The 183rd day of the year, the 184th in a leap year
Born on 2 July
Every 2 July birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Cancer, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- CancerWater, cardinal, ruled by the Moon.
- Birthstone
- RubyThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Larkspur, Water lilyUsually taken today to mean an open heart and purity.
- 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 July in any year.
Which weekday 2 July falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 July 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 July is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,885 babies were born on 2 July in each year of the twenty, making it the 31st 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 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Hermann Hesse | 1877–1962 | Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter |
| Wisława Szymborska | 1923–2012 | Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner |
| Patrice Lumumba | 1925–1961 | Congolese politician and independence leader |
| Imelda Marcos | 1929– | Philippine former First Lady |
| William Henry Bragg | 1862–1942 | British scientist |
| Lindsay Lohan | 1986– | American actress and singer |
| Hans Bethe | 1906–2005 | German-American nuclear physicist |
| Margot Robbie | 1990– | Australian actress |
| Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1714–1787 | opera composer |
| Larry David | 1947– | American comedian, writer and actor |
| Alec Douglas-Home | 1903–1995 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964 |
| Carlos Menem | 1930–2021 | President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999 |
| Ashley Tisdale | 1985– | American actress and singer-songwriter |
| Olav V | 1903–1991 | king of Norway (1957–1991) |
| Vicente Fox | 1942– | President of Mexico from 2000 to 2006 |
| Valentinian III | 419–455 | emperor of the Western Roman Empire |
| Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | 1724–1803 | German poet, writer and linguist |
| Thomas Cranmer | 1489–1556 | leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury |
Died on 2 July
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 1712–1778 | Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer |
| Ernest Hemingway | 1899–1961 | American author and journalist |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899–1977 | Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor |
| Nostradamus | 1503–1566 | French seer and astrologer |
| Elie Wiesel | 1928–2016 | Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor |
| James Stewart | 1908–1997 | American actor and military officer |
| Mario Puzo | 1920–1999 | American author, screenwriter, and journalist |
| Porfirio Díaz | 1830–1915 | President of Mexico |
| Robert Peel | 1788–1850 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1834 to 1835 and 1841 to 1846 |
| Andrei Gromyko | 1909–1989 | Soviet diplomat |
| Douglas Engelbart | 1925–2013 | American engineer and inventor |
| Samuel Hahnemann | 1755–1843 | German physician known for creating homeopathy |
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