August 22nd, 1509

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Born on August 22nd, 1509 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on August 22nd?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on August 22nd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (August 1509)

Born on August 22nd, 1509

Weekday

Sunday

August 22nd, 1509 was a Sunday.

Age

514

People born on August 22nd, 1509 will turn 515 this year (2024), in exactly 51 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 24th, 1509 - August 23rd, 1509

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 188,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 950 days, exactly on February 7th, 2027, people who were born on August 22nd, 1509 will be 189,000 days old!

188,050 Days

26,864 Weeks

6,178 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on August 22nd?

August 22nd, 2015

A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.

August 22nd, 1985

A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke inhalation and bringing about changes to make aircraft evacuation more effective.

August 22nd, 1984

The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which had hitherto entirely comprised members of the People's Action Party.

August 22nd, 1961

Ida Siekmann jumped from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to West Berlin, becoming the first person to die at the Berlin Wall.

August 22nd, 1914

First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British forces on the Western Front.

August 22nd, 1864

Under the leadership of Henry Dunant and the International Committee of the Red Cross, twelve European states signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing rules for the protection of victims of armed conflict.

August 22nd, 1851

The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.

August 22nd, 1777

American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured).

August 22nd, 1711

Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.

August 22nd, 1642

King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.

August 22nd, 1639

The Vijayanagara Empire leased a small strip of land in present-day Chennai, the capital of the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to the East India Company.

August 22nd, 1485

Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.

August 22nd, 1153

The fortress of Ascalon was surrendered by the Fatimid Caliphate to an army of crusaders, Templars, and Hospitallers led by King Baldwin III of Jerusalem.

August 22nd, 2007

The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.

August 22nd, 2006

Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 22nd

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 22nd?

104

Simone Schaller

American hurdler

*August 22nd, 1912, Manchester †October 20th, 2016, Arcadia

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

Chuck Brown

American guitarist, bandleader and singer (1936-2012)

*August 22nd, 1936, Gaston †May 16th, 2012, Baltimore

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

Dietmar Kienast

German historian of classical antiquity and university teacher (1925-2012)

*August 22nd, 1925, Berlin †February 13th, 2012, Olching

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

101

Leni Riefenstahl

German film director, photographer, actress and Nazi propagandist (1902–2003)

*August 22nd, 1902, Berlin †September 8th, 2003, Pöcking

Deng Xiaoping

Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989

*August 22nd, 1904, Guanganzhou †February 19th, 1997, Beijing

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

*August 22nd, 1939, Suffern †August 30th, 2019, Los Angeles

Ray Bradbury

American author and screenwriter

*August 22nd, 1920, Waukegan †June 5th, 2012, Los Angeles

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

Charles Clerke

British Royal Navy officer

*August 22nd, 1741, Essex †August 22nd, 1779, Kamchatka Peninsula

Denis Papin

French physicist, mathematician and inventor (*1647 – †1713)

*August 22nd, 1647, Chitenay †August 26th, 1713, London

Theo Bos

Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist

*August 22nd, 1983, Hierden

Claude Debussy

French classical composer (1862–1918)

*August 22nd, 1862, Saint-Germain-en-Laye †March 25th, 1918, 16th arrondissement of Paris

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

Ron Dante

American musician, songwriter, record producer

*August 22nd, 1945, Staten Island

Same year
Born in 1509

John Calvin

French Protestant reformer (1509–1564)

*July 10th, 1509, Noyon †May 27th, 1564, Geneva

John of Leiden

Anabaptist leader, King of Munster (1509-1536)

*February 2nd, 1509, Zevenhoven †January 22nd, 1536, Münster

Melchor Cano

Spanish theologian (1509-1560)

*January 6th, 1509, Tarancón †September 30th, 1560, Toledo

Gian Girolamo Albani

Italian cardinal (1509-1591)

*January 3rd, 1509, Bergamo †April 25th, 1591, Rome

Ippolito II d'Este

Catholic cardinal

*August 25th, 1509, Ferrara †December 2nd, 1572, Rome

Giovanni Morone

Cardinal

*January 25th, 1509, Milan †December 1st, 1580, Rome

Étienne Dolet

French translator and scholar (1509-1546)

*August 3rd, 1509, Orléans †August 3rd, 1546, Paris

Magnus III, Duke of Mecklenburg

Member of the House of Mecklenburg, Prince-Bishop of Schwerin

*July 4th, 1509, Burg Stargard †January 28th, 1550, Bützow

Philip II of Nassau-Saarbrücken

Count of Saarbrücken and Saarwerden (1544-1554)

*July 25th, 1509, Saarbrücken †June 19th, 1554, Strasbourg

Jean Goujon

French artist

*November 30th, 1509, Rouen †November 30th, 1566, Bologna

John, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels

Duke of Münsterberg, Duke of Oels and Count of Glatz

*November 4th, 1509, Oleśnica †February 28th, 1565, Oleśnica

Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal

Roman Catholic cardinal (1509-1540)

*April 23rd, 1509, Évora †April 21st, 1540, Lisbon

Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg

Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1539-1578)

*March 27th, 1509, Bad Arolsen †April 15th, 1578, Eilhausen

Henry XXI of Stolberg

German nobleman

*January 2nd, 1509, Stolberg †November 12th, 1572, Stolberg

Joachim I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

German prince

*August 7th, 1509, Dessau †December 6th, 1561, Dessau

Pasquale Cicogna

Doge of Venice (1509-1595)

*May 27th, 1509, Venice †April 2nd, 1595, Venice

Cornelius Wischaven

*October 2nd, 1509, Mechelen †August 25th, 1559, Loreto

Luis de Morales

16th-century Spanish painter

*January 1st, 1509, Badajoz †May 9th, 1586, Badajoz

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 22nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on August 22nd.

Earliest day on which National Heroes' Day (Philippines) can fall, while August 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Heroes_Day_(Philippines)

Flag Day (Russia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Russia

Madras Day (Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_Day

End of Filseta feast in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filseta

International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief (International)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_Commemorating_the_Victims_of_Acts_of_Violence_Based_on_Religion_or_Belief

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXII.VIII.MDIX

22.8.1509

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1509 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1509

August 1509

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22. August 1510
22. August 1514
22. August 1519
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August 22nd, 1509

Born on August 22nd, 1509

Weekday

Sunday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 188,000 days old!

188,050 Days

26,864 Weeks

6,178 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on August 22nd?

A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.

A fire broke out on British Airtours Flight 28M, causing 55 deaths mostly due to smoke inhalation and bringing about changes to make aircraft evacuation more effective.

The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which had hitherto entirely comprised members of the People's Action Party.

Ida Siekmann jumped from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to West Berlin, becoming the first person to die at the Berlin Wall.

First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British forces on the Western Front.

Under the leadership of Henry Dunant and the International Committee of the Red Cross, twelve European states signed the First Geneva Convention, establishing rules for the protection of victims of armed conflict.

The yacht America won the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns race, later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.

American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold used a ruse to convince the British that a much larger force was arriving, causing them to abandon the siege of Fort Stanwix (reconstructed fort pictured).

Queen Anne's War: A British attempt to attack Quebec failed when eight ships wrecked on the St. Lawrence River.

King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham, marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.

The Vijayanagara Empire leased a small strip of land in present-day Chennai, the capital of the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu, to the East India Company.

Lancastrian forces under Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, defeated Yorkist forces under Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth Field, decisively ending the Wars of the Roses.

The fortress of Ascalon was surrendered by the Fatimid Caliphate to an army of crusaders, Templars, and Hospitallers led by King Baldwin III of Jerusalem.

The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.

Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 22nd

Same Day Who's birthday is on August 22nd?

Same year Born in 1509

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 22nd

Fabrizio

Guinefort, the holy greyhound, feast day traditionally.

Immaculate Heart of Mary (Roman Catholic calendar of 1960)

Queenship of Mary

Symphorian and Timotheus

August 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which National Heroes' Day (Philippines) can fall, while August 28 is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Monday in August.

Flag Day (Russia)

Madras Day (Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India)

End of Filseta feast in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church

International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief (International)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

22.8.1509

Legend

Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 188,000 days old!

Birthdays
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Calendar
August 1509

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30							1
31	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
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33	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
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35	30	31