August 2nd, 1595

Born on August 2nd, 1595

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 1595

60

Edward Winslow

Mayflower passenger (1595-1655)

*January 1st, 1595, Droitwich Spa †January 1st, 1655, Caribbean Sea

58

Alessandro Algardi

Italian sculptor (1598–1654)

*July 31st, 1595, Bologna †June 10th, 1654, Rome

62

Juan Eusebio Nieremberg

Spanish mystic (1595-1658)

*September 9th, 1595, Madrid †April 7th, 1658, Madrid

89

György Szelepcsényi

Slovak archbishop, philosopher, lawyer and artist (1595-1685)

*April 24th, 1595, Slepčany †January 14th, 1685, Letovice

67

Maximilian Kurtz von Senftenau

German diplomat

*July 10th, 1595, Munich †July 10th, 1662, Munich

66

Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth

English politician

*January 15th, 1595, Denham †June 13th, 1661, Rickmansworth

57

George Rudolf of Liegnitz

Polish noble

*January 22nd, 1595, Oława †January 14th, 1653, Wrocław

52

Giovanni Battista Doni

Italian musicologist

*March 13th, 1595, Florence †December 1st, 1647, Florence

75

Meno Hanneken

German theologian

*March 1st, 1595, Blexen †February 17th, 1671, Lübeck

37

Henri II de Montmorency

French admiral and noble (1595-1632)

*April 30th, 1595, Chantilly †October 30th, 1632, Toulouse

40

Hans Ulrich von Schaffgotsch

German soldier

*January 1st, 1595, Gryf Castle †January 1st, 1635, Regensburg

57

Willem Cornelisz Backer

Amsterdam mayor and VOC board member (1595–1652)

*April 17th, 1595, Amsterdam †October 5th, 1652, Amsterdam

77

Lucas van Uden

Flemish painter (1595-1672)

*October 18th, 1595, Antwerp †November 4th, 1672, Antwerp

45

Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

Polish writer (1595-1640)

*February 24th, 1595, Sarbiewo, Masovian Voivodeship †April 2nd, 1640, Warsaw

54

Jerzy Ossoliński

Polish noble (1595-1650)

*December 15th, 1595, Sandomierz †August 9th, 1650, Warsaw

87

Heo Mok

Korean politician, poet and scholar (1595-1682)

*January 1st, 1595, Seoul †April 27th, 1682, Yeongcheon

66

Henry Lawes

English musician and composer

*December 5th, 1595, Wiltshire †October 21st, 1662, London

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 1595 is a normal year and no leap year.

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