August 1st, 1653

Born on August 1st, 1653

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 136,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 821 days, exactly on September 4th, 2028, people who were born on August 1st, 1653 will be 137,000 days old!

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What happened on August 1st?

August 1st, 2009

A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.

August 1st, 2007

Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.

August 1st, 2004

Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.

August 1st, 1991

U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.

August 1st, 1984

Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.

August 1st, 1981

"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.

August 1st, 1971

The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.

August 1st, 1946

Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia.

August 1st, 1911

Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.

August 1st, 1892

Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.

August 1st, 1876

Colorado was admitted as the 38th U.S. state.

August 1st, 1842

Three days of rioting erupted after a parade in Philadelphia, celebrating the end of slavery in the West Indies, was attacked by a mob.

August 1st, 1814

Britain celebrated a Grand Jubilee to mark 100 years since the accession of George I and 16 years since the start of the Battle of the Nile.

August 1st, 1801

First Barbary War: USS Enterprise, an American schooner, captured the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of Libya.

August 1st, 1798

French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of the Nile, between a British fleet commanded by Horatio Nelson and a French fleet under François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers, began at Aboukir Bay off the Egyptian coast.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 1st

Same year
Born in 1653

59

Arcangelo Corelli

Italian violinist and composer

*February 17th, 1653, Fusignano †January 8th, 1713, Rome

68

Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg

(1653-1722)

*June 30th, 1653, Bingenheim †May 16th, 1722, Grabow

79

Emperor Reigen

Emperor of Japan

*July 9th, 1653, Kyoto †September 24th, 1732, Kyoto

62

Johann Friedrich Gleditsch

German publisher; (1653-1716)

*August 15th, 1653, Pirna †March 26th, 1716, Leipzig

45

James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon

English nobleman (1653-1699)

*June 16th, 1653, Grimsthorpe Castle †May 22nd, 1699, City and Liberty of Westminster

49

John Benbow

Royal Navy Admiral (1653-1702)

*March 10th, 1653, Shrewsbury †November 4th, 1702, Port Royal

54

Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg

German noble

*January 6th, 1653, Gotha †April 28th, 1707, Eisenberg

44

Gaspar de la Cerda, 8th Count of Galve

Spanish noble (1653-1697)

*January 11th, 1653, Pastrana †March 12th, 1697, El Puerto de Santa María

81

Carlo Ruzzini

Doge of Venice

*November 11th, 1653, Venice †January 5th, 1735, Venice

53

Azam Shah

Seventh Mughal emperor (1653-1707)

*July 8th, 1653, Burhanpur †June 19th, 1707, Agra

76

Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour

French classical scholar (1653-1730)

*March 1st, 1653, Paris †January 4th, 1730, Paris

76

Anton Maria Salvini

Italian naturalist and classicist

*January 12th, 1653, Florence †May 17th, 1729, Florence

89

André-Hercule de Fleury

Catholic cardinal (1653-1743)

*June 22nd, 1653, Lodève †January 29th, 1743, Issy-les-Moulineaux

50

Giovanni Anastasi

Italian painter (1653-1704)

*March 17th, 1653, Senigallia †March 13th, 1704, Macerata

74

Johann Conrad Brunner

Swiss anatomist

*January 16th, 1653, Diessenhofen †October 2nd, 1727, Mannheim

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 1st

Fixed holidays (Emancipation Day is commemorated in many parts of the former British Empire, which marks the day the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into effect which abolished chattel slavery in the British Empire, Christian feast day, The beginning of autumn observances in the Northern hemisphere and spring observances in the Southern hemisphere) which are celebrated on August 1st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1653 is a normal year and no leap year.

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