Births on 2 August
2000s
Héctor Fort
2006
Spanish footballer, born 2006
Varvara Gracheva
2000
French tennis player (born 2000)
Mohammed Kudus
2000
Ghanaian footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Mark (rapper)
1999
Canadian rapper (born 1999)
Austin Theory
1997
American professional wrestler (born 1997)
Keston Hiura
1996
American baseball infielder (born 1996)
Simone Manuel
1996
American swimmer (born 1996)
Kristaps Porziņģis
1995
Latvian basketball player (born 1995)
Vikkstar123
1995
English influencer (born 1995)
Cr1TiKaL
1994
American YouTuber and streamer (born 1994)
Laura Pigossi
1994
Brazilian tennis player (born 1994)
Laremy Tunsil
1994
American football player (born 1994)
Gael Bussa
1993
Congolese politician
Joey Florez
1993
American scholar
Charli XCX
1992
British singer (born 1992)
Evander Kane
1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Ima Bohush
1990
Belarusian tennis player (born 1990)
Vitalia Diatchenko
1990
Russian professional tennis player (born 1990)
Skylar Diggins
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Nacer Chadli
1989
Belgian footballer (born 1989)
Rob Kwiet
1988
Canadian ice hockey player
Golden Tate
1988
American football player (born 1988)
Mathieu Razanakolona
1986
Malagasy-Canadian alpine skier (born 1986)
Lily Gladstone
1986
American actress (born 1986)
Stephen Ferris
1985
Rugby union player from Northern Ireland
Davey Boy Smith Jr.
1985
Canadian professional wrestler (born 1985)
Giampaolo Pazzini
1984
Italian footballer (born 1984)
JD Vance
1984
Vice President of the United States since 2025
Michel Bastos
1983
Brazilian footballer (born 1983)
Huston Street
1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Hélder Postiga
1982
Portuguese footballer (born 1982)
Kerry Rhodes
1982
American football player and actor (born 1982)
Grady Sizemore
1982
American baseball player, coach and manager (born 1982)
Alexander Emelianenko
1981
Russian mixed martial artist
Tim Murtagh
1981
Irish cricketer
Ivica Banović
1980
Croatian footballer (born 1980)
Marco Bonura
1979
Italian retired footballer and manager
Reuben Kosgei
1979
Kenyan track and field athlete
Goran Gavrančić
1978
Serbian footballer
Matt Guerrier
1978
American baseball player (born 1978)
Deividas Šemberas
1978
Lithuanian footballer (born 1978)
Dragan Vukmir
1978
Serbian footballer
Edward Furlong
1977
American actor (born 1977)
Reyes Estévez
1976
Spanish middle-distance runner
Jay Heaps
1976
American soccer player
Michael Weiss (figure skater)
1976
American figure skater
Pritam Singh
1976
Singaporean politician
Sam Worthington
1976
Australian actor (born 1976)
Mohammad Zahid (cricketer)
1976
Pakistani cricketer
Mineiro (footballer, born 1975)
1975
Brazilian footballer
Huaiwen Xu
1975
Chinese-born German badminton player
Tamás Molnár
1975
Hungarian water polo player
Phil Williams (presenter)
1974
British radio presenter (born 1974)
Danie Keulder
1973
Namibian cricketer (born 1973)
Miguel Mendonça
1973
Anglo-Azorean writer (born 1973)
Susie O'Neill
1973
Australian swimmer (born 1973)
Mohamed Al-Deayea
1972
Saudi Arabian footballer (born 1972)
Muriel Bowser
1972
Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015
Jason Bell (rugby league)
1971
Australian rugby league footballer
Michael Hughes (footballer)
1971
Northern Irish footballer
Tony Amonte
1970
American ice hockey player
Kevin Smith
1970
American filmmaker and actor (born 1970)
Philo Wallace
1970
Barbadian cricketer (born 1970)
Cedric Ceballos
1969
American basketball player (born 1969)
Fernando Couto
1969
Portuguese footballer (born 1969)
Stefan Effenberg
1968
German footballer
Aaron Krickstein
1967
American tennis player (born 1967)
Aline Brosh McKenna
1967
American screenwriter, producer, and director
Takashi Iizuka
1966
Japanese professional wrestler
Grainne Leahy
1966
Irish cricketer
Tim Wakefield
1966
American baseball player (1966–2023)
Joe Hockey
1965
Australian politician (born 1965)
Hisanobu Watanabe
1965
Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1965)
Frank Biela
1964
German racing driver (born 1964)
Mary-Louise Parker
1964
American actress (born 1964)
Laura Bennett
1963
American architect and fashion designer
Uğur Tütüneker
1963
Turkish footballer and manager
Lee Mavers
1962
English musician (born 1962)
Cynthia Stevenson
1962
American actress (born 1962)
Pete de Freitas
1961
English musician and producer (1961–89)
Cui Jian
1961
Chinese singer-songwriter (born 1961)
Linda Fratianne
1960
American figure skater
Neal Morse
1960
American rock musician (born 1960)
David Yow
1960
American singer (born 1960)
Jim Doughan
1959
American actor, teacher and writer
Victoria Jackson
1959
American comedian (born 1959)
Johnny Kemp
1959
Bahamian singer and songwriter (1959–2015)
Apollonia Kotero
1959
American singer and actress (born 1959)
Jacky Rosen
1957
American politician (born 1957)
Fulvio Melia
1956
American physicist
Caleb Carr
1955
American military historian and author (1955–2024)
Tony Godden
1955
English footballer (born 1955)
Butch Vig
1955
American musician and record producer
Sammy McIlroy
1954
Northern Irish footballer
Donnie Munro
1953
Musical artist
Butch Patrick
1953
American actor and musician (born 1953)
Anthony Seldon
1953
British educator and historian (born 1953)
Alain Giresse
1952
French football manager (born 1952)
Andrew Gold
1951
American singer, musician and songwriter (1951–2011)
Steve Hillage
1951
British guitarist
Burgess Owens
1951
American politician & football player (born 1951)
Joe Lynn Turner
1951
American singer (born 1951)
Per Westerberg
1951
Swedish politician (born 1951)
Jussi Adler-Olsen
1950
Danish crime fiction writer
Ted Turner (guitarist)
1950
British guitarist (b. 1950)
James Fallows
1949
American writer and journalist (born 1949)
Bertalan Farkas
1949
Hungarian cosmonaut (born 1949)
Andy Fairweather Low
1948
Welsh singer and guitarist (born 1948)
Dennis Prager
1948
American conservative activist (born 1948)
Tapan Sarkar
1948
Indian-American electrical engineer (1948–2021)
James Street (American football)
1948
American football and baseball player (1948–2013)
Snoo Wilson
1948
English playwright and screenwriter (1948–2013)
Ruth Bakke
1947
Norwegian organist and composer
Lawrence Wright
1947
American writer and journalist (born 1947)
James Howe
1946
American children's writer
Joanna Cassidy
1945
American actress (born 1945)
Alex Jesaulenko
1945
Australian rules footballer (born 1945)
Bunker Roy
1945
Indian social activist and educator (born 1945)
Eric Simms (rugby league)
1945
Australia international rugby league footballer
Jim Capaldi
1944
English musician and songwriter (1944–2005)
Naná Vasconcelos
1944
Brazilian musician (1944–2016)
Herbert M. Allison
1943
American businessman (1943–2013)
Tom Burgmeier
1943
American baseball player (born 1943)
Jon R. Cavaiani
1943
US Army Medal of Honor recipient (1943–2014)
Rose Tremain
1943
English writer (born 1943)
Isabel Allende
1942
Chilean-American writer (born 1942)
Leo Beenhakker
1942
Dutch football coach (1942–2025)
Juan Formell
1942
Musical artist
Nell Irvin Painter
1942
American historian (born 1942)
Doris Coley
1941
American singer (1941–2000)
Jules A. Hoffmann
1941
French biologist (born 1941)
François Weyergans
1941
Belgian writer and director (1941–2019)
Angel Lagdameo
1940
Catholic Bishop of Jaro (1940–2022)
Beko Ransome-Kuti
1940
Nigerian doctor and activist (1940–2006)
Will Tura
1940
Belgian singer, musician, and composer
Benjamin Barber
1939
American political theorist (1939–2017)
Wes Craven
1939
American filmmaker (1939–2015)
John W. Snow
1939
73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
Dave Balon
1938
Ice hockey player
Pierre de Bané
1938
Canadian politician (1938–2019)
Terry Peck
1938
Falkland Islands soldier and police officer (1938–2006)
Ron Brierley
1937
New Zealand businessman
Billy Cannon
1937
American football player (1937–2018)
María Duval (Mexican actress)
1937
Mexican actress and singer
Garth Hudson
1937
Canadian multi-instrumentalist (1937–2025)
Tim Bowden
1937
Australian historian (1937–2024)
Anthony Payne
1936
English composer, critic and musicologist (1936–2021)
Hank Cochran
1935
American country musician (1935–2010)
Valery Bykovsky
1934
Soviet cosmonaut (1934–2019)
Ioannis Varvitsiotis
1933
Greek politician (born 1933)
Lamar Hunt
1932
American businessman (1932–2006)
Peter O'Toole
1932
British actor (1932–2013)
Pierre DuMaine
1931
American Roman Catholic bishop (1931–2019)
Eddie Fuller
1931
South African cricketer (1931–2008)
Karl Miller
1931
Scottish literary editor, critic and writer (1931–2014)
Viliam Schrojf
1931
Slovak footballer
Vali Myers
1930
Australian artist, dancer, bohemian and muse
Roy Crimmins
1929
Musical artist
John Gale (theatre producer)
1929
British theatre producer (1929–2025)
Vidya Charan Shukla
1929
Indian politician
David Waddington
1929
British politician (1929–2017)
K. M. Peyton
1929
British author (1929–2023)
Malcolm Hilton
1928
English cricketer (1928–1990)
Peter Swinnerton-Dyer
1927
British mathematician (1927–2018)
K. Arulanandan
1925
John Dexter
1925
English stage director (1925–1990)
John McCormack (ice hockey)
1925
Canadian ice hockey player
Jorge Rafael Videla
1925
President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981
James Baldwin
1924
American writer and activist (1924–1987)
Joe Harnell
1924
American composer, pianist, and arranger (1924–2005)
Carroll O'Connor
1924
American actor (1924–2001)
Shimon Peres
1923
Israeli politician (1923–2016)
Ike Williams
1923
American boxer (1923–1994)
Betsy Bloomingdale
1922
American socialite (1922–2016)
Geoffrey Dutton
1922
Australian writer and historian
Len Murray
1922
British politician and peer
George Wilson (artist)
1921
American comic illustrator
Louis Pauwels
1920
French journalist
Augustus Rowe
1920
Canadian physician and politician (1920–2013)
Nehemiah Persoff
1919
American actor and painter (1919–2022)
Wah Chang
1917
American designer (1917–2003)
Alfonso A. Ossorio
1916
Filipino American abstract expressionist artist
Gary Merrill
1915
American actor (1915–1990)
Félix Leclerc
1914
Quebecer singer-songwriter
Big Walter Price
1914
American singer-songwriter
Beatrice Straight
1914
American actress (1914–2001)
Xavier Thaninayagam
1913
Sri Lankan Tamil scholar
Palle Huld
1912
Danish actor
Håkon Stenstadvold
1912
Norwegian painter, illustrator, journalist, art critic and politician
Vladimir Žerjavić
1912
Croatian economist and demographer
Ann Dvorak
1911
American actress (1911–1979)
Roger MacDougall
1910
Scottish playwright, screenwriter and director (1910–1993)
Mary Hamman
1907
American writer and editor
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
1905
German composer
Myrna Loy
1905
American actress (1905–1993)
Ruth Nelson (actress)
1905
American actress
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria
1902
Head of the Coptic Church from 1959 to 1971
Mina Rees
1902
American mathematician (1902–1997)
Holling C. Holling
1900
American author and illustrator
Helen Morgan (singer)
1900
American jazz singer and actress
1800s
Charles Bennett (screenwriter)
1899
English screenwriter (1899–1995)
Ernő Nagy
1898
Hungarian fencer (1898–1977)
Karl-Otto Koch
1897
German SS officer (1897–1945)
Max Weber (Swiss politician)
1897
Swiss Federal Councilor (1951–1954)
Matt Henderson (cricketer)
1895
New Zealand cricketer
Bertha Lutz
1894
Brazilian scientist and politician (1894–1976)
Jack L. Warner
1892
Canadian-born American film executive (1892–1978)
Arthur Bliss
1891
English composer and conductor (1891–1975)
Viktor Zhirmunsky
1891
Soviet and Russian literary historian and linguist (1891–1971)
Margaret Lawrence (actress)
1889
American actress (1889–1929)
Oskar Anderson
1887
Russian-German statistician (1887–1960)
John Alexander Douglas McCurdy
1886
20th-century Canadian aviator; Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1947–52)
Rómulo Gallegos
1884
Venezuelan politician and writer (1884–1969)
Red Ames
1882
American baseball player (1882–1936)
Albert Bloch
1882
American artist (1882–1961)
Arthur Dove
1880
American abstract painter (1880–1946)
Aino Kallas
1878
Finnish-Estonian writer (1878–1956)
Ravishankar Shukla
1877
1st Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
Pingali Venkayya
1876
Indian freedom fighter (1876 - 1963)
George E. Stewart
1872
John Sloan
1871
American painter (1871–1951)
Marianne Weber
1870
German women's rights activist and legal historian
Constantine I of Greece
1868
King of Greece (r. 1913–17; 1920–22)
Ernest Dowson
1867
English writer (1867–1900)
Irving Babbitt
1865
American journalist
John Radecki
1865
Australian artist (1865–1955)
Prafulla Chandra Ray
1861
Bengali chemist, educationist, nationalist, industrialist and philanthropist
Elisha Gray
1835
American electrical engineer (1835–1901)
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
1834
French sculptor and painter (1834–1904)
Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque
1828
Spanish general
John Tyndall
1820
Irish physicist (1820–1893)
Adolf Friedrich von Schack
1815
German poet, historian of literature and art collector
Before 1800
Leopold Gmelin
1788
German chemist (1788–1853)
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
1754
French-American architect (1754–1825)
Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux
1740
French army commander
Lorenzo Ricci
1703
Superior General of the Society of Jesus
Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau
1702
German prince and regent
Mahmud I
1696
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
1674
Regent of France from 1715 to 1723
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
1672
Swiss paleontologist (1672–1733)
Jean-Baptiste du Casse
1646
French Navy officer, privateer, slave trader and colonial administrator
Estephan El Douaihy
1630
Head of the Maronite Church from 1670 to 1704
Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten
1627
Painter and writer from the Northern Netherlands
Saskia van Uylenburgh
1612
Wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł the Orphan
1549
Polish–Lithuanian nobleman (1549–1616)
Theodor Zwinger
1533
Swiss physician and scholar
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
1455
Elector of Brandenburg from 1486 to 1499
Kyawswa of Pagan
1260
King of Pagan (r. 1289 to 1297)