Funny Birthday Facts About August 17, 2012
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What day were you born on August 17, 2012?
If you forget what day you were born, we will tell you that you were born on Friday, 17
Countdown to Your 14th Birthday
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What day was August 17, 2025?
This year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 13th birthday on Sunday. How was your 13th 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 4,000 days old
Did you know that people born on August 17
Your Age in Days, Weeks, Months & Years
4,807 Days
628 Weeks
157 Months
13 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 306 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 14 years old. There have been 4807 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 1603 days, which is equivalent to 4.39 years. You spent 33.77% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Monday | 14 Years Old |
| 2027 | Tuesday | 15 Years Old |
| 2028 | Thursday | 16 Years Old |
| 2029 | Friday | 17 Years Old |
| 2030 | Saturday | 18 Years Old |
| 2031 | Sunday | 19 Years Old |
| 2032 | Tuesday | 20 Years Old |
| 2033 | Wednesday | 21 Years Old |
| 2034 | Thursday | 22 Years Old |
| 2035 | Friday | 23 Years Old |
What is your zodiac and birthstone for August 17, 2012?
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 |
|---|---|
| 1971 | Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress |
| 1972 | Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 1974 | Giuliana Rancic, Italian-American journalist and television personality |
| 1974 | Johannes Maria Staud, Austrian composer |
| 1976 | Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1976 | Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist and director |
| 1976 | Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014) |
| 1977 | Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist |
| 1977 | Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker |
| 1977 | Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter and producer |
Famous People Died on August 17
Did you know that on August 17
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929) |
| 2007 | Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (b. 1913) |
| 2007 | Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (b. 1982) |
| 2008 | Franco Sensi, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1926) |
| 2010 | Francesco Cossiga, Italian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928) |
| 2012 | Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (b. 1915) |
| 2012 | John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930) |
| 2012 | Patrick Ricard, French businessman (b. 1945) |
| 2012 | Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (b. 1933) |
| 2013 | David Landes, Jewish-American historian and economist (b. 1924) |
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, 2012
In 2012, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Jacob is the most used. A total of 19,088 baby boys were named Jacob in 2012. The rest were named Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. While the popular baby girl name in 2012 was Sophia. There were 22,320 baby girls named Sophia that year. While the rest were named Emma, Isabella, 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 2012 there were 7,125,827,957 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 593,818,997. This shows that there were 593,818,997 babies born every month in 2012. It can also be concluded that there are 19,793,967 babies born every day and 13,746 babies born every minute which is mean that 230 babies born every second in the year 2012. Maybe one of them is you.
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