August 22nd, 2002

Born on August 22nd, 2002

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 7,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 89 days, exactly on July 17th, 2024, people who were born on August 22nd, 2002 will be 8,000 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, 2002

21

Misaki Nakayama

Japanese association football player

*August 22nd, 2002, Zama

21

Kenza Chapelle

Moroccan and French footballer

*August 22nd, 2002, Montreuil

21

Ahmed Bani

Footballer

*August 22nd, 2002, Bucharest

21

Tori Paul

American-born Trinidad and Tobago footballer

*August 22nd, 2002, Richmond

21

Emily Whelan

Gaelic and Association football player

*August 22nd, 2002, Dublin

21

Kiara Zanon

American ice hockey player

*August 22nd, 2002, Fairport

21

Talitha Diggs

American athlete

*August 22nd, 2002, New Brunswick

21

Brock Faber

American ice hockey player

*August 22nd, 2002, Maple Grove

21

Aliaksiej Arlovič

Belarusian association football player

*August 22nd, 2002, Minsk

21

Josh Ramsey

American soccer player

*August 22nd, 2002, Plano

21

Pinja Sanaksenaho

Finnish YouTuber and videoblogger

*August 22nd, 2002, Vantaa

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Who's birthday is on August 22nd?

28

Dua Lipa

English and Albanian singer (born 1995)

*August 22nd, 1995, Westminster

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

35

Minelli

Romanian singer-songwriter

*August 22nd, 1988, Slobozia

104

Simone Schaller

American hurdler

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

75

Chuck Brown

American guitarist, bandleader and singer (1936-2012)

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

29

Israel Broussard

American actor

*August 22nd, 1994, Gulfport

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

45

James Corden

English actor, comedian, singer and television host

*August 22nd, 1978, Hillingdon

52

Richard Armitage

English actor

*August 22nd, 1971, Huncote

40

Theo Bos

Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist

*August 22nd, 1983, Hierden

86

Dietmar Kienast

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

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

26

Lautaro Martínez

Argentine association football player

*August 22nd, 1997, Bahía Blanca

50

Laurent Lafitte

French actor

*August 22nd, 1973, Fresnes

22

Eric Sjoberg

American figure skater

*August 22nd, 2001, Middletown

53

Ricco Groß

German biathlete

*August 22nd, 1970, Bad Schlema

101

Leni Riefenstahl

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

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

80

Valerie Harper

American actress (1939-2019)

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

50

Kristen Wiig

American actress and comedian

*August 22nd, 1973, Canandaigua

92

Deng Xiaoping

Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989

*August 22nd, 1904, Guanganzhou †February 19th, 1997, Beijing

53

Jeannette Arndt

German actress and director

*August 22nd, 1970, Berlin

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22

Josie Nelson

British cyclist

*April 8th, 2002, Burton upon Trent

21

NLE Choppa

American rapper from Tennessee (born. 2002)

*November 1st, 2002, Memphis

21

Alika Milova

Estonian singer-songwriter

*September 5th, 2002, Narva

22

Lil Mosey

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*January 25th, 2002, Mountlake Terrace

21

Lil Tecca

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*August 26th, 2002, Queens

21

João Gomes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 31st, 2002, Serrita

21

Jasmine Liu

American Samoan beach handball player

*September 2nd, 2002, Vaitogi

22

Trueno

Argentinian rapper and singer

*March 25th, 2002, Buenos Aires

19

Einár

Swedish rapper (2002–2021)

*September 5th, 2002, Stockholm †October 21st, 2021, Hammarby Sjöstad

22

Matteo Romano

Italian singer (2002-)

*March 20th, 2002, Cuneo

22

Indah Cahya Sari Jamil

Badminton player

*March 16th, 2002, Gowa Regency

21

Riko Gunji

Badminton player

*July 31st, 2002, Ebina

21

Rui Hirokami

Badminton player

*July 26th, 2002, Takaoka

22

Christo Popov

Badminton player

*March 8th, 2002, Sofia

21

Cheng Xing

Chinese badminton player

*May 7th, 2002, Jiujiang, Guangdong

21

Srivedya Gurazada

US American badminton player

*August 15th, 2002, Boston

21

Katharina Fink

Italian badminton player

*November 14th, 2002, Bolzano

21

Jesita Putri Miantoro

Badminton player

*May 1st, 2002, Depok City

22

Ishaan Bhatnagar

Indian badminton player

*February 2nd, 2002, Raipur

21

Myisha Mohd Khairul

Malaysian badminton player

*July 27th, 2002, Johor Bahru

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2002 is a normal year and no leap year.

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