August 2nd, 1528

Born on August 2nd, 1528

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 181,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 151 days, exactly on November 19th, 2026, people who were born on August 2nd, 1528 will be 182,000 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 1528

74

Maria of Austria, Holy Roman Empress

Holy Roman empress (1528-1603)

*June 21st, 1528, Madrid †February 26th, 1603, Convent of Las Descalzas Reales

47

Luis de Requesens y de Zúñiga

Spanish politician

*August 25th, 1528, Molins de Rei †March 5th, 1576, Brussels metropolitan area

71

Philippe Hurault de Cheverny

French politician

*March 25th, 1528, Cheverny †July 30th, 1599, Cheverny

60

Petrus Peckius the Elder

Jurist and one of the first to write about international maritime law

*November 30th, 1528, Zierikzee †July 16th, 1589, Mechelen

71

Francisco Guerrero

Spanish composer of the Renaissance

*October 4th, 1528, Seville †November 8th, 1599, Seville

32

Petrus Lotichius Secundus

German Neo-Latin Poet (1528-1560)

*November 2nd, 1528, Schlüchtern †November 7th, 1560, Heidelberg

63

Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu

English politician (1528-1592)

*November 29th, 1528, England †October 19th, 1592, West Horsley

59

Qi Jiguang

Ming Dynasty general

*November 17th, 1528, Shandong †January 5th, 1588

60

Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Prince of Wolfenbüttel and Calenberg (1528-1589)

*June 29th, 1528, Wolfenbüttel †May 3rd, 1589, Wolfenbüttel

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1528 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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