December 2 is the birthday of 38 notable people we've found so far, including athletes, entrepreneurs, authors and actors, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Byron David Trott is the founder, chairman and co-CEO of BDT & MSD Partners, a merchant bank that provides advice and capital to family and founder-led companies. Formerly, Trott was vice chairman of investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
Share of the 38 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Athletes26% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs21% (8 people)
Authors18% (7 people)
Actors16% (6 people)
Artists13% (5 people)
Musicians13% (5 people)
Politicians13% (5 people)
Countries
20 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States12 (12 people)
Italy3 (3 people)
Azerbaijan2 (2 people)
Czech Republic2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
United Kingdom2 (2 people)
Ancient Rome1 (1 people)
Life timeline
What were people born on December 2 doing at your age?
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
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16Britney SpearsNotable work: ...Baby One More Time (1998)
Britney Jean Spears is an American singer. Referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she is widely regarded as one of the most influential entertainers during the early 21st century.
Charles Otto Puth Jr. is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. His initial exposure came through the viral success of his song covers uploaded to YouTube. Puth signed with the record label eleveneleven in 2011.
Monica Seles is a former professional tennis player who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA for 178 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 three times.
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 45 million records, including 35 million in album sales worldwide, making her one of the most successful Canadian artists. Critics have noted Furtado's musical versatility and experimentation with genres.
Gary Stanley Becker was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. was an American politician, diplomat, and military officer who served as the 59th United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and previously as the 5th White House chief of staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well…
Scene Camera Operator: MSGT. Deal Toney[2] Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual In, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Giovanni Maria "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and businessman. He was the founder of Versace, an international luxury-fashion house that produces accessories, fragrances, make-up, home furnishings and clothes. He also designed costumes for theatre and films.
Alfred James Clark was an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist. He was chairman and CEO of Clark Enterprises, Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
Maria Callas was an American and Greek soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice, and dramatic interpretations.
Kalvin Mark Phillips is an English professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL Championship club Sheffield United on loan from Premier League club Manchester City.
Hossein Zohrevand, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.
Unidentified photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of German society during the Weimar Republic and the brutality of war.
Hugo Erfurth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Tony Wolstenholme is an English musician. He is the bassist and backing vocalist for the rock band Muse. He combines bass guitar with effects and synthesisers to create overdriven fuzz bass tones, a motif of many Muse songs.
Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is a full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
Antonín Panenka is a Czech former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He spent most of his career at Czechoslovak club Bohemians Prague before having spells with various Austrian clubs including Rapid Wien.
David Sedlecký, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Francesco Toldo is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is regarded by some pundits as one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation.
Steindy (talk) 13:22, 28 November 2009 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles I was Duke of Orléans from 1407, following the murder of his father, Louis I, Duke of Orléans. He was also Duke of Valois, Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and of Blois, Lord of Coucy, and the inheritor of Asti in Italy via his mother Valentina Visconti.
Aulus Persius Flaccus was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satire, he shows a Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he considered to be the stylistic abuses of his poetic contemporaries.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Danijel Pranjić is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who played as a full-back. Being a versatile left-footed player, he could play all across the left wing and could also be used as a central midfielder.
Francis Jammes was a French poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Julio César Baldivieso Rico is a Bolivian football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the current technical director of Aurora.
Priscilla Quiroga Sarmiento, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sabina Eldar gizi Babayeva is an Azerbaijani singer. She represented Azerbaijan in the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, held in Baku, Azerbaijan on 26 May 2012, with the song "When the Music Dies", as the 13th act, and finished 4th overall.
Zeljko Joksimovic derivative work: César, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Richards Minot was an American medical researcher who shared the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George Hoyt Whipple and William P. Murphy for their pioneering work on pernicious anemia.
The Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 38 people born on December 2, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on December 2. Read the full methodology.
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