Famous Deaths on October 2

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1960)

Norwegian sailor and sailboat designer (1871–1940)

Norwegian politician (1847-1912)

New Zealand painter and taxidermist (1846-1928)

Serbian composer

Australian poet, politician (1839-1916)

French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)

French inventor (1725–1804)

American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States (1722-1803)

American Unitarian clergyman (1780–1842)

Composer and pianist

German chemist

Japanese writer (1703-1775)

Hungarian essayist

9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520

Reformer, humanist (1494-1566)

First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism

Vietnamese scholar and mathematician

English cardinal and theologian

(1052-1079)