September 2nd, 1944

Born on September 2nd, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

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What happened on September 2nd, 1944?

September 2nd, 1944

The last execution of a Finn in Finland takes place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by shooting in Oulu.

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What else happened on September 2nd?

September 2nd, 2011

Bad weather caused a Chilean Air Force aircraft to crash into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 21 people on board.

September 2nd, 1985

Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 3 major hurricane.

September 2nd, 1967

Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand (pictured).

September 2nd, 1957

South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country.

September 2nd, 1946

The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence.

September 2nd, 1945

On the deck of the U.S. Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender (pictured), formally ending World War II.

September 2nd, 1923

Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, lynch mobs of Japanese murdered thousands of ethnic minorities such as Koreans and Chinese over the course of several weeks.

September 2nd, 1912

Arthur Rose Eldred became the first person to attain the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.

September 2nd, 1901

U.S. vice president Theodore Roosevelt first publicly used the phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force.

September 2nd, 1885

White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, attacked Chinese-American immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately $150,000 in property damage.

September 2nd, 1870

Franco-Prussian War: Prussian forces captured Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan, which led to the collapse of the Second French Empire within days.

September 2nd, 1792

French Revolution: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, revolutionaries began the summary execution of more than a thousand prisoners.

September 2nd, 1789

The United States Department of the Treasury was founded following financial concerns in the new nation.

September 2nd, 1666

A large fire began in London's Pudding Lane and burned for five days (depicted), destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants.

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

Born on September 2nd, 1944

79

Claude Nicollier

Swiss astronaut

*September 2nd, 1944, Vevey

79

Pablo Ziegler

Argentine pianist and composer

*September 2nd, 1944, Buenos Aires

68

Gilles Marchal

French singer and songwriter (1944-2013)

*September 2nd, 1944, 13th arrondissement of Paris †April 11th, 2013, Le Chesnay

77

Orlando Martínez

Cuban boxer

*September 2nd, 1944, Havana †September 22nd, 2021, Havana

65

Janet Simpson

English sprinter (1944-2010)

*September 2nd, 1944, Barnet †March 14th, 2010

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

75

Nicole Leblanc

Canadian actress

*September 2nd, 1941, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine †May 23rd, 2017, Montreal

83

Jörg Kuebart

German general (1934-2018)

*September 2nd, 1934, Olsztyn †February 14th, 2018, Bad Honnef

74

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher

*September 2nd, 1949, Peine

59

Keanu Reeves

Canadian actor (born 1964)

*September 2nd, 1964, Beirut

104

Ingeborg Rapoport

German physician and East German communist functionary (1912-2017)

*September 2nd, 1912, Kribi †March 23rd, 2017, Berlin

74

Fred Draper

American actor (1925-1999)

*September 2nd, 1925, Chester †December 26th, 1999, San Bernardino

57

Salma Hayek

Mexican and American actress and producer

*September 2nd, 1966, Coatzacoalcos

61

Keir Starmer

Leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom since 2020

*September 2nd, 1962, Southwark

21

Jasmine Liu

American Samoan beach handball player

*September 2nd, 2002, Vaitogi

82

Derek Fowlds

British actor (1937–2020)

*September 2nd, 1937, Wandsworth †January 17th, 2020, Bath

60

Florența Mihai

Romanian tennis player

*September 2nd, 1955, Bucharest †October 14th, 2015, Bucharest

78

John Thompson

American basketball player and coach (1941-2020)

*September 2nd, 1941, Washington, D.C. †August 30th, 2020, Arlington County

72

Mark Harmon

American actor

*September 2nd, 1951, Burbank

83

Chuck McCann

American voice actor and comedian (1934-2018)

*September 2nd, 1934, Brooklyn †April 8th, 2018, Los Angeles

82

Victor Spinetti

Welsh actor and theatre director

*September 2nd, 1929, Cwm †June 18th, 2012, Monmouth

59

Pascal Demolon

French actor, voice actor, director and film producer

*September 2nd, 1964, Soissons

81

Ernst Curtius

German archaeologist and historian (1814–1896)

*September 2nd, 1814, Lübeck †July 11th, 1896, Berlin

69

Andrej Babiš

Czech politician and businessman

*September 2nd, 1954, Bratislava

71

Jimmy Connors

American tennis player

*September 2nd, 1952, East St. Louis

52

Stephan Grossmann

German actor

*September 2nd, 1971, Dresden

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 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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