The 245th day of the year, the 246th in a leap year
Born on 2 September
Every 2 September birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Virgo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- VirgoEarth, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- SapphireThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Aster, Morning gloryUsually taken today to mean patience and affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 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 September in any year.
Which weekday 2 September falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 2 September falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
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How common a birthday 2 September is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,834 babies were born on 2 September in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 117th 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 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Keir Starmer | 1962– | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026 |
| Keanu Reeves | 1964– | Canadian actor and musician |
| Salma Hayek | 1966– | Mexican and American actress |
| Wilhelm Ostwald | 1853–1932 | Baltic German chemist |
| Frederick Soddy | 1877–1956 | English radiochemist |
| Ahmad Shah Massoud | 1953–2001 | Afghan military leader and politician |
| Liliʻuokalani | 1838–1917 | monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom |
| Arthur Ashkin | 1922–2020 | American physicist |
| Andrej Babiš | 1954– | Czech politician and businessman, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic |
| Joseph Roth | 1894–1939 | Austrian novelist and journalist |
| Bill Shankly | 1913–1981 | Scottish footballer and manager |
| Henry George | 1839–1897 | American political economist and journalist |
| Emiliano Martínez | 1992– | Argentine footballer |
| Daniel arap Moi | 1924–2020 | President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002 |
| Jimmy Connors | 1952– | American tennis player |
| Chuck McCann | 1934–2018 | American voice actor and comedian |
| Carlos Valderrama | 1961– | Colombian footballer |
| Alexandre Pato | 1989– | Brazilian football player |
Died on 2 September
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| J. R. R. Tolkien | 1892–1973 | English writer and philologist |
| Ho Chi Minh | 1890–1969 | Vietnamese communist leader, founder of North Vietnam |
| Pierre de Coubertin | 1863–1937 | French educator and historian, co-founder of the International Olympic Committee |
| Islam Karimov | 1938–2016 | President of Uzbekistan from 1991 to 2016 |
| Barbara McClintock | 1902–1992 | American scientist and cytogeneticist |
| William Rowan Hamilton | 1805–1865 | Irish mathematician and astronomer |
| Viktor Frankl | 1905–1997 | Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author |
| Henri Rousseau | 1844–1910 | French painter |
| Christiaan Barnard | 1922–2001 | South African cardiac surgeon |
| Ronald Coase | 1910–2013 | British economist and Nobel laureate |
| Mikis Theodorakis | 1925–2021 | Greek composer |
| Kösem Sultan | 1589–1651 | Consort of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I and regent for Murad IV, Ibrahim and Mehmed IV |
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