August 1st, 1575

Born on August 1st, 1575

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 164,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 286 days, exactly on May 3rd, 2027, people who were born on August 1st, 1575 will be 165,000 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 1575

66

Guido Reni

Bolognese painter (1575–1642)

*November 4th, 1575, Bologna †August 18th, 1642, Bologna

51

Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby

British businesswoman

*July 2nd, 1575, Theobalds House †March 10th, 1627, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

74

Robert Heath

English judge and politician; (1575-1649)

*May 20th, 1575, Edenbridge †August 20th, 1649, Calais

36

Anne Catherine of Brandenburg

Queen consort of Norway and Denmark

*June 26th, 1575, Halle (Saale) †April 8th, 1612, Copenhagen

79

Francesco Molin

Doge of Venice (1575-1655)

*April 21st, 1575, Venice †February 27th, 1655, Venice

51

Friedrich Balduin

German theologian (1575-1627)

*November 17th, 1575, Dresden †May 1st, 1627, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

41

John Adolphus, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1575-1616)

*February 27th, 1575, Gottorf Castle †March 31st, 1616, Schleswig

80

Pierre de Conty d'Argencour

*October 24th, 1575, Alès †October 31st, 1655, Narbonne

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 1575 is a normal year and no leap year.

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