Births on 2 October
2000s
Sam Konstas
2005
Australian cricketer (born 2005)
Jacob Sartorius
2002
American social media personality (born 2002)
Quadeca
2000
American rapper, producer, and YouTuber (born 2000)
1900s
Tom Trbojevic
1996
Australia international rugby league footballer
Tepai Moeroa
1995
Cook Islands international rugby league & union footballer
Lance McCullers Jr.
1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Alisson Becker
1992
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
Shane Larkin
1992
American-Turkish basketball player (born 1992)
Nicol Ruprecht
1992
Austrian rhythmic gymnast
Roberto Firmino
1991
Brazilian footballer (born 1991)
Samantha Barks
1990
British actress (born 1990)
Frederik Andersen
1989
Danish ice hockey player (born 1989)
Josh Bailey
1989
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1989)
Aaron Hicks
1989
American baseball player (born 1989)
George Nash (rower)
1989
British rower
Brittany Howard
1988
American musician (born 1988)
Joe Ingles
1987
Australian basketball player (born 1987)
Phil Kessel
1987
American ice hockey player (born 1987)
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
1987
American racing driver (born 1987)
Camilla Belle
1986
American actress (born 1986)
Çağlar Birinci
1985
Turkish footballer
Marion Bartoli
1984
French tennis player (born 1984)
Tyson Chandler
1982
American basketball player (born 1982)
Esra Gümüş
1982
Turkish volleyball player
Luke Wilkshire
1981
Australian association football player and coach
Ayumi Hamasaki
1978
Japanese singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1978)
Didier Défago
1977
Swiss alpine skier
Mark Chilton
1976
English cricketer (born 1976)
Bjarke Ingels
1974
Danish architect (b.1974)
Sam Roberts (singer-songwriter)
1974
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1974)
Paul Teutul Jr.
1974
American motorcycle designer and builder
Melissa Harris-Perry
1973
Scholar and American journalist
Lene Nystrøm
1973
Norwegian singer-songwriter
Efren Ramirez
1973
American actor (born 1973)
Scott Schoeneweis
1973
American baseball player (born 1973)
Aaron McKie
1972
American basketball player and coach (born 1972)
Tiffany Darwish
1971
American singer (born 1971)
Jim Root
1971
American musician (born 1971)
Chris Savino
1971
American comic book artist, writer and animator (born 1971)
Eddie Guardado
1970
American baseball player (born 1970)
Patricia O'Callaghan
1970
Musical artist
Kelly Ripa
1970
American actress and talk show host (born 1970)
Maribel Verdú
1970
Spanish actress (born 1970)
Badly Drawn Boy
1969
English singer-songwriter
Jana Novotná
1968
Czech tennis player (1968–2017)
Joey Slotnick
1968
American film actor and voice actor (born 1968)
Glen Wesley
1968
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1968)
Kelly Willis
1968
American country music singer-songwriter
Frankie Fredericks
1967
Namibian sprinter (born 1967)
Alex Karp
1967
American businessman (born 1967)
Thomas Muster
1967
Austrian tennis player
Gillian Welch
1967
American musician (born 1967)
Yokozuna (wrestler)
1966
American professional wrestler (1966–2000)
Darren Cahill
1965
Australian tennis player and coach (born 1965)
Tom Moody
1965
Australian cricketer
Önder Sisters
1965
Turkish-Austrian musical duo
Dirk Brinkmann
1964
German field hockey player
Keith Bradshaw (cricketer)
1963
Australian cricketer (1963–2021)
Maria Ressa
1963
Filipino and American journalist (born 1963)
Mark Rypien
1962
Canadian-born American football player (born 1962)
Glenn Anderson
1960
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1960)
Django Bates
1960
British composer, musician, band leader and educator (born 1960)
Joe Sacco
1960
Maltese–American cartoonist (born 1960)
Dereck Whittenburg
1960
American basketball player and coach
Robbie Nevil
1958
American pop singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist
John Cook (golfer)
1957
American professional golfer
Wade Dooley
1957
British Lions & England international rugby union footballer
Freddie Jackson
1956
American rhythm and blues singer (born 1956)
Philip Oakey
1955
British singer (born 1955)
Lorraine Bracco
1954
American actress (born 1954)
Vanessa Bell Armstrong
1953
American gospel singer
Tom Boswell (basketball)
1953
American basketball player (born 1953)
Janusz Olejniczak
1952
Polish classical pianist and actor (1952–2024)
Robin Riker
1952
American actress and author (born 1952)
Sting (musician)
1951
British musician (born 1951)
Mike Rutherford
1950
English musician (born 1950)
Richard Hell
1949
American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer (born 1949)
Annie Leibovitz
1949
American photographer (born 1949)
Trevor Brooking
1948
English footballer
Avery Brooks
1948
American actor and director
Donna Karan
1948
American fashion designer
Siim Kallas
1948
Estonian politician (born 1948)
Persis Khambatta
1948
Indian model and actress (1948–1998)
Ward Churchill
1947
American author and political activist (born 1947)
Sonthi Boonyaratglin
1946
Thai general (born 1946)
Martin Hellman
1945
American cryptologist and academic (born 1945)
Don McLean
1945
American singer-songwriter (born 1945)
Vernor Vinge
1944
American computer scientist and writer (1944–2024)
Anna Ford
1943
British journalist and television presenter
Henri Szeps
1943
Australian actor and comedian (1943–2025)
Steve Sabol
1942
American filmmaker and founder of NFL Films (1942–2012)
Diana Hendry
1941
English author
Ron Meagher
1941
American bassist (born 1941)
Budhi Kunderan
1939
Indian cricketer
Nick Gravenites
1938
American singer-songwriter (1938–2024)
Waheed Murad
1938
Pakistani actor, film producer and director
Rex Reed
1938
American film critic (born 1938)
Johnnie Cochran
1937
American attorney (1937–2005)
Dick Barnett
1936
American basketball player (1936–2025)
Connie Dierking
1936
American basketball player
Gwen Marston
1936
American quilter (1936–2019)
Omar Sívori
1935
Argentine-Italian footballer (1935–2005)
Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote
1934
British judge
Earl Wilson (baseball)
1934
American baseball player (1934–2005)
John Gurdon
1933
English developmental biologist (1933–2025)
Dave Somerville
1933
Musical artist
Maury Wills
1932
American baseball player and manager (1932–2022)
Dave Barrett
1930
Premier of British Columbia from 1972 to 1975
Peter Bronfman
1929
Canadian businessman and entrepreneur
Moses Gunn
1929
American stage and screen actor
Spanky McFarland
1928
American child actor (1928–1993)
Wolfhart Pannenberg
1928
German Lutheran theologian (1928–2014)
Jan Morris
1926
Welsh historian and travel writer (1926–2020)
Wren Blair
1925
Canadian ice hockey coach, scout, and executive
Edmund Crispin
1921
British composer and crime novelist (1921–1978)
Albert Scott Crossfield
1921
American test pilot (1921–2006)
Robert Runcie
1921
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991
John W. Duarte
1919
British composer, guitarist and writer
Christian de Duve
1917
Belgian biochemist and cytologist (1917–2013)
Charles Drake (actor)
1917
American actor
Chuck Williams (author)
1915
American businessperson and food writer (1915–2015)
Jack Parsons
1914
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
Bernarr Rainbow
1914
Frank Malina
1912
American aeronautical engineer and painter
Alex Raymond
1909
American cartoonist and illustrator (1909–1956)
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
1907
President of Bolivia variously in the 20th century
Alec Todd
1907
British biochemist (1907–1997)
Thomas Hollway
1906
Australian politician (1906–1971)
Franjo Šeper
1905
Croatian cardinal (1905–1981)
Graham Greene
1904
British writer and playwright (1904–1991)
Lal Bahadur Shastri
1904
Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966
Leopold Figl
1902
Chancellor of Austria From 1945 to 1953
Leela Roy
1900
Indian independence activist and politician
1800s
Ruth Cheney Streeter
1895
American military officer (1895–1990)
Leroy Shield
1893
American film score and radio composer (1893–1962)
Groucho Marx
1890
American comedian (1890–1977)
Karl von Terzaghi
1883
Austrian geotechnical engineer known as the "father of soil mechanics"
Boris Shaposhnikov
1882
Soviet marshal (1882–1945)
Wallace Stevens
1879
American poet (1879–1955)
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
1875
American suffragist (1875–1935)
Stephen Warfield Gambrill
1873
American politician
Pelham Warner
1873
English cricketer (1873–1963)
Cordell Hull
1871
American politician and diplomat (1871–1955)
Martha Brookes Hutcheson
1871
American landscape architect, lecturer and author
Mahatma Gandhi
1869
Indian independence activist (1869–1948)
Swami Abhedananda
1866
Indian Hindu mystic (1866-1939)
Patrick Geddes
1854
Scottish scientist and town planner (1854–1932)
William Ramsay
1852
Scottish chemist (1852–1916)
Ferdinand Foch
1851
French general and military theorist (1851–1929)
Paul von Hindenburg
1847
President of Germany from 1925 to 1934
Edward Burnett Tylor
1832
English anthropologist (1832–1917)
Charles Floquet
1828
French lawyer and statesman (1828–1896)
Alexander P. Stewart
1821
Confederate general, mathematician and philosopher
James Agnew
1815
Australian politician (1815–1901)
Nat Turner
1800
American slave rebellion leader (1800–1831)
Before 1800
Charles Albert of Sardinia
1798
King of Sardinia from 1831 to 1849
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
1768
Anglo-Portuguese General
Elizabeth Montagu
1718
English social reformer and arts patron (1718–1800)
Charles Borromeo
1538
Catholic prelate and saint (1538–1584)
William Drury
1527
English politician and soldier (1527–1579)
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
1470
Queen of Portugal from 1497 to 1498
Richard III of England
1452
King of England from 1483 to 1485