August 21st, 1494

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Born on August 21st, 1494 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on August 21st?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on August 21st
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (August 1494)

Born on August 21st, 1494

Weekday

Tuesday

August 21st, 1494 was a Tuesday.

Age

529

People born on August 21st, 1494 will turn 530 this year (2024), in exactly 112 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1494 - August 23rd, 1494

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 193,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 533 days, exactly on October 16th, 2025, people who were born on August 21st, 1494 will be 194,000 days old!

193,467 Days

27,638 Weeks

6,356 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 21st?

August 21st, 2015

Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.

August 21st, 2013

Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.

August 21st, 1986

A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

August 21st, 1963

South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.

August 21st, 1945

American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.

August 21st, 1944

World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.

August 21st, 1942

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

August 21st, 1911

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.

August 21st, 1858

The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.

August 21st, 1808

Peninsular War: British–Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.

August 21st, 1789

The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa.

August 21st, 1717

Austro-Turkish War: Austrian troops under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire.

August 21st, 1716

Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: Ottoman forces suddenly abandoned their siege of Corfu, allowing the Republic of Venice to preserve its rule over the Ionian Islands.

August 21st, 1689

Jacobite risings: Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

August 21st, 1689

The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 21st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 21st?

Elīza Tīruma

Latvian luger

*August 21st, 1990, Sigulda

Malynda Hale

Musical artist

*August 21st, 1986, Santa Barbara

Usain Bolt

Jamaican sprinter

*August 21st, 1986, Sherwood Content

Roelof Dednam

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1985, Bloemfontein

Geoffrey Keen

English actor (1916–2005)

*August 21st, 1916, Wallingford †November 3rd, 2005, Northwood

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

Stephen Hillenburg

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

*August 21st, 1961, Fort Sill †November 26th, 2018, San Marino

Kim Bruun

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1993, Seoul

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

Kimberley Ashton

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1987, Jersey

Alizée

French singer

*August 21st, 1984, Ajaccio

Hermann Hammerschmidt

*August 21st, 1887, Cottbus †November 30th, 1944

Robert Lewandowski

Polish association football player

*August 21st, 1988, Leszno, Warsaw West County

Sergey Brin

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*August 21st, 1973, Moscow

William IV

King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 1830 to 1837

*August 21st, 1765, Buckingham Palace †June 20th, 1837, Windsor Castle

Eve Torres

American actress, dancer, model and professional wrestler

*August 21st, 1984, Boston

Nigel Pearson

English association football player and manager (born 1963)

*August 21st, 1963, Nottingham

Melvin Van Peebles

American filmmaker

*August 21st, 1932, Chicago †September 21st, 2021, Manhattan

Mohammed

King of Morocco since 1999

*August 21st, 1963, Rabat

Clarence Williams III

American actor (1939–2021)

*August 21st, 1939, New York City †June 4th, 2021, Los Angeles

Same year
Born in 1494

Suleiman the Magnificent

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and caliph (1520–1566)

*November 6th, 1494, Trabzon †September 7th, 1566, Szigetvár

Johannes Agricola

Reformer, humanist

*April 20th, 1494, Lutherstadt Eisleben †September 22nd, 1566, Berlin

Georgius Agricola

German mineralogist

*March 24th, 1494, Glauchau †November 21st, 1555, Chemnitz

Francis I of France

King of France (1494-1547)

*September 12th, 1494, Cognac †March 31st, 1547, Rambouillet

Bona Sforza

Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania

*February 2nd, 1494, Vigevano †November 19th, 1557, Castello Normanno-Svevo

Ambrosius Moibanus

German theologian

*April 4th, 1494, Wrocław †January 16th, 1554, Wrocław

Antoinette de Bourbon

Duchess consort of Guise

*December 25th, 1494, Ham †January 22nd, 1583, Joinville

Hans Sachs

German meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright and shoemaker

*November 5th, 1494, Nuremberg †January 19th, 1576, Nuremberg

Pontormo

Florentine Mannerist painter

*May 24th, 1494, Empoli †December 31st, 1556, Florence

Rosso Fiorentino

Italian painter

*March 8th, 1494, Florence †November 14th, 1540, Paris

Francesco da Sangallo

Italian artist (1494-1576)

*March 1st, 1494, Florence †February 17th, 1576, Florence

Francesco Maurolico

Greek mathematician and astronomer (*1494 – †1575)

*September 16th, 1494, Messina †July 22nd, 1575, Messina

Francesco Bacchiacca

Italian Renaissance painter (1494-1557)

*March 1st, 1494, Florence †October 5th, 1557, Florence

Oronce Finé

French mathematician and cartographer (*1494 – †1555)

*December 20th, 1494, Briançon †August 8th, 1555, Paris

Wolfgang of the Palatinate

Count Palatine of Neumarkt, governor of the Upper Palatinate

*October 31st, 1494, Heidelberg †April 2nd, 1558, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz

Johannes Scheubel

German mathematician

*January 1st, 1494, Kirchheim unter Teck †January 1st, 1570, Tübingen

Margaret of Anhalt-Köthen

Princess of Anhalt by birth, by marriage Duchess of Saxony

*November 12th, 1494, Köthen †October 7th, 1521, Weimar

Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach by birth and Margravine of Baden by marriage

*March 25th, 1494, Ansbach †May 31st, 1518, Pforzheim

Jean Parisot de la Valette

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

*January 1st, 1494, La Valette-du-Var †August 21st, 1568, Malta

Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duchess of Guelders

Duchess consort of Guelders

*September 11th, 1494, Celle †April 2nd, 1572, Geldern

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 21st

Fixed holidays (Christian Feast Day) which are celebrated on August 21st.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXI.VIII.MCDXCIV

21.8.1494

Legend

M = 1000

CD = 400

XC = 90

X = 10

V = 5

IV = 4

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1494 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1494

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August 21st, 1494

Born on August 21st, 1494

Weekday

Tuesday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 193,000 days old!

193,467 Days

27,638 Weeks

6,356 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 21st?

Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.

Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured) containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.

A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.

South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm, raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.

American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project fatality due to a criticality accident.

World War II: A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise, France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy.

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru, the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.

The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured), candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate, was held in Ottawa, Illinois.

Peninsular War: British–Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro.

The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa.

Austro-Turkish War: Austrian troops under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire.

Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: Ottoman forces suddenly abandoned their siege of Corfu, allowing the Republic of Venice to preserve its rule over the Ionian Islands.

Jacobite risings: Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 21st

Same Day Who's birthday is on August 21st?

Same year Born in 1494

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 21st

Abraham of Smolensk (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Euprepius of Verona

Maximilian of Antioch

Our Lady of Knock

Pope Pius X

Sidonius Apollinaris

August 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Ninoy Aquino Day (Philippines)

Youth Day (Morocco)

World Senior Citizen's Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

21.8.1494

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 193,000 days old!

Birthdays
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Calendar
August 1494

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