August 2nd, 1564

Born on August 2nd, 1564

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 168,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 307 days, exactly on April 17th, 2027, people who were born on August 2nd, 1564 will be 169,000 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 1564

52

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (1564–1616)

*March 31st, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon †April 23rd, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon

77

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath (1564–1642)

*February 15th, 1564, Pisa †January 8th, 1642, Arcetri

29

Christopher Marlowe

English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593)

*February 6th, 1564, Canterbury †May 30th, 1593, Deptford

62

Pierre Coton

French Jesuit priest (1564-1626)

*January 1st, 1564, Néronde †March 19th, 1626, Paris

39

Johann Adam von Bicken

Archbishop-Elector

*May 27th, 1564, Netphen †January 11th, 1604, Aschaffenburg

68

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland

English aristocrat (1564-1632)

*April 27th, 1564, Tynemouth †November 5th, 1632, Petworth

46

Ernest II

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

*December 31st, 1564, Celle †March 2nd, 1611, Celle

72

Antonius Matthaeus

German jurist (1564-1637)

*December 27th, 1564, Frankenberg †May 28th, 1637, Groningen

64

Johannes Buxtorf

German Calvinist theologian

*December 25th, 1564, Kamen †September 13th, 1629, Basel

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

Yes: 1564 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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