August 21st, 1984

Born on August 21st, 1984

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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, 1984

39

Alizée

French singer

*August 21st, 1984, Ajaccio

39

Eve Torres

American actress, dancer, model and professional wrestler

*August 21st, 1984, Boston

39

B. J. Upton

American baseball player

*August 21st, 1984, Norfolk

39

Barun Sobti

Indian actor

*August 21st, 1984, New Delhi

39

Martin Vunk

Estonian footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Tartu

39

Fabrizio Scaccia

Player of American football

*August 21st, 1984, Oceanside

39

Scott Lewis

American musician

*August 21st, 1984, San Diego

39

Neil Dexter

South African cricketer

*August 21st, 1984, Johannesburg

39

Francesca Quondamcarlo

Italian fencer

*August 21st, 1984, Rome

39

Roberto Guizasola

Peruvian footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Lima

39

Jusuf Dajić

Bosnia and Herzegovina football player

*August 21st, 1984, Doboj

39

Rachel Potter

American singer songwriter

*August 21st, 1984, New Orleans

39

Melissa Schuman

American actress and singer

*August 21st, 1984, San Clemente

39

Collie Buddz

Bermudian musician

*August 21st, 1984, New Orleans

39

Heiward Mak

Hong Kong film director

*August 21st, 1984, Tai Wai

39

Vaishali beck

Indian singer

*August 21st, 1984, Hinganghat

39

Prince Abedi

Footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Port Harcourt

39

Elvin Aliyev

Azerbaijani footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Sabirabad

39

Kim Schneider

Canadian curler

*August 21st, 1984, Regina

39

Ivan Vukadinović

Serbian footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Belgrade

39

Emi Nonaka

Japanese ice hockey player

*August 21st, 1984, Hokkaido

39

Dustin Molleken

Baseball player

*August 21st, 1984, Regina

39

Conor Kenna

Irish footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Dublin

39

Luigi Glombard

French association football player

*August 21st, 1984, Montreuil

39

Vestards Šimkus

Latvian pianist and composer

*August 21st, 1984, Jūrmala

39

Aboubacar Sidiki Koné

Ivoirien footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Bamako

39

Andrea Ivančević

Croatian hurdler

*August 21st, 1984, Zagreb

39

Gözde Zay

Turkish model

*August 21st, 1984, Istanbul

39

Giovanni De Carolis

Italian boxer

*August 21st, 1984, Rome

39

Brendon Snyman

South African rugby union footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Polokwane

39

Eduard Bermúdez

Venezuelan boxer

*August 21st, 1984, Maracaibo

39

David Mair

Italian luger

*August 21st, 1984, Sterzing

39

Mesfer Al-Qahtani

Saudi Arabian footballer

*August 21st, 1984, Riyadh

39

K. Krishna Mohan

Indian hurdler

*August 21st, 1984, India

39

Raymond Rowe

American professional wrestler

*August 21st, 1984, Cleveland

39

Manabu Murakami

Japanese professional wrestler

*August 21st, 1984, Adachi-ku

39

Robin de Jesús

American actor

*August 21st, 1984, Norwalk

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

33

Elīza Tīruma

Latvian luger

*August 21st, 1990, Sigulda

38

Roelof Dednam

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1985, Bloemfontein

37

Malynda Hale

Musical artist

*August 21st, 1986, Santa Barbara

37

Usain Bolt

Jamaican sprinter

*August 21st, 1986, Sherwood Content

36

Kimberley Ashton

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1987, Jersey

35

Robert Lewandowski

Polish association football player

*August 21st, 1988, Leszno, Warsaw West County

30

Kim Bruun

Badminton player

*August 21st, 1993, Seoul

42

Cameron Winklevoss

American rower

*August 21st, 1981, Southampton

37

Romano Battisti

Italian rower

*August 21st, 1986, Priverno

34

Hayden Panettiere

American actress, model, singer, and activist

*August 21st, 1989, Palisades

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

57

Stephen Hillenburg

American marine science educator and artist (1961-2018)

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

61

Herry Iman Pierngadi

Badminton coach from Indonesia

*August 21st, 1962, Pangkal Pinang City

50

Sergey Brin

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*August 21st, 1973, Moscow

36

Andrea Chong

Canadian ice dancer

*August 21st, 1987, Toronto

40

Megan Kalmoe

American rower

*August 21st, 1983, Minneapolis

38

Nicolás Almagro

Spanish tennis player

*August 21st, 1985, Murcia

89

Geoffrey Keen

English actor (1916–2005)

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

34

Ehíré Adríanza

Venezuelan baseball player

*August 21st, 1989, Guarenas

60

Nigel Pearson

English association football player and manager (born 1963)

*August 21st, 1963, Nottingham

Same year
Born in 1984

39

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

39

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

39

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

40

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

40

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

39

French Montana

American rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

40

Patrícia Kimberly

Brazilian pornographic actress

*January 6th, 1984, São Paulo

40

Duanganong Aroonkesorn

Thai badminton player

*February 6th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Valeriy Atrashchenkov

Badminton player

*August 20th, 1984, Kharkiv

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

39

Mark Zuckerberg

American internet entrepreneur

*May 14th, 1984, White Plains

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

39

Ave Pajo

Estonian badminton and football player

*July 9th, 1984, Estonia

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Born on August 21st, 1984
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Leap year

Yes: 1984 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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