August 2nd, 1526

Born on August 2nd, 1526

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 182,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 395 days, exactly on August 15th, 2027, people who were born on August 2nd, 1526 will be 183,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 2nd?

August 2nd, 1971

The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.

August 2nd, 1973

A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

August 2nd, 1947

Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.

August 2nd, 1939

Leo Szilard (pictured) penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.

August 2nd, 1932

At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.

August 2nd, 1923

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.

August 2nd, 1920

Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.

August 2nd, 1916

An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.

August 2nd, 1870

One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway (interior depicted), a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London.

August 2nd, 1790

The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.

August 2nd, 1100

While on a hunting trip in the New Forest, King William II of England was killed by an arrow through the lung loosed by one of his own men.

August 2nd, 0461

Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.

January 1st, 1970

An allied army led by Philip II of Macedon overcame the forces of city-states led by Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony over the majority of ancient Greece.

August 2nd, 1914

The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.

August 2nd, 1945

World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same year
Born in 1526

64

Luis de León

Spanish poet

*November 30th, 1526, Belmonte †August 23rd, 1591, Madrigal de las Altas Torres

56

Catherine Jagellon

Queen of Sweden

*November 1st, 1526, Kraków †September 16th, 1583, Stockholm Palace

72

Heinrich Rantzau

German humanist writer, astrologer, and astrological writer

*March 11th, 1526, Steinburg †December 31st, 1598, Schloss Breitenburg

42

Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

*September 26th, 1526, Zweibrücken †June 11th, 1569, Nexon

80

Martin Crusius

German historian and classical philologist

*September 19th, 1526, Gräfenberg †February 14th, 1607, Tübingen

56

Akechi Mitsuhide

16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga

*January 1st, 1526, Mino Province †July 2nd, 1582, Settsu Province

66

Christian Schütz

German theologian

*January 1st, 1526, Waldkappel †January 10th, 1592, Dresden

59

Muretus

French philosopher

*April 22nd, 1526, Limoges †June 4th, 1585, Rome

18

Elizabeth of Austria

Austrian princess, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania (1543-1545)

*July 9th, 1526, Linz †June 15th, 1545, Vilnius

77

Dorothy Stafford

English noblewoman and courtier (1526-1604)

*October 1st, 1526, England †September 22nd, 1604

81

Johann Stromer

*July 22nd, 1526, Auerbach in der Oberpfalz †October 11th, 1607, Jena

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 2nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Romani genocide-related observances, including) which are celebrated on August 2nd.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1526 is a normal year and no leap year.

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