Births on 2 July
1900s
Julia Grabher
1996
Austrian tennis player (born 1996)
Ryan Murphy (swimmer)
1995
American swimmer (born 1995)
Henrik Kristoffersen
1994
Norwegian alpine skier (born 1994)
Derrick White
1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Vince Staples
1993
American rapper and actor (born 1993)
Saweetie
1993
American rapper (born 1993)
Madison Chock
1992
American ice dancer (born 1992)
Jānis Timma
1992
Latvian basketball player (1992–2024)
Kayla Harrison
1990
American Olympic judoka and mixed martial artist (born 1990)
Merritt Mathias
1990
American soccer player (born 1990)
Morag McLellan
1990
Scottish field hockey player
Margot Robbie
1990
Australian actress and producer (born 1990)
Danny Rose (footballer, born 1990)
1990
English footballer (born 1990)
Bill Tupou
1990
Tonga international rugby league footballer (born 1990)
Nadezhda Grishaeva
1989
Russian basketball player (born 1989)
Alex Morgan
1989
American soccer player (born 1989)
Lee Chung-yong
1988
South Korean footballer (born 1988)
Esteban Granero
1987
Spanish footballer (born 1987)
Brett Cecil
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Lindsay Lohan
1986
American actress and singer (born 1986)
Chad Henne
1985
American football player (born 1985)
Ashley Tisdale
1985
American actress and singer (born 1985)
Thomas Kortegaard
1984
Danish footballer (born 1984)
Johnny Weir
1984
American figure skater (born 1984)
Michelle Branch
1983
American musician (born 1983)
Kyle Hogg
1983
English cricketer (born 1983)
Nathan Ellington
1981
English footballer (born 1981)
Carlos Rogers (American football)
1981
American football player (born 1981)
Nyjer Morgan
1980
American baseball player (born 1980)
Walter Davis (triple jumper)
1979
American triple jumper (born 1979)
Ahmed al-Ghamdi
1979
Saudi terrorist and 9/11 hijacker (1979–2001)
Sam Hornish Jr.
1979
American racing driver (born 1979)
Joe Thornton
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Jüri Ratas
1978
18th Prime Minister of Estonia (born 1978)
Deniz Barış
1977
Turkish footballer (born 1977)
Krisztián Lisztes (footballer, born 1976)
1976
Hungarian footballer (born 1976)
Tomáš Vokoun
1976
Czech ice hockey player (born 1976)
Ľudovít Ódor
1976
Prime Minister of Slovakia in 2023
Éric Dazé
1975
American ice hockey player (born 1975)
Kristen Michal
1975
Prime Minister of Estonia since 2024
Elizabeth Reaser
1975
American actress (born 1975)
Stefan Terblanche
1975
South African rugby union player
Sean Casey (baseball)
1974
American baseball player (born 1974)
Darren O'Shaughnessy
1972
Irish novelist
Troy Brown
1971
American football player and coach (born 1971)
Bryan Redpath
1971
Scotland international rugby union player (born 1971)
Derrick Adkins
1970
American hurdler (born 1970)
Steve Morrow
1970
Irish footballer and manager (born 1970)
Tim Rodber
1969
British Lions & England international rugby union player (born 1969)
Norbert Röttgen
1965
German politician (born 1965)
Jose Canseco
1964
Cuban baseball player (born 1964)
Ozzie Canseco
1964
Cuban baseball player (born 1964)
Joe Magrane
1964
American baseball player and analyst (born 1964)
Neil Williams (cricketer)
1962
English cricketer (1962–2006)
Clark Kellogg
1961
American basketball player (born 1961)
Erwin Olaf
1959
Dutch photographer (1959–2023)
Pavan Malhotra
1958
Indian actor (born 1958)
Bret Hart
1957
Canadian professional wrestler (born 1957)
Jüri Raidla
1957
Estonian lawyer (born 1957)
Purvis Short
1957
American basketball player (born 1957)
Jerry Hall
1956
American model and actress (born 1956)
Kim Carr
1955
Australian politician (born 1955)
Chris Huhne
1954
British independent politician (born 1954)
Wendy Schaal
1954
American actress (born 1954)
Sylvia Rivera
1952
American LGBT rights activist (1951–2002)
Anatoliy Solomin
1952
Soviet race walker (born 1952)
Lynne Brindley
1950
British professional librarian (born 1950)
Jon Trickett
1950
British Labour politician (born 1950)
Greg Brown (folk musician)
1949
American folk musician (July 2, 1949)
Robert Paquette
1949
Canadian folk singer-songwriter (born 1949)
Mutula Kilonzo
1948
Kenyan lawyer and politician (born 1948)
Larry David
1947
American comedian, writer and actor (born 1947)
Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton
1947
British Labour Party politician (born 1947)
Richard Axel
1946
American molecular biologist (born 1946)
Ron Silver
1946
American actor and activist (1946–2009)
Larry Lake (musician)
1943
Canadian trumpet player and composer (1943–2013)
John Eekelaar
1942
South African legal scholar (born 1942)
Vicente Fox
1942
President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006
William Guest (singer)
1941
American soul singer (1941–2015)
Wendell Mottley
1941
Trinidad & Tobago economist, politician and athlete (born 1941)
Kenneth Clarke
1940
British politician life peer (born 1940)
Georgi Ivanov (cosmonaut)
1940
Bulgarian cosmonaut (born 1940)
Mike Castle
1939
American politician (1939–2025)
Alexandros Panagoulis
1939
20th-century Greek politician and poet
John H. Sununu
1939
American politician (born 1939)
Paul Williams (The Temptations singer)
1939
American singer (1939–1973)
David Owen
1938
British politician (born 1938)
Polly Holliday
1937
American actress (1937–2025)
Richard Petty
1937
American racing driver (born 1937)
Omar Suleiman (politician)
1936
Vice President of Egypt from January 2011 to February 2011
Gilbert Kalish
1935
American pianist (born 1935)
Tom Springfield
1934
English musician, songwriter and record producer (1934–2022)
Peter Desbarats
1933
Canadian author, playwright and journalist (1933–2014)
Kenny Wharram
1933
Canadian ice hockey player (1933–2017)
Dave Thomas (businessman)
1932
Founder of Wendy's (1932–2002)
Ahmad Jamal
1930
American jazz pianist (1930–2023)
Carlos Menem
1930
President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999
Imelda Marcos
1929
First Lady of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986
Lee Allen (musician)
1927
American tenor saxophone player (1927–1994)
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern
1927
British advocate (born 1927)
Brock Peters
1927
American actor (1927–2005)
Octavian Paler
1926
Romanian writer and politician (1926–2007)
Medgar Evers
1925
American civil rights activist (1925–1963)
Patrice Lumumba
1925
Congolese politician and independence leader (1925–1961)
Marvin Rainwater
1925
American country music-rockabilly singer-songwriter (1925–2013)
Chia-ying Yeh
1924
Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist (1924–2024)
Cyril M. Kornbluth
1923
American science fiction author (1923–1958)
Wisława Szymborska
1923
Polish poet and Nobel laureate (1923–2012)
Pierre Cardin
1922
Italian-French fashion designer (1922–2020)
Paula Valenska
1922
Czech actress (1922–1994)
John Kneubuhl
1920
American screenwriter (1920–1992)
Jean Craighead George
1919
American writer (1919–2012)
Athos Bulcão
1918
Brazilian painter and sculptor (1918–2008)
Leonard J. Arrington
1917
American Mormon historian (1917–1999)
Ken Curtis
1916
American actor and singer (1916–1991)
Hans-Ulrich Rudel
1916
German military officer (1916-1982)
Reino Kangasmäki
1916
Finnish wrestler (1916–2010)
Zélia Gattai
1916
Brazilian photographer and author (1916–2008)
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington
1915
British peer and army officer (1915–2014)
Frederick Fennell
1914
American conductor (1914–2004)
Mário Schenberg
1914
Brazilian electrical engineer, physicist, art critic and writer (1914–1990)
Erich Topp
1914
German WW2 U-Boat commander (1914–2005)
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff
1913
British historian and Conservative peer (1913–1999)
Reg Parnell
1911
British racing driver (1911–1964)
Thurgood Marshall
1908
US Supreme Court justice from 1967 to 1991
Hans Bethe
1906
German-American physicist (1906–2005)
Károly Kárpáti
1906
Hungarian wrestler (1906–1996)
Séra Martin
1906
French middle-distance runner (1906–1993)
René Lacoste
1904
French and Jamaican tennis player (1904–1996)
Alec Douglas-Home
1903
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964
Olav V
1903
King of Norway from 1957 to 1991
K. Kanapathypillai
1902
Sri Lankan Tamil academic and author (1902–1968)
Tyrone Guthrie
1900
English actor and director (1900–1971)
1800s
Ralph Hancock (landscape gardener)
1893
British landscape gardener (1893–1950)
Alfons Maria Jakob
1884
German neurologist (1884–1931)
Royal Hurlburt Weller
1881
American politician and attorney (1881–1929)
Hermann Hesse
1877
German writer (1877–1962)
Rinaldo Cuneo
1877
American painter (1877–1939)
Harriet Brooks
1876
Canadian nuclear physicist (1876–1933)
Wilhelm Cuno
1876
Chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923
Liane de Pougy
1869
French courtesan, dancer and novelist (1869–1950)
Lily Braun
1865
German feminist writer (1865–1916)
William Henry Bragg
1862
British X-ray crystallographer (1862–1942)
Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Bavaria
1849
Queen of Bavaria from 1913 to 1918
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack
1834
Dutch legal scholar, economist and historian (1834 - 1917)
Émile Ollivier
1825
French statesman (1825–1913)
Charles Tupper
1821
Father of Confederation, Prime Minister of Canada in 1896
George Law Curry
1820
American politician and journalist (1820–1878)
Juan N. Méndez
1820
President of Mexico from 1876 to 1877
Charles-Louis Hanon
1819
French piano teacher and composer (1819–1900)
Before 1800
Francisco Javier Echeverría
1797
President of Mexico in 1841
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
1724
German poet (1724–1803)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
1714
Opera composer (1714–1787)
Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal)
1667
Italian Catholic cardinal (1667–1740)
Samuel Penhallow
1665
Cornish American colonist and historian (1665–1726)
Arp Schnitger
1648
German organ builder (1648–1719)
Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham
1647
English politician and peer (1647–1730)
Theodoor Rombouts
1597
Flemish painter (1597–1637)
Elizabeth Tudor (1492–1495)
1492
English princess (1492–1495)
Thomas Cranmer
1489
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1533 to 1555
Jacopo Sansovino
1486
Italian architect and sculptor (1486–1570)
Louis V, Elector Palatine
1478
Elector Palatine from 1508 to 1544
Valentinian III
419
Western Roman emperor from 425 to 455