August 2nd, 1714

Born on August 2nd, 1714

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 1714

71

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

French sculptor (1714-1785)

*January 26th, 1714, Rueil-Malmaison †August 20th, 1785, Paris

73

Christoph Willibald von Gluck

Opera composer (1714–1787)

*July 2nd, 1714, Erasbach †November 15th, 1787, Vienna

74

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

German composer (1714–1788)

*March 8th, 1714, Weimar †December 14th, 1788, Hamburg

59

Niccolò Jommelli

Italian composer (1714–1774)

*September 10th, 1714, Aversa †August 25th, 1774, Naples

72

Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch

German botanist (1714–1786)

*February 5th, 1714, Leipzig †October 5th, 1786, Berlin

73

Johan Daniel Berlin

Norwegian composer and organist (1714-1787)

*May 12th, 1714, Klaipėda †November 4th, 1787, Trondheim

88

Christoph Anton Migazzi

Catholic bishop (1714-1803)

*October 14th, 1714, Trento †April 14th, 1803, Vienna

74

Virgilius Augustin Maria von Firmian

Austrian bishop

*February 16th, 1714, Trento †August 4th, 1788, Passau

38

Friedrich Christian Glume

German sculptor (1714-1752)

*March 25th, 1714, Berlin †April 6th, 1752, Berlin

75

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

French painter, draughtsman and administrator (1714-1789)

*March 6th, 1714, Paris †May 15th, 1789, Paris

63

Sebastian Sailer

Premonstratensian preacher and writer

*February 12th, 1714, Weißenhorn †March 7th, 1777, Obermarchtal

78

Princess Marie Victoire d'Arenberg

Belgian noble (1714-1793)

*October 26th, 1714, Brussels †April 13th, 1793, Strasbourg

45

Alaungpaya

King of Burma

*September 24th, 1714, Shwebo †May 11th, 1760, Mottama

83

Anton Raaff

German opera tenor

*May 6th, 1714, Gelsdorf †May 28th, 1797, Munich

84

James Burnett, Lord Monboddo

Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher

*October 25th, 1714, Kincardineshire †May 26th, 1799, Edinburgh

73

Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun

German scientist (1714-1787)

*January 10th, 1714, Viechtach †June 14th, 1787, Munich

85

Adam Stanisław Krasiński

Polish bishop

*April 4th, 1714, Kraków †January 1st, 1800, Krasne, Masovian Voivodeship

60

Anna Morandi Manzolini

Italian artist (1714-1774)

*January 21st, 1714, Bologna †July 9th, 1774, Bologna

71

Georg Ernst von Holtzendorff

German officer (1714-1785)

*February 14th, 1714, Calbe †December 10th, 1785, Berlin

70

César-François Cassini de Thury

French cartographer and astronomer (1714-1784)

*June 17th, 1714, Paris †September 3rd, 1784, Paris

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1714 is a normal year and no leap year.

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