August 2nd, 1616

Born on August 2nd, 1616

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 1616

86

John Wallis

English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)

*November 23rd, 1616, Ashford †October 28th, 1703, Oxford

66

John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale

Scottish politician (1616-1682)

*May 24th, 1616, Lennoxlove House †July 31st, 1682, Royal Tunbridge Wells

88

Plautilla Bricci

Architect and painter (1616-1705)

*August 13th, 1616, Rome †November 30th, 1704, Trastevere

64

Antoinette Bourignon

17th-century French-Flemish mystic

*January 13th, 1616, Lille †October 30th, 1680, Franeker

60

Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria

Archduchess of Austria (1616-1676)

*July 21st, 1616, Florence †September 11th, 1676, Vienna

39

Johann Erasmus Kindermann

German composer and organist

*March 29th, 1616, Nuremberg †April 14th, 1655, Nuremberg

51

Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski

Polish noble

*January 20th, 1616, Wiśnicz †December 31st, 1667, Wrocław

54

Alexander Morus

Franco-Scottish preacher (1616-1670)

*September 25th, 1616, Castres †September 28th, 1670, Paris

55

Sébastien Bourdon

French painter (1616-1671)

*February 2nd, 1616, Montpellier †May 8th, 1671, Paris

17

Trijntje Keever

Tallest female

*January 10th, 1616, Edam †July 22nd, 1633, Veere

64

Thomas Bartholin

Danish physician, mathematician and theologian

*October 20th, 1616, Copenhagen †December 4th, 1680, Copenhagen

64

Ferdinand Bol

Dutch painter (1616-1680)

*June 24th, 1616, Dordrecht †June 30th, 1680, Amsterdam

87

Roger L'Estrange

English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims (1616-1704)

*December 17th, 1616, Hunstanton †December 11th, 1704, London

38

Eustache Le Sueur

French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting (1617-1655)

*November 19th, 1616, Paris †April 30th, 1655, Paris

63

Francisco Enríquez de Villacorta

*October 18th, 1616, Alcalá de Henares †January 1st, 1680, Alcalá de Henares

37

Henry Stone

British artist

*January 1st, 1616, London †August 24th, 1653, London

63

David Lewis

English Jesuit Catholic priest and martyr

*January 1st, 1616, Abergavenny †August 27th, 1679, Usk

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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: 1616 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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