August 8, 1997 facts
It was the 3rd Sunday of 1997. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 8, 17, and 1997 reveal that your life path number is 6. Your zodiac sign is Leo with a ruling planet Sun, your birthstone is the Peridot and Sardonyx, and your birth flower is the Gladiolus. You are 26 old, and were born in the 1990s, in the middle of Millennials Generation. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means.

→ August 17, 1997 was a Sunday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Leo
→ This date was 9,720 days ago
→ 1997 was the Year of the Ox
→ In 2024, August 17 is on Sunday
→ You are 28 years old in Korean Age

View must-know August 17, 1997 birthday facts that no one tells you about, such as your life path number, birthstone, ruling planet, zodiac sign and birth flower.

You have been alive for:

People born on this day will turn 27 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Ox. Your birth sign is Leo, with a ruling planet Sun. On your birthday, the moon was in Waxing Gibbous 🌔 phase, and there were precisely 329 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on April 25, 2029.

→ You’ve slept 3,240 days or 8.88 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Ox
→ You have been alive 233,286 hours
→ You are 13,997,207 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 27 years old

You were born on a Sunday

August 17, 1997, was the 3rd Sunday of that year. It was also the 229th day and 8th month of 1997 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse the 1997 calendar will be in 2025. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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You’ve slept 33% of your life!

Assuming you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth. Here is how much time you’ve spent sleeping so far:

You’ve slept 8.88 years of your life.
You’ve slept 106 month of your life.
You’ve slept 463 week of your life.
You’ve slept 3,240 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 195,955,200 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,119,744,000 times. You have also blinked over 237,945,600 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy (Billboard Hot 100 – August 17, 1997). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song. The number 1 DJ in the world was Carl Cox followed by Paul Oakenfold and Sasha according to DJ Mag.

Celebrities born on August 17, 1997

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Holidays on August 17, 1997

Here are a few holidays that are celebrated on your birthday:

We track thousands of holidays, you can view all of the holidays on August 17 here.

What happened on August 17th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 17 August 1997.

  • 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].
  • Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.
  • Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands.
  • Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
  • The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
  • Sports in 1997

    NBA – Chicago Bulls beat Utah Jazz (4 - 2) to win the 1997 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

    NHL – Detroit Red Wings defeated Philadelphia Flyers (4 - 0) to win the 1997 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

    NFL – Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots (35 - 21) to win Super Bowl XXXI on January 26, 1997 in New Orleans, LA.

    MLB – Florida Marlins beat Cleveland Indians (4 - 3) to win the 1997 World Series. to win the World Series.

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    Your life path number is 6

    So what does your birthday really say about you and what does your life path number mean? On the next page, we’ll explain what your birth sign, ruling planet, age generation, birthstone, and birth flower mean — and more!

    Continue to the next page to discover the answers to the most important questions about your birthday.