August 21st, 1967

Born on August 21st, 1967

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on August 21st?

August 21st, 2007

BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.

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 (one pictured) 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 and 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 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 clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.

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

Born on August 21st, 1967

58

Serj Tankian

Armenian-American musician

*August 21st, 1967, Lebanon

58

Carrie-Anne Moss

Canadian actress, producer and model

*August 21st, 1967, Burnaby

47

Charb

French caricaturist and journalist (1967-2015)

*August 21st, 1967, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine †January 7th, 2015, 11th arrondissement of Paris

58

Petr Zelenka

Czech playwright and film director

*August 21st, 1967, Prague

58

Amir Wagih

Squash coach

*August 21st, 1967, Cairo

58

Alexander Chee

American writer

*August 21st, 1967, Rhode Island

58

Abel Maldonado

American politician

*August 21st, 1967, Santa Maria

58

Samir Bağırov

Azerbaijani singer

*August 21st, 1967, Baku

Same year
Born in 1967

59

Andrey Antropov

Badminton player

*May 21st, 1967, Omsk

59

Jürgen Klopp

German association football manager (born 1967)

*June 16th, 1967, Stuttgart

59

Timothy Gibbs

American actor

*April 17th, 1967, Calabasas

58

Olaf Schubert

German comedian and musician

*November 7th, 1967, Plauen

59

Nicole Kidman

Australian-American actress, producer, and model

*June 20th, 1967, Honolulu

59

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

German racing driver

*May 18th, 1967, Mönchengladbach

58

Erik Selin

Swedish billionaire property developer, and CEO

*August 5th, 1967, Gothenburg

58

Natalia Wörner

German actress (born 1967)

*September 7th, 1967, Stuttgart

58

Akshay Kumar

Actor

*September 9th, 1967, New Delhi

59

Nele Neuhaus

German writer

*June 20th, 1967, Münster

58

David Guetta

French DJ and record producer

*November 7th, 1967, Paris

58

Vin Diesel

American actor, producer, director, screenwriter and stuntman

*July 18th, 1967, Alameda County

59

Mark Rutte

Secretary General of NATO since 2024 and former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

*February 14th, 1967, The Hague

58

Mark Ruffalo

American actor

*November 22nd, 1967, Kenosha

58

Mira Sorvino

American actress

*September 28th, 1967, New York City

58

María Corina Machado

Venezuelan politician and activist (born 1967)

*October 7th, 1967, Caracas

59

Ralph Lenkert

German politician

*May 9th, 1967, Apolda

58

Liev Schreiber

American actor

*October 4th, 1967, San Francisco

58

Mikheil Saakashvili

Georgian-Ukrainian politician, former President of Georgia and former Governor of Odesa

*December 21st, 1967, Tbilisi

46

Philip Seymour Hoffman

American actor (1967–2014)

*July 23rd, 1967, Fairport †February 2nd, 2014, Manhattan

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1967 is a normal year and no leap year.

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