You are 47 Years, 04 Months, 20 Days old from January 20, 2026. You were born on Thursday and have been alive for 17310 days, your next Birthday will be after 07 Months, 10 Days or Your next birthday is in 222 days. You can see detailed informations about your birthdate below.
| Date Of Birth | August 31, 1978 (Thursday) |
|---|---|
| Age From Date: | January 20, 2026 (Tuesday) |
| Age: | 47 Years, 04 Months, 20 Days |
| Birth Day Of The Week: | Thursday |
| Age In Months: | 568 Months 20 Day(s) |
| Age In Weeks: | 2472 Weeks 6 Day(s) |
| Age In Days: | 17310 Days |
| Age In Hours: | 415434 Hours (approx.) |
| Age In Minutes: | 24926026 Minutes (approx.) |
| Age In Seconds: | 1495561580 Seconds (approx.) |
| Next Birthday | August 31, 2026 (Monday) |
| Next Birthday After: | 07 Months, 10 Days |
| Is My Birth Year Leap Year? | Year 1978 is not a leap year. |
August 31, 1978 Birthday Facts | |
| Do you want to know your zodiac sign? | Your zodiac sign, if your date of birth is August 31, 1978, is Virgo.
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| Century: | You were born in the 20th century |
| Birthday in Roman numerals | VIII.XXXI.MCMLXXVIII
August 31, 1978 in roman numerals? |
| What is your age in roman numerals? | Years: XLVII Months: IV Days: XX |
| Birth Date Season: | You were born in Summer |
| Chinese zodiac sign: | You were born in the Chinese year of the Earth Horse
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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 Tuesday, January 20, 2026 17:46:20Here is a random list who born on August 31. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1944 | Christine King, English historian and academic |
| 1937 | Bobby Parker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013) |
| 1940 | Robbie Basho, American guitarist, pianist, and composer (d. 1986) |
| 1987 | Ondřej Pavelec, Czech ice hockey player |
| 1893 | Lily Laskine, French harp player (d. 1988) |
| 1948 | Harald Ertl, Austrian race car driver and journalist (d. 1982) |
| 1935 | Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager (d. 2019) |
| 1930 | Big Tiny Little, American pianist (d. 2010) |
| 1952 | Kim Kashkashian, American viola player and educator |
| 1955 | Aleksander Krupa, Polish-American actor |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 31. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1974 | William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918) |
| 1986 | Elizabeth Coatsworth, American author and poet (b. 1893) |
| 1937 | Ruth Baldwin, British socialite (b. 1905) |
| 2019 | Anthoine Hubert, French race car driver (b. 1996) |
| 1884 | Robert Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (b. 1814) |
| 1287 | Konrad von Würzburg, German poet |
| 1985 | Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| 1910 | Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer, conductor, and music critic (b. 1875) |
| 2011 | Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1976) |
| 2020 | Pranab Mukherjee, Former President of India (b. 1935) |
Here is a list of some events happened on August 31. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1920 | Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów. |
| 1943 | USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned. |
| 1056 | After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. |
| 1994 | Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia. |
| 1996 | Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK. |
| 1963 | Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance. |
| 1933 | The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage. |
| 1907 | Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet. |
| 1999 | A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground. |
| 1798 | Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht. |