August 2nd, 1629

Born on August 2nd, 1629

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 1629

54

Pieter de Hooch

Dutch Golden Age painter (1629-1684)

*December 20th, 1629, Rotterdam †March 24th, 1684, Amsterdam

68

Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg

German prince (1629-1698)

*November 20th, 1629, Herzberg am Harz †January 23rd, 1698, Hanover

67

Niels Juel

Danish admiral (1629-1697)

*May 8th, 1629, Christiania †April 8th, 1697, Copenhagen

55

Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll

Scottish politician

*February 26th, 1629, Dalkeith †January 1st, 1685, Edinburgh

73

Samuel Oppenheimer

German-Jewish financier

*November 30th, 1629, Heidelberg †May 3rd, 1703, Vienna

35

Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat

Italian noble (1629-1665)

*October 31st, 1629, Mantua †August 14th, 1665, Mantua

47

Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg

Titular Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg and Count of Nassau-Schaumburg

*January 23rd, 1629, Dillenburg †December 19th, 1676, Hadamar

62

Jan Commelin

Dutch botanist (1629-1692)

*April 23rd, 1629, Leiden †January 19th, 1692, Amsterdam

55

Werner Theodor Martini

German judge

*June 14th, 1629, Salzwedel †March 10th, 1685, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

41

Abraham Teniers

Flemish painter (1629-1670)

*January 1st, 1629, Antwerp †January 1st, 1670, Antwerp

62

Jean-Henri d'Anglebert

French harpsichordist and composer

*April 1st, 1629, Bar-le-Duc †April 23rd, 1691, Paris

42

Agneta Horn

Swedish writer

*August 18th, 1629, Riga †March 18th, 1672, Stockholm City

70

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Italian painter (1629-1700)

*September 4th, 1629, Bologna †March 4th, 1700, Bologna

66

Charles Colbert, marquis de Croissy

French politician and diplomat (1629-1696)

*August 5th, 1629, Reims †July 28th, 1696, Versailles

71

Ahasverus Fritsch

German jurist, poet and hymn writer (1629-1701)

*December 16th, 1629, Mücheln †August 24th, 1701, Rudolstadt

45

Johann Georg Crocius

*January 1st, 1629, Kassel †January 1st, 1674

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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

No: With 365 days 1629 is a normal year and no leap year.

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