August 2nd, 2007

Born on August 2nd, 2007

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 6,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 894 days, exactly on October 1st, 2026, people who were born on August 2nd, 2007 will be 7,000 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

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

31

Charli XCX

English singer-songwriter

*August 2nd, 1992, Cambridge

27

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

29

Tang Yuanting

Chinese badminton player

*August 2nd, 1994, Nanning

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

46

Florian Stetter

German actor

*August 2nd, 1977, Munich

24

Elavenil Valarivan

Indian sport shooter

*August 2nd, 1999, Cuddalore

28

Victor Svendsen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1995, Hjørring

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

27

Citra Putri Sari Dewi

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Jakarta

30

Tam Chun Hei

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1993, Hong Kong

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

55

Thomas Lund

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1968, Aarhus

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

21

Güzide Irmak Bayır

Turkish figure skater

*August 2nd, 2002, Ankara

34

Matteo Trentin

Italian road cyclist

*August 2nd, 1989, Borgo Valsugana

88

Dora Boothby

English badminton and tennis player

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

81

Peter O'Toole

British actor (1932–2013)

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

Same year
Born in 2007

16

Unnati Hooda

Badminton player

*September 20th, 2007, Rohtak

16

Ever Anderson

American child actress

*November 3rd, 2007, Los Angeles

16

Infanta Sofía of Spain

Younger child of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia

*April 29th, 2007, Madrid

17

Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden

Son of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster, and Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster; grandson of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

*March 12th, 2007, London

16

James, Earl of Wessex

Son of Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, and Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh

*December 17th, 2007, Frimley Park Hospital

16

Viki Gabor

Polish singer

*July 10th, 2007, Hamburg

16

Melani García

Spanish singer

*June 10th, 2007, L'Eliana

16

Park Min-ha

South Korean actress

*July 2nd, 2007, Grupo

17

Cailey Fleming

American actress

*March 25th, 2007, Picayune

17

Ana Paula Martínez

Mexican actress

*February 22nd, 2007, Mexico City

16

Aubrey Anderson-Emmons

American child actress

*June 6th, 2007, Santa Monica

17

Quan Hongchan

Chinese diver (2007-)

*March 28th, 2007, Zhanjiang

17

Stacey Fru

Child Author and Philanthropist

*February 16th, 2007, Johannesburg

17

Lalla Khadija of Morocco

Moroccan royal

*February 28th, 2007, Rabat

16

DJ Switch

Young Ghanaian female disk jockey

*December 12th, 2007, Dadieso

16

Momiji Nishiya

Japanese street skateboarder (2007-)

*August 30th, 2007, Matsubara

16

Ruhanika Dhawan

Indian actress

*September 25th, 2007, Delhi

16

Adeliia Petrosian

Russian figure skater

*June 5th, 2007, Moscow

16

Alexander James Rodriguez

British actor

*June 12th, 2007, Marbella

17

Claire Weinstein

American swimmer

*March 1st, 2007, White Plains

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, 2007
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 2007 is a normal year and no leap year.

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