August 2nd, 1575

Born on August 2nd, 1575

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

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 315 days, exactly on May 4th, 2027, people who were born on August 2nd, 1575 will be 165,000 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 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

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

74

Robert Heath

English judge and politician; (1575-1649)

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

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 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 1575 is a normal year and no leap year.

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