March 2nd, 1739

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Born on March 2nd, 1739 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on March 2nd?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on March 2nd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (March 1739)

Born on March 2nd, 1739

Weekday

Monday

March 2nd, 1739 was a Monday.

Age

285

People born on March 2nd, 1739 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 285 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1739 - March 20th, 1739

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 104,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 841 days, exactly on August 24th, 2026, people who were born on March 2nd, 1739 will be 105,000 days old!

104,159 Days

14,879 Weeks

3,422 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 2nd?

March 2nd, 1995

Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois announced the discovery of the top quark, the most massive of all observed elementary particles.

March 2nd, 1978

As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek (pictured) became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.

March 2nd, 1965

The Sound of Music is released in American theatres; it later became the highest grossing film of all time.

March 2nd, 1962

Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (pictured) scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, which remains an NBA record.

March 2nd, 1949

The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world by airplane.

March 2nd, 1943

World War II: Australian and U.S. air forces attacked and destroyed a large Japanese naval convoy in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea.

March 2nd, 1901

U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was founded by financier J. P. Morgan.

March 2nd, 1877

The Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.

March 2nd, 1865

New Zealand Wars: Carl Sylvius Völkner, a Protestant missionary, was killed by Hauhau militants in Ōpōtiki for working as an agent for New Zealand governor-general George Grey.

March 2nd, 1859

The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.

March 2nd, 1836

Texas Revolution: At a convention of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence, establishing the Republic of Texas.

March 2nd, 1791

French inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the semaphore telegraph, a system to convey information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting crossarms.

March 2nd, 1776

American Revolutionary War: Patriot militiamen from Georgia and South Carolina attempted to resist the British action to seize and remove supply ships anchored at Savannah, Georgia.

March 2nd, 1484

The College of Arms, one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe, was incorporated by royal charter in the City of London.

March 2nd, 1444

The League of Lezhë, an alliance of regional chieftains, was established in Venetian Albania with Skanderbeg as their commander.

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

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

Becky G

American singer and actress

*March 2nd, 1997, Inglewood

Mikhail Gorbachev

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991

*March 2nd, 1931, Privolnoye †August 30th, 2022, Central Clinical Hospital

Jens Arentzen

Danish actor

*March 2nd, 1958, Frederiksberg †November 22nd, 2022

Robert H. Michel

American politician (1923–2017)

*March 2nd, 1923, Peoria †February 17th, 2017, Arlington County

Dr. Seuss

American children's author and cartoonist (1904–1991)

*March 2nd, 1904, Springfield †September 24th, 1991, La Jolla

Bryce Dallas Howard

American actress and filmmaker

*March 2nd, 1981, Los Angeles

Sonja Kinski

American model and actress

*March 2nd, 1986, Geneva

Pius XII

Head of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958

*March 2nd, 1876, Rome †October 9th, 1958, Castel Gandolfo

Mauricio Pochettino

Argentine association football player and manager

*March 2nd, 1972, Santa Fe Province

Leo XIII

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903

*March 2nd, 1810, Carpineto Romano †July 20th, 1903, Rome

John Cullum

American actor, director and singer

*March 2nd, 1930, Knoxville

Daniel Craig

English actor

*March 2nd, 1968, Chester

Simon Terodde

German footballer

*March 2nd, 1988, Bocholt

Nicholas Pocock

British artist (1740-1821)

*March 2nd, 1740, Bristol †March 9th, 1821, Maidenhead

Valérie Donzelli

French actress, film director and screenwriter

*March 2nd, 1973, Épinal

Chris Martin

English singer-songwriter (born 1977)

*March 2nd, 1977, Exeter

Pilou Asbæk

Danish actor

*March 2nd, 1982, Copenhagen

Anthony Albanese

Prime Minister of Australia since 2022

*March 2nd, 1963, Darlinghurst

Jon Bon Jovi

American musician (born 1962)

*March 2nd, 1962, Perth Amboy

Kurt Weill

German composer (1900–1950)

*March 2nd, 1900, Dessau †April 3rd, 1950, New York City

Same year
Born in 1739

Camillo Marcolini

German noble (1739-1814)

*April 2nd, 1739, Fano †July 10th, 1814, Prague

George Clinton

Vice president of the United States from 1805 to 1812

*July 26th, 1739, Little Britain †April 20th, 1812, Washington, D.C.

Grigory Potemkin

Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)

*September 13th, 1739, Chizhevo †October 5th, 1791, Iași

Friedrich Wilhelm Rust

German violinist and composer

*July 6th, 1739, Wörlitz †February 28th, 1796, Dessau

Georges Jacob

French master joiner in seats, wood engraver, cabinet-maker 1739-1814

*July 6th, 1739, Cheny †July 5th, 1814, Paris

Juan de Villanueva

Spanish architect (1739–1811)

*September 15th, 1739, Madrid †August 22nd, 1811, Madrid

Charles François Dumouriez

French general (1739–1823)

*January 26th, 1739, Cambrai †March 14th, 1823, Turville

Giovanni Francesco Fromond

*September 17th, 1739, Cremona †July 16th, 1785, Cremona

William Hewson

British physiologist

*November 14th, 1739, Hexham †May 1st, 1774, London

Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart

French architect

*February 15th, 1739, Paris †June 6th, 1813, Paris

Henrik Gabriel Porthan

Finnish historian (1739-1804)

*November 8th, 1739, Viitasaari †March 16th, 1804, Turku

Paine Wingate

American politician (1739-1838)

*May 14th, 1739, Amesbury †March 7th, 1838, Stratham

Pedro Ramón Palacios Gil Arratia

Venezuelan priest, music educator

*January 17th, 1739, Guatire †January 1st, 1799, Caracas

Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance

French politician, linguist and translator (1739-1824)

*March 19th, 1739, Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin †June 14th, 1824, Sainte-Mesme

Allen Jones

American statesman, 1739-1798

*December 24th, 1739, Edgecombe County †November 10th, 1798, Northampton County

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

French writer, economist, and government official (1739–1817)

*December 14th, 1739, Paris †August 7th, 1817, Delaware

James Anderson

Scottish economist

*May 23rd, 1739, Edinburgh †October 15th, 1808, West Ham

Jean Nicolas Houchard

French general

*January 24th, 1739, Forbach †November 17th, 1793, Paris

George Mathews

American politician (1739-1812)

*August 30th, 1739, Augusta County †August 30th, 1812, Augusta

Karl von Zinzendorf

Austrian politician (1739-1813)

*January 5th, 1739, Dresden †January 5th, 1813, Vienna

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 2nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 2nd.

Feast of 'Alá (Loftiness), First day of the 19th month of the Baháʼí calendar (Baháʼí Faith) and first day of the Baháʼí Nineteen Day Fast

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baháʼí_calendar

Jamahiriya Day (Libya)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Libya

National Read Across America Day (United States)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Education_Association

Peasants' Day (Myanmar)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants'_Day

Texas Independence Day

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Independence_Day

Adwa Victory Day (Ethiopia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwa_Victory_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

II.III.MDCCXXXIX

2.3.1739

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

IX = 9

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1739 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
March 1739

March 1739

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9							1
10	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
11	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
12	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
13	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
14	30	31

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March 2nd, 1739

Born on March 2nd, 1739

Weekday

Monday

Age

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 104,000 days old!

104,159 Days

14,879 Weeks

3,422 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 2nd?

Researchers at Fermilab in Illinois announced the discovery of the top quark, the most massive of all observed elementary particles.

As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot Vladimír Remek (pictured) became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space.

The Sound of Music is released in American theatres; it later became the highest grossing film of all time.

Playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, American basketball player Wilt Chamberlain (pictured) scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks, which remains an NBA record.

The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, Texas, to complete the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world by airplane.

World War II: Australian and U.S. air forces attacked and destroyed a large Japanese naval convoy in the Bismarck Sea, north of Papua New Guinea.

U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation and once the world's largest producer of steel, was founded by financier J. P. Morgan.

The Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876 U.S. presidential election.

New Zealand Wars: Carl Sylvius Völkner, a Protestant missionary, was killed by Hauhau militants in Ōpōtiki for working as an agent for New Zealand governor-general George Grey.

The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.

Texas Revolution: At a convention of delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Mexican state of Texas adopted a declaration of independence, establishing the Republic of Texas.

French inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the semaphore telegraph, a system to convey information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting crossarms.

American Revolutionary War: Patriot militiamen from Georgia and South Carolina attempted to resist the British action to seize and remove supply ships anchored at Savannah, Georgia.

The College of Arms, one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe, was incorporated by royal charter in the City of London.

The League of Lezhë, an alliance of regional chieftains, was established in Venetian Albania with Skanderbeg as their commander.

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

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Same year Born in 1739

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 2nd

Air Force Day (Sri Lanka)

Baloch Culture Day (Balochistan)

Agnes of Bohemia

Angela of the Cross

Blessed Charles the Good, Count of Flanders

Chad of Mercia (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodox Church)

John Maron

March 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Feast of 'Alá (Loftiness), First day of the 19th month of the Baháʼí calendar (Baháʼí Faith) and first day of the Baháʼí Nineteen Day Fast

Jamahiriya Day (Libya)

National Read Across America Day (United States)

Peasants' Day (Myanmar)

Texas Independence Day

Adwa Victory Day (Ethiopia)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

2.3.1739

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Leap year

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March 1739

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 104,000 days old!

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

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

Same year
Born in 1739

Calendar
March 1739

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
9							1
10	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
11	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
12	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
13	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
14	30	31