Notable Birthdays for September 2
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- Poet Eugene Field in 1850
- sporting goods entrepreneur Albert Spalding in 1850
- Hiram Maxim, who invented the first portable automatic machine gun, in 1869
- basketball Hall of Fame Coach Adolph Rupp in 1901
- author Cleveland Amory in 1917
- author Allen Drury in 1918
- dancer Marge Champion in 1919 (age 96)
- Snapple co-founder Arnold Greenberg in 1932
- horse racing Hall of Fame member D. Wayne Lukas in 1935 (age 80)
- basketball Hall of Fame member John Thompson Jr. in 1941 (age 74)
- Christa McAuliffe, schoolteacher/astronaut who died in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, in 1948
- basketball Hall of Fame member Nate Archibald (in 1968 age 67)
- football Hall of Fame member/broadcaster Terry Bradshaw in 1948 (age 67)
- actor Mark Harmon in 1951 (age 64)
- tennis Hall of Fame member Jimmy Connors in 1952 (age 63)
- Cirque de Soleil co-founder Guy Laliberte in 1959 (age 56)
- football Hall of Fame member Eric Dickerson in 1960 (age 55)
- actor Keanu Reeves in 1964 (age 51)
- actor Salma Hayek in 1966 (age 49).
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