October 2 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 2, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#65 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 2 birthdays
Ferdinand Foch · French marchal and military theorist1851
William Ramsay · Scottish chemist1852
Mahatma Gandhi · Indian independence activist1869
Cordell Hull · American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 19441871
Wallace Stevens · American poet1879
Groucho Marx · American comedian1890
Graham Greene · British writer, playwright and literary critic1904
Lal Bahadur Shastri · Prime Minister of India1904
Christian de Duve · Belgian biochemist, cytologist1917
Don McLean · American singer-songwriter1945
Annie Leibovitz · American photographer1949
Alice Walton · American heiress to the fortune of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc1949
Sting · British musician1951
Romina Power · American singer and actress1951
Lorraine Bracco · American actress1954
Jeff Bennett · American voice actor1962
Maria Ressa · Filipino journalist1963
Camilla Belle · American actress1986
Roberto Firmino · Brazilian association football player1991
Alisson Becker · Brazilian association football player1992
On this day in history
1967Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1971Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.
1996The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
2007President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
1879Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire, but the terms were so unfavorable that the Chinese government refused to ratify the treaty.
1913The Shubert Theatre opened on Broadway with a production of Hamlet.
1968Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
1980Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
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