The 306th day of the year, the 307th in a leap year
Born on 2 November
Every 2 November birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Scorpio, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- ScorpioWater, fixed, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- Topaz, CitrineThe 1912 list gave Topaz.
- Birth flower
- ChrysanthemumUsually taken today to mean loyalty.
- Most common weekdays
- Wednesday and Monday16 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 November in any year.
Which weekday 2 November falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 November falls on every day of the week: Wednesday 16, Monday 16, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Saturday 15.
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How common a birthday 2 November is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,787 babies were born on 2 November in each year of the twenty, making it the 248th 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 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| James K. Polk | 1795–1849 | President of the United States from 1845 to 1849 |
| Warren G. Harding | 1865–1923 | president of the United States from 1921 to 1923 |
| Shah Rukh Khan | 1965– | Indian actor, producer and television personality |
| Marie Antoinette | 1755–1793 | last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution |
| George Boole | 1815–1864 | English mathematician, philosopher and logician |
| Odysseas Elytis | 1911–1996 | Greek poet and art critic |
| Burt Lancaster | 1913–1994 | American actor |
| Borut Pahor | 1963– | Slovenian politician, Prime Minister from 2008 to 2012 and President from 2012 to 2022 |
| Mehmed V | 1844–1918 | 35th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1909–1918) |
| Luchino Visconti | 1906–1976 | Italian director |
| David Schwimmer | 1966– | American actor |
| Edward V | 1470–1483 | king of England in 1483 |
| Mahmud of Ghazni | 971–1030 | Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire from 998 to 1030 |
| Richard E. Taylor | 1929–2018 | Canadian physicist |
| Queen Sofía of Spain | 1938– | queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014 |
| Georges Sorel | 1847–1922 | French philosopher and sociologist |
| Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly | 1808–1889 | French writer |
| Harlow Shapley | 1885–1972 | American astronomer |
Died on 2 November
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| George Bernard Shaw | 1856–1950 | Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1922–1975 | Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual |
| Peter Debye | 1884–1966 | Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | 1901–1963 | South Vietnamese politician; President of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963 |
| Jenny Lind | 1820–1887 | Swedish opera singer |
| Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan | 1918–2004 | President of the United Arab Emirates from 1971 to 2004 |
| Theo van Gogh | 1957–2004 | Dutch film director |
| Matilda of Flanders | 1031–1083 | wife of William the Conqueror and Queen consort of the Kingdom of England |
| James Thurber | 1894–1961 | American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright |
| Eva Cassidy | 1963–1996 | American singer |
| Thomas Midgley Jr. | 1889–1944 | American chemist and engineer |
| Dimitri Mitropoulos | 1896–1960 | Greek and American conductor |
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