August 21st, 1869

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Born on August 21st, 1869 – 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 1869)

Born on August 21st, 1869

Weekday

Saturday

August 21st, 1869 was a Saturday.

Age

154

People born on August 21st, 1869 will turn 155 this year (2024), in exactly 116 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1869 - August 23rd, 1869

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 56,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 503 days, exactly on September 12th, 2025, people who were born on August 21st, 1869 will be 57,000 days old!

56,497 Days

8,071 Weeks

1,856 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

Born on August 21st, 1869

William Henry Ogilvie

Scottish-Australian poet

*August 21st, 1869, Kelso †January 30th, 1963, Scotland

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

Geoffrey Keen

English actor (1916–2005)

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

Usain Bolt

Jamaican sprinter

*August 21st, 1986, Sherwood Content

Hermann Hammerschmidt

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

Roelof Dednam

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1985, Bloemfontein

Franz Kruckenberg

German engineer (1882-1965)

*August 21st, 1882, Uetersen †June 19th, 1965, Heidelberg

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

Wilhelm Ostwald

Baltic German chemist

*August 21st, 1853, Riga †April 4th, 1932, Großbothen

Stephen Hillenburg

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

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

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

Kim Bruun

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1993, Seoul

Kimberley Ashton

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1987, Jersey

Melvin Van Peebles

American filmmaker

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

Anthony Boucher

American author, critic, and editor (1911–1968)

*August 21st, 1911, Oakland †April 29th, 1968, Oakland

Alizée

French singer

*August 21st, 1984, Ajaccio

Sergey Brin

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*August 21st, 1973, Moscow

Jack Weston

American actor

*August 21st, 1924, Cleveland †May 3rd, 1996, New York City

Robert Lewandowski

Polish association football player

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

Nigel Pearson

English association football player and manager (born 1963)

*August 21st, 1963, Nottingham

Same year
Born in 1869

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence activist (1869–1948)

*October 2nd, 1869, Porbandar †January 30th, 1948, Gandhi Smriti

Henri Matisse

French artist (1869–1954)

*December 31st, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis †November 3rd, 1954, Nice

Karl Hampe

German historian of medieval age (1869-1936)

*February 3rd, 1869, Bremen †February 14th, 1936, Heidelberg

André Gide

French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

*November 22nd, 1869, Paris †February 19th, 1951, Paris

Neville Chamberlain

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940

*March 18th, 1869, Birmingham †November 9th, 1940, Reading

Tyrone Power Sr.

English-born American stage and screen actor (1869–1931)

*May 2nd, 1869, London †December 23rd, 1931, Los Angeles

Miloje Vasić

Serbian archaeologist, historian and art critic (1869-1956)

*September 3rd, 1869, Požeženo †November 4th, 1956, Belgrade

William Vaughn Moody

United States dramatist and poet (1869-1910)

*July 8th, 1869, Spencer †October 17th, 1910, Colorado Springs

Emma Goldman

Russian anarchist

*June 27th, 1869, Kaunas †May 14th, 1940, Toronto

Fritz Pregl

Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)

*September 3rd, 1869, Ljubljana †December 13th, 1930, Graz

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)

*February 14th, 1869, Glencorse †November 15th, 1959, Carlops

Hovhannes Tumanyan

Armenian writer and public activist

*February 19th, 1869, Dsegh †March 23rd, 1923, Moscow

Tony Garnier

French architect

*August 13th, 1869, 1st arrondissement of Lyon †January 19th, 1948, Roquefort-la-Bédoule

Charley Grapewin

American actor (1869-1956)

*December 20th, 1869, Xenia †February 2nd, 1956, Corona

Grigori Rasputin

Russian mystic (1869-1916)

*January 9th, 1869, Pokrovskoye †December 17th, 1916, Saint Petersburg

Hans Spemann

German embryologist

*June 27th, 1869, Stuttgart †September 9th, 1941, Freiburg im Breisgau

Karl Seitz

President of Austria (1869-1950)

*September 4th, 1869, Vienna †February 3rd, 1950, Vienna

Adam von Au

German politician

*December 24th, 1869, Huchenfeld †July 1st, 1942

Will Marion Cook

African American composer and violinist

*January 27th, 1869, Washington, D.C. †July 19th, 1944, New York City

Hendrikus Colijn

Dutch politician (1869–1944)

*June 22nd, 1869, Burgerveen †September 18th, 1944, Ilmenau

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.MDCCCLXIX

21.8.1869

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

IX = 9

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1869 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1869

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August 21st, 1869

Born on August 21st, 1869

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 56,000 days old!

56,497 Days

8,071 Weeks

1,856 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, 1869

Scottish-Australian poet

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

Same year Born in 1869

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

21.8.1869

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 56,000 days old!

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Calendar
August 1869

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