August 2nd, 1887

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Born on August 2nd, 1887 – 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 1887)

Born on August 2nd, 1887

Weekday

Tuesday

August 2nd, 1887 was a Tuesday.

Age

136

People born on August 2nd, 1887 will turn 137 this year (2024), in exactly 99 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1887 - August 23rd, 1887

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 49,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 60 days, exactly on June 24th, 2024, people who were born on August 2nd, 1887 will be 50,000 days old!

49,940 Days

7,134 Weeks

1,640 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

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, 1887

Fritz Jöde

German composer, musicologist and music educator (1887-1970)

*August 2nd, 1887, Hamburg †October 19th, 1970, Hamburg

Oskar Anderson

Baltic German mathematician, statistician and economist (*1887 – †1960)

*August 2nd, 1887, Minsk †February 12th, 1960, Munich

Gilbert Brutus

French rugby union player

*August 2nd, 1887, Port-Vendres †March 7th, 1944, Perpignan

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

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

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

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

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

Margaret Lawrence

American actress (1889–1929)

*August 2nd, 1889, Philadelphia †June 9th, 1929, New York City

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

Myrna Loy

American actress (1905–1993)

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

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

Jack Warner

American film executive (1892–1978)

*August 2nd, 1892, London †September 9th, 1978, Hollywood

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

Same year
Born in 1887

Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886-1965)

*October 6th, 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds †August 27th, 1965, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Pierre Taittinger

French politician

*October 4th, 1887, 18th arrondissement of Paris †January 22nd, 1965, Paris

Saint-John Perse

French poet and diplomat

*May 31st, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre †September 20th, 1975, Hyères

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

*August 12th, 1887, Vienna †January 4th, 1961, Vienna

Marc Chagall

Belarusian-born French artist (1887–1985)

*July 14th, 1887, Vitebsk †March 28th, 1985, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Arthur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)

*January 28th, 1887, Łódź †December 20th, 1982, Geneva

John Reed

American journalist, poet, and communist activist

*October 22nd, 1887, Portland †October 17th, 1920, Moscow

Hermann Hammerschmidt

*August 21st, 1887, Cottbus †November 30th, 1944

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George Abbott

American writer and director (1887-1995)

*June 25th, 1887, Chautauqua County †January 31st, 1995, Miami Beach

Lynn Fontanne

British actress (1887–1983)

*December 6th, 1887, London †July 30th, 1983, Waukesha County

Josef Lada

Czech illustrator, painter, caricaturist, scenographer and writer (1887-1957)

*December 17th, 1887, Hrusice †December 14th, 1957, Prague

Joseph Lamb

American composer of ragtime music

*December 6th, 1887, Montclair †September 3rd, 1960, Brooklyn

Carmen Lyra

Costa Rican politician and writer

*January 15th, 1887, San José †May 14th, 1949, Mexico City

Lajos Áprily

Hungarian poet/translator/recipient:1954 Attila József Prize

*November 14th, 1887, Brașov †August 6th, 1967, Budapest

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese politician and military leader (1887–1975)

*October 31st, 1887, Xikou †April 5th, 1975, Taipei

Huntley Gordon

Canadian actor (1887-1956)

*October 8th, 1887, Montreal †December 7th, 1956, Van Nuys

Carlos Dávila

Chilean diplomat, journalist and politician (1887-1955)

*September 15th, 1887, Los Ángeles †October 19th, 1955, Washington, D.C.

Boris Karloff

English actor (1887–1969)

*November 23rd, 1887, Dulwich †February 2nd, 1969, Midhurst

Georgia O'Keeffe

American modernist artist (1887–1986)

*November 15th, 1887, Sun Prairie †March 6th, 1986, Santa Fe

Vidkun Quisling

Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)

*July 18th, 1887, Fyresdal †October 24th, 1945, Akershus Fortress

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.MDCCCLXXXVII

2.8.1887

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1887 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1887

August 1887

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August 2nd, 1887

Born on August 2nd, 1887

Weekday

Tuesday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 49,000 days old!

49,940 Days

7,134 Weeks

1,640 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

Born on August 2nd, 1887

German composer, musicologist and music educator (1887-1970)

Baltic German mathematician, statistician and economist (*1887 – †1960)

French rugby union player

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

Same year Born in 1887

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

2.8.1887

Legend

Leap year

Calendar August 1887

August 1887

Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 49,000 days old!

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

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

Same year
Born in 1887

Calendar
August 1887

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
31	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
32	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
33	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
34	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
35	29	30	31