August 2nd, 1721

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Born on August 2nd, 1721 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on August 2nd?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on August 2nd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (August 1721)

Born on August 2nd, 1721

Weekday

Saturday

August 2nd, 1721 was a Saturday.

Age

302

People born on August 2nd, 1721 will turn 303 this year (2024), in exactly 88 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1721 - August 23rd, 1721

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 110,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 419 days, exactly on June 29th, 2025, people who were born on August 2nd, 1721 will be 111,000 days old!

110,581 Days

15,797 Weeks

3,633 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on August 2nd?

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.

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, 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, 1945

World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

August 2nd, 1943

World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.

August 2nd, 1939

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 2nd?

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

Tang Yuanting

Chinese badminton player

*August 2nd, 1994, Nanning

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

*August 2nd, 1881, Finchley †February 22nd, 1970, Hammersmith

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

Peter O'Toole

British actor (1932–2013)

*August 2nd, 1932, Leeds †December 14th, 2013, Wellington Hospital, London

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

Niclas Nøhr

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1991, Vordingborg

Kira Kattenbeck

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1992, Steinfurt

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

Elavenil Valarivan

Indian sport shooter

*August 2nd, 1999, Cuddalore

Mary-Louise Parker

American actress (born 1964)

*August 2nd, 1964, Fort Jackson

Bernhard Ernst von Bülow

Danish and German politician (1815-1879)

*August 2nd, 1815, Cismar †October 20th, 1879, Frankfurt

Same year
Born in 1721

Tobias Smollett

18th-century poet and author from Scotland

*March 19th, 1721, Cardross †September 17th, 1771, Livorno

Madame de Pompadour

Chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)

*December 29th, 1721, Paris †April 15th, 1764, Versailles

Jean-Philippe Baratier

German scholar (1721-1740)

*January 19th, 1721, Schwabach †October 5th, 1740, Halle (Saale)

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

French statesman (1721-1794)

*December 6th, 1721, Paris †April 22nd, 1794, Paris

Roger Sherman

Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721-1793)

*April 19th, 1721, Newton †July 23rd, 1793, New Haven

John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721-1767)

*January 8th, 1721, Rudolstadt †July 10th, 1767, Rudolstadt

Mark Akenside

English poet and physician

*November 9th, 1721, Newcastle upon Tyne †June 23rd, 1770, London

Domenico Corvi

Italian painter (1721-1803)

*September 16th, 1721, Viterbo †July 22nd, 1803, Rome

Christian Gotthelf von Gutschmid

German politician (1721-1798)

*December 12th, 1721, Kahren †December 30th, 1798, Dresden

Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

German general

*February 3rd, 1721, Kalkar †August 27th, 1773, Oława

Franz Anton Knittel

German theologian

*April 3rd, 1721, Salzdahlum †December 10th, 1792, Wolfenbüttel

Johann Samuel Diterich

German Archdeacon and parson (1721-1797)

*January 1st, 1721, Berlin †January 1st, 1797, Berlin

Eliphalet Dyer

American judge and politician

*September 14th, 1721, Windham †May 13th, 1807, Windham

James Elphinston

British linguist

*December 6th, 1721, Edinburgh †October 8th, 1809

Friedrich Samuel Zickler

*November 14th, 1721, Rödigsdorf †April 23rd, 1779, Jena

Robert Strange

Scottish engraver

*July 14th, 1721, Kirkwall †July 5th, 1792, London

Bernardo Bellotto

Italian artist

*January 30th, 1721, Venice †November 17th, 1780, Warsaw

Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford

British politician (1721-1803)

*August 4th, 1721, Swynnerton †October 26th, 1803, Trentham Gardens

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

German professor of botany and chemistry (1721-1768)

*August 19th, 1721, Tübingen †May 9th, 1768, Tübingen

Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken

German noble (1721-1774)

*March 9th, 1721, Ribeauvillé †March 30th, 1774, Darmstadt

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 2nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Romani genocide-related observances, including) which are celebrated on August 2nd.

Portiuncola Indulgence ("Pardon of Assisi"), the plenary indulgence related to St. Francis of Assisi (Catholic Church).

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portiuncula

Samuel David Ferguson (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_David_Ferguson

August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)

Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Azerbaijan

Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgen_de_los_Ángeles

Paratroopers Day (Russia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Day

Republic Day (North Macedonia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_(North_Macedonia)

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (Council of Europe, European Parliament)

Romani genocide-related observances, includingen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roma_Holocaust_Memorial_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

II.VIII.MDCCXXI

2.8.1721

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1721 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1721

August 1721

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02. August 1722
02. August 1726
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August 2nd, 1721

Born on August 2nd, 1721

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 110,000 days old!

110,581 Days

15,797 Weeks

3,633 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 2nd?

A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.

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.

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.

Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.

Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn.

An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.

One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway, a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London.

The first United States census was officially completed, with the nation's residential population enumerated to be 3,929,214.

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.

Unpopular among the Senate aristocracy for his reforming efforts, Roman emperor Majorian was deposed by Ricimer and executed five days later.

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.

World War II: End of the Potsdam Conference.

World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.

Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same Day Who's birthday is on August 2nd?

Same year Born in 1721

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 2nd

Basil Fool for Christ (Russian Orthodox Church)

Justin Russolillo

Peter Faber

Peter Julian Eymard

Plegmund

Pope Stephen I

Portiuncola Indulgence ("Pardon of Assisi"), the plenary indulgence related to St. Francis of Assisi (Catholic Church).

Samuel David Ferguson (Episcopal Church)

August 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of Azerbaijani cinema (Azerbaijan)

Our Lady of the Angels Day (Costa Rica)

Paratroopers Day (Russia)

Republic Day (North Macedonia)

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day (Council of Europe, European Parliament)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

2.8.1721

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 110,000 days old!

Birthdays
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Calendar
August 1721

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31					1	2	3
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