August 2nd, 1954

Born on August 2nd, 1954

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, 1954

69

Francesco Rocca

Italian footballer (born 1954)

*August 2nd, 1954, San Vito Romano

69

Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav

Indian politician

*August 2nd, 1954, Jamui

69

Kenneth Svendsen

Norwegian politician

*August 2nd, 1954, Fauske

69

Namadi Sambo

Nigerian politician

*August 2nd, 1954, Zaria

69

Ken MacLeod

Scottish science fiction writer

*August 2nd, 1954, Stornoway

69

Sammy McIlroy

Northern Irish association football manager and former player

*August 2nd, 1954, Belfast

69

Enrique Saura

Spanish footballer

*August 2nd, 1954, Onda

69

Walter Civitareale

Luxembourg musician

*August 2nd, 1954, Differdange

69

Phil Small

Australian musician

*August 2nd, 1954, Adelaide

69

Michael W. Morrissey

Politician in Massachusetts, US

*August 2nd, 1954, Quincy

69

Marco Marchei

Italian distance runner

*August 2nd, 1954, Castignano

69

Hanni Ehlers

German translator

*August 2nd, 1954, Eutin

69

Tom Rafferty

Player of American football

*August 2nd, 1954, Syracuse

69

Marios Matsakis

Cypriot politician

*August 2nd, 1954, Limassol Municipality

69

James Kopp

American convicted murderer

*August 2nd, 1954, Pasadena

69

Kazuyoshi Sekine

Japanese film director

*August 2nd, 1954, Tokyo

63

David Tang

Businessman and socialite (1954-2017)

*August 2nd, 1954, Hong Kong †August 29th, 2017, London

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31

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

68

Muriel Robin

French actress and comedian

*August 2nd, 1955, Montbrison

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

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

70

Peter-Michael Kolbe

West German rower

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

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

59

Mary-Louise Parker

American actress (born 1964)

*August 2nd, 1964, Fort Jackson

81

Peter O'Toole

British actor (1932–2013)

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

63

Linda Fratianne

American figure skater

*August 2nd, 1960, Northridge

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

67

Fulvio Melia

American physicist

*August 2nd, 1956, Gorizia

30

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

88

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

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

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Born in 1954

69

François Hollande

President of France from 2012 to 2017

*August 12th, 1954, Rouen

69

Angela Merkel

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021

*July 17th, 1954, Eimsbüttel

69

Lim Swee Say

Former Singaporean politician

*July 13th, 1954, Singapore

70

Rudolf Simek

Austrian philologist and Germanist

*February 21st, 1954, Eisenstadt

70

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of the Republic of Turkey since 2014

*February 26th, 1954, Kasımpaşa

69

Lorraine Bracco

American actress

*October 2nd, 1954, Brooklyn

67

Shinzō Abe

Prime Minister of Japan from 2006–2007 and 2012–2020 (1954-2022)

*September 21st, 1954, Shinjuku †July 8th, 2022, Nara Medical University Hospital

70

Jackie Chan

Hong Kong actor and martial artist (born 1954)

*April 7th, 1954, Victoria Peak

58

Hugo Chávez

President of Venezuela, 1999–2002 and 2002–2013

*July 28th, 1954, Sabaneta †March 5th, 2013, Hospital Militar de Caracas

69

Uli Stielike

German association football player and manager

*November 15th, 1954, Ketsch

69

Karl-Heinz Körbel

German association football player and manager

*December 1st, 1954, Dossenheim

69

Sven-Erik Bucht

Swedish politician

*December 28th, 1954, Karungi

70

Eckhardt Rehberg

German politician

*April 3rd, 1954, Ribnitz-Damgarten

69

Emir Kusturica

Bosnian film director, actor and musician

*November 24th, 1954, Sarajevo

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

69

Kathy Kinney

American actress

*November 3rd, 1954, Stevens Point

69

Petra Uhlig

East German handball player

*July 22nd, 1954, Penig

69

Alexander Lukashenko

President of Belarus since 1994

*August 30th, 1954, Kopyś

70

Isabelle McEwen

Canadian film director

*January 6th, 1954, Montreal

69

Renate Franz

German journalist and sport historian

*November 18th, 1954, Solingen

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Born on August 2nd, 1954
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1954 is a normal year and no leap year.

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