August 2nd, 1669

Born on August 2nd, 1669

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 1669

23

Maria Antonia of Austria

Archduchess of Austria (1669-1692)

*January 18th, 1669, Vienna †December 24th, 1692, Vienna

63

Alamanno Salviati

Italian cardinal (1669-1733)

*March 21st, 1669, Florence †February 24th, 1733, Rome

57

Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym

First ruling Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1669-1727)

*June 28th, 1669, Bernburg †May 17th, 1727, Bad Ems

36

George of Hesse-Darmstadt

Governor of Gibraltar (1669-1705)

*April 25th, 1669, Darmstadt †September 14th, 1705, Barcelona

57

Aurora Sanseverino

Italian noblewoman, poet, actress, patron

*April 28th, 1669, Grumento Nova †July 2nd, 1726, Piedimonte Matese

42

Philip William of Brandenburg-Schwedt

First Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and governor of Magdeburg from 1692 to 1711

*May 19th, 1669, Königsberg †December 19th, 1711, Schwedt Palace

49

Leonhard Christoph Sturm

German mathematician (1669-1719)

*November 5th, 1669, Altdorf bei Nürnberg †June 6th, 1719, Blankenburg

58

Pietro Priuli

Italian cardinal

*March 14th, 1669, Venice †January 22nd, 1728, Venice

61

Friederike Elisabeth of Saxe-Eisenach

(1669-1730)

*May 5th, 1669, Altenkirchen (Westerwald) †November 12th, 1730, Bad Langensalza

63

Louis Marchand

French keyboardist and composer

*February 2nd, 1669, Lyon †February 17th, 1732, Paris

72

Magnus Julius De la Gardie

Swedish general and statesman (1669-1741)

*April 14th, 1669, Stockholm †April 28th, 1741, Stockholm

49

Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł

Polish prince (1669-1719)

*November 27th, 1669, Kraków †August 2nd, 1719, Biała Podlaska

58

Anne Marie d'Orléans

Queen Consort of Sardinia (1669-1728)

*August 27th, 1669, Saint-Cloud †August 26th, 1728, Villa della Regina

80

Isaak Steiger

Swiss politician (1669-1749)

*March 7th, 1669, Aarburg †December 20th, 1749, Bern

88

Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow

German general

*December 17th, 1669, Myślibórz †March 28th, 1758, Neuruppin

71

Urban Gottfried Siber

German theologian

*December 12th, 1669, Bad Schandau †June 15th, 1741, Leipzig

33

Charlotte Marie of Saxe-Jena

German noblewoman

*December 20th, 1669, Jena †January 6th, 1703, Gräfentonna

67

Kada no Azumamaro

Poet

*February 3rd, 1669, Fushimi Inari-taisha †August 8th, 1736

70

Gisela Agnes of Rath

Countess of Nienburg; regent of the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen (1669-1740)

*October 9th, 1669 †March 12th, 1740, Nienburg (Saale)

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1669 is a normal year and no leap year.

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