August 21st, 1953

Born on August 21st, 1953

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1953

70

Peter Parnell

American writer

*August 21st, 1953, New York City

70

Gérard Janvion

French association football player

*August 21st, 1953, Fort-de-France

70

Dominique Senequier

Businessperson

*August 21st, 1953, Toulon

70

Shailesh Nayak

Indian oceanographer

*August 21st, 1953, Navsari

67

Géza Szőcs

Hungarian politician (1953-2020)

*August 21st, 1953, Târgu Mureș †November 5th, 2020, Budapest

70

Brandon Bays

Self-help author

*August 21st, 1953, United States of America

70

Massimo Palanca

Italian footballer

*August 21st, 1953, Loreto

70

Marie-Lou Marcel

French politician

*August 21st, 1953, Estadens

70

Daniel S. Milo

Israeli-French philosopher and writer

*August 21st, 1953, Tel Aviv

70

Tsutomu Sekine

Japanese comedian, television presenter and owarai tarento

*August 21st, 1953, Minato

70

Reuben Jeffery III

American businessman

*August 21st, 1953, Wilmington

70

Mirsad Sejdić

Footballer

*August 21st, 1953, Jajce

70

Ken Mettler

American politician

*August 21st, 1953, Bakersfield

70

Fernando Gómez Esparza

Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party politician

*August 21st, 1953, Aguascalientes City

70

Frank-Eberhard Höltje

German fencer

*August 21st, 1953, Salzwedel

70

Clayton Forsey

Canadian politician

*August 21st, 1953, Leading Tickles

70

Cary Adgate

American alpine skier

*August 21st, 1953, Lansing

70

Paule Brunelle

Canadian politician

*August 21st, 1953, Trois-Rivières

70

Kevin Alderson

Association football player (born 1953)

*August 21st, 1953, Shildon

70

Rafael Toribio

Mexican association football player

*August 21st, 1953, Mexico City

70

Stephen Magie

American politician

*August 21st, 1953, Little Rock

62

Ferenc Paragi

Hungarian javelin thrower

*August 21st, 1953, Budapest †April 21st, 2016, Budapest

68

Tom Colley

Canadian ice hockey player

*August 21st, 1953, Toronto †November 17th, 2021

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

33

Elīza Tīruma

Latvian luger

*August 21st, 1990, Sigulda

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

37

Malynda Hale

Musical artist

*August 21st, 1986, Santa Barbara

57

Stephen Hillenburg

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

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

69

Angelica Aposteanu

Romanian rower

*August 21st, 1954, Bistrița

61

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

37

Usain Bolt

Jamaican sprinter

*August 21st, 1986, Sherwood Content

38

Roelof Dednam

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1985, Bloemfontein

60

Nigel Pearson

English association football player and manager (born 1963)

*August 21st, 1963, Nottingham

89

Geoffrey Keen

English actor (1916–2005)

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

74

Jacques Stern

French cryptographer

*August 21st, 1949, Paris

60

Mohammed

King of Morocco since 1999

*August 21st, 1963, Rabat

76

Frédéric Mitterrand

French writer, director, television host and politician

*August 21st, 1947, 16th arrondissement of Paris †March 21st, 2024

30

Kim Bruun

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1993, Seoul

36

Kimberley Ashton

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1987, Jersey

71

Jiří Paroubek

Czech politician, former prime minister

*August 21st, 1952, Olomouc

50

Sergey Brin

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*August 21st, 1973, Moscow

67

Kim Cattrall

British-Canadian actress

*August 21st, 1956, Liverpool

81

Clarence Williams III

American actor (1939–2021)

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

39

Alizée

French singer

*August 21st, 1984, Ajaccio

Same year
Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*January 1st, 1953, Duisburg

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

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No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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