August 2nd, 1816

Born on August 2nd, 1816

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 1816

78

Rudolf von Gneist

German politician (1816–1895)

*August 13th, 1816, Berlin †July 22nd, 1895, Berlin

75

Werner von Siemens

German electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816-1892)

*December 13th, 1816, Lenthe †December 6th, 1892, Charlottenburg

78

Gustav Freytag

German writer and politician (1816-1895)

*July 13th, 1816, Kluczbork †April 30th, 1895, Wiesbaden

38

Charlotte Brontë

British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

*April 21st, 1816, Thornton †March 31st, 1855, Haworth

62

Paul Gervais

French paleontologist and entomologist (1816-1879)

*September 26th, 1816, Paris †February 10th, 1879, Paris

59

Charlotte Cushman

American actress (1816-1876)

*July 23rd, 1816, Boston †February 18th, 1876, Boston

66

Arthur de Gobineau

French diplomat and writer known for racial theories (1816–1882)

*July 14th, 1816, Ville-d'Avray †October 13th, 1882, Turin

71

Eugène Pottier

French politician (1816-1887)

*October 4th, 1816, Paris †November 6th, 1887, Paris

86

Laureano Figuerola

Spanish author (1816-1903)

*July 4th, 1816, Calaf †February 28th, 1903, Madrid

52

Emanuel Leutze

American artist (1816-1868)

*May 24th, 1816, Schwäbisch Gmünd †July 18th, 1868, Washington, D.C.

89

Russell Sage

American financier and congressman for New York (1816–1906)

*August 4th, 1816, Verona †July 22nd, 1906, New York City

84

John Charles Ryle

Anglican bishop (1816–1900)

*May 10th, 1816, Macclesfield †June 10th, 1900, Lowestoft

89

Jean Cabanis

German ornithologist (1816-1906)

*March 8th, 1816, Berlin †February 20th, 1906, Friedrichshagen

72

Christian August Selmer

2nd Prime Minister of Norway (1816–1889)

*November 16th, 1816, Halden Municipality †November 1st, 1889, Christiania

71

Thomas Russell Crampton

British engineer (1816–1888)

*August 6th, 1816, Broadstairs †April 19th, 1888, London

50

Moriz Heider

Austrian dentist (1816–1866)

*January 1st, 1816, Vienna †January 1st, 1866, Vienna

78

Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz

German publisher

*August 25th, 1816, Naumburg †August 13th, 1895, Leipzig

73

John Palmer Usher

American politician (1816–1889)

*January 9th, 1816, Brookfield †April 13th, 1889, Philadelphia

49

Paola Elisabetta Cerioli

Italian nun

*January 28th, 1816, Soncino †December 24th, 1865, Seriate

94

Simon Aichner

Austrian priest (1816-1910)

*October 19th, 1816, Terenten †November 1st, 1910, Neustift Abbey

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1816 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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