Born on December 2
December 2 birthdays & history
If you were born on December 2, you share a birthday with Britney Spears, Maria Callas and Nelly Furtado. December 2 babies are Sagittarius, with turquoise as their birthstone and the narcissus as their birth flower. December 2 is the 337th day of the year in leap years (336th in other years).
Famous people born on December 2
- 1981Britney Spears, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1923Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano and actress
- 1978Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
- 1825Pedro II of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil from 1831 to 1889
- 1859Georges Seurat, French painter
- 1968Lucy Liu, American actress and producer
- 1891Otto Dix, German painter and illustrator
- 1930Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1973Monica Seles, Serbian-American tennis player
- 1946Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace
What happened on December 2
- 1804At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
- 1823U.S. president James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.
- 1845Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
- 1848Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
- 1852Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
- 1908Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
- 1927The Ford Motor Company introduced the second version of the Model A, its first new model in 18 years.
- 1939New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
- 1949Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
- 1954The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
- 1956Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba.
- 1988Benazir Bhutto took office as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
Also observed on December 2
- Armed Forces Day (Cuba)
- Lao National Day
- National Day (United Arab Emirates)
- Chichibu Night Festival
Questions, answered
What star sign is December 2?
People born on December 2 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is turquoise and their birth flower is the narcissus.
Which famous people were born on December 2?
Britney Spears (1981), Maria Callas (1923), Nelly Furtado (1978), Pedro II of Brazil (1825), Georges Seurat (1859), Lucy Liu (1968) were all born on December 2.
What happened on December 2 in history?
Among other things: in 1954, The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C; in 1956, Cuban Revolution: The yacht Granma, carrying Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement, reached the shores of Cuba; in 1988, Benazir Bhutto took office as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.
Can I get a newspaper front page from December 2?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any December 2 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “December 2”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.