You are 85 Years, 03 Months, 29 Days old from December 15, 2025. You were born on Saturday and have been alive for 31167 days, your next Birthday will be after 08 Months, 1 Days or Your next birthday is in 244 days. You can see detailed informations about your birthdate below.
| Date Of Birth | August 17, 1940 (Saturday) |
|---|---|
| Age From Date: | December 15, 2025 (Monday) |
| Age: | 85 Years, 03 Months, 29 Days |
| Birth Day Of The Week: | Saturday |
| Age In Months: | 1023 Months 28 Day(s) |
| Age In Weeks: | 4452 Weeks 0 Day(s) |
| Age In Days: | 31167 Days |
| Age In Hours: | 747997 Hours (approx.) |
| Age In Minutes: | 44879792 Minutes (approx.) |
| Age In Seconds: | 2692787531 Seconds (approx.) |
| Next Birthday | August 17, 2026 (Monday) |
| Next Birthday After: | 08 Months, 1 Days |
| Is My Birth Year Leap Year? | Year 1940 is a leap year. |
August 17, 1940 Birthday Facts | |
| Do you want to know your zodiac sign? | Your zodiac sign, if your date of birth is August 17, 1940, is Leo.
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| Century: | You were born in the 20th century |
| Birthday in Roman numerals | VIII.XVII.MCMXL
August 17, 1940 in roman numerals? |
| What is your age in roman numerals? | Years: LXXXV Months: III Days: XXIX |
| Birth Date Season: | You were born in Summer |
| Chinese zodiac sign: | You were born in the Chinese year of the Metal Dragon
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Find out how many days you have been alive, what day of the week you were born on, and how long you have lived in days weeks months and years since your birth date. Chronological Age measures how old you are defined as how many years you have lived since birth.
The information above is calculated using UTC timezone where the date and time is Monday, December 15, 2025 12:32:11Here is a random list who born on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1926 | Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (d. 2012) |
| 1753 | Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian (d. 1828) |
| 1979 | Antwaan Randle El, American football player and journalist |
| 1911 | Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) |
| 1896 | Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970) |
| 1943 | John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author |
| 1930 | Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (d. 1998) |
| 1888 | Monty Woolley, American actor, raconteur, and pundit (d. 1963) |
| 1969 | Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach |
| 1953 | Herta Müller, Romanian-German poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1973 | Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (b. 1889) |
| 1870 | Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (b. 1818) |
| 1809 | Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (b. 1728) |
| 1838 | Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (b. 1749) |
| 2010 | Francesco Cossiga, Italian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Italy (b. 1928) |
| 1998 | Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940) |
| 2005 | John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934) |
| 2006 | Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929) |
| 1424 | John Stewart, Earl of Buchan (b. c. 1381) |
| 1676 | Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (b. 1621) |
Here is a list of some events happened on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1945 | The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published. |
| 1918 | Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
| 1862 | American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. |
| 1915 | Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after a 13-year-old girl is murdered. |
| 1876 | Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. |
| 1386 | Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania forges an alliance with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the Ottomans in return. |
| 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. |
| 1827 | Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord. |
| 1943 | World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. |
| 2005 | The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts. |