August 22nd, 1979

Born on August 22nd, 1979

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 16,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 687 days, exactly on March 8th, 2026, people who were born on August 22nd, 1979 will be 17,000 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, 1979

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Natalia Barbu

Moldovan singer

*August 22nd, 1979, Bălți

44

Brandon Quintin Adams

American actor

*August 22nd, 1979, Topeka

44

Jennifer Finnigan

Canadian actress

*August 22nd, 1979, Montreal

44

Giuseppe Mascara

Italian footballer

*August 22nd, 1979, Caltagirone

44

Matt Walters

American football player (born 1979)

*August 22nd, 1979, Melbourne

44

Angelu de Leon

Filipino actress

*August 22nd, 1979, Manila

44

Leona Paraminski

Croatian actress

*August 22nd, 1979, Zagreb

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

45

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

35

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

104

Simone Schaller

American hurdler

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

40

Theo Bos

Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist

*August 22nd, 1983, Hierden

52

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

28

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

50

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

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

50

Kristen Wiig

American actress and comedian

*August 22nd, 1973, Canandaigua

43

Grégory Leca

French footballer

*August 22nd, 1980, Metz

53

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

49

Peter Tauber

German politician

*August 22nd, 1974, Frankfurt

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

29

Israel Broussard

American actor

*August 22nd, 1994, Gulfport

43

Evis Xheneti

American actress

*August 22nd, 1980, Tirana

48

Rodrigo Santoro

Brazilian actor

*August 22nd, 1975, Petrópolis

42

Ross Marquand

American actor

*August 22nd, 1981, Fort Collins

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

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

Same year
Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

44

Diego Forlán

Uruguayan association football player and manager

*May 19th, 1979, Montevideo

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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