March 2 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 2, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#289 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 2 birthdays
Pope Leo XIII · Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 19031810
Multatuli · Dutch author1820
Sholem Aleichem · Jewish writer and playwright of Yiddish1859
Pope Pius XII · Pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 19581876
Nikos Kazantzakis · Greek writer, poet and philosopher1883
Dr. Seuss · American children's author and cartoonist1904
Jennifer Jones · American actress1919
Murray Rothbard · American economist1926
Tom Wolfe · American author and journalist1930
Mikhail Gorbachev · Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 19911931
Abdelaziz Bouteflika · President of Algeria from 1999 to 20191937
John Irving · American novelist and screenwriter1942
Karen Carpenter · American singer and drummer1950
Jon Bon Jovi · American musician1962
Anthony Albanese · 31st prime minister of Australia1963
Daniel Craig · English actor1968
Method Man · American rapper and actor1971
Chris Martin · English singer-songwriter1977
Bryce Dallas Howard · American actress and filmmaker1981
Becky G · American singer1997
On this day in history
1937The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, the precursor of the United Steel Workers of America, had a major success when it signed a collective-bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel.
1962Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, which remains an NBA record.
1965The Sound of Music (poster pictured) was released in American theatres; it became the highest-grossing film until 1971.
1978As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.
1836Texas Revolution: At a convention of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence, establishing the Republic of Texas.
1859The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.
1877The Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.
1901U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was founded by financier J. P. Morgan.
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