You are 66 Years, 05 Months, 2 Days old from January 19, 2026. You were born on Monday and have been alive for 24263 days, your next Birthday will be after 06 Months, 28 Days or Your next birthday is in 209 days. You can see detailed informations about your birthdate below.
| Date Of Birth | August 17, 1959 (Monday) |
|---|---|
| Age From Date: | January 19, 2026 (Monday) |
| Age: | 66 Years, 05 Months, 2 Days |
| Birth Day Of The Week: | Monday |
| Age In Months: | 797 Months 2 Day(s) |
| Age In Weeks: | 3466 Weeks 2 Day(s) |
| Age In Days: | 24263 Days |
| Age In Hours: | 582312 Hours (approx.) |
| Age In Minutes: | 34938706 Minutes (approx.) |
| Age In Seconds: | 2096322356 Seconds (approx.) |
| Next Birthday | August 17, 2026 (Monday) |
| Next Birthday After: | 06 Months, 28 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.
Famous people with Leo zodiac sign? |
| 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: II |
| 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 Monday, January 19, 2026 23:45:56Here is a random list who born on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1963 | Jackie Walorski, American politician (d. 2022) |
| 1969 | Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, actor and producer |
| 1845 | Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist (d. 1909) |
| 1465 | Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (d. 1482) |
| 1980 | Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| 1873 | John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (d. 1946) |
| 1940 | Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 2006) |
| 1976 | Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist and director |
| 1933 | Mark Dinning, American pop singer (d. 1986) |
| 1952 | Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver and businessman |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1925 | Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848) |
| 1995 | Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902) |
| 1768 | Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1703) |
| 1850 | José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (b. 1778) |
| 2006 | Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929) |
| 1720 | Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (b. 1654) |
| 1908 | Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (b. 1873) |
| 1970 | Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (b. 1908) |
| 1903 | Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (b. 1825) |
| 1920 | Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891) |
Here is a list of some events happened on August 17. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| 1836 | British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths. |
| 1949 | Matsukawa derailment: Unknown saboteurs cause a passenger train to derail and overturn in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, killing three crew members and igniting a political firestorm between the Japanese Communist Party and the government of Occupied Japan that will eventually lead to the Japanese Red Purge. |
| 2009 | An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area. |
| 1896 | Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom. |
| 1985 | The 1985–86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota. |
| 1498 | Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois. |
| 2015 | A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others. |
| 1970 | Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). |
| 1991 | Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself. |