Funny Birthday Facts About August 17, 1957
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What day were you born on August 17, 1957?
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Countdown to Your 69th Birthday
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What day was August 17, 2025?
This year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 68th birthday on Sunday. How was your 68th birthday? Is it fun? We wish you good memories on your birthday. Celebrating a festive birthday party with family and friends, getting gifts and surprises will certainly make you happier.
FYI: You are more than 24,000 days old
Did you know that people born on August 17
Your Age in Days, Weeks, Months & Years
24,966 Days
3,280 Weeks
820 Months
68 Years
Your Age in Seconds, Minutes and Hours
Your Upcoming Birthdays for The Next 10 Years
We have calculated your birthday for the next 10 years. It's going to be a fun time to celebrate with family and friends. You'll get lots of gifts, too! There are 236 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 69 years old. There have been 24966 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 8322 days, which is equivalent to 22.8 years. You spent 33.53% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Monday | 69 Years Old |
| 2027 | Tuesday | 70 Years Old |
| 2028 | Thursday | 71 Years Old |
| 2029 | Friday | 72 Years Old |
| 2030 | Saturday | 73 Years Old |
| 2031 | Sunday | 74 Years Old |
| 2032 | Tuesday | 75 Years Old |
| 2033 | Wednesday | 76 Years Old |
| 2034 | Thursday | 77 Years Old |
| 2035 | Friday | 78 Years Old |
What is your zodiac and birthstone for August 17, 1957?
According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on August 17
What is birthstone for people born on August 17, 1957? It's Peridot. Your radiant and joyful nature is a guiding light to those closest to you. This natural tendency of those around you leads them to be creative problem-solvers who are intelligent and energetic.
Famous People Born on August 17
When you were born, there were many famous people in history who were born on the same day as you but in different years. The following are famous people in history who commemorate birthdays on August 17
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1942 | Shane Porteous, Australian actor, animator, and screenwriter |
| 1943 | Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002) |
| 1943 | Edward Cowie, English composer, painter, and author |
| 1943 | John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author |
| 1943 | Robert De Niro, American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer |
| 1944 | Jean-Bernard Pommier, French pianist and conductor |
| 1944 | Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation |
| 1945 | Rachel Pollack, American author, poet, and educator |
| 1946 | Hugh Baiocchi, South African golfer |
| 1946 | Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter |
Famous People Died on August 17
Did you know that on August 17
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 754 | Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia |
| 949 | Li Shouzhen, Chinese general and governor |
| 1153 | Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (b. 1130) |
| 1304 | Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243) |
| 1324 | Irene of Brunswick (b. 1293) |
| 1338 | Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (b. 1301) |
| 1424 | John Stewart, Earl of Buchan (b. c. 1381) |
| 1510 | Edmund Dudley, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1462) |
| 1510 | Richard Empson, English statesman |
| 1547 | Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (b. 1478) |
Historical Events on August 17
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on August 17
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1585 | A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. |
| 1585 | Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces. |
| 1597 | Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores. |
| 1668 | The magnitude 8.0 North Anatolia earthquake causes 8,000 deaths in northern Anatolia, Ottoman Empire. |
| 1717 | Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1723 | Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI. |
| 1740 | Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope. |
| 1784 | Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón. |
| 1798 | The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang. |
| 1807 | Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. |
Popular Baby Name on August 17, 1957
In 1957, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Michael is the most used. A total of 92,718 baby boys were named Michael in 1957. The rest were named James, David, Robert and John. While the popular baby girl name in 1957 was Mary. There were 61,104 baby girls named Mary that year. While the rest were named Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
Based on World Population Data, in 1957 there were 2,873,306,058 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 239,442,172. This shows that there were 239,442,172 babies born every month in 1957. It can also be concluded that there are 7,981,406 babies born every day and 5,543 babies born every minute which is mean that 93 babies born every second in the year 1957. Maybe one of them is you.
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