Famous Birthdays In August - 02

1455  Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99) was born on August - 02.  

1533  On this day in history birth of theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)  

1627  On August - 02 birth of samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter  

1632  On August - 02 birth of kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)  

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on this day in history.  

1674  On this day in history birth of philip II, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (d. 1723)  

1696  On August - 02 birth of mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russia  

1703  On August - 02 birth of lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)  

1723  On this day in history birth of nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect  

1746  On this day in history birth of joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot  

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1754  On this day in history birth of pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Wash DC  

1775  Jose Angel Lamas, composer was born on August - 02.  

1788  Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853) was born on this day in history.  

1802  Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster was born on August - 02.  

1815  Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894) was born on this day in history.  

1818  On August - 02 birth of [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major  

1826  On August - 02 birth of william Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902  

1828  On this day in history birth of manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895)  

1832  On August - 02 birth of henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)  

1834  On this day in history birth of frederic Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Liberty)  

1834  On August - 02 birth of isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist  

1835  On this day in history birth of elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone)  

1854  Francis Marion Crawford, British author was born on this day in history.  

1858  A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent of Netherlands was born on this day in history.  

1858  On this day in history birth of catherina van Rennes, composer  

1858  On August - 02 birth of william Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)  

1865  Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism) was born on August - 02.  

1865  John Radecki, Australian stained glass artist (d. 1955) was born on August - 02.  

1867  On August - 02 birth of ernest C Dowson, British poet  

1868  On this day in history birth of constantine I, king of Greece  

1871  On August - 02 birth of john French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)  

1872  George E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946) was born on this day in history.  

1875  On August - 02 birth of mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957)  

1878  Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales) was born on August - 02.  

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0257  On August - 02 stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies  

0640  On this day in history severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies  

0686  On this day in history john V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies  

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on August - 02.  

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

1075  On this day in history john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies  

1100  On this day in history death of william II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44  

1222  On August - 02 death of count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156)