What happened on November 2 ?

1083 - Matilda of Flanders, was Queen consort of the Kingdom of England (b. 1031)

1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)

1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)

1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)

1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)

1618 - Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)

1716 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651)

1807 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (b. 1730)

1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)

1863 - Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (b. 1826)

1877 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (b. 1784)

1887 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)

1898 - George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)

1905 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (b. 1817)

1935 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)

1944 - Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)

1950 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)

1960 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist, and composer (b. 1896)

1961 - James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)

1963 - Ngo Dihn Diem, President of South Vietnam (b. 1901)

1966 - Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

1975 - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)

1984 - Velma Barfield, American murderer (executed) (b. 1932)

1986 - Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)

1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)

2002 - Tonio Selwart, German actor (b. 1896)

2002 - Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)

2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)

2004 - Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)

2004 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1957)