August 2nd, 1952

Born on August 2nd, 1952

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1952

71

Alain Giresse

French association football player and manager

*August 2nd, 1952, Langoiran

71

Ernst Homburg

Dutch historian of chemistry

*August 2nd, 1952, Venlo

71

Lee Shying-jow

Taiwanese politician

*August 2nd, 1952, Donggang Township

71

Dan Kerschen

American politician

*August 2nd, 1952, Wichita

71

Robert Paturel

French boxer

*August 2nd, 1952, Rueil-Malmaison

71

Les Dudek

American musician

*August 2nd, 1952, Quonset Point Air National Guard Station

71

Larry Israelson

Canadian professional ice hockey forward

*August 2nd, 1952, Didsbury

71

Osman İşmen

Turkish pianist

*August 2nd, 1952, Istanbul

71

Gilbert F. Casellas

American lawyer and businessman

*August 2nd, 1952, Tampa

71

Jeffrey Lau

Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, actor and film producer

*August 2nd, 1952, Hong Kong

71

Bombo Rivera

American baseball player

*August 2nd, 1952, Ponce

71

Tony Llorens

Music composer

*August 2nd, 1952, Pineville

71

Seiko Nakano

Japanese seiyū

*August 2nd, 1952, Hiroshima Prefecture

71

Jonas Prapiestis

Lithuanian politician

*August 2nd, 1952, Kupiškis

71

David Borrow

British politician (born 1952)

*August 2nd, 1952, Huddersfield

71

Anil Deshpande

Indian cricketer

*August 2nd, 1952, Nagpur

71

Gyan Chaturvedi

Indian writer and satirist in Hindi language, known for his satirical novels, Padma Shri

*August 2nd, 1952, Mauranipur

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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

70

Peter-Michael Kolbe

West German rower

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

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

68

Muriel Robin

French actress and comedian

*August 2nd, 1955, Montbrison

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

81

Peter O'Toole

British actor (1932–2013)

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

59

Mary-Louise Parker

American actress (born 1964)

*August 2nd, 1964, Fort Jackson

73

Mathieu Carrière

German actor

*August 2nd, 1950, Hanover

35

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

34

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

81

Isabel Allende

Chilean writer

*August 2nd, 1942, Lima

88

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

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

32

Niclas Nøhr

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1991, Vordingborg

63

Linda Fratianne

American figure skater

*August 2nd, 1960, Northridge

31

Kira Kattenbeck

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1992, Steinfurt

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Born in 1952

71

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)

*October 7th, 1952, V.F. Snegiryov Maternity Hospital No.6

71

Larry Elder

American talk radio host and attorney (born 1952)

*April 27th, 1952, Los Angeles

71

Matti Geschonneck

German film director

*May 8th, 1952, Potsdam

64

Ina-Maria Federowski

German singer (1952-2017)

*September 28th, 1952, Freital †July 13th, 2017, Berlin

71

Knud Arne Jürgensen

Danish music historian

*July 8th, 1952, Copenhagen

49

Douglas Adams

English author and humourist (1952–2001)

*March 11th, 1952, Cambridge †May 11th, 2001, Santa Barbara

64

Reinhard Häfner

German association football player and manager (1952–2016)

*February 2nd, 1952, Sonneberg †October 24th, 2016, Dresden

72

Steven Seagal

American actor, martial artist, and film producer

*April 10th, 1952, Lansing

72

Wolfgang Kubicki

German politician

*March 3rd, 1952, Brunswick

72

Lennart Fagerlund

Cyclist

*April 2nd, 1952, Nässjö

72

Magnar Åm

Norwegian composer

*April 9th, 1952, Trondheim

71

Joachim Kaps

German actor and voice actor

*November 3rd, 1952, Görlitz

58

Brigitte Maier

Porn actress, adult model (1952–2010)

*August 7th, 1952, Kiel †November 13th, 2010, Los Angeles

71

Liam Neeson

Northern Irish actor (born 1952)

*June 7th, 1952, Ballymena

71

Orhan Pamuk

Turkish novelist

*June 7th, 1952, Istanbul

71

Duncan Regehr

Canadian writer, artist and actor

*October 5th, 1952, Lethbridge

71

Mandy Patinkin

American actor and singer

*November 30th, 1952, Chicago

71

John Goodman

American actor, voice artist and comedian (born 1952)

*June 20th, 1952, Affton

71

Stephen Lang

American actor

*July 11th, 1952, New York City

64

Alejandro Atchugarry

Uruguayan politician

*July 31st, 1952, Montevideo †February 19th, 2017, Montevideo

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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Born on August 2nd, 1952
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Leap year

Yes: 1952 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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