August 2nd, 1592

Born on August 2nd, 1592

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 1592

50

Hong Taiji

1st emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1592-1643)

*November 28th, 1592, Hetu Ala City †September 21st, 1643, Manchuria

43

Wilhelm Schickard

German astronomer, mathematician

*April 22nd, 1592, Herrenberg †October 24th, 1635, Tübingen

60

Ferdinand Geizkofler

Baron and director of the court chancellery of Württemberg (1592-1653)

*June 19th, 1592, Augsburg †February 2nd, 1653, Regensburg

68

Pierre d'Hozier

French genealogist (1592-1660)

*July 10th, 1592, Marseille †December 1st, 1660, Paris

61

Cornelis Bicker

Dutch regency and politician (1592-1654)

*October 25th, 1592, Amsterdam †September 15th, 1654, Amsterdam

56

Wilhelm Leyser

German theologian

*October 26th, 1592, Brunswick †February 8th, 1649, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

71

Jacopo Vignali

Italian painter (1592-1664)

*September 5th, 1592, Pratovecchio †August 3rd, 1664, Florence

70

Johan Printz

Swedish military and governor of New Sweden

*July 20th, 1592, Jönköping †May 3rd, 1663, Jönköping

86

Roger Conant

American city founder

*April 9th, 1592, England †January 1st, 1679, Massachusetts

74

Johann Adam Schall von Bell

German astronomer and Jesuit missionary active in China

*May 1st, 1592, Lüftelberg †August 15th, 1666, Beijing

63

Krzysztof Arciszewski

Polish-Lithuanian general

*December 9th, 1592, Rogalin †April 7th, 1656, Gdańsk

84

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

English polymath and aristocrat (1592-1676)

*December 6th, 1592, Handsworth †December 25th, 1676, Welbeck

49

Anton Wolff von Todenwarth

*January 1st, 1592, Speyer †January 1st, 1641

42

Johannes Kempf

*October 18th, 1592, Marburg †June 25th, 1635

62

John Southworth

English martyr

*January 1st, 1592, Lancashire †June 28th, 1654, Tyburn

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: 1592 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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