Births on 2 May
2000s
Princess Charlotte of Wales (born 2015)
2015
British princess
1900s
BamBam
1997
Thai rapper and singer (born 1997)
Cherprang Areekul
1996
Thai idol (born 1996)
Julian Brandt
1996
German footballer (born 1996)
Schuyler Bailar
1996
American swimmer and LGBTQ rights advocate
Lucy Dacus
1995
American singer-songwriter (born 1995)
Owain Doull
1993
British road cyclist
Isyana Sarasvati
1993
Indonesian singer-songwriter (born 1993)
Huang Zitao
1993
Chinese rapper (born 1993)
Sunmi
1992
South Korean singer
María Teresa Torró Flor
1992
Spanish tennis player (born 1992)
Jeong Jin-woon
1991
South Korean singer and actor
Jonathan Villar
1991
Dominican baseball player (born 1991)
Kay Panabaker
1990
American zookeeper and former actress (born 1990)
Paul George
1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Neftalí Feliz
1988
Dominican baseball player (born 1988)
Saara Aalto
1987
Finnish singer, songwriter, and voice actress
Nana Kitade
1987
Japanese singer-songwriter and musician (born 1987)
Pat McAfee
1987
American sports analyst and football player (born 1987)
Kris Russell
1987
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Yasir Shah
1986
Pakistani cricketer
Lily Allen
1985
English singer-songwriter and actress (born 1985)
Kyle Busch
1985
American racing driver (born 1985)
Ashley Harkleroad
1985
American tennis player (born 1985)
Sarah Hughes
1985
American figure skater (born 1985)
Saulius Mikoliūnas
1984
Lithuanian footballer (born 1984)
Thabo Sefolosha
1984
Swiss basketball player (born 1984)
Alessandro Diamanti
1983
Italian footballer (born 1983)
Maynor Figueroa
1983
Honduran footballer (born 1983)
Tina Maze
1983
Slovenian alpine skier (born 1983)
Dani Sordo
1983
Spanish rally driver (born 1983)
Johan Botha (cricketer)
1982
South African cricketer
Robert Buckley
1981
American actor
Chris Kirkland
1981
English footballer (born 1981)
Tiago Mendes
1981
Portuguese footballer (born 1981)
Tim Borowski
1980
German footballer (born 1980)
Ellie Kemper
1980
American actress and comedian (born 1980)
Zat Knight
1980
English footballer (born 1980)
Troy Murphy
1980
American basketball player (born 1980)
Brad Richards
1980
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1980)
Kumail Nanjiani
1978
Pakistani-American comedian and actor (born 1978)
Jeff Gutt
1976
American musician
David Beckham
1975
English footballer (born 1975)
Joe Wilkinson
1975
English comedian (born 1975)
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
1973
German film director and screenwriter (born 1973)
Dwayne Johnson
1972
American actor and professional wrestler (born 1972)
Musashimaru Kōyō
1971
American sumo wrestler
Brian Lara
1969
Trinidadian cricketer (born 1969)
Jeff Agoos
1968
American soccer player and executive (born 1968)
Ziana Zain
1968
Malaysian singer and actress (born 1968)
Mika Brzezinski
1967
American television host (born 1967)
David Rocastle
1967
English pro footballer (1967–2001)
Belinda Stronach
1966
Canadian politician (born 1966)
Gina Yoginda
1963
Indonesian military officer (born 1963)
Michael Grandage
1962
British theatre director (born 1962)
Jimmy White
1962
English professional snooker player
Stephen Daldry
1960
British director
Royce Simmons
1960
Australian rugby league footballer and coach
Tony Wakeford
1959
British musician
Yasushi Akimoto
1958
Japanese producer and lyricist (born 1958)
David O'Leary
1958
Football manager and Republic of Ireland international footballer
Régis Labeaume
1956
Canadian businessman, writer and politician (born 1956)
Willie Miller
1955
Scottish footballer & manager (born 1955)
Donatella Versace
1955
Italian fashion luxury designer (born 1955)
Elliot Goldenthal
1954
American composer (born 1954)
Dawn Primarolo
1954
British Labour politician and life peer
Valery Gergiev
1953
Russian conductor (born 1953)
Jamaal Wilkes
1953
American basketball player (born 1953)
Chris Anderson (rugby)
1952
Australian RL coach & former Australia international rugby league footballer
Christine Baranski
1952
American actress (born 1952)
John Glascock
1951
English musician (1951–1979)
Frank Curry
1950
Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1950–2022)
Duncan Gay
1950
Australian politician (born 1950)
Lou Gramm
1950
American singer (born 1950)
Alan Titchmarsh
1949
British gardener, broadcaster, and writer (born 1949)
Alfons Schuhbeck
1949
German chef, TV cook and businessman
Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers
1948
American country music group
James Dyson
1947
British inventor and businessman (born 1947)
Lesley Gore
1946
American singer (1946–2015)
David Suchet
1946
English actor (born 1946)
Judge Dread
1945
English reggae and ska musician (1945–1998)
Bianca Jagger
1945
Nicaraguan human rights advocate and actress (born 1945)
Robert G. W. Anderson
1944
British museum curator and historian of chemistry (born 1944)
Mustafa Nadarević
1943
Bosnian actor (1943–2020)
Jacques Rogge
1942
President of the IOC from 2001 to 2013
Clay Carroll
1941
American baseball player (born 1941)
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
1938
King of Lesotho (1966–90; 1995–96)
Lorenzo Music
1937
American actor, producer, and writer (1937–2001)
Norma Aleandro
1936
Argentine actress (b. 1936)
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
1936
British pop singer (born 1936)
Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935)
1935
Spanish footballer (1935–2023)
Faisal II
1935
King of Iraq from 1939 to 1958
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
1933
British life peer and retired barrister and judge (born 1933)
Phil Bruns
1931
American actor (1931–2012)
Yoram Kaniuk
1930
Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theatre critic (1930–2013)
Marco Pannella
1930
Italian politician and journalist (1930–2016)
Édouard Balladur
1929
French politician (born 1929)
Link Wray
1929
American guitarist (1929–2005)
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
1929
King of Bhutan from 1952 to 1972
Ray Barrett
1927
Australian actor (1927–2009)
Michael Broadbent
1927
British wine critic (1927–2020)
John Neville (actor)
1925
English actor (1925–2011)
Theodore Bikel
1924
Austrian-American actor and folk musician (1924–2015)
Hugh Cortazzi
1924
British diplomat
Patrick Hillery
1923
President of Ireland from 1976 to 1990
Roscoe Lee Browne
1922
American actor and director (1922–2007)
A. M. Rosenthal
1922
American journalist (1922–2006)
B. B. Lal
1921
Indian writer and archaeologist (1921–2022)
Satyajit Ray
1921
Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)
Joe "Mr Piano" Henderson
1920
Scottish pianist (1920–1980)
Văn Tiến Dũng
1917
Vietnamese general (1917–2002)
Doris Fisher (songwriter)
1915
American singer and songwriter (1915–2003)
Peggy Mount
1915
English actress (1915–2001)
Axel Springer
1912
German publisher (1912–1985)
Marten Toonder
1912
Dutch comics artist (1912–2005)
Nigel Patrick
1912
English actor and stage director (1912–1981)
Alexander Bonnyman Jr.
1910
Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1910–1943)
Edmund Bacon (architect)
1910
American urban planner and architect (1910–2005)
Pinky Lee
1907
American burlesque comic and host of a children's television program
Charlotte Armstrong
1905
American writer (1905–1969)
Benjamin Spock
1903
American pediatrician, political activist, and writer (1903–1998)
Brian Aherne
1902
English actor (1902–1986)
1800s
Henry Hall (bandleader)
1898
English bandleader (1898–1989)
J. Fred Coots
1897
American songwriter (1897–1985)
Lorenz Hart
1895
American lyricist (1895–1943)
Norma Talmadge
1894
American actress (1894–1957)
Joseph Henry Woodger
1894
Manfred von Richthofen
1892
German World War I flying ace (1892–1918)
E. E. Smith
1890
Food engineer and science-fiction author (1890–1965)
Ki Hajar Dewantara
1889
Indonesian activist, politician and educator (1889–1959)
Vernon and Irene Castle
1887
British-American ballroom dancing duo
Eddie Collins
1887
American baseball player (1887–1951)
Gottfried Benn
1886
German writer and physician (1886–1956)
Hedda Hopper
1885
American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)
John Boland (South Dakota politician)
1884
American politician (1884–1958)
Isabel González
1882
Puerto Rican activist
Harry J. Capehart
1881
American lawyer, politician, and businessperson (1881–1955)
Bill Horr
1880
American athlete and football coach (1880–1955)
James F. Byrnes
1879
American politician (1882–1972)
Jurgis Baltrušaitis
1873
Lithuanian poet (1897–1944)
Ichiyō Higuchi
1872
Japanese writer (1872–1896)
Giuseppe Morello
1867
Italian-American crime boss
Clyde Fitch
1865
American playwright (1865–1909)
John Scott Haldane
1860
British physiologist and decompression researcher (1860–1936)
Theodor Herzl
1860
Father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
Jerome K. Jerome
1859
English writer and humorist (1859–1927)
Elijah McCoy
1844
Canadian inventor and engineer (1844–1929)
Otto Staudinger
1830
German entomologist and a natural history dealer
Désiré Charnay
1828
French archaeologist and explorer (1828–1915)
Jane Miller Thengberg
1822
Swedish-Scottish teacher
William Buell Richards
1815
Chief Justice of Canada from 1875 to 1879
Caroline Leigh Gascoigne
1813
English poet and novelist (1813–1883)
Hans Christian Lumbye
1810
Danish composer (1810–1874)
Catherine Labouré
1806
French Daughter of Charity and saint
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
1802
German chemist and physicist (1802–1870)
Before 1800
Abraham Pineo Gesner
1797
Inventor of kerosene (1797–1864)
Henrik Steffens
1773
Norwegian philosopher, theologian, scientist and poet
Novalis
1772
German poet and writer (1772–1801)
Vicente Martín y Soler
1754
Spanish composer (1754–1806)
Ludwig August Lebrun
1752
German oboist and composer
John André
1750
British Army officer (1750–1780)
Elias Boudinot
1740
American politician, Founding Father of the United States (1740-1821)
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
1737
Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1782 to 1783
Catherine the Great
1729
Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796
Jean-Baptiste Barrière
1707
French cellist and composer (1707–1747)
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger
1702
German Lutheran theologian and theosopher (1702-1782)
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni
1695
Italian painter (1695–1766)
Alessandro Scarlatti
1660
Italian Baroque composer (1660–1725)
Athanasius Kircher
1601
German Jesuit scholar and polymath (1602–1680)
Tokugawa Hidetada
1579
Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military ruler of Japan from 1605 to 1623
Sebald de Weert
1567
Flemish captain and vice-admiral Dutch East India Company
William Camden
1551
English antiquarian (1551–1623)
Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
1533
Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels
1476
Bohemian aristocrat (1476–1536)
Eleanor of Viseu
1458
Queen of Portugal from 1481 to 1495
René II, Duke of Lorraine
1451
Duke of Lorraine from 1473 to 1508
Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
1402
Queen of Portugal from 1433 to 1438
Yongle Emperor
1360
Emperor of China from 1402 to 1424