August 31st, 1988

Born on August 31st, 1988

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

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 979 days, exactly on December 30th, 2026, people who were born on August 31st, 1988 will be 14,000 days old!

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What happened on August 31st, 1988?

August 31st, 1988

CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAAC_Flight_301

What else happened on August 31st?

August 31st, 2019

A sightseeing helicopter crashed in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta, Norway, killing all six people on board.

August 31st, 2016

Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was removed from office following her impeachment on charges of criminal administrative misconduct.

August 31st, 2002

Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.

August 31st, 1997

Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.

August 31st, 1969

On the final day of the Isle of Wight Festival 1969, an event attended by approximately 150,000 people over three days, Bob Dylan appeared in his first gig in three years.

August 31st, 1959

A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.

August 31st, 1942

The Matagorda hurricane, the most intense and costliest tropical cyclone of the 1942 Atlantic hurricane season, dissipated after causing $26.5 million in damages and eight deaths.

August 31st, 1941

World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.

August 31st, 1940

Second World War: Two Royal navy destroyers were lost to mines and two other vessels damaged off Texel, Netherlands, killing around 300 men.

August 31st, 1939

Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany, creating an excuse to invade Poland the next day.

August 31st, 1907

Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, defining their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.

August 31st, 1897

Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector.

August 31st, 1888

The body of Mary Ann Nichols, the alleged first victim of an unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper (depicted), was found in Buck's Row, London.

August 31st, 1876

Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire was deposed after a reign of 93 days on grounds of mental illness.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 31st

Born on August 31st, 1988

35

Mahamane Traoré

Malian footballer

*August 31st, 1988, Bamako

35

David Ospina

Colombian association football player

*August 31st, 1988, Medellín

35

Rachel Legrain-Trapani

French beauty pageant contestant

*August 31st, 1988, Saint-Saulve

35

Athena

American professional wrestler

*August 31st, 1988, St. Louis

35

Tanaya Henry

American model, actress, and jewelry designer

*August 31st, 1988, Minneapolis

35

Trent Hodkinson

Australian rugby league footballer

*August 31st, 1988, Campbelltown

35

Matt Adams

Baseball player

*August 31st, 1988, Philipsburg, Centre County

35

Vicente Gómez Umpiérrez

Spanish footballer

*August 31st, 1988, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

35

Jefferson Lopes Faustino

Brazilian association football player

*August 31st, 1988, Rio de Janeiro

35

Julio Ruiz

Association football player

*August 31st, 1988, Panama City

35

Pedro Tiba

Portuguese footballer

*August 31st, 1988, Arcos de Valdevez

35

Sofia Barclay

English actress

*August 31st, 1988, Westminster

35

José Carlos Gonçalves Rodrigues

Portuguese-born Greek footballer

*August 31st, 1988, Lisbon

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 31st?

38

Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi crown prince and Minister of Defense (born 1985)

*August 31st, 1985, Riyadh

69

Caroline Cossey

English model and actress

*August 31st, 1954, Brooke

41

Pepe Reina

Spanish association football player

*August 31st, 1982, Madrid

22

Amanda Anisimova

American tennis player

*August 31st, 2001, Freehold Township

34

Salvatore Puccio

Italian racing cyclist

*August 31st, 1989, Menfi

49

Marc Webb

American music video and film director

*August 31st, 1974, Bloomington

74

Richard Gere

American actor (born 1949)

*August 31st, 1949, Philadelphia

36

Morgan Kneisky

French cyclist

*August 31st, 1987, Besançon

27

Fabio Jakobsen

Dutch cyclist

*August 31st, 1996, Gorinchem

31

Kim Magnusson

Swedish cyclist

*August 31st, 1992, Skövde

52

Chris Tucker

American actor and comedian

*August 31st, 1971, Atlanta

32

Cédric Soares

Portuguese association football player

*August 31st, 1991, Singen

73

Hermann von Helmholtz

German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)

*August 31st, 1821, Potsdam †September 8th, 1894, Charlottenburg

75

Holger Osieck

German association football player and manager

*August 31st, 1948, Duisburg

71

Herbert Reul

German politician (CDU)

*August 31st, 1952, Langenfeld

52

Charmaine Craig

American actress

*August 31st, 1971, United States of America

39

Matti Breschel

Danish road bicycle racer, born 1984

*August 31st, 1984, Faxe

53

Queen Rania of Jordan

Queen Consort of Jordan

*August 31st, 1970, Kuwait City

44

Peter Luczak

Australian tennis player

*August 31st, 1979, Warsaw

67

Tsai Ing-wen

President of Taiwan (R.O.C. authorities) and former Chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party

*August 31st, 1956, Zhongshan District

Same year
Born in 1988

35

Adele

British singer

*May 5th, 1988, Tottenham

36

Wang Yihan

Chinese badminton player

*January 18th, 1988, Shanghai

35

Mizuki Fujii

Badminton player

*August 5th, 1988, Ashikita

35

Ma Jin

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1988, Nantong

35

Arun Vishnu

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1988, Kozhikode

36

Line Damkjær Kruse

Badminton player

*January 7th, 1988, Aarhus

36

Chan Yun Lung

Badminton player

*February 29th, 1988, Hong Kong

35

Gzuz

German rapper

*June 29th, 1988, Hamburg

36

KC Rebell

German rapper

*January 26th, 1988, Pazarcık

36

Christian Meaas Svendsen

Norwegian musician

*February 26th, 1988, Kongsberg Municipality

35

Jérôme Boateng

German association football player

*September 3rd, 1988, West Berlin

35

Pramod Bhagat

Indian para-badminton player

*June 4th, 1988, Attabira

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

35

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen

Danish actress

*May 23rd, 1988, Copenhagen

35

Monika Lewczuk

Polish singer-songwriter and former model

*June 10th, 1988, Łomża

36

Gabi Tóth

Hungarian singer

*January 17th, 1988, Tapolca

35

Friðrik Dór

Icelandic singer

*October 7th, 1988, Hafnarfjörður

36

Marcel Schmelzer

German footballer

*January 22nd, 1988, Magdeburg

35

Lyna bonasera

Belgian actress

*May 17th, 1988, West Los Angeles

35

Savitree Amitrapai

Badminton player

*November 19th, 1988, Bangkok

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Leap year

Yes: 1988 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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