Famous Birthdays In August - 02

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

1533  Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588) was born on August - 02.  

1627  Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter was born on August - 02.  

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

1672  Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (d. 1733) was born on August - 02.  

1674  On August - 02 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 this day in history.  

1788  Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853) was born on August - 02.  

1802  On this day in history birth of nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster  

1815  On this day in history birth of adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)  

1818  On this day in history birth of [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major  

1826  William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902 was born on August - 02.  

1828  Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general (d. 1895) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history birth of isaac Capadose, lawyer/evangelist  

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

1854  On August - 02 birth of francis Marion Crawford, British author  

1858  On August - 02 birth of a Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent of Netherlands  

1858  On August - 02 birth of catherina van Rennes, composer  

1858  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

1868  Constantine I, king of Greece was born on August - 02.  

1871  On this day in history birth of john French Sloan, American artist (d. 1951)  

1872  On August - 02 birth of george E. Stewart, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1946)  

1875  Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian artist (d. 1957) was born on August - 02.  

1878  On August - 02 birth of aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)  

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0257  Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies on August - 02.  

0640  Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies on this day in history.  

0686  John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies on this day in history.  

0924  Death of Ælfweard of Wessex on this day in history.  

1002  Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64 on August - 02.  

1075  On August - 02 john VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies  

1100  Death of William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44 on August - 02.  

1222  Death of Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (b. 1156) on August - 02.