The 153rd day of the year, the 154th in a leap year

Born on 2 June

Every 2 June birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.

Star sign
GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
Birthstone
Pearl, Moonstone, AlexandriteThe 1912 list gave Pearl and Moonstone.
Birth flower
Rose, HoneysuckleUsually taken today to mean love and bonds of affection.
Most common weekdays
Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 2 June. The marked arc is every position it has held on 2 June, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 2 June in any year.

Which weekday 2 June falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 June falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.

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How common a birthday 2 June is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,819 babies were born on 2 June in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 155th 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 June

18 people born on 2 June, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Pope Pius X1835–1914Pope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint
Thomas Hardy1840–1928English novelist and poet
Marquis de Sade1740–1814French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer of erotic works
Karl Adolph Gjellerup1857–1919Danish writer
Sergio Agüero1988–Argentine association football player
Pope Leo XI1535–1605pope of the Catholic Church in April 1605
Edward Elgar1857–1934English composer
Constantine II of Greece1940–2023King of Greece from 1964 to 1973
Martha Washington1731–1802First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797; born 2 June in the Julian calendar, which is 13 June in the Gregorian
Johnny Weissmuller1904–1984American swimmer, water polo player, and actor
Wentworth Miller1972–American and British actor
Sonakshi Sinha1987–Indian film actress and singer
Pete Conrad1930–1999American astronaut and lunar explorer
Zachary Quinto1977–American actor and film producer
Awkwafina1988–American actress, comedian, and rapper
Charlie Watts1941–2021British drummer
Morena Baccarin1979–Brazilian-American actress
Lloyd Shapley1923–2016American economist and mathematician

Died on 2 June

12 people who died on 2 June, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Giuseppe Garibaldi1807–1882Italian general, patriot and republican
Raj Kapoor1924–1988Indian actor and filmmaker
Pope Eugene Idied 657pope
Rex Harrison1908–1990British actor
Irwin Rose1926–2015American biologist
Madeleine de Scudéry1607–1701French writer
Santiago Bernabéu1895–1978Spanish footballer
Giuseppe Ungaretti1888–1970Italian poet, writer and university teacher
Andrés Segovia1893–1987Spanish guitarist
Mel Ferrer1917–2008American actor, director and producer
Karl Brandt1904–1948German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity
Bo Diddley1928–2008American guitarist

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