while you were entering this world, who was departing?

147,735 People

People who died on September 02, 1991 (the exact day you were born)

* Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

Natural disasters in 1991

* Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak
* 1991 Bangladesh cyclone
* Halloween Blizzard
* Mount Pinatubo
* Ormoc tragedy
* 1991 Racha earthquake
* Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1991
* West Virginia Derecho

People who died on September 02 (various years)

* 2007 - Max McNab, National Hockey League executive
* 2006 - Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer
* 2006 - Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman
* 2005 - Bob Denver, American actor
* 2004 - Joan Oró, Catalan scientist
* 2002 - Dick Reynolds, Australian footballer and coach
* 2001 - Troy Donahue, American actor
* 2001 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon
* 2000 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author
* 2000 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer
* 1998 - Allen Drury, American author
* 1998 - Jackie Blanchflower, Irish footballer
* 1997 - Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
* 1997 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager
* 1994 - Roy Castle, British entertainer
* 1992 - Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer
* 1984 - Manos Katrakis, Greek actor
* 1978 - Fred G. Meyer, Founder Fred Meyer Inc.
* 1976 - Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish writer
* 1973 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer
* 1973 - Carl Dudley, American film director
* 1969 - Ho Chi Minh, President of Vietnam
* 1965 - Johannes Bobrowski, German writer
* 1964 - Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist
* 1964 - Alvin York, American soldier
* 1953 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general
* 1948 - Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy
* 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, French founder of the modern Olympic Games
* 1934 - James Allan, New Zealand rugby union player, All Black
* 1934 - Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist and actor
* 1934 - Alcide Nunez, American musician
* 1921 - Anthony Francis Lucas Croatian-born oil pioneer
* 1921 - Henry Austin Dobson, English poet
* 1910 - Henri Rousseau, French painter
* 1898 - Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* 1877 - Constantine Kanaris, Greek admiral, freedom fighter and politician
* 1872 - Nicolai Grundtvig, Danish writer and philosopher
* 1865 - William Rowan Hamilton, Irish mathematician
* 1834 - Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer
* 1832 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian astronomer
* 1820 - Jiaqing, Emperor of China
* 1813 - Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (mortally wounded in battle)
* 1790 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian
* 1768 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician
* 1765 - Henry Bouquet, Swiss-born British army officer
* 1764 - Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal
* 1690 - Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine
* 1688 - Robert Viner, Lord Mayor of London
* 1680 - Per Brahe, Swedish soldier and statesman
* 1540 - Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia
* 1397 - Francesco Landini, Italian composer
* 1274 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun
* 1031 - Saint Emeric of Hungary
* 421 - Constantius III, Roman Emperor
* 490 BC - Pheidippides, Greek hero