August 1st, 1663

Born on August 1st, 1663

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 132,000 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 1663

65

Cotton Mather

American religious minister and scientific writer

*February 12th, 1663, Boston †February 13th, 1728, Boston

64

August Hermann Francke

German Lutheran clergyman, philanthropist and Biblical scholar (1663-1727)

*March 22nd, 1663, Lübeck †June 8th, 1727, Halle (Saale)

42

Guillaume Amontons

French scientific instrument inventor and physicist (1663-1705)

*August 31st, 1663, Paris †October 11th, 1705, Paris

66

Georg Nitsch

German theologian (1663-1729)

*March 12th, 1663, Strelitz-Alt †November 20th, 1729, Gotha

82

Imre Esterházy

Hungarian archbishop (1663–1745)

*November 8th, 1663, Nové Mesto nad Váhom †December 6th, 1745, Bratislava

64

Johann Andreas Eisenbarth

German surgeon (1663-1727)

*March 27th, 1663, Oberviechtach †November 11th, 1727, Hann. Münden

69

Peter Hohmann

Leipzig merchant and town councillor, raised to nobility

*January 1st, 1663, Könnern †January 1st, 1732, Leipzig

47

Louis Carré

Mathematician

*July 26th, 1663, Nangis †April 11th, 1711, Paris

63

Giulio Piazza

Italian cardinal (1663-1726)

*March 13th, 1663, Forlì †April 23rd, 1726, Faenza

74

Curzio Origo

Italian cardinal

*March 13th, 1663, Rome †March 18th, 1737, Rome

72

Frederick William, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

*September 20th, 1663, Hechingen †November 14th, 1735, Hechingen

67

Luca Carlevarijs

Italian baroque painter (1663-1730)

*January 20th, 1663, Udine †February 12th, 1730, Venice

79

Jean-Baptiste Massillon

French Catholic bishop and famous preacher

*June 24th, 1663, Hyères †September 28th, 1742, Beauregard-l'Évêque

69

George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington

Royal Navy admiral (1663-1733)

*January 27th, 1663, Kent †January 17th, 1733, London

50

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Tuscan prince

*August 9th, 1663, Florence †October 31st, 1713, Florence

76

Georg Friedrich Schröer

German theologian

*March 19th, 1663, Jawor †March 23rd, 1739, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

68

Francis Atterbury

British bishop; (1663-1732)

*March 6th, 1663, Middleton †February 22nd, 1732, Paris

82

Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Italian composer and violinist

*March 7th, 1663, Bologna †May 9th, 1745, Modena

86

Rodrigo Caballero y Llanes

Spanish politician

*August 5th, 1663, Valverde del Camino †November 30th, 1749

68

Ferdinand Joseph von Herwarth

*January 1st, 1663, Munich †January 1st, 1731, Munich

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 1663 is a normal year and no leap year.

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