Funny Birthday Facts About August 17, 1976
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What day were you born on August 17, 1976?
If you forget what day you were born, we will tell you that you were born on Tuesday, 17
Countdown to Your 49th Birthday
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What day was August 17, 2025?
This year will increase your age. You will celebrate your 49th birthday on Sunday. Get ready, maybe you will get gifts and surprises from your family or friends. It will be a very pleasant day that you will remember for the rest of your life. You can also prepare to make a festive party on your birthday, celebrating in a beautiful place with family and friends will certainly be a pleasant memory.
FYI: You are more than 17,000 days old
Did you know that people born on August 17
Your Age in Days, Weeks, Months & Years
17,831 Days
2,340 Weeks
585 Months
48 Years
Your Age in Seconds, Minutes and Hours
Your Upcoming Birthdays for The Next 10 Years
We have calculated and figured out your birthday for the next 10 years. Prepare yourself to welcome your upcoming birthdays with your family and close friends. You will get many gifts from people who love and care about you. There are 431 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 50 years old. There have been 17831 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 5944 days, which is equivalent to 16.28 years. You spent 33.92% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Monday | 50 Years Old |
| 2027 | Tuesday | 51 Years Old |
| 2028 | Thursday | 52 Years Old |
| 2029 | Friday | 53 Years Old |
| 2030 | Saturday | 54 Years Old |
| 2031 | Sunday | 55 Years Old |
| 2032 | Tuesday | 56 Years Old |
| 2033 | Wednesday | 57 Years Old |
| 2034 | Thursday | 58 Years Old |
| 2035 | Friday | 59 Years Old |
What is your zodiac and birthstone for August 17, 1976?
According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on August 17
Peridot is birthstone for people born on 17
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 |
|---|---|
| 1968 | Ed McCaffrey, American football player and sportscaster |
| 1968 | Helen McCrory, English actress (d. 2021) |
| 1969 | Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach |
| 1969 | Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, actor and producer |
| 1969 | Kelvin Mercer, American rapper, songwriter and producer |
| 1970 | Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author |
| 1970 | Jim Courier, American tennis player and sportscaster |
| 1970 | Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer and coach |
| 1971 | Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican-American baseball player |
| 1971 | Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach |
Famous People Died on August 17
Did you know that on August 17
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1673 | Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641) |
| 1676 | Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (b. 1621) |
| 1720 | Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654) |
| 1723 | Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (b. 1668) |
| 1768 | Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703) |
| 1785 | Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1710) |
| 1786 | Frederick the Great, Prussian king (b. 1712) |
| 1809 | Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728) |
| 1814 | John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (b. 1732) |
| 1834 | Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (b. 1802) |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1959 | Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.2 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. |
| 1960 | Aeroflot Flight 036 crashes in Soviet Ukraine, killing 34. |
| 1962 | Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall. |
| 1969 | Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage. |
| 1970 | Soviet Union Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). |
| 1976 | A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000-8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless. |
| 1977 | The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. |
| 1978 | Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. |
| 1985 | The 1985-86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota. |
| 1988 | President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. |
Popular Baby Name on August 17, 1976
In 1976, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Michael is the most used. A total of 66,947 baby boys were named Michael in 1976. The rest were named Jason, Christopher, David and James. While the popular baby girl name in 1976 was Jennifer. There were 59,474 baby girls named Jennifer that year. While the rest were named Amy, Melissa, Heather and Angela. 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 1976 there were 4,154,666,827 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 346,222,236. This shows that there were 346,222,236 babies born every month in 1976. It can also be concluded that there are 11,540,742 babies born every day and 8,015 babies born every minute which is mean that 134 babies born every second in the year 1976. Maybe one of them is you.
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