Harlow Shapley was an American astronomer, who served as head of the Harvard College Observatory from 1921–1952, and political activist during the New Deal and Fair Deal.
Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Dated facts from Wikidata; ages marked “about” come from year-only dates.
Every fact on this page traces to one of these.
Also born on November 2
Actor
1965 · India
Shah Rukh Khan, popularly known by the initials SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer renowned for his work in Hindi cinema.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1865–1923 · United States
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular presidents at the time of his death.
Copyright by Moffett, Chicago. J241772 U.S. Copyright Office., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1795–1849 · United States
James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of American expansionism and Jacksonian democracy.
George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1911–1996 · Greece
Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1929–2018 · Canada
Richard Edward Taylor, was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor.
ENERGY.GOV, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1932–2006 · United States
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M.