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Famous people born on August 2

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Well-known people born on August 2 include Shimon Peres (1923), JD Vance (1984), Peter O'Toole (1932) and Isabel Allende (1942). Our list below has 77 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 2 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1612 (Saskia van Uylenburgh) and the most recent is 2000 (Mohammed Kudus). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, singer.

Who was born on August 2?

  1. Shimon Peres 1923 Israeli politician –Former President of Israel and Prime Minister of Israel (1977,…
  2. JD Vance 1984 Vice President of the United States since 2025
  3. Peter O'Toole 1932 British-Irish actor
  4. Isabel Allende 1942 Chilean writer
  5. James Baldwin 1924 American writer
  6. Jorge Rafael Videla 1925 Argentina de facto president
  7. Sam Worthington 1976 Australian and English actor
  8. Mahmud I 1696 24th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
  9. Charli XCX 1992 British singer
  10. Wes Craven 1939 American filmmaker
  11. Constantine I of Greece 1868 King of Greece (r. 1913–17; 1920–22)
  12. Jules A. Hoffmann 1941 French biologist
  13. Kevin Smith 1970 American filmmaker
  14. Mary-Louise Parker 1964 American actress
  15. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 1834 French sculptor and painter
  16. Hitoshi Sogahata 1979 Japanese association football player
  17. Hélder Postiga 1982 Portuguese footballer
  18. John Tyndall 1820 Irish physicist
  19. Nacer Chadli 1989 Belgian association football player
  20. Takashi Takabayashi 1931 Japanese association football player
  21. Myrna Loy 1905 American actress
  22. Naoki Sakai 1975 Japanese association football player
  23. Massiel 1947 Spanish singer
  24. Rómulo Gallegos 1884 Venezuelan politician and writer
  25. Giampaolo Pazzini 1984 Italian association football player
  26. Ryuji Bando 1979 Japanese association football player
  27. Leo Beenhakker 1942 Dutch association football trainer
  28. Stefan Effenberg 1968 German association football player
  29. George Habash 1926 Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  30. Mohammed Kudus 2000 Ghanaian association football player
  31. Valery Bykovsky 1934 Soviet cosmonaut
  32. Edward Furlong 1977 American actor and singer
  33. Alain Giresse 1952 French football manager
  34. Philippe II, Duke of Orléans 1674 Member of the royal family of France, Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723
  35. Bertalan Farkas 1949 Hungarian cosmonaut
  36. Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont 1858 Queen consort of the Netherlands (r. 1879–1890)
  37. Beatrice Straight 1914 American actress
  38. Justyna Steczkowska 1972 Polish singer
  39. Fernando Couto 1969 Portuguese footballer
  40. Princess Ingeborg of Denmark 1878 Danish and Swedish royal
  41. Chiaki Yamada 1966 Japanese association football player
  42. Saskia van Uylenburgh 1612 Wife of Rembrandt van Rijn
  43. Lily Gladstone 1986 American actress
  44. Adrien de Gerlache 1866 Belgian explorer
  45. Michel Bastos 1983 Brazilian footballer
  46. Philippe Soupault 1897 French writer
  47. Kristaps Porziņģis 1995 Latvian basketball player
  48. Yura Movsisyan 1987 Armenian association football player
  49. Bei Dao 1949 Contemporary Chinese (PRC) avant garde poet
  50. Mohamed Al-Deayea 1972 Saudi footballer
  51. Elisha Gray 1835 American electrical engineer
  52. Jack Warner 1892 American film executive
  53. Chrystia Freeland 1968 Canadian politician and journalist
  54. Kati Wilhelm 1976 German cross-country skier and biathlete
  55. Muriel Bowser 1972 Mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015
  56. Henry Steel Olcott 1832 U.S. Army officer; founder of Theosophy
  57. Jacky Rosen 1957 American politician
  58. Emil Krafth 1994 Swedish association football player
  59. Carroll O'Connor 1924 American actor
  60. Aino Kallas 1878 Finnish-Estonian writer
  61. Jimmy Briand 1985 French footballer
  62. Nilla Fischer 1984 Swedish association football player
  63. Mineiro 1975 Brazilian footballer
  64. Bertha Lutz 1894 Brazilian scientist
  65. Deividas Šemberas 1978 Lithuanian association football player
  66. Viliam Schrojf 1931 Slovak footballer
  67. Graham Hancock 1950 British author who promotes pseudoscientific theories
  68. Leopold Gmelin 1788 German chemist
  69. Britt Lower 1985 American actress
  70. Joe Lynn Turner 1951 American singer
  71. Simon Kinberg 1973 British-American screenwriter, film producer and director
  72. Sugao Kambe 1961 Japanese association football player and manager
  73. José Afonso 1929 Portuguese singer, composer and politician
  74. Princess Francisca of Brazil 1824 Princess of Brazil
  75. Nehemiah Persoff 1919 American actor and painter
  76. Jonas Blue 1989 British DJ and music producer
  77. Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien 1772 Son of Louis Henri, Prince of Condé

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 2 share the 2nd of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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