August 2nd, 1628

Born on August 2nd, 1628

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 145,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 691 days, exactly on April 27th, 2028, people who were born on August 2nd, 1628 will be 146,000 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 1628

75

Charles Perrault

French author (1628-1703)

*January 12th, 1628, Paris †May 16th, 1703, Paris

66

Marcello Malpighi

Italian physician (1628-1694)

*March 10th, 1628, Crevalcore †November 29th, 1694, Rome

74

Dominique Bouhours

French literary critic

*May 15th, 1628, Paris †May 27th, 1702, Paris

91

Carlo Cignani

Italian painter (1628-1719)

*May 15th, 1628, Bologna †September 8th, 1719, Forlì

51

Guillaume Courtois

French painter of the Late Baroque (1628-1679)

*January 1st, 1628, Franche-Comté †June 15th, 1679, Rome

24

Marek Sobieski

Polish nobleman

*May 24th, 1628, Zolochiv †June 3rd, 1652, Chetvertinivka

78

Oswald Onghers

Flemish painter (1628-1706)

*October 5th, 1628, Mechelen †December 24th, 1706, Würzburg

86

Conrad von Rosen

French general of baltic origin

*September 29th, 1628, Livonia †August 3rd, 1715, Bollwiller

55

Johann Adam Schertzer

German theologian (1628-1683)

*August 1st, 1628, Cheb †December 23rd, 1683, Leipzig

55

Cornelis Speelman

Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (1628-1684)

*March 2nd, 1628, Rotterdam †January 11th, 1684, Jakarta

81

Alvise II Mocenigo

Doge of Venice (1628-1709)

*January 3rd, 1628, Venice †May 6th, 1709, Venice

66

Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé

French noble (1628-1694)

*February 25th, 1628, Brézé †April 16th, 1694, Châteauroux

56

Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Queen consort of Denmark and Norway

*March 24th, 1628, Herzberg am Harz †February 20th, 1685, Copenhagen

86

César d'Estrées

Catholic cardinal (1628-1714)

*February 5th, 1628, Paris †December 18th, 1714, Paris

51

Frans Burman

Dutch theologian (1628-1679)

*January 13th, 1628, Leiden †November 12th, 1679, Utrecht

86

Constantin Christian Dedekind

German poet, dramatist and composer

*April 2nd, 1628, Reinsdorf †January 1st, 1715, Dresden

86

Daniel Papebroch

Flemish Jesuit hagiographer (1628–1714)

*March 17th, 1628, Antwerp †June 28th, 1714, Antwerp

65

August Friedrich Mockel

German politician (1628-1694)

*December 2nd, 1628, Schwäbisch Hall †August 8th, 1694, Heilbronn

72

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

English Royalist soldier and statesman

*August 29th, 1628, Kilkhampton †August 22nd, 1701

72

Tokugawa Mitsukuni

Daimyo of the early Edo period; 2nd lord of Mito (1628-1701)

*July 11th, 1628, Mito †January 14th, 1701

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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: 1628 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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