August 2nd, 1981

Born on August 2nd, 1981

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 15,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 402 days, exactly on May 23rd, 2025, people who were born on August 2nd, 1981 will be 16,000 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, 1981

42

Tim Murtagh

Irish cricketer

*August 2nd, 1981, Lambeth

42

Morris Finley

American basketball player

*August 2nd, 1981, Opelika

42

Habeeb Okunola

Nigerian entrepreneur, philanthropist and businessman

*August 2nd, 1981, Lagos

42

Charlie Cheever

American businessman

*August 2nd, 1981, Pittsburgh

42

Ilya Abayev

Russian footballer

*August 2nd, 1981, Moscow

42

Jorge Bava

Uruguayan footballer

*August 2nd, 1981, Montevideo

42

Vitaliy Komarnytskyi

Ukrainian footballer (born 1981)

*August 2nd, 1981, Vinnytsia

42

Ebi Ere

American basketball player

*August 2nd, 1981, Tulsa

42

Dylan Dreyer

American meteorologist

*August 2nd, 1981, Manalapan Township

42

Alexander Emelianenko

Russian boxer and judoka

*August 2nd, 1981, Stary Oskol

42

Rainer Köttstorfer

German ice hockey player

*August 2nd, 1981, Rosenheim

42

Vlad Miriță

Romanian singer

*August 2nd, 1981, Târgoviște

42

Tapan Acharya

Konkani cinema

*August 2nd, 1981, Loliem-Polem

42

Junior Langi

New Zealand rugby league footballer

*August 2nd, 1981, Auckland

42

Ed McCants

American professional basketball player

*August 2nd, 1981, Marion

42

Caroline Thorpe

English footballer

*August 2nd, 1981, Republic of Ireland

42

Roland Fomundam

Cameroonian entrepreneur

*August 2nd, 1981, Douala

42

Óscar Rojas Castellón

Mexican footballer

*August 2nd, 1981, Mexico City

42

Samir Shaptahoviç

Albanian basketball player (1981-)

*August 2nd, 1981, Bar

42

Tony Dakota

American actor

*August 2nd, 1981, Auburn

42

Asako Yuzuki

Japanese novelist

*August 2nd, 1981, Setagaya-ku

42

Uedson Ney dos Santos

Brazilian association football player

*August 2nd, 1981, Maruim

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

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

31

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

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

35

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

34

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

43

Guillaume Lacour

French footballer

*August 2nd, 1980, Courbevoie

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

40

Huston Street

American baseball player

*August 2nd, 1983, Austin

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

28

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

27

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

47

Sam Worthington

Australian actor (born 1976)

*August 2nd, 1976, Godalming

38

Simon Niepmann

Swiss rower

*August 2nd, 1985, Lörrach

47

Kati Wilhelm

German cross-country skier and biathlete

*August 2nd, 1976, Schmalkalden

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

Same year
Born in 1981

42

MS Dhoni

Indian cricket player

*July 7th, 1981, Ranchi

42

Taufik Hidayat

Indonesian badminton player

*August 10th, 1981, Bandung City

43

Vita Marissa

Indonesian badminton player

*January 4th, 1981, Jakarta

43

Alistair Casey

Badminton player

*February 23rd, 1981, Glasgow

42

Martin de Jonge

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1981, Rotterdam

42

Roger Federer

Swiss tennis player

*August 8th, 1981, Basel

43

Mattias Tesfaye

Danish politician

*March 31st, 1981, Aarhus

42

Beau Bokan

American singer

*November 30th, 1981, Huntington Beach

42

Beyoncé

American singer (born 1981)

*September 4th, 1981, Houston

43

Zhang Jiewen

Badminton player

*January 4th, 1981, Guangzhou

42

Gavin Shuker

British politician (born 1981)

*October 10th, 1981, Luton

43

Gong Ruina

Badminton player

*January 23rd, 1981, Anhua County

42

Dorian James

Badminton player

*June 19th, 1981, Cape Town

42

Juliette Ah-Wan

Badminton player

*April 29th, 1981, Victoria

42

Anna Carina

Peruvian musician

*August 14th, 1981, Lima

43

Tom Starke

German association football player

*March 18th, 1981, Dresden

43

Björn Joppien

Badminton player

*January 30th, 1981, Langenfeld

43

Jürgen Wouters

Badminton player

*March 4th, 1981, Gilze en Rijen

42

Miyo Akao

Badminton player

*August 29th, 1981, Hita

42

Marco Vorbeck

German association football player and manager

*June 24th, 1981, Kühlungsborn

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, 1981
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1981 is a normal year and no leap year.

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August 1981