Born on June 2
June 2 birthdays & history
If you were born on June 2, you share a birthday with Thomas Hardy, Pope Pius X and Marquis de Sade. June 2 babies are Gemini, with pearl as their birthstone and the rose as their birth flower. June 2 is the 154th day of the year in leap years (153rd in other years).
Famous people born on June 2
- 1840Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet
- 1835Pope Pius X, Head of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914
- 1740Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician
- 1857Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1988Sergio Agüero, Argentine footballer
- 1535Pope Leo XI, Head of the Catholic Church in 1605
- 1857Edward Elgar, English composer and educator
- 1731Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States
- 1904Johnny Weissmuller, Hungarian-American swimmer and actor
- 1972Wentworth Miller, American actor and screenwriter
What happened on June 2
- 1848The Slavic Congress opens in Prague.
- 1886The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom (wedding depicted) took place in the White House, in the only time that a U.S. president has married in the building.
- 1896Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
- 1909Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1924U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1953Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1955The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration, legitimising different interpretations of Marxism in non-Soviet countries.
- 1955The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between the two countries, discontinued since 1948.
- 1964The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed.
- 1966Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
- 1979Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 2008Artist Tim Buckley published "Loss" as part of his webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Also observed on June 2
- Children's Day (North Korea)
- Civil Aviation Day (Azerbaijan)
- Coronation of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, also Social Forestry Day (Bhutan)
- Day of Hristo Botev (Bulgaria)
- Decoration Day (Canada)
- Festa della Repubblica (Italy)
Questions, answered
What star sign is June 2?
People born on June 2 are Gemini. Their birthstone is pearl and their birth flower is the rose.
Which famous people were born on June 2?
Thomas Hardy (1840), Pope Pius X (1835), Marquis de Sade (1740), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sergio Agüero (1988), Pope Leo XI (1535) were all born on June 2.
What happened on June 2 in history?
Among other things: in 1966, Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world; in 1979, Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country; in 2008, Artist Tim Buckley published "Loss" as part of his webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del.
Can I get a newspaper front page from June 2?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any June 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, “June 2”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.