The 33rd day of the year
Born on 2 February
Every 2 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Five new years in a row
Five new years in a row fell on 2 February at nineteen-year intervals: 1908, the Earth Monkey; 1927, the Fire Rabbit; 1946, the Fire Dog; 1965, the Wood Snake; and 1984, the Wood Rat, which began a new sixty-year cycle. The next step in the series slipped a day, to 1 February 2003, and the engine does not return the new year to 2 February until 2049.
From 1920 to 2026 a 2 February birthday came before the new year in 63 years, and in those it belongs to the animal of the year before; it came on or after it in 44. So 2 February 2026, fifteen days before the Fire Horse began on 17 February, belongs to the Wood Snake of 2025. In 1984, the year the new year fell on this date, 1 February 1984 belongs to the Water Pig of 1983.
Every 2 February in those years was Aquarius, in every time zone, so on this date the sign never needs the year and the animal often does.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 2 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 2 February in 63 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 44 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1927, 1946, 1965 and 1984.
Shaded: 2 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 2 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 2 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 February falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 2 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 2 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,771 babies were born on 2 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 311th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 2 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Shakira | 1977– | Colombian singer-songwriter |
| James Joyce | 1882–1941 | Irish novelist and poet |
| Ayn Rand | 1905–1982 | Russian-born American writer and public philosopher |
| Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | 1926–2020 | French official and politician |
| Park Geun-hye | 1952– | President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017 |
| Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord | 1754–1838 | French diplomat |
| Gerard Piqué | 1987– | Spanish association football player |
| Pope Benedict XIII | 1649–1730 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730 |
| Farrah Fawcett | 1947–2009 | American actress |
| Blake Clark | 1946– | American stand-up comedian |
| Andrej Kiska | 1963– | President of Slovakia from 2014 to 2019 |
| Mikhail Frunze | 1885–1925 | Soviet army officer |
| Dana International | 1969– | Israeli singer |
| James I of Aragon | 1208–1276 | King of Aragon |
| Paul Mescal | 1996– | Irish actor |
| Than Shwe | 1933– | Burmese general, head of state of Myanmar from 1992 to 2011 |
| Konstantin von Neurath | 1873–1956 | German Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, general and Nazi war criminal |
| Gemma Arterton | 1986– | British actress |
Died on 2 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bertrand Russell | 1872–1970 | British philosopher and logician |
| Dmitri Mendeleev | 1834–1907 | Russian chemist |
| Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | 1525–1594 | Italian Renaissance composer |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | 1967–2014 | American actor |
| Gene Kelly | 1912–1996 | American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer |
| Pope Clement XIII | 1693–1769 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769 |
| Donald Pleasence | 1919–1995 | British actor |
| Sid Vicious | 1957–1979 | English bassist |
| Marija Gimbutas | 1921–1994 | Lithuanian-American archaeologist |
| Baldassare Castiglione | 1478–1529 | Italian Renaissance author |
| Boris Karloff | 1887–1969 | British actor |
| Imre Lakatos | 1922–1974 | Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science |
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