August 8, 1996 facts
It was the 3rd Wednesday of 1996. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 8, 21, and 1996 reveal that your life path number is 9. 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 27 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 21, 1996 was a Wednesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Leo
→ This date was 10,080 days ago
→ 1996 was the Year of the Rat
→ In 2024, August 21 is on Thursday
→ You are 29 years old in Korean Age

View must-know August 21, 1996 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 28 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Rat. Your birth sign is Leo, with a ruling planet Sun. On your birthday, the moon was in First Quarter 🌓 phase, and there were precisely 342 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on April 29, 2028.

→ You’ve slept 3,360 days or 9.21 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Rat
→ You have been alive 241,941 hours
→ You are 14,516,497 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 28 years old

You were born on a Wednesday

August 21, 1996, was the 3rd Wednesday of that year. It was also the 234th day and 8th month of 1996 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse the 1996 calendar will be in 2024. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 28th birthday will be on a Thursday, and the birthday after that will be on a Thursday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and automatically updated.

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Your next birthday is on a Thursday

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 9.21 years of your life.
You’ve slept 110 month of your life.
You’ve slept 480 week of your life.
You’ve slept 3,360 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 203,212,800 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,161,216,000 times. You have also blinked over 246,758,400 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)" by Los Del Rio (Billboard Hot 100 – August 21, 1996). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Celebrities born on August 21, 1996

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Cole LaBrant (musical.ly star)

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 all celebrity birthdays born on August 21, 1996.


Holidays on August 21, 1996

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 21 here.

What happened on August 21st

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 21 August 1996.

  • 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 1996

    NBA – Chicago Bulls beat Seattle SuperSonics (4 - 2) to win the 1996 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

    NHL – Colorado Avalanche defeated Florida Panthers (4 - 0) to win the 1996 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

    NFL – Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers (27 - 17) to win Super Bowl XXX on January 28, 1996 in Tempe, AZ.

    MLB – New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves (4 - 2) to win the 1996 World Series. to win the World Series.

    Tennis –


    Your life path number is 9

    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.