August 22nd, 1755

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Born on August 22nd, 1755 – 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 1755)

Born on August 22nd, 1755

Weekday

Friday

August 22nd, 1755 was a Friday.

Age

268

People born on August 22nd, 1755 will turn 269 this year (2024), in exactly 112 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 24th, 1755 - August 23rd, 1755

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 98,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 861 days, exactly on September 10th, 2026, people who were born on August 22nd, 1755 will be 99,000 days old!

98,139 Days

14,019 Weeks

3,224 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, 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.

August 22nd, 2004

Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

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

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

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

Ray Bradbury

American author and screenwriter

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

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

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

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

Charles Clerke

British Royal Navy officer

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

Claude Debussy

French classical composer (1862–1918)

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

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

Theo Bos

Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist

*August 22nd, 1983, Hierden

Louis Martin

Father of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, spouse of and Marie-Azélie Guérin (1823-1894)

*August 22nd, 1823, Bordeaux †July 29th, 1894, Arnières-sur-Iton

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 1755

Marie Antoinette

Last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution

*November 2nd, 1755, Hofburg Palace †October 16th, 1793, place de la Concorde

Louis XVIII of France

Bourbon King of France and of Navarre (1755-1824)

*November 17th, 1755, Palace of Versailles †September 16th, 1824, Tuileries Palace

Gottlob Heinrich von Lindenau

*August 18th, 1755, Altenburg †July 15th, 1830, Neustädtel

Samuel Hahnemann

German physician known for creating homeopathy

*April 10th, 1755, Meissen †July 2nd, 1843, former 1st arrondissement of Paris

Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras

French politician (1745-1829)

*June 30th, 1755, Fox-Amphoux †January 29th, 1829, Chaillot

Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Rochambeau

French soldier

*April 7th, 1755, Paris †September 20th, 1813, Leipzig

Sarah Siddons

Welsh actress (1755-1831)

*July 5th, 1755, Brecon †June 8th, 1831, London

Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

Polish general (1755–1818)

*August 2nd, 1755, Pierzchów †June 6th, 1818, Winna Góra, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

18th- and 19th-century French painter (1755–1842)

*April 16th, 1755, Paris †March 30th, 1842, Paris

Georges Couthon

French politician and lawyer (1755–1794)

*December 22nd, 1755, Orcet †July 28th, 1794, Paris

François Joseph Lefebvre

Marshal of France (1755-1820)

*October 25th, 1755, Rouffach †September 14th, 1820, Paris

Carl Ernst Christoph Hess

German copperplate engraver

*January 22nd, 1755, Darmstadt †July 25th, 1828, Munich

Anacharsis Cloots

Prussian noble (1755-1794)

*June 24th, 1755, Kleve †March 24th, 1794, Paris

Jean-Nicolas Corvisart

French physician (1755-1821)

*February 15th, 1755, Dricourt †September 18th, 1821, Paris

Paolo Mascagni

Italian physician (1755-1815)

*January 25th, 1755, Pomarance †October 19th, 1815, Chiusdino

Stephen Groombridge

British astronomer

*January 7th, 1755, Kent †March 30th, 1832, London

Robert Gray

American merchant sea captain

*May 10th, 1755, Tiverton †July 1st, 1806, Charleston

Axel von Fersen the Younger

Swedish politician (1755-1810)

*September 4th, 1755, Jakob and Johannes parish †June 20th, 1810, Stockholm

Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke

Danish geheimrat

*September 15th, 1755, Walkendorf †August 15th, 1835, Køge

Natalia Alexeievna of Russia

Russian Grand duchess (1755-1776)

*June 25th, 1755, Prenzlau †April 15th, 1776, Saint Petersburg

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.MDCCLV

22.8.1755

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1755 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1755

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August 22nd, 1755

Born on August 22nd, 1755

Weekday

Friday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 98,000 days old!

98,139 Days

14,019 Weeks

3,224 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 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.

Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

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

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

Same year Born in 1755

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

22.8.1755

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Calendar
August 1755

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