Famous people born on 2 October

• Mahatma GandhiIndian independence activist · 1869–1948
  78 yrs
• Graham GreeneBritish writer, playwright and literary critic · 1904–1991
  86 yrs
• Paul von HindenburgPrussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany · 1847–1934
  86 yrs
• Groucho MarxAmerican comedian · 1890–1977
  86 yrs
• William RamsayScottish chemist · 1852–1916
  63 yrs
• Ferdinand FochFrench marchal and military theorist · 1851–1929
  77 yrs
• Christian de DuveBelgian biochemist, cytologist · 1917–2013
  95 yrs
• Cordell Hull ↗American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 · 1871–1955
  83 yrs
• Alexander Todd ↗British biochemist and Nobel laureate · 1907–1997
  89 yrs
• John Gurdon ↗British developmental biologist · 1933–2025
  92 yrs
• Omar Sívori ↗Italian-Argentine footballer · 1935–2005
  69 yrs
• Edward Burnett Tylor ↗English anthropologist · 1832–1917
  84 yrs
• Wallace Stevens ↗American poet · 1879–1955
  75 yrs
• Jana Novotná ↗Czech tennis player · 1968–2017
  49 yrs
• Carlo Alberto I of Sardinia ↗King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849 · 1798–1849
  50 yrs
• Boris Shaposhnikov ↗Marshal of the Soviet Union · 1882–1945
  62 yrs
• Louis de Bonald ↗French philosopher · 1754–1840
  86 yrs
• Bud Abbott ↗American actor, producer and comedian · 1897–1974
  76 yrs
• Nilo Peçanha ↗President of Brazil · 1867–1924
  56 yrs
• Víctor Paz Estenssoro ↗45th President of Bolivia · 1907–2001
  93 yrs
• Andreas Gryphius ↗German poet and dramatist · 1616–1664
  47 yrs
• Patrick Geddes ↗British biologist, botanist and town planner · 1854–1932
  77 yrs
• Vernor Vinge ↗American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer · 1944–2024
  79 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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