Births on 2 March
2000s
Prince Oscar, Duke of Skåne
2016
Swedish prince (born 2016)
Windy Zhan
2006
Hong Kong pop singer and actress (born 2006)
Brooks Barnhizer
2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
Bárbara Domingos
2000
Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
Illan Meslier
2000
French footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Isiah Pacheco
1999
Puerto Rican American football player (born 1999)
Iñaki Peña
1999
Spanish footballer (born 1999)
Tua Tagovailoa
1998
American football player (born 1998)
Becky G
1997
American singer and actress (born 1997)
Arike Ogunbowale
1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Jin Longguo
1996
Chinese singer (born 1996)
Miguel Andújar
1995
Dominican baseball player (born 1995)
Max Domi
1995
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Ange-Freddy Plumain
1995
Guadeloupean footballer (born 1995)
Nicolás Brussino
1993
Argentine basketball player (born 1993)
Adolis García
1993
Cuban baseball player (born 1993)
Charlie Coyle
1992
American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Nick Franklin (baseball)
1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Rauno Alliku
1990
Estonian footballer
Malcolm Butler
1990
American football player (born 1990)
Luke Combs
1990
American country singer (born 1990)
Tiger Shroff
1990
Indian actor (born 1990)
Toby Alderweireld
1989
Belgian footballer (born 1989)
Alemão (footballer, born 1989)
1989
Brazilian footballer (born 1989)
Nathalie Emmanuel
1989
English actress (born 1989)
Marcel Hirscher
1989
Austrian-born Dutch alpine skier (born 1989)
André Santos (footballer, born 1989)
1989
Portuguese footballer
Shane Vereen
1989
American football player (born 1989)
Chris Woakes
1989
English cricketer (born 1989)
Édgar Andrade
1988
Mexican footballer (born 1988)
James Arthur
1988
English singer and songwriter (born 1988)
Laura Kaeppeler
1988
Miss America 2012
Matthew Mitcham
1988
Australian diver and trampoline gymnast
Dexter Pittman
1988
American basketball player (born 1988)
Geert Arend Roorda
1988
Dutch football player and manager (born 1988)
Jonas Jerebko
1987
Swedish basketball player (born 1987)
Jonathan D'Aversa
1986
Canadian ice hockey player
Jason Smith (basketball, born 1986)
1986
American basketball player
Reggie Bush
1985
American football player (born 1985)
Robert Iler
1985
American actor (born 1985)
Suso Santana
1985
Spanish footballer
Jonathan Ericsson
1984
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1984)
Deuce (musician)
1983
American musician (born 1983)
Lisandro López (footballer, born 1983)
1983
Argentine footballer
Jay McClement
1983
Ice hockey player
Glen Perkins
1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Ryan Shannon
1983
American ice hockey player (born 1983)
Kevin Kurányi
1982
German footballer (born 1982)
Henrik Lundqvist
1982
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1982)
Joel Lundqvist
1982
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1982)
Ben Roethlisberger
1982
American football player (born 1982)
Corey Webster
1982
American football player (born 1982)
Lance Cade
1981
American professional wrestler (1981–2010)
Bryce Dallas Howard
1981
American actress and director (born 1981)
Chris Barker
1980
English footballer (1980–2020)
Rebel Wilson
1980
Australian actress (born 1980)
Damien Duff
1979
Irish footballer (born 1979)
Jim Troughton
1979
English cricketer and coach
Nicky Weaver
1979
English footballer
Jim Chalmers
1978
Australian politician (born 1978)
Gabby Eigenmann
1978
Filipino actor, singer, model and television presenter (born 1978)
Lee Hodges (footballer, born 1978)
1978
English footballer and manager
Sebastian Janikowski
1978
Polish-born American football player (born 1978)
Tomáš Kaberle
1978
Czech ice hockey player (born 1978)
Dominique Canty
1977
American basketball player (born 1977)
Chris Martin
1977
English singer-songwriter (born 1977)
Heather McComb
1977
American actress (born 1977)
Steve Parry (swimmer)
1977
English swimmer
Andrew Strauss
1977
English cricketer (born 1977)
Daryl Gibson
1975
NZ international rugby union player
Hayley Lewis
1974
Australian swimmer (born 1974)
Dejan Bodiroga
1973
Serbian basketball player (born 1973)
Trevor Sinclair
1973
English footballer
Mauricio Pochettino
1972
Argentine football manager (born 1972)
Roman Čechmánek
1971
Czech ice hockey player (1971–2023)
Dave Gorman
1971
English comedian and presenter
Method Man
1971
American rapper (born 1971)
James Purnell
1970
British executive and former politician
Ciriaco Sforza
1970
Swiss footballer (born 1970)
Wibi Soerjadi
1970
Musical artist
Daniel Craig
1968
English actor (born 1968)
Ann Leckie
1966
American science fiction author (born 1966)
Simon Reevell
1966
British barrister and politician
Ron Gant
1965
American baseball player and news anchor (born 1965)
Lembit Öpik
1965
British politician
Laird Hamilton
1964
American big-wave surfer
Mike Von Erich
1964
American professional wrestler (1964–1987)
Anthony Albanese
1963
Prime Minister of Australia since 2022
Alvin Youngblood Hart
1963
American singer (born 1963)
Jon Bon Jovi
1962
American rock musician (born 1962)
Paul Farrelly
1962
British politician (born 1962)
Tom Nordlie
1962
Norwegian football coach (born 1962)
Brendan O'Connor (politician)
1962
Australian politician (born 1962)
Raimo Summanen
1962
Finnish ice hockey player and coach
Gabriele Tarquini
1962
Italian racing driver (born 1962)
Simone Young
1961
Australian conductor
Larry Stewart
1959
American country music singer (born 1959)
Kevin Curren
1958
South African tennis player (born 1958)
Ian Woosnam
1958
Welsh professional golfer (born 1958)
Mark Dean (computer scientist)
1957
American inventor and computer engineer
Hossein Dehghan
1957
Iranian politician and former military officer
Dito Tsintsadze
1957
Georgian film director
John Cowsill
1956
American musician
Mark Evans (musician)
1956
Australian bassist (born 1956)
Dale Bozzio
1955
American rock and pop vocalist
Jay Osmond
1955
American musician (born 1955)
Ken Salazar
1955
American politician and diplomat (born 1955)
Steve Small
1955
Australian cricketer (born 1955)
Ed Johnstone
1954
Canadian ice hockey player
Russ Feingold
1953
American politician (born 1953)
Kazuo Kitagawa
1953
Japanese politician
Mark Evanier
1952
American comic book and television writer
Laraine Newman
1952
American actress, comedian and writer (born 1952)
Karen Carpenter
1950
American singer and drummer (1950–1983)
Larry Carlton
1948
American guitarist (born 1948)
Rory Gallagher
1948
Irish guitarist (1948–1995)
Jeff Kennett
1948
Australian politician (born 1948)
Carmen Lawrence
1948
Australian politician and academic (born 1948)
John Dawkins
1947
Australian politician (born 1947)
Nelson Ned
1947
Brazilian singer-songwriter (1947–2014)
Harry Redknapp
1947
English football player and manager (born 1947)
Derek Watkins (trumpeter)
1945
Musical artist
Leif Segerstam
1944
Finnish conductor and composer (1944–2024)
George Layton
1943
British actor, director and author (born 1942)
Peter Straub
1943
American novelist and poet (1943–2022)
Robert Williams (artist)
1943
American painter and cartoonist
John Irving
1942
American and Canadian novelist and screenwriter (born 1942)
Claude Larose (ice hockey, born 1942)
1942
Canadian ice hockey player
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
1942
Prime Minister of Iran from 1981 to 1989
Lou Reed
1942
American rock musician (1942–2013)
Derek Woodley
1942
English footballer
John Cornell
1941
Australian film producer and businessman (1941–2021)
David Satcher
1941
American physician and public health administrator (born 1941)
Billy McNeill
1940
Scottish footballer and manager (1940–2019)
Jan Howard Finder
1939
American science fiction fan and writer; academic administrator
Clark Gesner
1938
Musical artist
Ricardo Lagos
1938
President of Chile from 2000 to 2006
Lawrence Payton
1938
American singer-songwriter (1938–1997)
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
1937
President of Algeria from 1999 to 2019
Haroon Ahmed
1936
British-Pakistani scientist (1936–2024)
John Tusa
1936
British arts administrator and radio and television journalist
Gene Stallings
1935
American football player and coach (born 1935)
Howard Cassady
1934
American football player (1934–2019)
Dottie Rambo
1934
American singer and songwriter
Leo and Diane Dillon
1933
American husband-and-wife illustrator duo
Gun Hägglund
1932
Swedish television host and translator
Mikhail Gorbachev
1931
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
John Cullum
1930
American actor and singer (b. 1930)
Emma Penella
1930
Spanish actress
Tom Wolfe
1930
American author and journalist (1930–2018)
Roger Walkowiak
1927
French cyclist
Bernard Agré
1926
Ivorian Catholic prelate
Murray Rothbard
1926
American economist (1926–1995)
Cal Abrams
1924
American baseball player (1924–1997)
Renos Apostolidis
1924
Greek writer, philologist and literary critic
Basil Hume
1923
English Catholic cardinal (1923–1999)
Robert H. Michel
1923
American politician (1923–2017)
Dave Strack
1923
American college sports coach and administrator (1923–2014)
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
1922
American jazz saxophonist (1922–1986)
Bill Quackenbush
1922
Canadian ice hockey player
Frances Spence
1922
American physicist and computer scientist
Kazimierz Górski
1921
Polish footballer (1921–2006)
Ernst Haas
1921
American photographer
Jennifer Jones
1919
American actress (1919–2009)
Eddie Lawrence
1919
American dramatist (1919–2014)
Tamara Toumanova
1919
Georgian-American ballerina (1919–1996)
Desi Arnaz
1917
Cuban-American musician, actor, producer and television studio head (1917–1986)
David Goodis
1917
American novelist (1917–1967)
Jim Konstanty
1917
American baseball player (1917–1976)
John Burton (diplomat)
1915
Australian diplomat and academic (1915–2010)
Martin Ritt
1914
American film and theatre director (1914–1990)
Godfried Bomans
1913
Dutch author (1913–1971)
Mort Cooper
1913
American baseball player (1913–1958)
Henry Katzman
1912
American musician and painter
Mel Ott
1909
American baseball player and manager (1909–1958)
Walter Bruch
1908
German electrical engineer and pioneer of German television
Marc Blitzstein
1905
American composer (1905–1964(
Geoffrey Grigson
1905
English poet, writer, critic and naturalist (1905–1985)
Dr. Seuss
1904
American author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
Moe Berg
1902
American baseball player and spy (1902–1972)
Edward Condon
1902
American nuclear physicist (1902–1974)
Grete Hermann
1901
German mathematician (1901–1984)
Kurt Weill
1900
German composer (1900–1950)
1800s
Willis H. O'Brien
1886
American special effects technician and animator (1886–1962)
Kurt Grelling
1886
German logician and philosopher (1886–1942)
René Vallon
1880
French aviator (1880–1911)
James A. Gilmore
1876
American baseball executive (1876–1947)
Pope Pius XII
1876
Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
Julien Félix
1869
Margaret Sibella Brown
1866
Canadian amateur bryologist (1866–1961)
John Jay Chapman
1862
American author
Susanna M. Salter
1860
American politician and activist
Sholem Aleichem
1859
Russian Jewish author and playwright (1859–1916)
Robert Means Thompson
1849
American naval officer and businessman
Marie Roze
1846
French operatic soprano (1846–1926)
Carl Jacobsen
1842
Danish brewer, art collector and philanthropist
Henry Billings Brown
1836
US Supreme Court justice from 1891 to 1906
Carl Schurz
1829
US Secretary of the Interior, Senator, German revolutionary (1829–1906)
Bedřich Smetana
1824
Czech composer (1824–1884)
Multatuli
1820
Dutch writer
János Arany
1817
Hungarian poet (1817–1882)
Alexander Bullock
1816
19th-century American politician
Pope Leo XIII
1810
Head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903
Yevgeny Baratynsky
1800
Russian poet
Before 1800
Sam Houston
1793
American general and statesman (1793–1863)
Joel Roberts Poinsett
1779
American politician and diplomat (1779–1851)
Louis-Gabriel Suchet
1770
French Marshal
DeWitt Clinton
1769
American politician (1769-1828)
Camille Desmoulins
1760
18th-century French journalist, politician, and revolutionary
Nicholas Pocock
1740
English artist (1740–1821)
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
1705
British barrister, politician and judge (1705–1793)
Carlo Gimach
1651
Maltese architect, engineer and poet (1651–1730)
Cornelis Speelman
1628
Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (1628–1684)
George Sandys
1577
English traveller, colonist, poet, translator
Thomas Bodley
1545
English diplomat and scholar
Franz von Sickingen
1481
Knight of the Holy Roman Empire (1481–1523)
Pope Adrian VI
1459
Head of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523
Johannes Engel
1453
German astronomer and physician
Countess Palatine Margaret of Mosbach
1432
Countess consort of Hanau
John II, Duke of Alençon
1409
15th-century Duke of Alençon
Robert II of Scotland
1316
King of Scots from 1371 to 1390
Benedict of Nursia
480
6th-century Italian Catholic saint and monk