The 275th day of the year, the 276th in a leap year
Born on 2 October
Every 2 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Friday16 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 October in any year.
Which weekday 2 October falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 October falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 2 October is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,940 babies were born on 2 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 10th 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 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Mahatma Gandhi | 1869–1948 | Indian independence activist |
| Graham Greene | 1904–1991 | British writer, playwright and literary critic |
| Paul von Hindenburg | 1847–1934 | Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany |
| Sting | 1951– | British musician |
| Groucho Marx | 1890–1977 | American comedian |
| William Ramsay | 1852–1916 | Scottish chemist |
| Richard III of England | 1452–1485 | king of England from 1483 to 1485 |
| Ferdinand Foch | 1851–1929 | French marshal and military theorist |
| Maria Ressa | 1963– | Filipino journalist |
| Alisson Becker | 1992– | Brazilian association football player |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | 1904–1966 | Prime Minister of India from 1964 to 1966 |
| Roberto Firmino | 1991– | Brazilian association football player |
| Christian de Duve | 1917–2013 | Belgian biochemist, cytologist |
| Cordell Hull | 1871–1955 | American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 |
| Alec Todd | 1907–1997 | British biochemist and Nobel laureate |
| Ayumi Hamasaki | 1978– | Japanese singer, songwriter, and actress |
| Marion Bartoli | 1984– | French tennis player |
| John Gurdon | 1933–2025 | British developmental biologist |
Died on 2 October
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Svante Arrhenius | 1859–1927 | Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist |
| Marcel Duchamp | 1887–1968 | French painter, sculptor, and chess player |
| Jamal Khashoggi | 1958–2018 | Saudi journalist |
| Pope Urban IV | died 1264 | Head of the Catholic Church from 1261 to 1264 |
| François Arago | 1786–1853 | French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician |
| Paavo Nurmi | 1897–1973 | Finnish middle and long distance runner |
| Rock Hudson | 1925–1985 | American actor |
| Ivan Mazepa | 1639–1709 | Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate from 1687 to 1709; died 2 October in the Gregorian calendar, 21 September in the Julian |
| Samuel Adams | 1722–1803 | American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts and Founding Father of the United States |
| Peter Medawar | 1915–1987 | Brazilian-born British biologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine |
| Vasily Shukshin | 1929–1974 | Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and film director |
| Tom Petty | 1950–2017 | American musician |
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