August 21st, 1898

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Born on August 21st, 1898 – 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 1898)

Born on August 21st, 1898

Weekday

Sunday

August 21st, 1898 was a Sunday.

Age

125

People born on August 21st, 1898 will turn 126 this year (2024), in exactly 114 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1898 - August 23rd, 1898

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 45,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 93 days, exactly on July 31st, 2024, people who were born on August 21st, 1898 will be 46,000 days old!

45,907 Days

6,558 Weeks

1,508 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, 1898

Edgar Bonjour

Swiss historian of modern age

*August 21st, 1898, Bern †May 26th, 1991, Basel

Hans Asmussen

German Evangelical theologian (1898-1968)

*August 21st, 1898, Flensburg †December 30th, 1968, Speyer

Herbert Mundin

British actor

*August 21st, 1898, St Helens †March 5th, 1939, Van Nuys

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

Elīza Tīruma

Latvian luger

*August 21st, 1990, Sigulda

Geoffrey Keen

English actor (1916–2005)

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

Malynda Hale

Musical artist

*August 21st, 1986, Santa Barbara

Hermann Hammerschmidt

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

Usain Bolt

Jamaican sprinter

*August 21st, 1986, Sherwood Content

Roelof Dednam

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1985, Bloemfontein

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

Anthony Boucher

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

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

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

Franz Kruckenberg

German engineer (1882-1965)

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

Kim Bruun

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1993, Seoul

Kimberley Ashton

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1987, Jersey

Jack Weston

American actor

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

Melvin Van Peebles

American filmmaker

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

Clarence Williams III

American actor (1939–2021)

*August 21st, 1939, New York City †June 4th, 2021, Los Angeles

Alizée

French singer

*August 21st, 1984, Ajaccio

Sergey Brin

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*August 21st, 1973, Moscow

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 1898

Marta Linz

Hungarian violinist, composer, conductor

*December 21st, 1898, Budapest †January 11th, 1982, Berlin

Johannes S. Andersen

Norwegian criminal, businessman and resistance fighter during the Second World War

*July 9th, 1898, Oslo †July 29th, 1970, Horten

Franz Altheim

German historian (1898-1976)

*October 6th, 1898, Frankfurt †October 17th, 1976, Münster

Ernst Meyer

German historian of classical antiquity (1898-1975)

*February 21st, 1898, Pinneberg †November 18th, 1975, Zürich

Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)

*January 10th, 1898, Riga †February 11th, 1948, Moscow

Paul Robeson

American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

*April 9th, 1898, Princeton †January 23rd, 1976, Philadelphia

Bertolt Brecht

German poet, playwright, theatre director (1898-1956)

*February 10th, 1898, Augsburg †August 14th, 1956, East Berlin

Federico García Lorca

Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director (1898–1936)

*June 5th, 1898, Fuente Vaqueros †July 31st, 1936, Víznar

Shirley Booth

American actress (1898–1992)

*August 30th, 1898, Brooklyn †October 16th, 1992, Chatham

Alvar Aalto

Finnish architect and designer (1898–1976)

*February 3rd, 1898, Kuortane †May 11th, 1976, Helsinki

Golda Meir

Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974

*April 21st, 1898, Ukraine †December 8th, 1978, Jerusalem

Giuseppe Saragat

5th President of Italy (1898-1988)

*September 19th, 1898, Turin †June 11th, 1988, Rome

Agnes Ayres

American actress (1892–1940)

*April 4th, 1898, Carbondale †December 25th, 1940, Los Angeles

George Gershwin

American composer and pianist (1898–1937)

*September 26th, 1898, Brooklyn †July 11th, 1937, Hollywood

Stephen Vincent Benét

American poet, short story writer, novelist

*July 22nd, 1898, Bethlehem †March 13th, 1943, New York City

Helene Wessel

German politician (1898-1969)

*July 6th, 1898, Hörde †October 13th, 1969, Bonn

Umm Kulthum

Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress

*December 31st, 1898, Tamay Ez-Zahayra †February 3rd, 1975, Cairo

Theodor Lohrmann

German association football player

*September 7th, 1898, Heidelberg †September 4th, 1971

Marianne von Angern

German author

*August 24th, 1898, Sopron †January 1st, 1969, Aachen

Herbert Marcuse

German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)

*July 19th, 1898, Berlin †July 29th, 1979, Starnberg

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.MDCCCXCVIII

21.8.1898

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

XC = 90

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1898 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
August 1898

August 1898

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21. August 1899
21. August 1903
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21. August 1948
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August 21st, 1898

Born on August 21st, 1898

Weekday

Sunday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 45,000 days old!

45,907 Days

6,558 Weeks

1,508 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, 1898

Swiss historian of modern age

German Evangelical theologian (1898-1968)

British actor

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

Same year Born in 1898

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

21.8.1898

Legend

Leap year

Calendar August 1898

August 1898

Date of birth

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 45,000 days old!

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

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

Same year
Born in 1898

Calendar
August 1898

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