August 2nd, 1877

Born on August 2nd, 1877

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 53,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and 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

Born on August 2nd, 1877

79

Ravishankar Shukla

Indian politician (1877-1956)

*August 2nd, 1877, Central Provinces †December 31st, 1956

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

88

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

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

31

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

29

Tang Yuanting

Chinese badminton player

*August 2nd, 1994, Nanning

27

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

81

Peter O'Toole

British actor (1932–2013)

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

77

Heinrich Reineke

German politician (1868–1945)

*August 2nd, 1868, Pivitsheide V. L. †October 1st, 1945, Groß Nemerow

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

35

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

34

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

32

Niclas Nøhr

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1991, Vordingborg

31

Kira Kattenbeck

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1992, Steinfurt

88

Myrna Loy

American actress (1905–1993)

*August 2nd, 1905, Helena †December 14th, 1993, New York City

30

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

28

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

93

Billy Wallace

New Zealand rugby union footballer (1878-1972)

*August 2nd, 1878, Wellington †March 2nd, 1972, Wellington

27

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

Same year
Born in 1877

66

Eveline Peterson

Badminton player

*January 17th, 1877, Jalpaiguri †November 30th, 1943, Totnes

85

Hermann Hesse

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)

*July 2nd, 1877, Calw †August 9th, 1962, Montagnola

50

Isadora cucan

American dancer and choreographer

*May 26th, 1877, San Francisco †September 14th, 1927, Nice

58

O.P. Heggie

American actor (1877-1936)

*September 17th, 1877, Angaston †February 7th, 1936, Los Angeles

72

Rex Beach

Author and water polo player (1877-1949)

*September 1st, 1877, Antrim County †December 7th, 1949, Sebring

71

Ulrich Salchow

Swedish figure skater

*August 7th, 1877, Copenhagen †April 19th, 1949, Hedvig Eleonora parish

92

Laura Knight

English artist (1877-1970)

*August 4th, 1877, Long Eaton †July 7th, 1970, London

64

Hendrik Bolkestein

Dutch classical scholar

*December 18th, 1877, Amsterdam †July 24th, 1942, Utrecht

70

G.H. Hardy

British mathematician (1877–1947)

*February 7th, 1877, Cranleigh †December 1st, 1947, Cambridge

60

Muhammad Iqbal

South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician

*November 9th, 1877, Sialkot †April 21st, 1938, Lahore

93

Hjalmar Schacht

German politician and economist

*January 22nd, 1877, Tinglev Municipality †June 3rd, 1970, Munich

75

Raoul Dufy

French artist (1877-1953)

*June 3rd, 1877, Le Havre †March 23rd, 1953, Montcuq

69

Wilhelm Frick

German Nazi official (1877-1946)

*March 12th, 1877, Alsenz †October 16th, 1946, Nuremberg

83

Hélène Dutrieu

Belgian cyclist, stunt driver and aviator

*July 10th, 1877, Tournai †June 26th, 1961, Paris

82

James Montgomery Flagg

American artist (1877-1960)

*June 18th, 1877, Pelham Manor †May 25th, 1960, New York City

63

Rudolf Hilferding

German politician (1877-1941)

*August 10th, 1877, Vienna †February 11th, 1941, Paris

41

Endre Ady

Hungarian poet (1877-1919)

*November 22nd, 1877, Ady Endre †January 27th, 1919, Budapest

76

Ibn Saud

Founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1877–1953)

*January 15th, 1877, Riyadh †November 9th, 1953, Ta'if

82

Roelof Klein

Dutch rower

*June 7th, 1877, Lemmer †February 13th, 1960, Montclair

53

Viktor Dyk

Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer (1877-1931)

*December 31st, 1877, Pšovka †May 14th, 1931, Lopud

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.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1877 is a normal year and no leap year.

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