The 214th day of the year, the 215th in a leap year
Born on 2 August
Every 2 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 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 August in any year.
Which weekday 2 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 August falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 2 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,841 babies were born on 2 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 98th 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 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Shimon Peres | 1923–2016 | President of Israel from 2007 to 2014, and twice Prime Minister |
| JD Vance | 1984– | Vice President of the United States since 2025 |
| Peter O'Toole | 1932–2013 | British-Irish actor |
| Isabel Allende | 1942– | Chilean writer |
| James Baldwin | 1924–1987 | American writer |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | 1925–2013 | de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981 |
| Sam Worthington | 1976– | Australian and English actor |
| Mahmud I | 1696–1754 | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754 |
| Charli XCX | 1992– | British singer |
| Wes Craven | 1939–2015 | American filmmaker |
| Constantine I of Greece | 1868–1923 | King of Greece (r. 1913–17; 1920–22) |
| Jules A. Hoffmann | 1941– | French biologist |
| Kevin Smith | 1970– | American filmmaker |
| Mary-Louise Parker | 1964– | American actress |
| Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | 1834–1904 | French sculptor and painter |
| Hélder Postiga | 1982– | Portuguese footballer |
| John Tyndall | 1820–1893 | Irish physicist |
| Nacer Chadli | 1989– | Belgian association football player |
Died on 2 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Graham Bell | 1847–1922 | Scottish-born inventor and scientist, credited with patenting the first practical telephone |
| Warren G. Harding | 1865–1923 | president of the United States from 1921 to 1923 |
| Paul von Hindenburg | 1847–1934 | Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany |
| Enrico Caruso | 1873–1921 | Italian opera singer |
| Ahmad ibn Hanbal | 780–855 | Muslim jurist and theologian |
| Pope Stephen I | died 257 | Pope and Bishop of Rome from 254 to 257 |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914–1997 | American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer |
| Henry III of France | 1551–1589 | King of France from 1574 to 1589 |
| Fritz Lang | 1890–1976 | Austrian filmmaker |
| Ahmed Zewail | 1946–2016 | Egyptian chemist |
| Pope John V | 635–686 | pope |
| Muhammad Ali of Egypt | 1769–1849 | Wali of Egypt and Sudan |
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