It was the 3rd Sunday of 1988. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 8, 21 and 1988 reveal that your life path number is 1. 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 35 old, and were born in 1980s, 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 21, 1988 was a Sunday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Leo
→ This date was 13,003 days ago
→ 1988 was the Year of the Dragon
→ In 2024, August 21 is on Thursday

View must-know August 21, 1988 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 36 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Dragon. Your birth sign is Leo with a ruling planet Sun. There were precisely 441 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on April 29, 2020.

→ You’ve slept 4,334 days or 11.87 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Dragon
→ You have been alive 312,080 hours
→ You are 18,724,826 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 36 years old

You were born on a Sunday

August 21, 1988 was the 3rd Sunday of that year. It was also the 234th day and 8th month of 1988 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 1988 calendar will be in 2044. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 36th birthday will be on a Monday and a birthday after that will be on a Thursday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and is automatically updated.

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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 11.87 years of your life.
You’ve slept 142 month of your life.
You’ve slept 619 week of your life.
You’ve slept 4,334 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 262,140,480 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,497,945,600 times. You have also blinked over 318,313,440 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Monkey" by George Michael. (Billboard Hot 100 – August 21, 1988). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "Dilemma" by Nelly (August 21, 2002).

Celebrities born on August 21, 1988

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Reina Scully (YouTuber), Kacey Musgraves (country singer), Robert Lewandowski (soccer player).

We have over 150,000 celebrities in our database. We will continue to update this list with matching birthdays, so bookmark this page and check back often. You can also find out all celebrity birthdays born on August 21, 1988.


What happened on August 21st

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 21 August 1988. Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: July 12, 1192).
The Edirne Event: Turkish army removes Sultan Mustafa II, lessening the power of the sultans.
King Gustav III of Sweden completes coup d'etat by adopting a new Constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot - ends 50 years of parliamentary rule.
American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine.
Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913).

Sports in 1988

NBA – Los Angeles Lakers beat Detroit Pistons (4 - 3) to win the 1988 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – Edmonton Oilers defeated Boston Bruins (4 - 0) to win the 1988 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

NFL – Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos (42 - 10) to win Super Bowl XXII on January 31, 1988 in San Diego, CA.

MLB – Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland Athletics (4 - 1) to win the 1988 World Series. to win the World Series.


Your life path number is 1

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.