The 213th day of the year, the 214th in a leap year
Born on 1 August
Every 1 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 1 August in any year.
Which weekday 1 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 1 August falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 1 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,862 babies were born on 1 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 56th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 1 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Herman Melville | 1819–1891 | American writer and poet |
| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck | 1744–1829 | French naturalist |
| Claudius | 10 BC–54 AD | fourth Roman emperor (41–54) |
| Abdullah of Saudi Arabia | 1924–2015 | King of Saudi Arabia from 2005 to 2015 |
| Pierre Bourdieu | 1930–2002 | French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher |
| Georges Charpak | 1924–2010 | French physicist |
| Yves Saint Laurent | 1936–2008 | French fashion designer |
| Jason Momoa | 1979– | American actor |
| Bastian Schweinsteiger | 1984– | German association football player |
| George de Hevesy | 1885–1966 | Hungarian chemist |
| Douglas Osheroff | 1945– | American physicist |
| Coolio | 1963–2022 | American rapper |
| Sam Mendes | 1965– | British stage and film director |
| Kurmanbek Bakiyev | 1949– | Kyrgyzstani politician |
| Zoran Đinđić | 1952–2003 | Serbian politician |
| Gaston Doumergue | 1863–1937 | French lawyer and statesman |
| Nemanja Matić | 1988– | Serbian association football player |
| Iago Aspas | 1987– | Spanish association football player |
Died on 1 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Corazon Aquino | 1933–2009 | President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 |
| Mark Antony | 83–30 BC | Roman politician and general |
| Anne, Queen of Great Britain | 1665–1714 | Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714; died 1 August in the Julian calendar, which is 12 August in the Gregorian |
| Fahd of Saudi Arabia | 1921–2005 | King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005 |
| Walter Ulbricht | 1893–1973 | German communist politician, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971 |
| Wilford Brimley | 1934–2020 | American actor and singer |
| Tadeusz Reichstein | 1897–1996 | Polish-Swiss chemist |
| Louis VI of France | 1081–1137 | king of the Franks from 1108 to 1137 |
| Otto Heinrich Warburg | 1883–1970 | German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate |
| Justin I | 450–527 | Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 518 to 527 |
| Cosimo de' Medici | 1389–1464 | First ruler of the Medici political dynasty |
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1856–1920 | Indian nationalist leader, writer and journalist |
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