August 22nd, 1965

Born on August 22nd, 1965

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 574 days, exactly on November 15th, 2025, people who were born on August 22nd, 1965 will be 22,000 days old!

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What happened on August 22nd, 1965?

August 22nd, 1965

Juan Marichal, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, strikes John Roseboro, catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, on the head with a bat, sparking a 14-minute brawl, one of the most violent on-field incidents in sports history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Marichal

What else 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.

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

Born on August 22nd, 1965

58

Jale Arıkan

Turkish actress

*August 22nd, 1965, Istanbul

58

Courtney Gains

American actor

*August 22nd, 1965, Los Angeles

58

Thaddeus McCotter

American politician (born 1965)

*August 22nd, 1965, Livonia

58

Yvonne Mai-Graham

Jamaican middle distance runner of German descent

*August 22nd, 1965, Annaberg-Buchholz

58

Nourida Ateshi

Azerbaijani poet and artist

*August 22nd, 1965, Xaçmaz

58

Wendy Botha

South African-Australian surfer

*August 22nd, 1965, East London

58

Patricia Hy-Boulais

Canadian tennis player

*August 22nd, 1965, Phnom Penh

38

David Reimer

Canadian boy raised as girl following botched surgery

*August 22nd, 1965, Winnipeg †May 4th, 2004, Winnipeg

58

Arnaud Viard

French actor, film director and screenwriter

*August 22nd, 1965, Lyon

58

Holly Hawkins

Actor

*August 22nd, 1965, Shreveport

58

Andrea Vagn Jensen

Danish actress

*August 22nd, 1965, Odder

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44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

104

Simone Schaller

American hurdler

*August 22nd, 1912, Manchester †October 20th, 2016, Arcadia

59

Mats Wilander

Swedish tennis player

*August 22nd, 1964, Växjö

52

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

75

Chuck Brown

American guitarist, bandleader and singer (1936-2012)

*August 22nd, 1936, Gaston †May 16th, 2012, Baltimore

35

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

60

Tori Amos

American singer-songwriter and pianist

*August 22nd, 1963, Newton

53

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

50

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

53

Jeannette Arndt

German actress and director

*August 22nd, 1970, Berlin

45

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

28

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

57

Heike Friedrich

West German synchronized swimmer

*August 22nd, 1966, Berlin

57

Izabela Dąbrowska

Polish actress

*August 22nd, 1966, Białystok

86

Dietmar Kienast

German historian of classical antiquity and university teacher (1925-2012)

*August 22nd, 1925, Berlin †February 13th, 2012, Olching

50

Kristen Wiig

American actress and comedian

*August 22nd, 1973, Canandaigua

56

Robert Leroux

French fencer

*August 22nd, 1967, Casablanca

59

Andrew Wilson

American actor

*August 22nd, 1964, Dallas

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

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

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Born in 1965

58

Martin Sonneborn

German satirist, journalist and politician

*May 15th, 1965, Göttingen

58

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

58

Norbert Röttgen

German politician (CDU)

*July 2nd, 1965, Meckenheim

59

Hansi Flick

German association football player and manager

*February 24th, 1965, Heidelberg

59

Thomas Kemmerich

German politician

*February 20th, 1965, Aachen

58

Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen

Danish badminton player and administrator

*September 20th, 1965, Esbønderup

58

Dmitry Medvedev

President of Russia from 2008 to 2012

*September 14th, 1965, Saint Petersburg

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

58

Andreas Thom

German association football player and manager

*September 7th, 1965, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin

59

Claudine Loquen

French painter and sculptor

*February 22nd, 1965, Sainte-Adresse

58

Jan Tore Sanner

Norwegian politician

*May 6th, 1965, Bærum Municipality

58

Karin Beier

German theatre director

*December 14th, 1965, Cologne

58

Gunnar Beck

German EU lawyer and legal philosopher

*May 1st, 1965, Düsseldorf

59

Inger Lise Hegge

Norwegian cross-country skier

*January 6th, 1965, Steinkjer Municipality

48

Wolfgang Herrndorf

German novelist, painter, and illustrator (1965-2013)

*June 12th, 1965, Hamburg †August 26th, 2013, Berlin

58

Eva Christiane Cancik-Kirschbaum

German assyriologist

*August 29th, 1965, Tübingen

59

Sven Demandt

German footballer

*February 13th, 1965, Cologne

53

Jörg Stübner

German footballer (1965–2019)

*July 23rd, 1965, Freiberg †June 24th, 2019, Dresden

58

Zhao Jianhua

Badminton player

*April 21st, 1965, Nantong

58

Viola Davis

American actress and producer (born 1965)

*August 11th, 1965, St. Matthews

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No: With 365 days 1965 is a normal year and no leap year.

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