The 233rd day of the year, the 234th in a leap year
Born on 21 August
Every 21 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
- Sunday and Friday16 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 21 August in any year.
Which weekday 21 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 21 August falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 21 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,861 babies were born on 21 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 59th 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 21 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Usain Bolt | 1986– | Jamaican sprinter |
| Robert Lewandowski | 1988– | Polish association football player |
| Mohammed VI of Morocco | 1963– | king of Morocco since 1999 |
| Sergey Brin | 1973– | American billionaire businessman |
| William IV | 1765–1837 | King of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837 |
| Stephen Hillenburg | 1961–2018 | American marine science educator and artist |
| Augustin-Louis Cauchy | 1789–1857 | French mathematician |
| Philip II of France | 1165–1223 | King of France, and the first to be called by that title |
| Kenny Rogers | 1938–2020 | American country singer |
| Francis de Sales | 1567–1622 | Savoyard Catholic bishop, saint and Doctor of the Church |
| Jules Michelet | 1798–1874 | French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance |
| Wilt Chamberlain | 1936–1999 | American basketball player |
| Hayden Panettiere | 1989–2026 | American actress and singer |
| Leonid Hurwicz | 1917–2008 | Polish-American economist and mathematician |
| Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon | 1930–2002 | British princess |
| Serj Tankian | 1967– | Armenian-American rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer |
| Alizée | 1984– | French pop singer |
| Paetongtarn Shinawatra | 1986– | Businesswoman and former Prime Minister of Thailand |
Died on 21 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Leon Trotsky | 1879–1940 | Russian Marxist revolutionary |
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1910–1995 | Indian-American astrophysicist |
| Henrik Pontoppidan | 1857–1943 | Danish writer, Nobel Laureate |
| Stefán Karl Stefánsson | 1975–2018 | Icelandic actor |
| Adelbert von Chamisso | 1781–1838 | German poet and botanist |
| Giuseppe Meazza | 1910–1979 | Italian association football player and manager |
| Elizabeth Báthory | 1560–1614 | Hungarian countess |
| Palmiro Togliatti | 1893–1964 | Italian politician, leader of the Italian Communist Party from 1927 to 1964 |
| Robert Moog | 1934–2005 | American electronic music pioneer and inventor |
| Ninoy Aquino | 1932–1983 | Filipino senator and governor of Tarlac |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689–1762 | English aristocrat, writer and poet |
| Jean Parisot de Valette | 1495–1568 | French nobleman, Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1557 to 1568 |
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