August 31st, 1944

Born on August 31st, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 909 days, exactly on October 20th, 2026, people who were born on August 31st, 1944 will be 30,000 days old!

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What happened on August 31st?

August 31st, 2019

A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.

August 31st, 2016

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was removed from office following her impeachment on charges of criminal administrative misconduct.

August 31st, 2002

Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.

August 31st, 1997

Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.

August 31st, 1969

On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, an event attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.

August 31st, 1959

A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.

August 31st, 1942

The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.

August 31st, 1941

World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.

August 31st, 1940

Second World War: Two Royal navy destroyers were lost to mines and two other vessels damaged off Texel, Netherlands, killing around 300 men.

August 31st, 1939

Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany, creating an excuse to invade Poland the next day.

August 31st, 1907

Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, defining their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.

August 31st, 1897

Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector.

August 31st, 1888

The body of Mary Ann Nichols, the alleged first victim of an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (depicted), was found in Buck's Row, London.

August 31st, 1876

Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire was deposed after a reign of 93 days on grounds of mental illness.

August 31st, 1218

Al-Kamil became the fourth sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty of Egypt.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 31st

Born on August 31st, 1944

79

Noël Simsolo

French actor, film director, writer and screenwriter

*August 31st, 1944, Périgueux

79

Roger Dean

English artist, designer, architect, and publisher

*August 31st, 1944, Ashford

79

Clive Lloyd

Former World Cup winning captain of West Indies in 1975 and 1979

*August 31st, 1944, Georgetown

79

Boris Bergman

British lyricist, writer, actor and playwright of Russian parentage

*August 31st, 1944, London

79

Joachim Marx

Polish footballer

*August 31st, 1944, Gliwice

79

France Castel

Canadian actor, television presenter and radio host

*August 31st, 1944, Sherbrooke

68

Anna Lizaran

Catalan actress

*August 31st, 1944, Esparreguera †January 12th, 2013, Barcelona

72

R. D. Reid

Canadian actor

*August 31st, 1944, Canada †June 20th, 2017, Canada

73

Aboubacar Somparé

Former President of the National Assembly of Guinea (1944-2017)

*August 31st, 1944, Boké Prefecture †November 2nd, 2017, Conakry

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 31st?

74

Richard Gere

American actor (born 1949)

*August 31st, 1949, Philadelphia

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

75

Holger Osieck

German association football player and manager

*August 31st, 1948, Duisburg

78

Van Morrison

Northern Irish musician

*August 31st, 1945, Belfast

71

Herbert Reul

German politician (CDU)

*August 31st, 1952, Langenfeld

83

Warren Berlinger

American actor

*August 31st, 1937, Brooklyn †December 2nd, 2020, Valencia

80

Philippe Vasseur

French politician

*August 31st, 1943, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage

78

Itzhak Perlman

Israeli-American violinist and conductor

*August 31st, 1945, Jaffa

73

Hermann von Helmholtz

German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)

*August 31st, 1821, Potsdam †September 8th, 1894, Charlottenburg

67

Tsai Ing-wen

President of Taiwan (R.O.C. authorities) and former Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party

*August 31st, 1956, Zhongshan District

69

Robert Kocharyan

Second President of Armenia

*August 31st, 1954, Khankendi

74

Stephen McKinley Henderson

American actor

*August 31st, 1949, Kansas City

49

Marc Webb

American music video and film director

*August 31st, 1974, Bloomington

83

Alain Calmat

French figure skater, surgeon, and politician

*August 31st, 1940, Paris

52

Chris Tucker

American actor and comedian

*August 31st, 1971, Atlanta

78

Ernst-Reinhard Beck

German politician

*August 31st, 1945, Frohnstetten

77

Jerome Corsi

American conservative author

*August 31st, 1946, East Cleveland

71

Edwy Plenel

French journalist and writer

*August 31st, 1952, Nantes

22

Amanda Anisimova

American tennis player

*August 31st, 2001, Freehold Township

52

Charmaine Craig

American actress

*August 31st, 1971, United States of America

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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