02 November: today's birthdays

• Saïd Aouita - Moroccan athlete
• Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly - French writer. He wrote the novels The Story Without a Name and A Former Mistress, and the collection of short stories The She-Devils
• Maurice Blondel - French philosopher and university professor. L'Action is his major work
• Patrice Chéreau - French film director and actor. He directed La Reine Margot, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, and Intimacy
• Odysseas Elytis - Greek poet, born Odysseas Alepoudellis. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979
• Keith Emerson - English keyboardist, pianist, and composer. He was one of the founding member of rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• Warren Gamaliel Harding - American politician. He was the 29th President of the United States
• Stevan Jovetić - Montenegrin football player
• Burt Lancaster - American actor
• Sidney Luft - American theatre entrepreneur
• Peter Mullan - Scottish actor and film director
• Battista Pininfarina - Italian automobile designer. He founded the Pininfarina company and he designed the Alfa Romeo Spider "Duetto"
• Evgenij Pljuščenko (Evgeni Plushenko) - Russian figure skater
• János László Pyrker Felsőőri - Hungarian writer and poet. He wrote in German
• Josef Radetzky - Austrian general
• Taiye Selasi - English writer of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin.
• Giuseppe Sinopoli - Italian conductor, composer and essayist
• Georges Eugène Sorel - French philosopher and sociologist, best-known for his theory of revolutionary syndicalism
• Luchino Visconti - Italian film director and screenwriter