You are 66 Years, 05 Months, 1 Days old from January 18, 2026. You were born on Monday and have been alive for 24261 days, your next Birthday will be after 06 Months, 29 Days or Your next birthday is in 211 days. You can see detailed informations about your birthdate below.
| Date Of Birth | August 17, 1959 (Monday) |
|---|---|
| Age From Date: | January 18, 2026 (Sunday) |
| Age: | 66 Years, 05 Months, 1 Days |
| Birth Day Of The Week: | Monday |
| Age In Months: | 797 Months 1 Day(s) |
| Age In Weeks: | 3465 Weeks 1 Day(s) |
| Age In Days: | 24261 Days |
| Age In Hours: | 582265 Hours (approx.) |
| Age In Minutes: | 34935890 Minutes (approx.) |
| Age In Seconds: | 2096153420 Seconds (approx.) |
| Next Birthday | August 17, 2026 (Monday) |
| Next Birthday After: | 06 Months, 29 Days |
| Is My Birth Year Leap Year? | Year 1959 is not a leap year. |
August 17, 1959 Birthday Facts | |
| Do you want to know your zodiac sign? | Your zodiac sign, if your date of birth is August 17, 1959, is Leo.
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| Century: | You were born in the 20th century |
| Birthday in Roman numerals | VIII.XVII.MCMLIX
August 17, 1959 in roman numerals? |
| What is your age in roman numerals? | Years: LXVI Months: V Days: I |
| Birth Date Season: | You were born in Summer |
| Chinese zodiac sign: | You were born in the Chinese year of the Earth Pig
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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 Sunday, January 18, 2026 00:50:20Here is a random list who born on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1931 | Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic (d. 2022) |
| 1918 | Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress (d. 1985) |
| 1916 | Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian physician and politician (d. 2012) |
| 1153 | William IX, Count of Poitiers (d. 1156) |
| 1969 | Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, actor and producer |
| 1986 | Rudy Gay, American basketball player |
| 1887 | Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (d. 1940) |
| 1918 | Ike Quebec, American saxophonist and pianist (d. 1963) |
| 1923 | Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist (d. 2019) |
| 1996 | Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923) |
| 1995 | Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902) |
| 754 | Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia |
| 1969 | Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) |
| 1993 | Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920) |
| 1768 | Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703) |
| 1673 | Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1641) |
| 2014 | Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937) |
| 1304 | Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (b. 1243) |
| 1936 | José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880) |
Here is a list of some events happened on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). |
| 1999 | The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured. |
| 1784 | Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón. |
| 1827 | Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord. |
| 2008 | American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games. |
| 1863 | American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. |
| 1918 | Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. |
| 1943 | World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. |
| 2005 | Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh. |
| 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. |