The 234th day of the year, the 235th in a leap year
Born on 22 August
In UTC, since 1920, 22 August has been Leo all day in 90 years. In the other 17, the sun moved from Leo into Virgo during the day, so a birthday then is Leo or Virgo depending on the hour; the table below gives the moment. Those are UTC days: in 46 more years a crossing on the day before or after fell on 22 August by the clocks somewhere east or west of Greenwich, listed below the table.
- Star sign
- Leo or VirgoThe sun changed sign on this date in 17 of 107 years.
- 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.
Virgo reaching back a day
The sun entered Virgo on 22 August for the first time in the period in 1980, at 23:40 UTC. For the next quarter of a century it did so only in leap years, and since 2008 in two years out of four: at 14:55 UTC in 2024, the earliest yet, and 20:34 UTC in 2025.
In the other 90 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 August was Leo all day in UTC, as the printed tables say. The crossing now arrives early enough in some years to matter across the world: in 2024 the 14:55 UTC moment was 16:55 in Johannesburg, 10:55 in New York and 00:55 on 23 August in Sydney.
A birth on 22 August 2024 in New York before that time is Leo and after it Virgo, while in Sydney the whole of 22 August 2024 was Leo. In 2026 the crossing was back on the 23rd, at 02:19 UTC, which was 22:19 on 22 August in New York.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 August in any year.
Which sign, by year
The sun moves from Leo into Virgo at an instant that falls about six hours later each year and jumps back most of a day at each leap year. On 22 August that instant has fallen inside the day in 17 years since 1920; those years show the moment, in UTC and to the minute. A birth before it is Leo, after it Virgo. To read one of these times on your own clock on 22 August, add your time zone's offset east of Greenwich or subtract it to the west, or put the year into the calculator above, which works in your own time zone.
Every year from 1920 to 2026. Where a cell shows a time, the sun entered Virgo at that moment, UTC. Why the day moves →
Other time zones
A date begins earlier east of Greenwich and later to the west, so in these years the sun changed sign on the day before or after in UTC, at a moment when clocks somewhere on earth already, or still, showed 22 August — worked out from the time zones in use at that moment, as the IANA time zone database records them. A birth there on 22 August that year could be either sign, and the calculator above works it out for your own time zone.
- 1920: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 11:21 UTC
- 1924: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 10:48 UTC
- 1928: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 09:53 UTC
- 1932: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 09:07 UTC
- 1936: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 08:11 UTC
- 1940: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 07:29 UTC
- 1944: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 06:46 UTC
- 1948: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 06:02 UTC
- 1949: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 11:48 UTC
- 1952: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 05:03 UTC
- 1953: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 10:45 UTC
- 1956: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 04:15 UTC
- 1957: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 10:08 UTC
- 1960: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 03:34 UTC
- 1961: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 09:19 UTC
- 1964: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 02:51 UTC
- 1965: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 08:42 UTC
- 1968: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 02:03 UTC
- 1969: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 07:43 UTC
- 1972: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 01:03 UTC
- 1973: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 06:53 UTC
- 1976: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 00:18 UTC
- 1977: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 06:00 UTC
- 1978: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 11:57 UTC
- 1981: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 05:38 UTC
- 1982: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 11:15 UTC
- 1985: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 04:36 UTC
- 1986: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 10:26 UTC
- 1989: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 03:46 UTC
- 1990: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 09:21 UTC
- 1993: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 02:50 UTC
- 1994: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 08:44 UTC
- 1997: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 02:19 UTC
- 1998: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 07:59 UTC
- 2001: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 01:27 UTC
- 2002: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 07:17 UTC
- 2005: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 00:45 UTC
- 2006: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 06:23 UTC
- 2010: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 05:27 UTC
- 2014: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 04:46 UTC
- 2015: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 10:37 UTC
- 2018: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 04:08 UTC
- 2019: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 10:02 UTC
- 2022: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 03:16 UTC
- 2023: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 09:01 UTC
- 2026: the sun entered Virgo on 23 August, 02:19 UTC
Which weekday 22 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 August falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
Showing 22 August in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,856 babies were born on 22 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 76th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 22 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Deng Xiaoping | 1904–1997 | Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989 |
| Claude Debussy | 1862–1918 | French classical composer |
| Ray Bradbury | 1920–2012 | American author and screenwriter |
| Dua Lipa | 1995– | British singer-songwriter |
| Leni Riefenstahl | 1902–2003 | German filmmaker, photographer and actress who made propaganda films for the Nazi regime |
| Pope Leo XII | 1760–1829 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829 |
| Max Scheler | 1874–1928 | German philosopher |
| Dorothy Parker | 1893–1967 | American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson | 1908–2004 | French photographer |
| Tori Amos | 1963– | American singer-songwriter |
| Lautaro Martínez | 1997– | Argentine association football player |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen | 1928–2007 | German composer |
| John Lee Hooker | 1917–2001 | American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist |
| Kristen Wiig | 1973– | American actress and comedian |
| Denis Papin | 1647–1713 | French physicist, mathematician and inventor |
| Mats Wilander | 1964– | Swedish tennis player |
| Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | 1967– | English actor |
| Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk | 1887–1977 | German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official |
Died on 22 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Roger Martin du Gard | 1881–1958 | French writer |
| Jomo Kenyatta | died 1978 | Prime Minister of Kenya from 1963 to 1964 and President from 1964 to 1978 |
| Richard III of England | 1452–1485 | king of England from 1483 to 1485 |
| Pope Gregory IX | 1145–1241 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241 |
| Toto Cutugno | 1943–2023 | Italian recording artist; musician, songwriter, record producer |
| Celâl Bayar | 1883–1986 | 3rd President of the Republic of Turkey |
| Pope Nicholas III | died 1280 | Pope from 1277 to 1280 |
| Michael Collins | 1890–1922 | Irish revolutionary and politician |
| Philip VI of France | 1293–1350 | King of France from 1328 to 1350 |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | 1830–1903 | British politician and prime minister |
| Juscelino Kubitschek | 1902–1976 | President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961 |
| Jan Neruda | 1834–1891 | Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer |
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