948 – Donna Karan , American fashion designer, founded DKNY
1948 – Siim Kallas , Estonian soldier and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Estonia
1948 – Persis Khambatta , Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (d. 1998)
1948 – Chris LeDoux , American singer-songwriter and sculptor (d. 2005)
1949 – Richard Hell , American singer-songwriter and bass player
1949 – Annie Leibovitz , American photographer
1950 – Mike Rutherford , English guitarist and songwriter
1951 – Sting , English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor
1952 – Jan Švejnar , Czech-American economist and politician
1953 – Vanessa Bell Armstrong , American singer
1953 – Muhammad Abdul Bari , Bangladeshi-English physicist and academic
1954 – Lorraine Bracco , American actress and producer
1955 – Philip Oakey , English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1955 – Nancy Rothwell , English physiologist and academic
1956 – Peter Bruce , Scottish chemist and academic
1956 – Freddie Jackson , American soul singer
1956 – Viatcheslav Mukhanov , Russian-German cosmologist and physicist
1957 – John Cook , American golfer
1957 – Wade Dooley , English rugby player and police officer
1957 – Dave Faulkner , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Kate St John , English singer-songwriter and producer
1958 – Robbie Nevil , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959 – Luis Fernández , French footballer and manager
1960 – Glenn Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1960 – Django Bates , English pianist and composer
1960 – Johan Lammerts , Dutch cyclist
1960 – Joe Sacco , American journalist and cartoonist
1960 – Tom Schweich , American lawyer and politician, 36th State Auditor of Missouri (d. 2015)
1960 – Dereck Whittenburg , American basketball player and coach
1961 – Jaan Toomik , Estonian director and producer
1962 – James Hunter , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962 – Mark Rypien , Canadian-American football player
1963 – Keith Bradshaw , Australian cricketer and accountant
1964 – Dirk Brinkmann , German field hockey player
1965 – Darren Cahill , Australian tennis player and coach
1965 – Tom Moody , Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1967 – Frankie Fredericks , Namibian sprinter
1967 – Gary L. Gregg , American political scientist, author, and academic
1967 – Thomas Muster , Austrian tennis player
1967 – Gillian Welch , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Victoria Derbyshire , English journalist and radio host
1968 – Benjie Paras , Filipino basketball player and actor
1968 – Jeff Martin , Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1968 – Jana Novotná , Czech tennis player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
1968 – Glen Wesley , Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1968 – Kelly Willis , American country music singer-songwriter
1969 – Badly Drawn Boy , English indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
1969 – Mitch English , American talk show host, comedian, weatherman
1970 – Eddie Guardado , American baseball player and coach
1970 – Patricia O'Callaghan , Canadian soprano and producer
1970 – Kelly Ripa , American actress, producer, and talk show host
1970 – Maribel Verdú , Spanish actress
1971 – Tiffany Darwish , American singer-songwriter and actress
1971 – Jim Root , American guitarist and songwriter
1972 – Aaron McKie , American basketball player and coach
1973 – Melissa Harris-Perry , American journalist, author, and educator
1973 – Lene Nystrøm , Norwegian singer-songwriter
1973 – Proof , American rapper and actor (d. 2006)
1973 – Scott Schoeneweis , American baseball player
1973 – Maria Wetterstrand , Swedish politician
1974 – Adel Ferdosipour , Iranian journalist and sportscaster
1974 – Bjarke Ingels , Danish architect
1974 – Brian Knight , American baseball player and umpire
1974 – Michelle Krusiec , Taiwanese-American actress and producer
1974 – Matthew Nicholson , Australian cricketer
1974 – Mark Porter , New Zealand race car driver (d. 2006)
1974 – Sam Roberts , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Paul Teutul Jr. , American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers
1974 – Kevin Van De Wege , American firefighter and politician
1975 – Baiba Broka , Latvian politician
1976 – Mark Chilton , English cricketer
1976 – John Thornton , American football player
1977 – Didier Défago , Swiss skier
1978 – Ayumi Hamasaki , Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1978 – Matthew Hancock , English economist and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
1979 – Primož Brezec , Slovenian basketball player
1979 – Francisco Fonseca , Mexican footballer
1979 – Maja Ivarsson , Swedish singer-songwriter
1980 – Shane Andrus , American football player
1981 – Ridzuan Fatah Hasan , Singaporean footballer
1981 – Santi Kolk , Dutch footballer
1981 – Luke Wilkshire , Australian footballer
1982 – Tyson Chandler , American basketball player
1982 – Esra Gümüş , Turkish volleyball player
1982 – George Pettit , Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
1982 – Gary Wilkinson , American basketball player
1984 – Marion Bartoli , French tennis player
1985 – Çağlar Birinci , Turkish footballer
1985 – Buster Davis , American football player
1985 – Brandon Jackson , American football player
1986 – Camilla Belle , American actress
1987 – Bojana Bobusic , Australian tennis player
1987 – Joe Ingles , Australian basketball player
1987 – Phil Kessel , American ice hockey player
1987 – Joel Reinders , American football player
1987 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. , American race car driver
1988 – Brittany Howard , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Aaron Hicks , American baseball player
1989 – George Nash , English rower
1989 – Janine Gutierrez , Filipino actress
1990 – Dean Bouzanis , Australian footballer
1991 – Roberto Firmino , Brazilian footballer
1991 – Jeanjos Parfait , Burundian musician
1992 – Sirje Roops , Estonian footballer
1993 – Michy Batshuayi , Belgian footballer
1993 – Aaro Vainio , Finnish race car driver
1994 – Joana Eidukonytė , Lithuanian tennis player
1995 – Te Maire Martin , New Zealand rugby league player
1995 – Tepai Moeroa , Cook Islands rugby league player
1996 – Tom Trbojevic , Australian rugby league player
1997 – Hana Sugisaki , Japanese actress
2002 – Jacob Sartorius , American singer
Deaths [ ]
534 – Athalaric , Italian king (b. 516)
829 – Michael II , Byzantine emperor (b. 770)
939 – Eberhard III , duke of Franconia
939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (b. 890)
1264 – Pope Urban IV
1348 – Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln (b. 1281)
1559 – Jacquet of Mantua , French-Italian composer (b. 1483)
1588 – Bernardino Telesio , Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1509)
1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar , Spanish academic and diplomat (b. 1567)
1629 – Antonio Cifra , Italian composer (b. 1584)
1629 – Pierre de Bérulle , French cardinal and theologian (b. 1575)
1678 – Wu Sangui , Qing Chinese general (b. 1612)
1685 – David Teniers III , Flemish painter (b. 1638)
1708 – Anne Jules de Noailles , French general (b. 1650)
1709 – Ivan Mazepa , Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639)
1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy , French historian and author (b. 1644)
1746 – Josiah Burchett , English admiral and politician (b. 1666)
1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
1775 – Fukuda Chiyo-ni , Japanese nun and poet (b. 1703)
1780 – John André , English soldier (b. 1750)
1782 – Charles Lee , English-born American general (b. 1732)
1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel , English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
1803 – Samuel Adams , American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot , French engineer (b. 1725)
1850 – Sarah Biffen , English painter (b. 1784)
1853 – François Arago , French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
1920 – Max Bruch , German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
1927 – Svante Arrhenius , Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1938 – Alexandru Averescu , Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
1938 – André Lagache , French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
1943 – John Evans , English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
1947 – P. D. Ouspensky , Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
1953 – John Marin , American painter (b. 1870)
1955 – Humphrey Barclay , English priest (b. 1882)
1955 – William Orthwein , American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
1962 – Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev , Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)
1968 – Marcel Duchamp , French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
1971 – Jessie Arms Botke , American painter (b. 1883)
1973 – Paul Hartman , American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
1973 – Paavo Nurmi , Finnish runner (b. 1897)
1974 – Vasily Shukshin , Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1975 – K. Kamaraj , Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
1981 – Harry Golden , American journalist and author (b. 1902)
1981 – Hazel Scott , Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
1985 – Rock Hudson , American actor (b. 1925)
1987 – Madeleine Carroll , English actress (b. 1906)
1987 – Peter Medawar , Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1988 – Alec Issigonis , Greek-English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
1988 – Hamengkubuwono IX , Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)
1991 – Hazen Argue , Canadian politician (b. 1921)
1991 – Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
1994 – Harriet Nelson , American actress and singer (b. 1909)
1996 – Robert Bourassa , Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
1996 – Andrey Lukanov , Bulgarian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1938)
1998 – Gene Autry , American actor, singer, and guitarist (b. 1907)
1998 – Olivier Gendebien , Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik , German journalist and author (b. 1921)
2000 – David Tonkin , Australian politician, 38th Premier of South Australia (b. 1929)
2001 – Franz Biebl , German composer and academic (b. 1906)
2002 – Heinz von Foerster , Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2003 – John Thomas Dunlop , American scholar and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
2005 – Nipsey Russell , American comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2005 – August Wilson , American author and playwright (b. 1945)
2006 – Helen Chenoweth-Hage , American politician (b. 1938)
2006 – Paul Halmos , Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
2007 – Tex Coulter , American football player (b. 1924)
2007 – Christopher Derrick , English author and critic (b. 1921)
2007 – George Grizzard , American actor (b. 1928)
2007 – Dan Keating , Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1902)
2007 – Tawn Mastrey , American radio host and producer (b. 1954)
2010 – Kwa Geok Choo , Singaporean lawyer and scholar (b. 1920)
2011 – Peter L. Benson , American psychologist and academic (b. 1946)
2012 – Nguyễn Chí Thiện , Vietnamese-American poet and activist (b. 1939)
2012 – Charles Roach , Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1933)
2012 – J. Philippe Rushton , English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (b. 1943)
2013 – Gottfried Fischer , German psychologist, therapist, and academic (b. 1944)
2013 – Herman Hugg , American painter and sculptor (b. 1921)
2013 – Jonathan Kaufer , American director and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2013 – Abraham Nemeth , American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
2013 – Kaare Ørnung , Norwegian pianist and educator (b. 1931)
2014 – Robert Flower , Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2014 – Vaughn O. Lang , American general (b. 1927)
2014 – Frederic Tamler Sommers , American philosopher and academic (b. 1923)
2015 – Eric Arturo Delvalle , Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama (b. 1937)
2015 – Brian Friel , Irish author, playwright, and director (b. 1929)
2015 – Rodolfo Frigeri , Argentinian economist and politician, Argentinian Minister of Finance (b. 1942)
2015 – Coleridge Goode , Jamaican-English bassist and composer (b. 1914)
2015 – James Mutende , Ugandan veterinarian, economist, and politician (b. 1962)
2015 – Johnny Paton , Scottish footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
2016 – Neville Marriner , British conductor (b. 1924)
2016 – Gary Reed , American comic book writer (b. 1956)
2017 – Tom Petty , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1950)
Holidays and observances [ ]
Batik Day (Indonesia )
Christian feast day :
Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels
Leodegar
October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Gandhi 's birthday-related observances:
Gandhi Jayanti (India )
International Day of Non-Violence
Independence Day , celebrates the independence of Guinea from France in 1958.
National Grandparents Day (Italy)
References [ ]
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