August 2nd, 1947

Born on August 2nd, 1947

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 2nd, 1947?

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accident

What else happened on August 2nd?

August 2nd, 1973

A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.

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, 1947

76

Amalia Sartori

Italian politician

*August 2nd, 1947, Valdastico

76

Ramesh Bais

Indian politician

*August 2nd, 1947, Raipur

76

Jackie McDonald

British loyalist

*August 2nd, 1947, Belfast

76

Sjoerd Soeters

Dutch architect

*August 2nd, 1947, Nes

76

Mempo Giardinelli

Argentine Model

*August 2nd, 1947, Resistencia

76

Massiel

Spanish singer

*August 2nd, 1947, Madrid

74

Iolo Ceredig Jones

Welsh chess player (1947–2021)

*August 2nd, 1947, Llandysul †September 6th, 2021

76

Lawrence Wright

American author, screenwriter, and staff writer (1947-)

*August 2nd, 1947, Oklahoma City

76

Julie Arel

Canadian singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1947, Quebec City

76

Mike Shepherd

American writer

*August 2nd, 1947, Philadelphia

76

Ève Karpf

British actress

*August 2nd, 1947, London

76

Ángela Meyer

Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer

*August 2nd, 1947, Santurce

76

Turgyn Syzdyqov

Kazakh politician

*August 2nd, 1947, Chistopolsky District

76

Christine Philipp

German cross-country skier

*August 2nd, 1947, Oberwiesenthal

76

Saul A. Teukolsky

Astrophysicist

*August 2nd, 1947, Johannesburg

76

Volker Paulus

German volleyball player

*August 2nd, 1947, Giessen

76

Jeanne Baxtresser

American musician

*August 2nd, 1947, Bethlehem

76

Leon Narbey

New Zealand cinematographer

*August 2nd, 1947, Helensville

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

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

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

81

Peter O'Toole

British actor (1932–2013)

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

81

Isabel Allende

Chilean writer

*August 2nd, 1942, Lima

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

68

Muriel Robin

French actress and comedian

*August 2nd, 1955, Montbrison

59

Mary-Louise Parker

American actress (born 1964)

*August 2nd, 1964, Fort Jackson

82

Jules Hoffmann

French biologist

*August 2nd, 1941, Echternach

88

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

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

70

Peter-Michael Kolbe

West German rower

*August 2nd, 1953, Hamburg †December 8th, 2023, Lübeck

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

30

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

Same year
Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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