August 21st, 1643

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Born on August 21st, 1643 – 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 1643)

Born on August 21st, 1643

Weekday

Friday

August 21st, 1643 was a Friday.

Age

380

People born on August 21st, 1643 will turn 381 this year (2024), in exactly 114 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1643 - August 23rd, 1643

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 139,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 956 days, exactly on December 11th, 2026, people who were born on August 21st, 1643 will be 140,000 days old!

139,044 Days

19,863 Weeks

4,568 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

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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

Born on August 21st, 1643

Afonso VI of Portugal

King of Portugal and the Algarves

*August 21st, 1643, Ribeira Palace †September 12th, 1683, Sintra National Palace

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

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

Hermann Hammerschmidt

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

Alizée

French singer

*August 21st, 1984, Ajaccio

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

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

Paul Zeiller

Austrian painter (1658-1738)

*August 21st, 1658, Reutte †August 19th, 1738, Reutte

Mohammed

King of Morocco since 1999

*August 21st, 1963, Rabat

Same year
Born in 1643

Ahmed II

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695

*February 25th, 1643, Constantinople †February 6th, 1695, Edirne

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America

*November 21st, 1643, Rouen †March 19th, 1687, Texas

Giacomo Amato

Italian architect (1643-1732)

*May 14th, 1643, Palermo †December 26th, 1732, Palermo

Jeremiah Dummer

American silversmith (1643-1718)

*September 14th, 1643, Newbury †May 24th, 1718, Boston

Fabrizio Spada

Italian cardinal

*March 17th, 1643, Rome †June 15th, 1717, Rome

Lorenzo Bellini

Italian anatomist (1643-1704)

*September 3rd, 1643, Florence †January 8th, 1704, Florence

Maeda Tsunanori

Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period

*December 26th, 1643, Edo †June 29th, 1724

Bahadur Shah I

Eighth Mughal emperor (1643-1712)

*October 14th, 1643, Burhanpur †February 27th, 1712, Lahore

Charles V, Duke of Lorraine

Austrian warrior

*April 3rd, 1643, Vienna †April 18th, 1690, Wels

Mary of Jesus de León y Delgado

Spanish Dominican lay sister and mystic

*March 23rd, 1643, El Sauzal †February 15th, 1731, San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Fran Krsto Frankopan

Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician (1643-1671)

*March 4th, 1643, Bosiljevo †April 30th, 1671, Wiener Neustadt

Juan de Sevilla Romero

Spanish painter (1643-1695)

*January 1st, 1643, Granada †January 1st, 1695, Granada

Johannes Eisenhart

German jurist (1643-1707)

*October 18th, 1643, Erxleben (Osterburg) †May 9th, 1707, Helmstedt

Johann Martin Gumpp the Elder

Austrian architect

*November 7th, 1643, Innsbruck †July 3rd, 1729, Innsbruck

Christian Demelius

German composer (1643-1711)

*April 1st, 1643, Schlettau †November 1st, 1711, Nordhausen

Laurent Fauchier

French painter

*March 11th, 1643, Aix-en-Provence †March 25th, 1672, Aix-en-Provence

Jean Chardin

French jeweler, traveler and author (1643-1713)

*November 16th, 1643, Paris †January 5th, 1713, Chiswick

Nicolaus Christoph Lyncker

German jurist

*April 2nd, 1643, Marburg †May 28th, 1726, Vienna

Alessandro Stradella

Italian composer

*July 3rd, 1643, Bologna †February 25th, 1682, Genoa

Christian Franz Paullini

German physician

*February 25th, 1643, Eisenach †June 10th, 1712, Eisenach

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.MDCXLIII

21.8.1643

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

XL = 40

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1643 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1643

August 1643

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August 21st, 1643

Born on August 21st, 1643

Weekday

Friday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 139,000 days old!

139,044 Days

19,863 Weeks

4,568 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

Born on August 21st, 1643

King of Portugal and the Algarves

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

Same year Born in 1643

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

21.8.1643

Legend

Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 139,000 days old!

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

Same Day
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Same year
Born in 1643

Calendar
August 1643

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
31						1	2
32	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
33	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
34	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
35	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
36	31