Born on September 2
September 2 birthdays & history
If you were born on September 2, you share a birthday with Keir Starmer, Keanu Reeves and Salma Hayek. September 2 babies are Virgo, with sapphire as their birthstone and the aster as their birth flower. September 2 is the 246th day of the year in leap years (245th in other years).
Famous people born on September 2
- 1962Keir Starmer, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1964Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor, singer, and producer
- 1966Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress, director, and producer
- 1853Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1877Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922Arthur Ashkin, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1894Joseph Roth, Austrian journalist and author
- 1913Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1839Henry George, American economist and author
- 1992Emiliano Martínez, Argentine footballer
What happened on September 2
- 44 BCPharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
- 1789The United States Department of the Treasury was founded following financial concerns in the new nation.
- 1867Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
- 1912Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.
- 1945Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty.
- 1946The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.
- 1957South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.
- 1963CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
- 1970NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
- 1990Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
- 2008Google launches its Google Chrome web browser.
- 2023India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
Also observed on September 2
- Democracy Day (Tibet)
- Independence Day (Transnistria, unrecognized)
- Independence Day (Artsakh, unrecognized)
- National Blueberry Popsicle Day (United States)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Vietnam from Japan and France in 1945
- Victory over Japan Day (United States)
Questions, answered
What star sign is September 2?
People born on September 2 are Virgo. Their birthstone is sapphire and their birth flower is the aster.
Which famous people were born on September 2?
Keir Starmer (1962), Keanu Reeves (1964), Salma Hayek (1966), Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Frederick Soddy (1877), Arthur Ashkin (1922) were all born on September 2.
What happened on September 2 in history?
Among other things: in 1990, Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void; in 2008, Google launches its Google Chrome web browser; in 2023, India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
Can I get a newspaper front page from September 2?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any September 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, “September 2”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.