August 2nd, 1996

Born on August 2nd, 1996

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 10,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 873 days, exactly on September 14th, 2026, people who were born on August 2nd, 1996 will be 11,000 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, 1996

27

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

27

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

27

Simone Manuel

American swimmer

*August 2nd, 1996, Houston

27

Tajay Gayle

Jamaican athletics competitor

*August 2nd, 1996, Kingston

27

Valentin Wunderlich

German ice dancer (born 1996)

*August 2nd, 1996, Ulm

27

Keston Hiura

Baseball player (1996-)

*August 2nd, 1996, Valencia

27

Laís Pinho

Brazilian actor and television actor

*August 2nd, 1996, Rio de Janeiro

27

Pomme

French musician

*August 2nd, 1996, Décines-Charpieu

27

Kansas Bowling

American filmmaker and actress

*August 2nd, 1996, Beverly Hills

27

Robert Madge

British stage and television actor

*August 2nd, 1996, Coventry

27

Marvell Tell III

American football safety

*August 2nd, 1996, Pasadena

27

Guzmán Corujo

Uruguayan association football player

*August 2nd, 1996, Rodríguez

27

Stylianos Argyropoulos

Greek water polo player

*August 2nd, 1996, Greece

27

Joris Kramer

Association football player

*August 2nd, 1996, Heiloo

27

Li Hailong

Chinese association football player

*August 2nd, 1996, Linyi City

27

Paschalis Staikos

Greek association football player

*August 2nd, 1996, Drama

27

Ilya Yershov

Russian association football player

*August 2nd, 1996, Ozyory

27

Dzhamal Dibirgadzhiyev

Russian association football player

*August 2nd, 1996, Makhachkala

27

Casey Gallagher

British darts player

*August 2nd, 1996, London

27

Moise Nkounkou

Congolese footballer

*August 2nd, 1996, Brazzaville

27

Miloš Brajović

Serbian footballer

*August 2nd, 1996, Pančevo

27

Rogerio Alves dos Santos

Association football player

*August 2nd, 1996, Brazil

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

31

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

29

Tang Yuanting

Chinese badminton player

*August 2nd, 1994, Nanning

28

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

30

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

24

Elavenil Valarivan

Indian sport shooter

*August 2nd, 1999, Cuddalore

31

Kira Kattenbeck

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1992, Steinfurt

32

Niclas Nøhr

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1991, Vordingborg

34

Xing Aiying

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1989, Jiangsu

35

Rosario Maddaloni

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Torre del Greco

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

34

Matteo Trentin

Italian road cyclist

*August 2nd, 1989, Borgo Valsugana

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

29

Fridtjof Røinås

Norwegian cyclist

*August 2nd, 1994, Grimstad

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

38

Simon Niepmann

Swiss rower

*August 2nd, 1985, Lörrach

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

88

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

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

Same year
Born in 1996

28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

27

Lauren Jauregui

American singer

*June 27th, 1996, Miami

27

Luke Hemmings

Australian singer and guitarist

*July 16th, 1996, Freemans Reach

27

Kungs

French DJ, record producer and musician

*December 17th, 1996, Aix-en-Provence

27

Jenifer Brening

German singer

*December 15th, 1996, Zehlendorf

27

Lili Reinhart

American actress

*September 13th, 1996, Cleveland

27

Ruben Jille

Dutch badminton player

*July 11th, 1996, Nieuwegein

28

Summer Walker

American R&B singer

*April 11th, 1996, Atlanta

28

Dawid Kwiatkowski

Polish singer-songwriter

*January 1st, 1996, Gorzów Wielkopolski

27

Nico Dannowski

Badminton player

*December 1st, 1996, Ebersbach-Neugersdorf

27

Duki

Argentine rapper

*June 24th, 1996, Almagro

28

Mabel

English singer and songwriter

*February 19th, 1996, Alhaurín el Grande

27

Aden Foyer

Norwegian record producer and DJ

*September 8th, 1996, Asker

28

Wakana Nagahara

Japanese badminton player

*January 9th, 1996, Hokkaido

27

Anthony Sinisuka Ginting

Indonesian badminton player

*October 20th, 1996, Cimahi City

28

Muhammad Rian Ardianto

Badminton player

*February 13th, 1996, Bantul

28

Huang Kaixiang

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

28

Zheng Yu

Chinese badminton player

*February 7th, 1996, Shandong

27

Marina Sena

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*September 26th, 1996, Taiobeiras

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, 1996
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1996 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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August 1996