August 22nd, 1975

Born on August 22nd, 1975

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 17,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 222 days, exactly on December 2nd, 2024, people who were born on August 22nd, 1975 will be 18,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What 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.

August 22nd, 2004

Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

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

Born on August 22nd, 1975

48

Rodrigo Santoro

Brazilian actor

*August 22nd, 1975, Petrópolis

48

Clint Bolton

Australian soccer player

*August 22nd, 1975, Bundaberg

48

Franco Squillari

Argentine tennis player

*August 22nd, 1975, Buenos Aires

48

Jeff Stinco

Singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and restaurateur

*August 22nd, 1975, Montreal

48

Maximilian Erlenwein

German director and screenwriter

*August 22nd, 1975, Berlin

48

Katarzyna Chojnacka

Polish chemist, academic

*August 22nd, 1975, Wrocław

48

Shelly Cole

American actress

*August 22nd, 1975, United States of America

48

Samrat Chakrabarti

American actor

*August 22nd, 1975, London

48

Sheree Murphy

English actress

*August 22nd, 1975, Islington

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 22nd?

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

50

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

45

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

52

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

35

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

49

Peter Tauber

German politician

*August 22nd, 1974, Frankfurt

104

Simone Schaller

American hurdler

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

50

Kristen Wiig

American actress and comedian

*August 22nd, 1973, Canandaigua

75

Chuck Brown

American guitarist, bandleader and singer (1936-2012)

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

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

28

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

53

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

40

Theo Bos

Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist

*August 22nd, 1983, Hierden

53

Jeannette Arndt

German actress and director

*August 22nd, 1970, Berlin

86

Dietmar Kienast

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

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

49

Cory Gardner

United States Senator from Colorado

*August 22nd, 1974, Yuma

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

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

29

Israel Broussard

American actor

*August 22nd, 1994, Gulfport

49

Agustín Pichot

Rugby union player from Argentina

*August 22nd, 1974, Buenos Aires

101

Leni Riefenstahl

German film director, photographer, actress and Nazi propagandist (1902–2003)

*August 22nd, 1902, Berlin †September 8th, 2003, Pöcking

Same year
Born in 1975

49

André Poggenburg

German politician and entrepreneur

*March 12th, 1975, Weißenfels

49

Lorin Morgan-Richards

American author, illustrator, and songwriter

*February 16th, 1975, Beebetown

48

Ane Dahl Torp

Norwegian actress

*August 1st, 1975, Bærum Municipality

48

Maria Thayer

American actress

*October 30th, 1975, Portland

48

Zhang Ning

Chinese female badminton player

*May 19th, 1975, Jinzhou

48

Ha Tae-kwon

South Korean badminton player

*April 30th, 1975, Jeonju

48

Kim Dong-moon

South Korean badminton player

*September 22nd, 1975, Gokseong County

48

Candra Wijaya

Badminton player

*September 16th, 1975, Cirebon City

49

Gu Jun

Badminton player

*January 3rd, 1975, Wuxi

48

Ge Fei

Chinese badminton player

*October 9th, 1975, Nantong

48

Xu Huaiwen

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1975, Guiyang

49

Tracey Hallam

English badminton player

*March 24th, 1975, Burton upon Trent

48

Jim Ronny Andersen

Badminton player

*May 4th, 1975, Songdalen Municipality

48

Sarah Hardaker

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1975, Dartford

49

Tony Gunawan

Badminton player

*April 9th, 1975, Surabaya

49

Bradley Cooper

American actor

*January 5th, 1975, Philadelphia

48

Marion Cotillard

French actress

*September 30th, 1975, Paris

48

Anders Anundsen

Norwegian politician

*November 17th, 1975, Stavern

48

Angelina Jolie

American actress (born 1975)

*June 4th, 1975, Los Angeles

48

Konrad Bansa

German handball player and coach

*July 24th, 1975, Neuwied

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1975 is a normal year and no leap year.

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