Famous People Born on August 2, August 2 Famous Birthdays
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August 2 Birthdays, Famous People born on August 2nd
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Varvara Gracheva, Russian tennis player |
| 1999 | Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer |
| 1996 | Keston Hiura, American baseball player |
| 1996 | Simone Manuel, American swimmer |
| 1995 | Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player |
| 1994 | Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player |
| 1994 | Laremy Tunsil, American football player |
| 1993 | Gael Bussa, Congolese politician |
| 1992 | Charli XCX, English singer-songwriter |
| 1990 | Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player |
| 1990 | Vitalia Diatchenko, Russian tennis player |
| 1990 | Skylar Diggins-Smith, American basketball player |
| 1989 | Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer |
| 1988 | Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1986 | Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier |
| 1985 | Stephen Ferris, Irish rugby player |
| 1985 | David Hart Smith, Canadian wrestler |
| 1985 | Britt Nicole, American Christian pop artist |
| 1984 | Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer |
| 1983 | Michel Bastos, Brazilian footballer |
| 1982 | Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer |
| 1982 | Kerry Rhodes, American football player |
| 1982 | Grady Sizemore, American baseball player |
| 1981 | Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and boxer |
| 1981 | Tim Murtagh, Irish-English cricketer |
| 1980 | Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer |
| 1979 | Marco Bonura, Italian footballer |
| 1979 | Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan runner |
| 1978 | Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer |
| 1978 | Matt Guerrier, American baseball player |
| 1978 | Deividas Šemberas, Lithuanian footballer |
| 1978 | Dragan Vukmir, Serbian footballer |
| 1977 | Edward Furlong, American actor |
| 1976 | Reyes Estévez, Spanish runner |
| 1976 | Jay Heaps, American soccer player and coach |
| 1976 | Michael Weiss, American figure skater |
| 1976 | Sam Worthington, English-Australian actor and producer |
| 1976 | Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer |
| 1975 | Mineiro, Brazilian footballer |
| 1975 | Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-German badminton player and coach |
| 1975 | Tamás Molnár, Hungarian water polo player |
| 1974 | Phil Williams, English journalist and radio host |
| 1973 | Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer |
| 1973 | Miguel Mendonca, Zimbabwean journalist and author |
| 1972 | Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer |
| 1972 | Muriel Bowser, American politician, Mayor of Washington, D.C. |
| 1971 | Jason Bell, Australian rugby league player |
| 1971 | Michael Hughes, Irish footballer and manager |
| 1970 | Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player and coach |
| 1970 | Kevin Smith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter |
| 1970 | Philo Wallace, Barbadian cricketer |
| 1969 | Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player |
| 1969 | Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer and manager |
| 1968 | Stefan Effenberg, German footballer and sportscaster |
| 1967 | Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player |
| 1967 | Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter and producer |
| 1966 | Takashi Iizuka, Japanese wrestler |
| 1966 | Grainne Leahy, Irish cricketer |
| 1966 | Tim Wakefield, American baseball player and sportscaster |
| 1965 | Joe Hockey, Australian lawyer and politician, 38th Treasurer of Australia |
| 1965 | Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach |
| 1964 | Frank Biela, German race car driver |
| 1964 | Mary-Louise Parker, American actress |
| 1963 | Laura Bennett, American architect and fashion designer |
| 1963 | Uğur Tütüneker, Turkish footballer and manager |
| 1962 | Lee Mavers, English singer, songwriter and guitarist |
| 1962 | Cynthia Stevenson, American actress |
| 1961 | Pete de Freitas, Trinidadian-British drummer and producer (d. 1989) |
| 1960 | Linda Fratianne, American figure skater |
| 1960 | Neal Morse, American singer and keyboard player |
| 1960 | David Yow, American singer-songwriter |
| 1959 | Victoria Jackson, American actress and singer |
| 1959 | Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015) |
| 1959 | Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress |
| 1957 | Jacky Rosen, United States senator |
| 1956 | Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist, astrophysicist, and author |
| 1955 | Caleb Carr, American historian and author |
| 1955 | Tony Godden, English footballer and manager |
| 1955 | Butch Vig, American drummer, songwriter, and record producer |
| 1954 | Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager |
| 1953 | Donnie Munro, Scottish singer and guitarist |
| 1953 | Butch Patrick, American actor |
| 1953 | Anthony Seldon, English historian and author |
| 1952 | Alain Giresse, French footballer and manager |
| 1951 | Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011) |
| 1951 | Steve Hillage, English singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1951 | Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1951 | Per Westerberg, Swedish businessman and politician, Speaker of the Parliament of Sweden |
| 1950 | Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author and publisher |
| 1950 | Ted Turner, British guitarist |
| 1949 | James Fallows, American journalist and author |
| 1949 | Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian general and astronaut |
| 1948 | Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1948 | Dennis Prager, American radio host and author |
| 1948 | Tapan Kumar Sarkar, Indian-American electrical engineer and academic (d. 2021)[16] |
| 1948 | James Street, American football and baseball player (d. 2013) |
| 1948 | Snoo Wilson, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2013) |
| 1947 | Ruth Bakke, Norwegian organist and composer |
| 1947 | Lawrence Wright, American journalist, author, and screenwriter |
| 1946 | James Howe, American journalist and author |
| 1945 | Joanna Cassidy, American actress |
| 1945 | Alex Jesaulenko, Austrian-Australian footballer and coach |
| 1945 | Bunker Roy, Indian educator and activist |
| 1945 | Eric Simms, Australian rugby league player and coach |
| 1944 | Jim Capaldi, English drummer and singer-songwriter (d. 2005) |
| 1944 | Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and berimbau player (d. 2016) |
| 1943 | Herbert M. Allison, American lieutenant and businessman (d. 2013) |
| 1943 | Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player and coach |
| 1943 | Jon R. Cavaiani, English-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2014) |
| 1943 | Rose Tremain, English novelist and short story writer |
| 1942 | Isabel Allende, Chilean-American novelist, essayist, essayist |
| 1942 | Leo Beenhakker, Dutch football manager |
| 1942 | Juan Formell, Cuban singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014) |
| 1942 | Nell Irvin Painter, American author and historian |
| 1941 | Doris Coley, American singer (d. 2000) |
| 1941 | Jules A. Hoffmann, Luxembourgian-French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1941 | François Weyergans, Belgian director and screenwriter (d. 2022) |
| 1940 | Angel Lagdameo, Filipino archbishop (d. 2022) |
| 1940 | Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian physician and activist (d. 2006) |
| 1940 | Will Tura, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1939 | Benjamin Barber, American theorist, author, and academic (d. 2017) |
| 1939 | Wes Craven, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015) |
| 1939 | John W. Snow, American businessman and politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| 1938 | Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007) |
| 1938 | Pierre de Bané, Israeli-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2019) |
| 1938 | Terry Peck, Falkland Islander soldier (d. 2006) |
| 1937 | Ron Brierley, New Zealand businessman |
| 1937 | Billy Cannon, American football player and dentist (d. 2018) |
| 1937 | María Duval, Mexican actress and singer |
| 1937 | Garth Hudson, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter, and producer |
| 1936 | Anthony Payne, English composer and author (d. 2021) |
| 1935 | Hank Cochran, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2010) |
| 1934 | Valery Bykovsky, Russian general and astronaut (d. 2019) |
| 1933 | Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician, Greek Minister of Defence |
| 1932 | Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (d. 2006) |
| 1931 | Pierre DuMaine, American bishop and academic (d. 2019) |
| 1931 | Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer (d. 2008) |
| 1931 | Karl Miller, English journalist and critic (d. 2014) |
| 1931 | Viliam Schrojf, Czech footballer (d. 2007) |
| 1930 | Vali Myers, Australian painter and dancer (d. 2003) |
| 1929 | Roy Crimmins, English trombonist and composer (d. 2014) |
| 1929 | John Gale, English director and producer |
| 1929 | Vidya Charan Shukla, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (d. 2013) |
| 1929 | David Waddington, Baron Waddington, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Bermuda (d. 2017) |
| 1928 | Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer (d. 1990) |
| 1927 | Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, English mathematician and academic (d. 2018) |
| 1925 | K. Arulanandan, Ceylon-American engineer and academic (d. 2004) |
| 1925 | John Dexter, English director and producer (d. 1990) |
| 1925 | John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017) |
| 1925 | Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian general and politician, 43rd President of Argentina (d. 2013) |
| 1924 | James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1987) |
| 1924 | Joe Harnell, American pianist and composer (d. 2005) |
| 1923 | Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli lawyer and politician, 9th President of Israel (d. 2016) |
| 1923 | Ike Williams, American boxer (d. 1994) |
| 1922 | Betsy Bloomingdale, American philanthropist and socialite (d. 2016) |
| 1922 | Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (d. 1998) |
| 1921 | Alan Whicker, Egyptian-English journalist (d. 2013) |
| 1920 | Louis Pauwels, French journalist and author (d. 1997) |
| 1920 | Augustus Rowe, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013) |
| 1919 | Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (d. 2022) |
| 1917 | Wah Chang, Chinese-American artist and designer (d. 2003) |
| 1916 | Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (d. 1990) |
| 1915 | Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 1914 | Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (d. 1988) |
| 1914 | Big Walter Price, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012) |
| 1914 | Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 1913 | Xavier Thaninayagam, Sri Lankan scholar and academic (d. 1980) |
| 1912 | Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010) |
| 1912 | Håkon Stenstadvold, Norwegian painter, illustrator, and critic (d. 1977) |
| 1912 | Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist and author (d. 2001) |
| 1911 | Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979) |
| 1910 | Roger MacDougall, Scottish director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1993) |
| 1907 | Mary Hamman, American journalist and author (d. 1984) |
| 1905 | Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963) |
| 1905 | Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993) |
| 1905 | Ruth Nelson, American actress (d. 1992)[8] |
| 1902 | Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (d. 1971) |
| 1902 | Mina Rees, American mathematician (d.1997) |
| 1900 | Holling C. Holling, American author and illustrator (d. 1973) |
| 1900 | Helen Morgan, American actress and singer (d. 1941) |
| 1899 | Charles Bennett, English director and screenwriter (d. 1995) |
| 1898 | Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer (d. 1977) |
| 1897 | Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945) |
| 1897 | Max Weber, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1974) |
| 1895 | Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970) |
| 1894 | Bertha Lutz, Brazilian feminist and scientist (d.1976) |
| 1892 | Jack L. Warner, Canadian-born American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (d. 1978) |
| 1891 | Arthur Bliss, English composer and conductor (d. 1975) |
| 1891 | Viktor Zhirmunsky, Russian linguist and historian (d. 1971) |
| 1889 | Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (d. 1929) |
| 1887 | Oskar Anderson, Bulgarian-German mathematician and statistician (d. 1960) |
| 1886 | John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Canadian pilot and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1961) |
| 1884 | Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan author and politician, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969) |
| 1882 | Red Ames, American baseball player and manager (d. 1936) |
| 1882 | Albert Bloch, American painter and academic (d. 1961) |
| 1880 | Arthur Dove, American painter and educator (d. 1946) |
| 1878 | Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (d. 1956) |
| 1877 | Ravishankar Shukla, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (d. 1956) |
| 1876 | Pingali Venkayya, Indian geologist, designed the Flag of India (d. 1963) |
| 1872 | George E. Stewart, Australian-American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946) |
| 1871 | John French Sloan, American painter and illustrator (d. 1951) |
| 1870 | Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (d. 1954) |
| 1868 | Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923) |
| 1867 | Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1900) |
| 1865 | Irving Babbitt, American academic and critic (d. 1933) |
| 1865 | John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955) |
| 1861 | Prafulla Chandra Ray, Indian chemist and academic (d. 1944) |
| 1835 | Elisha Gray, American businessman, co-founded Western Electric (d. 1901) |
| 1834 | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (d. 1904) |
| 1828 | Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895) |
| 1820 | John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer (d. 1893) |
| 1815 | Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian (d. 1894) |
| 1788 | Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (d. 1853) |
| 1740 | Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817) |
| 1703 | Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1775) |
| 1702 | Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1769) |
| 1696 | Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1754) |
| 1674 | Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1723) |
| 1672 | Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (d. 1733) |
| 1646 | Jean-Baptiste du Casse, French admiral and buccaneer (d. 1715) |
| 1630 | Estephan El Douaihy, Maronite patriarch (d. 1704) |
| 1627 | Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter (d. 1678) |
| 1612 | Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dutch model and wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642) |
| 1549 | Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (d. 1616) |
| 1533 | Theodor Zwinger, Swiss physician and scholar (d. 1588) |
| 1455 | John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499) |
| 1260 | Kyawswa of Pagan, last ruler of the Pagan Kingdom (d. 1299) |
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