August 21st, 1655

Born on August 21st, 1655

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 135,000 days old!

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What happened on August 21st?

August 21st, 2007

BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.

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 (one pictured) 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 and 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 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 clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

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

Same year
Born in 1655

50

Jacob Bernoulli

Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)

*January 5th, 1655, Basel †August 16th, 1705, Basel

75

Bartolomeo Cristofori

Italian maker of musical instruments

*May 4th, 1655, Padua †January 27th, 1731, Florence

41

Charles XI of Sweden

King of Sweden

*November 24th, 1655, Stockholm †April 5th, 1697, Stockholm

55

Vincenzo Grimani

Catholic cardinal

*May 26th, 1655, Mantua †September 26th, 1710, Naples

72

Frederick Christian, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe

German noble (1655-1728)

*August 16th, 1655, Bückeburg †June 13th, 1728, Bückeburg

73

Christian Thomasius

German philosopher (1655-1728)

*January 1st, 1655, Leipzig †September 23rd, 1728, Halle (Saale)

60

Paule-Marguerite Françoise de Gondi

French noblewoman (1655-1716)

*March 12th, 1655, Machecoul †January 21st, 1716, Paris

88

Fra Galgario

Lombard painter (1655-1743)

*March 4th, 1655, Bergamo †December 1st, 1743, Bergamo

71

Francis Nicholson

British general and colonial official

*November 12th, 1655, Downholme †March 16th, 1727, London

60

Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

German duke (1655-1715)

*July 12th, 1655, Gotha †October 17th, 1715, Hildburghausen

72

Cornelius Cruys

Norwegian admiral

*June 14th, 1655, Stavanger †June 14th, 1727, Saint Petersburg

69

Benedict Pictet

Genevan theologian

*May 19th, 1655, Geneva †June 9th, 1724, Geneva

82

Carel de Moor

Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1655-1738)

*February 25th, 1655, Leiden †February 16th, 1738, Warmond

82

Rinaldo d'Este

Duke of Modena

*April 26th, 1655, Modena †October 26th, 1737, Modena

81

Ferdinand Kettler

Duke of Courland (1655-1737)

*November 2nd, 1655, Jelgava †May 4th, 1737, Gdańsk

71

Johan Gabriel Sparwenfeld

Swedish diplomat, linguist and diarist

*July 17th, 1655, Åmål †June 2nd, 1727, Romfartuna

45

Johann Beer

Austrian composer and writer

*February 28th, 1655, Sankt Georgen im Attergau †August 6th, 1700, Weißenfels

82

Caspar Bartholin the Younger

Danish anatomist

*September 10th, 1655, Copenhagen †June 11th, 1738, Copenhagen

86

Bernard de Montfaucon

French monk and scholar

*January 13th, 1655, Languedoc †December 21st, 1741, Paris

70

Antonio Palomino

Painter from Spain (1655-1726)

*December 1st, 1655, Bujalance †August 12th, 1726, Madrid

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1655 is a normal year and no leap year.

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