August 2nd, 1609

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Born on August 2nd, 1609 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on August 2nd?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on August 2nd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (August 1609)

Born on August 2nd, 1609

Weekday

Sunday

August 2nd, 1609 was a Sunday.

Age

414

People born on August 2nd, 1609 will turn 415 this year (2024), in exactly 31 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1609 - August 23rd, 1609

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 151,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 455 days, exactly on September 30th, 2025, people who were born on August 2nd, 1609 will be 152,000 days old!

151,545 Days

21,649 Weeks

4,979 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 2nd?

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.

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, 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, 1945

World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

August 2nd, 1943

World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.

August 2nd, 1939

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 2nd?

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

Tang Yuanting

Chinese badminton player

*August 2nd, 1994, Nanning

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

*August 2nd, 1881, Finchley †February 22nd, 1970, Hammersmith

Saskia van Uylenburgh

Wife of Rembrandt van Rijn

*August 2nd, 1612, Leeuwarden †June 14th, 1642, Amsterdam

Peter O'Toole

British actor (1932–2013)

*August 2nd, 1932, Leeds †December 14th, 2013, Wellington Hospital, London

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

Niclas Nøhr

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1991, Vordingborg

Kira Kattenbeck

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1992, Steinfurt

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

Elavenil Valarivan

Indian sport shooter

*August 2nd, 1999, Cuddalore

Mary-Louise Parker

American actress (born 1964)

*August 2nd, 1964, Fort Jackson

Same year
Born in 1609

Frederick III of Denmark

King of Denmark and Norway from 1648 to 1670

*March 18th, 1609, Haderslev †February 9th, 1670, Copenhagen Castle

Gerrard Winstanley

English reformer and activist (1609-1676)

*October 19th, 1609, Wigan †September 10th, 1676, London

Artus Quellinus the Elder

Flemish sculptor (1609–1668)

*August 30th, 1609, Antwerp †August 23rd, 1668, Antwerp

Matthew Hale

English jurist and scholar (1609–1676)

*November 1st, 1609, Alderley †December 25th, 1676, Alderley House

Ádám Batthyány

(1609–1659) Hungarian noble

*February 14th, 1609, Güssing †March 15th, 1659, Rechnitz

Raimondo Montecuccoli

Politician and military commander of the Holy Roman Empire (1609-1680)

*February 21st, 1609, Castello di Montecuccolo †October 16th, 1680, Linz

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

English politician and historian (1609–1674)

*February 18th, 1609, London †December 9th, 1674, Rouen

Paul Fleming

Physician, poet, diplomat

*October 5th, 1609, Hartenstein †April 2nd, 1640, Hamburg

John Suckling

English poet

*February 10th, 1609, London †June 1st, 1642, Paris

Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato

Italian painter (1609–1685)

*August 25th, 1609, Sassoferrato †August 8th, 1685, Rome

Kazimierz Leon Sapieha

Lithuanian noble (1609-1656)

*July 15th, 1609, Vilnius †January 19th, 1656, Brest

Henrietta Maria of France

Queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I

*November 25th, 1609, Paris †September 10th, 1669, Colombes

Ernst Ludwig Avemann

*January 1st, 1609, Eisenach †January 1st, 1689

John II Casimir Vasa

King of Poland (1648–1668)

*March 22nd, 1609, Kraków †December 16th, 1672, Nevers

Johann Heinrich Schönfeld

German painter in the Baroque style (1609-1684)

*March 23rd, 1609, Biberach an der Riss †July 12th, 1684, Augsburg

Giovanni Bona

Catholic cardinal

*October 10th, 1609, Mondovì †October 28th, 1674, Rome

Josias von Rantzou

Danish military, marshal of France

*October 18th, 1609, Bothkamp †September 14th, 1650, Paris

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria

Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, Cardinal Infante, Archbishop of Toledo (1609-1641)

*May 16th, 1609, Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial †November 9th, 1641, Brussels metropolitan area

Pierre-Paul Riquet

French engineer

*June 29th, 1609, Béziers †October 1st, 1680, Toulouse

Nicolas Fiva

Swiss mathematician

*August 15th, 1609, Fribourg †January 1st, 1640, Hangzhou

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.

Portiuncola Indulgence ("Pardon of Assisi"), the plenary indulgence related to St. Francis of Assisi (Catholic Church).

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portiuncula

Samuel David Ferguson (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_David_Ferguson

August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)

Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Azerbaijan

Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgen_de_los_Ángeles

Paratroopers Day (Russia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Day

Republic Day (North Macedonia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_(North_Macedonia)

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (Council of Europe, European Parliament)

Romani genocide-related observances, includingen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Holocaust_Memorial_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

II.VIII.MDCIX

2.8.1609

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1609 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1609

August 1609

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August 2nd, 1609

Born on August 2nd, 1609

Weekday

Sunday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 151,000 days old!

151,545 Days

21,649 Weeks

4,979 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 2nd?

A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.

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.

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.

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.

Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn.

An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.

One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway, a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London.

The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.

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.

Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.

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.

World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same Day Who's birthday is on August 2nd?

Same year Born in 1609

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 2nd

Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)

Justin Russolillo

Peter Faber

Peter Julian Eymard

Plegmund

Pope Stephen I

Portiuncola Indulgence ("Pardon of Assisi"), the plenary indulgence related to St. Francis of Assisi (Catholic Church).

Samuel David Ferguson (Episcopal Church)

August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)

Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

Paratroopers Day (Russia)

Republic Day (North Macedonia)

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (Council of Europe, European Parliament)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

2.8.1609

Legend

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 151,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 2nd?

Same year
Born in 1609

Calendar
August 1609

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31						1	2
32	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
33	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
34	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
35	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
36	31