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David Beckham won 19 major trophies in his career, and is the only English player to have won a league title in four different countries: England, France, Spain, and the United States.
Famous Birthdays on May 2
1975 — David Beckham
English footballer, coach, and model
May 2 has 180 recorded notable births across history, from 1360 to 2015. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1999 Panamanian general election: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama. Source
- 1941 World War II: Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. Source
- 1611 The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. Source
- 1194 King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first royal charter. Source
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4 billion worldwide, making him one of the world's highest-grossing actors of all time.
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Lorenzo Music then became a writer and a regular performer on the controversial CBS variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
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After becoming a Japanese national in 1996 and retiring in 2003, he became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association and founded the Musashigawa stable in 2013.
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Jimmy White has won two of snooker's Triple Crown events, the Masters in 1984 and the UK Championship in 1992, but has lost all six of the World Snooker Championship finals he contested.
More major people born on May 2
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1972
Dwayne Johnson
American actor and wrestler
Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known by his ring name "the Rock", is an American actor and professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on a part-time basis.
1937
Lorenzo Music
American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)
Gerald David "Lorenzo" Music was an American actor, composer, musician, performer, writer and producer. Music began his career in the 1960s with his wife, Henrietta, forming the comedy duo Gerald and His Hen.
1971
Musashimaru Kōyō
Samoan-American sumo wrestler, the 67th Yokozuna
Musashimaru Kōyō is an American-born Japanese-naturalized former professional sumo wrestler. He was born in American Samoa, before moving to Hawaii at the age of 10.
1962
Jimmy White
English snooker player
James Warren White is an English professional snooker player, commentator and pundit.
1601
Athanasius Kircher
German priest and scholar (died 1680)
Athanasius Kircher was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
1887
Eddie Collins
American baseball player and manager (died 1951)
Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr., nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive.
1915
Peggy Mount
English actress (died 2001)
Margaret Rose Mount was an English actress. As a child, she found acting an escape from an unhappy home life.
1882
Isabel González
Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship (died 1971)
Isabel González was a Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship.
1954
Dawn Primarolo
English politician
Dawn Primarolo, Baroness Primarolo, is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Bristol South from 1987 until 2015, when she stood down.
1996
Cherprang Areekul
Thai singer
Cherprang Areekul is a former member of the Thai idol girl group BNK48, an international sister group of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48.
1754
Vicente Martín y Soler
Spanish composer (died 1806)
Anastasio Martín Ignacio Vicente Tadeo Francisco Pellegrin Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet.
1885
Hedda Hopper
American actress and gossip columnist (died 1966)
Elda Furry, known professionally as Hedda Hopper, was an American gossip columnist and actress. At the height of her influence in the 1940s, more than 35 million people read her columns.
1980
Troy Murphy
American basketball player
Troy Brandon Murphy is an American former professional basketball player who played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Murphy was born in Morristown, New Jersey but grew up in Sparta Township.
1945
Judge Dread
English singer-songwriter (died 1998)
Alexander Minto Hughes, better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician.
1860
Theodor Herzl
Austro-Hungarian Zionist philosopher, journalist and author (died 1904)
Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who was the father of modern political Zionism.
1969
Brian Lara
Trinidadian cricketer
Brian Charles Lara is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely renowned as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
1923
Patrick Hillery
Irish physician and politician, 6th President of Ireland (died 2008)
Patrick John Hillery was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1976 to December 1990.
1954
Elliot Goldenthal
American composer and conductor
Elliot Goldenthal is an American composer of contemporary classical music and film and theatrical scores.
1844
Elijah McCoy
Canadian-American engineer (died 1929)
Elijah J. McCoy was a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines.