August 2nd, 1965

Born on August 2nd, 1965

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 551 days, exactly on October 26th, 2025, people who were born on August 2nd, 1965 will be 22,000 days old!

... 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, 1965

58

Joe Hockey

Australian politician

*August 2nd, 1965, Sydney

58

Bart Peters

Dutch rower

*August 2nd, 1965, Amsterdam

58

Katrin Müller-Hohenstein

German television sport journalist

*August 2nd, 1965, Erlangen

58

Robert Bilott

American environmental lawyer

*August 2nd, 1965, Albany

58

Mark Cross

Drummer, musician, songwriter

*August 2nd, 1965, London

58

Sandra Ng

Hong Kong actress, singer

*August 2nd, 1965, Hong Kong

58

Dian HP

Indonesian composer

*August 2nd, 1965, Tunis

58

Rafael Paz

Spanish footballer

*August 2nd, 1965, Puebla de Don Fadrique

58

Linus Förster

German politician

*August 2nd, 1965, Augsburg

58

Günter Kutowski

German football player/agent

*August 2nd, 1965, Paderborn

58

Andrew Blackman

Australian actor

*August 2nd, 1965, Brisbane

58

Rolando Chaparro

Paraguayan musician

*August 2nd, 1965, Asunción

58

Roger Rhodes

Canadian voice actor

*August 2nd, 1965, Calgary

58

Robert Chwialkoski

Polish canoeist

*August 2nd, 1965, Kalisz

58

Paul Marak

Baseball player

*August 2nd, 1965, Lakenheath

58

J. P. Hayes

Professional golfer

*August 2nd, 1965, Appleton

58

María Duchen

Bolivian journalist

*August 2nd, 1965, La Paz

58

African Grant

Former professional American football player

*August 2nd, 1965, New York City

58

Mirko Milićević

Basketball player (1965-)

*August 2nd, 1965, Novi Sad

58

Refik Šabanadžović

Bosnian footballer

*August 2nd, 1965, Tuzi

58

Alexey Klokov

Russian painter

*August 2nd, 1965, Beloomut

58

Rumen Alabakov

Bulgarian wrestler

*August 2nd, 1965, Asenovgrad

58

Nasir Khamees

Emirati footballer

*August 2nd, 1965, United Arab Emirates

58

Giulio Ricciarelli

Italian actor and film producer

*August 2nd, 1965, Milan

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

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

59

Mary-Louise Parker

American actress (born 1964)

*August 2nd, 1964, Fort Jackson

31

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

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

55

Stefan Effenberg

German association football player

*August 2nd, 1968, Niendorf

55

Chrystia Freeland

Canadian politician and writer

*August 2nd, 1968, Peace River

55

Glenn Slater

American lyricist

*August 2nd, 1968, Brooklyn

35

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

34

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

63

Linda Fratianne

American figure skater

*August 2nd, 1960, Northridge

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

68

Muriel Robin

French actress and comedian

*August 2nd, 1955, Montbrison

28

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

Same year
Born in 1965

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

58

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

58

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

59

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

58

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen

Danish badminton player and administrator

*September 20th, 1965, Esbønderup

58

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

58

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

59

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

58

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

58

Karin Beier

German theatre director

*December 14th, 1965, Cologne

58

Gunnar Beck

German EU lawyer and legal philosopher

*May 1st, 1965, Düsseldorf

59

Inger Lise Hegge

Norwegian cross-country skier

*January 6th, 1965, Steinkjer Municipality

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

59

Sven Demandt

German footballer

*February 13th, 1965, Cologne

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

59

Zhao Jianhua

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1965, Nantong

58

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on August 2nd, 1965
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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