August 1st, 1473

Born on August 1st, 1473

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 201,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 76 days, exactly on August 22nd, 2026, people who were born on August 1st, 1473 will be 202,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 1st?

August 1st, 2009

A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.

August 1st, 2007

Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.

August 1st, 2004

Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.

August 1st, 1991

U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.

August 1st, 1984

Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.

August 1st, 1981

"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.

August 1st, 1971

The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.

August 1st, 1946

Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia.

August 1st, 1911

Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.

August 1st, 1892

Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.

August 1st, 1876

Colorado was admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

August 1st, 1842

Three days of rioting erupted after a parade in Philadelphia, celebrating the end of slavery in the West Indies, was attacked by a mob.

August 1st, 1814

Britain celebrated a Grand Jubilee to mark 100 years since the accession of George I and 16 years since the start of the Battle of the Nile.

August 1st, 1801

First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya.

August 1st, 1798

French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile, between a British fleet commanded by Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, began at Aboukir Bay off the Egyptian coast.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 1st

Same year
Born in 1473

70

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)

*February 19th, 1473, Toruń †May 24th, 1543, Frombork

66

Nityananda

Hindu saint

*January 12th, 1473, India †November 30th, 1539, India

40

James IV of Scotland

King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513

*March 17th, 1473, Holyrood Abbey †September 9th, 1513, Northumberland

67

Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

English peeress, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (1473-1541)

*August 14th, 1473, Bath †May 27th, 1541, Tower of London

34

Ercole Strozzi

Italian poet

*September 2nd, 1473, Ferrara †June 6th, 1508, Ferrara

46

Maddalena de' Medici

Italian noble

*July 25th, 1473, Florence †December 2nd, 1519, Rome

9

Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York

Second son of King Edward IV of England, younger of the princes in the Tower

*August 17th, 1473, Shrewsbury †June 26th, 1483, London

54

Georg von Frundsberg

German noble

*September 24th, 1473, Mindelheim †August 20th, 1528, Mindelheim

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 1st

Fixed holidays (Emancipation Day is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect which abolished chattel slavery in the British Empire, Christian feast day, The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere) which are celebrated on August 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1473 is a normal year and no leap year.

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