August 22nd, 1987

Born on August 22nd, 1987

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 13,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 603 days, exactly on December 20th, 2025, people who were born on August 22nd, 1987 will be 14,000 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, 1987

36

Gianluca Brambilla

Italian road racing cyclist

*August 22nd, 1987, Bellano

36

Nikola Aistrup

Danish cyclist, born 1987

*August 22nd, 1987, Ballerup

36

Apollo Crews

Nigerian professional wrestler

*August 22nd, 1987, Sacramento

36

Mischa Zverev

German tennis player

*August 22nd, 1987, Moscow

36

Josip Tadić

Croatian footballer

*August 22nd, 1987, Đakovo

36

Hamida Al-Habsi

Omani female shot putter

*August 22nd, 1987, Oman

36

Leonardo Moracci

Italian footballer

*August 22nd, 1987, Todi

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

35

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

28

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

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

45

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

37

Keiko Kitagawa

Japanese actress

*August 22nd, 1986, Kobe

75

Chuck Brown

American guitarist, bandleader and singer (1936-2012)

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

35

Artem Dzyuba

Russian footballer

*August 22nd, 1988, Moscow

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

52

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

29

Israel Broussard

American actor

*August 22nd, 1994, Gulfport

50

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

35

Mitchell Langerak

Australian association football player

*August 22nd, 1988, Emerald

86

Dietmar Kienast

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

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

37

Andray Blatche

American-Filipino basketball player

*August 22nd, 1986, Syracuse

50

Kristen Wiig

American actress and comedian

*August 22nd, 1973, Canandaigua

53

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

34

Giacomo Bonaventura

Italian association football player

*August 22nd, 1989, San Severino Marche

53

Jeannette Arndt

German actress and director

*August 22nd, 1970, Berlin

Same year
Born in 1987

36

Kendrick Lamar

American rapper, singer and record producer (born 1987)

*June 17th, 1987, Compton

36

Tontowi Ahmad

Indonesian badminton player

*July 18th, 1987, Banyumas

37

Annari Viljoen

Badminton player

*January 16th, 1987, Bloemfontein

36

Jax Jones

English DJ, songwriter, record producer and remixer

*July 25th, 1987, London

36

Kontra K

German rapper

*July 3rd, 1987, Berlin

36

Milan Borjan

Canadian association football player

*October 23rd, 1987, Knin

37

Eva Avila

Canadian singer, songwriter and actress

*February 25th, 1987, Gatineau

36

Philippa Strache

Austrian presenter and politician

*December 1st, 1987, Vienna

36

Rosalie Thomass

German actress

*August 14th, 1987, Munich

36

Lionel Messi

Argentine association football player (born 1987)

*June 24th, 1987, Rosario

36

Vladimir Ivanov

Russian badminton player

*July 3rd, 1987, Kusa

37

Andrew Ellis

Badminton player

*January 21st, 1987, Leeds

36

Shendy Puspa Irawati

Indonesian badminton player

*May 20th, 1987, Nganjuk

36

Sevdaliza

Iranian-Dutch singer-songwriter, record producer, visual artist and director

*September 1st, 1987, Tehran

37

Anna Hopkins

Canadian actress

*February 12th, 1987, Montreal

37

Vaidas Baumila

Lithuanian singer

*March 28th, 1987, Vilnius

37

Megan Sweeney

American luger

*February 17th, 1987, Portland

36

Duda Beat

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*October 8th, 1987, Recife

37

Kevin-Prince Boateng

Ghanaian association football player

*March 6th, 1987, West Berlin

36

Novak Djokovic

Serbian tennis player (1987–)

*May 22nd, 1987, Belgrade

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Born on August 22nd, 1987
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1987 is a normal year and no leap year.

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