February 1st, 1787

Born on February 1st, 1787

Weekday

Thursday

February 1st, 1787 was a Thursday.

Age

239

People born on February 1st, 1787 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 239 years old this year (2026).

Zodiac

♒

Aquarius (The Water-Bearer)

January 21st, 1787 - February 19th, 1787

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 87,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 569 days, exactly on January 9th, 2028, people who were born on February 1st, 1787 will be 88,000 days old!

87,431 Days

12,490 Weeks

2,872 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on February 1st?

February 1st, 1957

Invented by German engineer Felix Wankel, the first working prototype of the Wankel rotary engine ran for the first time at the research and development department of NSU Motorenwerke AG.

February 1st, 1896

Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, eventually becoming one of the most frequently performed operas internationally.

February 1st, 2021

The Burmese military staged a coup d'état that deposed the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking nationwide protests and a civil war.

February 1st, 2012

Following an Egyptian Premier League match in Port Said, Al Masry fans rioted and violently attacked Al Ahly supporters, resulting in 74 deaths.

February 1st, 2009

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Iceland.

February 1st, 2004

During the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, Janet Jackson's breast was exposed by Justin Timberlake in what was later referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction", resulting in an immediate crackdown and widespread debate on perceived indecency in U.S. broadcasting.

February 1st, 2003

All seven crew members aboard Space Shuttle Columbia were killed when the orbiter disintegrated over Texas during reentry.

February 1st, 2001

The Timor-Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-Indonesian independence movement Falintil.

February 1st, 1985

Aeroflot Flight 7841 crashed shortly after takeoff from Minsk National Airport, killing fifty-eight people on board.

February 1st, 1979

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty.

February 1st, 1978

After having served 42 days in prison for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before the formal sentencing hearing.

February 1st, 1972

Kuala Lumpur (pictured), the capital of Malaysia, was granted city status.

February 1st, 1960

Civil rights movement: Four African-American students staged the first of more than five months of sit-ins at an F. W. Woolworth lunch counter (pictured) in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest the company's policy of racial segregation.

February 1st, 1942

Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States federal government, began broadcasting to Germany during World War II.

February 1st, 1884

The first fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary, a 352-page volume that covered words from A to ant, was published.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 1st

Born on February 1st, 1787

Louis Angely

German playwright, actor and director

*February 1st, 1787, Leipzig †November 16th, 1835, Berlin

Same year
Born in 1787

Louis Daguerre

French photographer, inventor of Daguerrotype (1787–1851)

*November 18th, 1787, Cormeilles-en-Parisis †July 10th, 1851, Bry-sur-Marne

Michele Carafa

Italian opera composer

*November 17th, 1787, Naples †July 26th, 1872, Paris

Joseph von Fraunhofer

Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer

*March 6th, 1787, Straubing †June 7th, 1826, Munich

Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Czech biologist, physiologist, doctor, inventor and politician (1787–1869)

*December 17th, 1787, Libochovice †July 28th, 1869, Prague

Nangklao

Third king of Siam of the Chakri Dynasty

*March 31st, 1787, Grand Palace †April 2nd, 1851, Bangkok

Rasmus Rask

Danish linguist

*November 22nd, 1787, Brændekilde †November 14th, 1832, Copenhagen

Christian Ludwig Brehm

German pastor and ornithologist (1787-1864)

*January 24th, 1787, Schönau vor dem Walde †June 23rd, 1864, Renthendorf

Guillaume Henri Dufour

Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer (1787-1875)

*September 15th, 1787, Constance †July 14th, 1875, Eaux-Vives

Adolf Martin Pleischl

Austrian chemist (1787-1867)

*October 10th, 1787, Horní Planá †July 31st, 1867, Dorf an der Enns

John J. Crittenden

U.S. Attorney General and politician from Kentucky (1787-1863)

*September 10th, 1787, Versailles †July 26th, 1863, Frankfort

Jakob Friedrich Binder

German assessor and politician (1787-1856)

*April 25th, 1787, Oberferrieden †December 26th, 1856, Nuremberg

Alexander Alyabyev

Russian composer

*August 4th, 1787, Tobolsk †February 22nd, 1851, Moscow

John Davis

Massachusetts congressman and governor (1787-1854)

*January 13th, 1787, Northborough †April 19th, 1854, Worcester

Friedrich Krupp

German entrepreneur

*July 17th, 1787, Essen †October 8th, 1826, Essen

Leopold von Rauch

(1787-1860)

*February 27th, 1787, Königsberg †November 26th, 1860, Třebívlice

Heinrich Adam

German painter (1787–1862)

*January 1st, 1787, Nördlingen †January 1st, 1862, Munich

Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald

Catholic cardinal (1787-1870)

*October 30th, 1787, Millau †February 23rd, 1870, 5th arrondissement of Lyon

Carl Carl

Austrian actor (1787-1854)

*November 7th, 1787, Kraków †August 14th, 1854, Bad Ischl

Johannes Christiaan Schotel

19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands (1787-1838)

*November 11th, 1787, Dordrecht †December 21st, 1838, Dordrecht

French naturalist, with the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, was sent 1818 to South Africa in order to find animals and plants at the Cape of Good Hope, returned to France 1820 bringing 800-900 living plants.

*March 27th, 1787, Versailles †June 27th, 1823, Paris