The 219th day of the year, the 220th in a leap year
Born on 7 August
Every 7 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 7 August in any year.
Which weekday 7 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 7 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 7 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,847 babies were born on 7 August in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 91st 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 7 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Charlize Theron | 1975– | South African and American actress |
| Elinor Ostrom | 1933–2012 | American political economist |
| Mata Hari | 1876–1917 | Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and spy |
| Yun Hyon-seok | 1984–2003 | South Korean poet, writer and LGBT activist |
| Sofia Rotaru | 1947– | Ukrainian singer, songwriter and actress |
| David Duchovny | 1960– | American actor and writer |
| Constantius II | 317–361 | Roman emperor |
| Bruce Dickinson | 1958– | English heavy metal singer |
| Ralph Bunche | 1904–1971 | American political scientist and diplomat |
| Elizabeth Báthory | 1560–1614 | Hungarian countess |
| Abebe Bikila | 1932–1973 | Ethiopian double Olympic marathon champion |
| James Randi | 1928–2020 | Canadian-American stage magician and skeptical movement adherent |
| Emil Nolde | 1867–1956 | German artist |
| Carl Ritter | 1779–1859 | German geographer |
| Robert Mueller | 1944–2026 | American attorney and sixth director of the FBI |
| Seiichiro Maki | 1980– | Japanese association football player |
| Louis Leakey | 1903–1972 | Kenyan-British palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist |
| Dani Ceballos | 1996– | Spanish association football player |
Died on 7 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Rabindranath Tagore | 1861–1941 | Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath |
| Jöns Jacob Berzelius | 1779–1848 | Swedish chemist |
| Konstantin Stanislavski | 1863–1938 | Russian actor and theatre director |
| Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor | 1050–1106 | Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105 |
| Majorian | died 461 | Western Roman Emperor |
| Oliver Hardy | 1892–1957 | American comic actor, one half of Laurel and Hardy |
| Wilhelm Liebknecht | 1826–1900 | German journalist, writer and socialist politician |
| William Friedkin | 1935–2023 | American director and producer |
| Joseph Marie Jacquard | 1752–1834 | French inventor |
| Rosario Castellanos | 1925–1974 | Mexican writer |
| Vincenzo Scamozzi | 1548–1616 | 16th century Italian architect |
| Nancy Wake | 1912–2011 | New Zealand-born Australian nurse and journalist, French Resistance and SOE agent |
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