Funny Birthday Facts About August 17, 2008
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What day were you born on August 17, 2008?
If you forget what day you were born, we will tell you that you were born on Sunday, 17
Countdown to Your 17th Birthday
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What day was August 17, 2025?
This year will increase your age. You will celebrate your 17th 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 6,000 days old
Did you know that people born on August 17
Your Age in Days, Weeks, Months & Years
6,164 Days
808 Weeks
202 Months
16 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 410 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 18 years old. There have been 6164 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 2055 days, which is equivalent to 5.63 years. You spent 35.19% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Monday | 18 Years Old |
| 2027 | Tuesday | 19 Years Old |
| 2028 | Thursday | 20 Years Old |
| 2029 | Friday | 21 Years Old |
| 2030 | Saturday | 22 Years Old |
| 2031 | Sunday | 23 Years Old |
| 2032 | Tuesday | 24 Years Old |
| 2033 | Wednesday | 25 Years Old |
| 2034 | Thursday | 26 Years Old |
| 2035 | Friday | 27 Years Old |
What is your zodiac and birthstone for August 17, 2008?
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 |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Pauline A. Young, American teacher, historian, aviator and activist (d. 1991) |
| 1900 | Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (d. 1957) |
| 1904 | Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1991) |
| 1904 | Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (d. 1984) |
| 1909 | Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1985) |
| 1909 | Wilf Copping, English footballer (d. 1980) |
| 1911 | Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (d. 2010) |
| 1911 | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) |
| 1913 | Mark Felt (aka 'Deep Throat'), American lawyer and agent, 2nd Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 2008) |
| 1913 | Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1989) |
Famous People Died on August 17
Did you know that on August 17
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Frank Martínez, American painter (b. 1924) |
| 2013 | Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (b. 1912) |
| 2013 | Jack Harshman, American baseball player (b. 1927) |
| 2013 | John Hollander, American poet and critic (b. 1929) |
| 2013 | Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938) |
| 2014 | Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937) |
| 2014 | Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928) |
| 2014 | Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (b. 1937) |
| 2014 | Sophie Masloff, American civil servant and politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917) |
| 2014 | Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921) |
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, 2008
In 2008, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Jacob is the most used. A total of 22,603 baby boys were named Jacob in 2008. The rest were named Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. While the popular baby girl name in 2008 was Emma. There were 18,817 baby girls named Emma that year. While the rest were named Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. 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 2008 there were 6,789,088,672 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 565,757,390. This shows that there were 565,757,390 babies born every month in 2008. It can also be concluded that there are 18,858,580 babies born every day and 13,097 babies born every minute which is mean that 219 babies born every second in the year 2008. Maybe one of them is you.
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