October 2nd (2012) was a Tuesday. It's the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days left to the end of the year.
October 2nd Famous Deaths for 2012
» Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (b. 1939)
» Marjorie Lane, American singer and actress (b. 1912)
» Mohammed Mushaima, Bahraini activist (b. 1988)
» Hideji Ōtaki, Japanese actor (b. 1925)
» Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1933)
» J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (b. 1943)
» Big Jim Sullivan, English guitarist (James Last Orchestra) (b. 1941)
October 2nd Holidays in History
» Batik Day (Indonesia)
» Christian feast day:
» Feast of the Guardian Angels
» Leodegar
» October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Gandhi Jayanti (India)
» International Day of Non-Violence (International observance or International)
» Independence Day (Guinea), celebrates the independence of Guinea from France in 1958