August 22nd, 1996

Born on August 22nd, 1996

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 10,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 897 days, exactly on October 4th, 2026, people who were born on August 22nd, 1996 will be 11,000 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, 1996

27

Jessica-Jane Applegate

British Paralympic swimmer

*August 22nd, 1996, Great Yarmouth

27

Nehal Chudasama

Miss Diva Miss universe 2018

*August 22nd, 1996, Mumbai

27

Jeon So Min

South Korean singer, born 1996

*August 22nd, 1996, Seoul

27

Sascha Horvath

Austrian association football player

*August 22nd, 1996, Vienna

27

Jenny Gaugigl

German association football player

*August 22nd, 1996, Augsburg

27

Odley Jean

American actress

*August 22nd, 1996, Brooklyn

27

Junior Firpo

Dominican Republic association football player (born 1996)

*August 22nd, 1996, Santo Domingo

27

Doğan Erdoğan

Turkish footballer

*August 22nd, 1996, Samsun

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

28

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

35

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

29

Israel Broussard

American actor

*August 22nd, 1994, Gulfport

104

Simone Schaller

American hurdler

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

26

Lautaro Martínez

Argentine association football player

*August 22nd, 1997, Bahía Blanca

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

45

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

40

Theo Bos

Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist

*August 22nd, 1983, Hierden

52

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

86

Dietmar Kienast

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

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

50

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

26

Maxx Crosby

American football player (born 1997)

*August 22nd, 1997, Lapeer

53

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

50

Kristen Wiig

American actress and comedian

*August 22nd, 1973, Canandaigua

26

Celine Farach

American model and singer from Miami, Florida

*August 22nd, 1997, Miami

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

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

101

Leni Riefenstahl

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

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

32

Federico Macheda

Italian footballer

*August 22nd, 1991, Rome

Same year
Born in 1996

28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

27

Lauren Jauregui

American singer

*June 27th, 1996, Miami

27

Luke Hemmings

Australian singer and guitarist

*July 16th, 1996, Freemans Reach

27

Kungs

French DJ, record producer and musician

*December 17th, 1996, Aix-en-Provence

27

Jenifer Brening

German singer

*December 15th, 1996, Zehlendorf

27

Lili Reinhart

American actress

*September 13th, 1996, Cleveland

27

Ruben Jille

Dutch badminton player

*July 11th, 1996, Nieuwegein

27

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Indonesian badminton player

*August 2nd, 1996, Banyuwangi

28

Summer Walker

American R&B singer

*April 11th, 1996, Atlanta

28

Dawid Kwiatkowski

Polish singer-songwriter

*January 1st, 1996, Gorzów Wielkopolski

27

Nico Dannowski

Badminton player

*December 1st, 1996, Ebersbach-Neugersdorf

27

Duki

Argentine rapper

*June 24th, 1996, Almagro

28

Mabel

English singer and songwriter

*February 19th, 1996, Alhaurín el Grande

27

Aden Foyer

Norwegian record producer and DJ

*September 8th, 1996, Asker

28

Wakana Nagahara

Japanese badminton player

*January 9th, 1996, Hokkaido

27

Anthony Sinisuka Ginting

Indonesian badminton player

*October 20th, 1996, Cimahi City

28

Muhammad Rian Ardianto

Badminton player

*February 13th, 1996, Bantul

28

Huang Kaixiang

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

28

Zheng Yu

Chinese badminton player

*February 7th, 1996, Shandong

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on August 22nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on August 22nd.

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Born on August 22nd, 1996
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Leap year

Yes: 1996 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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