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Kumaraswami Kamaraj, popularly known as Kamarajar was an Indian independence activist, politician, social reformer and statesman who served as the Chief Minister of Madras from 13 April 1954 to 2 October 1963.
Notable Deaths on October 2
1975 — K. Kamaraj
Indian lawyer and politician (born 1903)
October 2 has 79 recorded notable deaths across history, from 534 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
79 source records
534 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on October 2
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- 1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. Source
- 1971 South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election. Source
- 1980 Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War. Source
- 1958 Guinea declares its independence from France. Source
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In September 1780, André negotiated with Continental Army general Benedict Arnold, who secretly offered to turn over control of the American fort at West Point, New York, to the British.
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Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an American entertainer best known for his appearances as a panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, and Pyramid.
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Plays in the series include Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990), each of which won Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988).
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A loyal subject of Russia during most of his rule, Mazepa's close relationship with Tsar Peter I deteriorated as a result of the latter's administrative reforms, which increasingly deprived Mazepa and the Hetmanate of their autonomy.
More major people who died on October 2
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1780
John André
English soldier (born 1750)
Major John André was a British Army officer who served as the head of Britain's intelligence operations during the American War for Independence.
2005
Nipsey Russell
American comedian and actor (born 1918)
Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an American entertainer best known for his appearances as a panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, including Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, and…
2005
August Wilson
American author and playwright (born 1945)
August Wilson was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America".
1709
Ivan Mazepa
Ukrainian diplomat (born 1639)
Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa was a Ukrainian military, political and civic leader who served as hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1687–1709.
1973
Paavo Nurmi
Finnish runner (born 1897)
Paavo Johannes Nurmi was a Finnish middle-distance and long-distance runner. He was called the "Flying Finn" because he dominated distance running in the 1920s.
1987
Peter Medawar
Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a Brazilian-born biologist and writer of Lebanese-British descent who, from a succession of research and teaching posts, and senior U.K.
1786
Augustus Keppel
1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (born 1725)
Admiral of the White Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, PC was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1755 to 1782.
2000
David Tonkin
Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (born 1929)
David Oliver Tonkin was an Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of South Australia from 18 September 1979 to 10 November 1982.
1991
Hazen Argue
Canadian politician (born 1921)
Hazen Robert Argue was a Canadian politician who served in the House of Commons and the Senate.
1938
Alexandru Averescu
Romanian military leader and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1859)
Alexandru Averescu was a Romanian marshal, diplomat and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets.
2003
John Thomas Dunlop
American scholar and politician, United States Secretary of Labor (born 1914)
John Thomas Dunlop was an American administrator, labor economist, and educator. Dunlop was the United States Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976 under President Gerald Ford.
1674
George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen
officer in the Dutch Army (born 1606)
Prince George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, German: Georg Friedrich Prinz von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Prinz von Nassau, Graf zu Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beilstein, was a count from the House of…
1678
Wu Sangui
Qing Chinese general (born 1612)
Wu Sangui, courtesy name Changbai (長白) or Changbo (長伯), was a Chinese military leader who played a key role in the fall of the Ming dynasty and the founding of the Qing dynasty.
1746
Josiah Burchett
English admiral and politician (born 1666)
Josiah Burchett, of Hampstead, Middlesex, was a British naval administrator and Whig politician, who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1741.
1803
Samuel Adams
American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (born 1722)
Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father.
1764
William Cavendish
4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1720)
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, styled Lord Cavendish before 1729, and Marquess of Hartington between 1729 and 1755, was a British Whig statesman and nobleman who was briefly nominal Prime Minister of Great…
2016
Neville Marriner
British conductor (born 1924)
Sir Neville Marriner, was an English conductor and violinist. Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner…
2015
Brian Friel
Irish author, playwright, and director (born 1929)
Brian Patrick Friel was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists.
2015
Coleridge Goode
Jamaican-English bassist and composer (born 1914)
George Coleridge Emerson Goode was a British Jamaican-born jazz bassist best known for his long collaboration with alto saxophonist Joe Harriott.