Famous Birthdays on this Day in History - per Wikipedia

August 2

• 1455 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1499)
• 1533 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
• 1612 – Saskia van Uylenburgh, wife of Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1642)
• 1672 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733)
• 1674 – Philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)
• 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1754)
• 1702 – Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau, German Prince (d. 1769)
• 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
• 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)
• 1788 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
• 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
• 1820 – John Tyndall, British physicist (d. 1893)
• 1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)
• 1834 – Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor (d. 1904)
• 1835 – Elisha Gray, American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1901)
• 1858 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1934)
• 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (d. 1933)
• 1865 – John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955)
• 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet (d. 1900)
• 1868 – King Constantine I of Greece (d. 1923)
• 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)
• 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)
• 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter (d. 1957)
• 1878 – Aino Kallas, Finnish-born Estonian author (d. 1956)
• 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player (d. 1936)
• 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, 46th President of Venezuela (d. 1969)
• 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian aviator (d. 1961)
• 1887 – Tommy Ward, South African cricketer (d. 1936)
• 1890 – Marin Sais, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian and linguist (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Arthur Bliss, British composer and Master of the Queen's Music (d. 1975)
• 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-born American film producer (d. 1978)
• 1895 – Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer (d. 1970)
• 1896 – Lorenzo Herrera, Venezuelan singer and composer (d. 1960)
• 1897 – Karl Otto Koch, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Charles Bennett, British screenwriter (d. 1995)
• 1902 – Helen Morgan, American actress (d. 1941)
• 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer (d. 1963)
• 1905 – Myrna Loy, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Roger MacDougall, Scottish writer (d. 1993)
• 1912 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010)
• 1912 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian statistician (d. 2001)
• 1914 – Félix Leclerc, Quebec singer, songwriter and writer (d. 1988)
• 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1915 – Gary Merrill, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Nehemiah Persoff, American actor
• 1920 – Louis Pauwels, French journalist and writer (d. 1997)
• 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian (d. 1998)
• 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, Prime Minister of Israel and the ninth President of the State of Israel
• 1924 – James Baldwin, American writer (d. 1987)
• 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1925 – John Dexter, English stage and film director (d. 1990)
• 1925 – John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1925 – Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentinian dictator, 43rd President of Argentina
• 1925 – Alan Whicker, British journalist and broadcaster
• 1926 – Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite
• 1928 – Malcolm Hilton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
• 1930 – Vali Myers, Australian painter (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Pierre DuMaine, American Catholic bishop
• 1931 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer (d. 2007)
• 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
• 1932 – Peter O'Toole, Irish actor
• 1933 – Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Greek politician
• 1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut
• 1935 – Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
• 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player
• 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian organist and keyboardist (The Band)
• 1938 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1938 – Pierre de Bané, French-Canadian politician
• 1938 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islands-born British soldier (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American political theorist
• 1939 – Wes Craven, American film director
• 1939 – John W. Snow, American 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1940 – Will Tura, Belgian singer
• 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (d. 2000)
• 1941 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
• 1942 – Isabel Allende, Chilean author
• 1943 – Tom Burgmeier, American baseball player
• 1943 – Kathy Lennon, one of the original Lennon Sisters
• 1943 – Max Wright, American actor
• 1944 – Jim Capaldi, British drummer and songwriter (Traffic) (d. 2005)
• 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz percussionist and vocalist
• 1945 – Joanna Cassidy, American actress
• 1945 – Alex Jesaulenko, Australian rules footballer
• 1947 – Massiel, Spanish singer
• 1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, Welsh guitarist (Amen Corner)
• 1948 – Dennis Prager, American radio talk show host and author
• 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist
• 1950 – Jussi Adler-Olsen, Danish author
• 1950 – Lance Ito, American judge
• 1950 – Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (d. 1994)
• 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner, American singer (Deep Purple, Rainbow)
• 1951 – Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer and musician (The Leather Nun, Fleshquartet)
• 1951 – Per Westerberg, Swedish politician
• 1953 – Marjo, Quebec singer
• 1953 – Donnie Munro, former lead singer with Runrig
• 1953 – Butch Patrick, American actor
• 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American anti-abortion militant, murderer of Barnett Slepian
• 1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1955 – Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
• 1955 – Tim Dunigan, American actor
• 1955 – Tony Godden, English footballer
• 1956 – Fulvio Melia, Italian-born American physicist, astrophysicist and author
• 1956 – Jim Neidhart, American professional wrestler
• 1956 – Isabel Pantoja, Spanish singer
• 1957 – Mojo Nixon, American singer, lyricist and actor
• 1957 – Butch Vig, American record producer and drummer (Garbage)
• 1957 – Farhat Basir Khan, Indian Photography and Media Activist Academician, a critically acclaimed Media Professional.
• 1958 – Arshad Ayub, Indian cricketer
• 1959 – Victoria Jackson, American comedian
• 1959 – Apollonia Kotero, American singer and actress
• 1960 – Neal Morse, American keyboardist and vocalist (Spock's Beard, Transatlantic)
• 1960 – David Yow, American vocalist (Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard)
• 1960 – Linda Fratianne, American figure skater
• 1961 – Graham Dye, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scarlet Party, The Alan Parsons Project)
• 1961 – Cold 187um, American rapper (Above the Law)
• 1961 – Pete de Freitas, born in Trinidad, drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen (d. 1989)
• 1962 – Cynthia Stevenson, Canadian actress
• 1962 – Lee Mavers, English musician, lead singer with The La's
• 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer
• 1963 – Laura Bennett, American architect and designer
• 1964 – Frank Biela, German racing driver
• 1964 – Mary-Louise Parker, American actress
• 1965 – Hisanobu Watanabe, Japanese baseball player and coach
• 1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player
• 1966 – M.V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer
• 1967 – Aaron Krickstein, American tennis player
• 1967 – Aline Brosh McKenna, American screenwriter
• 1968 – Stefan Effenberg, German footballer
• 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer Helmet
• 1969 – Cedric Ceballos, American basketball player
• 1969 – Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
• 1969 – Jan Axel Blomberg Norwegian drummer (Dimmu Borgir, Winds, Mayhem)
• 1969 – Richard Hallebeek, Dutch jazz guitarist
• 1970 – Tony Amonte, American ice hockey player
• 1970 – Kevin Smith, American director and screenwriter
• 1970 – Philo Wallace, Barbiadian West Indies cricketer
• 1971 – Alice Evans, English actress
• 1971 – Michael Hughes, Irish footballer
• 1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
• 1972 – Jacinda Barrett, Australian model and actress
• 1972 – Daniele Nardello, Italian cyclist
• 1972 – Justyna Steczkowska, Polish singer
• 1973 – Hiroyuki Goto, Japanese game designer
• 1973 – Danie Keulder, Namibian cricketer
• 1973 – Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
• 1973 – Reyn Ouwehand, Dutch C=64 Composer
• 1974 – Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
• 1974 – Phil Williams, Radio 5live Presenter
• 1975 – Mineiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Xu Huaiwen, Chinese-born German badminton player
• 1975 – Ingrid Rubio, Spanish actress
• 1976 – Reyes Estévez, Spanish mid-distance runner
• 1976 – Sam Worthington, Australian actor
• 1976 – Jay Heaps, American footballer
• 1976 – Michael Weiss, American figure skater
• 1976 – Mohammad Zahid, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 – Edward Furlong, American actor
• 1978 – Goran Gavrančić, Serbian footballer
• 1978 – Matt Guerrier, American baseball player
• 1979 – Marco Bonura, Italian footballer
• 1979 – Reuben Kosgei, Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner
• 1979 – Donna Air, English television presenter
• 1980 – Ivica Banović, Croatian footballer
• 1980 – Nadia Bjorlin, American actress
• 1980 – Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor
• 1980 – Ugur Rifat Karlova, Turkish TV and stage entertainer
• 1981 – Aleksander Emelianenko, Russian MMA fighter, brother of Fedor Emelianenko
• 1982 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 – Sara Foster, American actress
• 1982 – Kerry Rhodes, American football player
• 1982 – Grady Sizemore, American baseball player
• 1983 – Nick Diaz, American MMA fighter
• 1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Harry Smith, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1985 – Britt Nicole, American Christian pop vocalist
• 1986 – Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian-born Malagasy skier
• 1988 – Brittany Hargest, American singer
• 1990 – Skylar Diggins, American basketball player
• 1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 – Hallie Kate Eisenberg, American actress