August 2nd, 2003

Born on August 2nd, 2003

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 8,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 659 days, exactly on March 23rd, 2028, people who were born on August 2nd, 2003 will be 9,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on August 2nd?

August 2nd, 1971

The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.

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 alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.

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 (interior depicted), 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, 1914

The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.

August 2nd, 1945

World War II: The Potsdam Conference ends.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 2nd

Same year
Born in 2003

22

Tate McRae

Canadian singer

*July 1st, 2003, Calgary

23

Johnny Orlando

Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

*January 24th, 2003, Mississauga

23

Sangiovanni

Italian singer-songwriter

*January 9th, 2003, Vicenza

23

Francesca Barale

Italian cyclist

*April 29th, 2003, Domodossola

23

Treesa Jolly

Indian badminton player

*May 27th, 2003, Cherupuzha, Kannur

23

Pia Maria

Austrian singer-songwriter

*May 21st, 2003, Tyrol

23

Keisya Levronka

Indonesian singer and actress

*February 2nd, 2003, Malang

22

Ana Castela

Brazilian singer

*November 16th, 2003, Amambai

23

Greta Thunberg

Swedish climate protection activist (born 2003)

*January 3rd, 2003, Stockholm

22

Jude Bellingham

English association football player (born 2003)

*June 29th, 2003, Stourbridge

23

Isra Hirsi

American environmental activist (born 2003)

*February 22nd, 2003, Minneapolis

22

Rayan Cherki

French footballer (born 2003)

*August 17th, 2003, Lyon

23

Emjay Anthony

American actor

*June 1st, 2003, Clearwater Beach

22

Jack Dylan Grazer

American actor

*September 3rd, 2003, Los Angeles

22

Wyatt Oleff

American actor

*July 13th, 2003, Chicago

23

Louis Partridge

British actor

*June 3rd, 2003, London Borough of Wandsworth

22

Isaac Del Toro

Mexican cyclist

*November 27th, 2003, Ensenada

23

Jeremy Ray Taylor

American actor

*June 2nd, 2003, Bluff City

23

Alicia Fabbri

Canadian ice dancer

*February 16th, 2003, Laval

23

Eva-Lotta Kiibus

Estonian figure skater

*January 17th, 2003, Tallinn

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, 2003
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 2003 is a normal year and no leap year.

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