The 92nd day of the year, the 93rd in a leap year
Born on 2 April
Every 2 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 2 April in any year.
Which weekday 2 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 April falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 2 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,755 babies were born on 2 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 343rd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 2 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Christian Andersen | 1805–1875 | Danish writer and poet |
| Émile Zola | 1840–1902 | French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet |
| Giacomo Casanova | 1725–1798 | Venetian adventurer and writer |
| Alec Guinness | 1914–2000 | British actor |
| Marvin Gaye | 1939–1984 | American R&B and soul singer |
| Michael Fassbender | 1977– | German-Irish actor |
| Maria Sibylla Merian | 1647–1717 | German-Dutch entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator |
| Max Ernst | 1891–1976 | German artist |
| Serge Gainsbourg | 1928–1991 | French singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director |
| Pedro Pascal | 1975– | Chilean and American actor |
| Ajay Devgn | 1969– | Indian film actor, director and producer |
| Jack Brabham | 1926–2014 | Australian racing driver |
| Ibrahim Afellay | 1986– | Dutch footballer |
| Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | 1755–1826 | French lawyer, politician and writer |
| Miralem Pjanić | 1990– | Bosnian association football player |
| Léon Gambetta | 1838–1882 | French politician |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | 1862–1947 | American philosopher, diplomat, and educator |
| André Onana | 1996– | Cameroonian association football player |
Died on 2 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Pope John Paul II | 1920–2005 | Pope from 1978 to 2005 |
| Georges Pompidou | 1911–1974 | President of France from 1969 to 1974 |
| Paul Heyse | 1830–1914 | German writer |
| Samuel Morse | 1791–1872 | American inventor and painter |
| Hannes Alfvén | 1908–1995 | Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics |
| Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau | 1749–1791 | French writer, orator and statesman |
| Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor | 1608–1657 | Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire |
| Theodore William Richards | 1868–1928 | United States chemist |
| Estelle Harris | 1928–2022 | American actress |
| Franz Halder | 1884–1972 | German general |
| Manoel de Oliveira | 1908–2015 | Portuguese film director |
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