Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Saturday, August 17, 1974:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Sunday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Blazing Saddles
🎮 Number one video game › Maze War
🎵 Number one song › "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace
🐅 Chinese Zodiac › Tiger
☀️ Sun Sign › Leo
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Sun ☉
🐼 Spirit Animal › Salmon
🔢 Life Path Number › 1
🌼 Birth flower › Gladiolus
🪨 Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx
📅 Lucky day › Sunday ⬤Power Color › Orange
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.53
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,003,448,151 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 29,054,400,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 444,532,320 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,091,916,800 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,050,712,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 366,085,440 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on April 25, 2006.
What happened on my birthday
1590
Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591].
1903
Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.
1945
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands.
1945
Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
1947
The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1998
Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship.
Famous people with my birthday
1933
Glenn Corbett [Glen Edwin Rothenburg], American actor (Route 66; Shenandoah; Chisum)
1970
Rupert Degas, English actor and voice artist
1990
Colin Bates, American-British actor, dancer, and singer (Billy Elliot - The Musical)
1980
Shannon Lucio, American actress
1888
Monty Wooley, American actor (Pied Piper, The Man Who Came to Dinner)
1918
Mort Marshall [Mortimer Haig Lichtenstein], American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Dumplings)
1901
Henri Tomasi, French classical and film music composer (Requiem for Peace; The Silence of the Sea)
1982
Cheeleader Melissa [Melissa Anderson], American professional wrestler
Holidays on Saturday, August 17th
National Nonprofit Day
National Nonprofit Day, celebrated on August 17th, is a day to recognize and appreciate the hard work and positive impact of nonprofit organizations that work to improve our communities and help people in need.
National I LOVE My feet Day
National I Love My Feet Day, celebrated every August 17, is a day to appreciate and take care of our feet for all the hard work they do in supporting our body, helping us balance, and carrying us through life.
National Black Cat Appreciation Day
National Black Cat Appreciation Day, celebrated on August 17, is a day to show love and appreciation for black cats, aiming to break the stereotypes and increase their adoption, since they are often overlooked despite being just as wonderful as other cats.
National Workers' Comp Adjuster Day
National Workers' Comp Adjuster Day, celebrated on August 17, is a special day to appreciate the hardworking people who help workers get the support and compensation they need when they're injured on the job.
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day, celebrated on August 17th, honors the generation born between 1946 and 1964 for their contributions and achievements in shaping modern society.
