August 8, 2008 facts
It was the 4th Saturday of 2008. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 8, 23, and 2008 reveal that your life path number is 5. Your zodiac sign is Virgo with a ruling planet Mercury, your birthstone is the Peridot and Sardonyx, and your birth flower is the Gladiolus. You are 15 old, and were born in the 2000s, in the middle of Generation Z. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means.

→ August 23, 2008 was a Saturday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Virgo
→ This date was 5,696 days ago
→ 2008 was the Year of the Rat
→ In 2024, August 23 is on Saturday
→ You are 17 years old in Korean Age

View cool August 23, 2008 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 16 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 Virgo, with a ruling planet Mercury. On your birthday, the moon was in Last Quarter 🌗 phase, and there were precisely 193 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on May 1, 2040.

→ You’ve slept 1,899 days or 5.2 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Rat
→ You have been alive 136,721 hours
→ You are 8,203,287 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 16 years old

You were born on a Saturday

August 23, 2008, was the 4th Saturday of that year. It was also the 236th day and 8th month of 2008 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse the 2008 calendar will be in 2036. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 16th birthday will be on a Sunday, and the birthday after that will be on a Saturday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and automatically updated.

Your next birthday is in:

Your next birthday is on a Sunday

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 5.2 years of your life.
You’ve slept 62 month of your life.
You’ve slept 271 week of your life.
You’ve slept 1,899 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 114,831,360 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 656,179,200 times. You have also blinked over 139,438,080 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Disturbia" by Rihanna (Billboard Hot 100 – August 23, 2008). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song. The number 1 DJ in the world was Armin van Buuren followed by Tiësto and Paul van Dyk according to DJ Mag.

Celebrities born on August 23, 2008

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Holidays on August 23, 2008

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 23 here.

What happened on August 23rd

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 23 August 2008.

  • Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code.
  • 1st US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts.
  • Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die).
  • Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places".
  • Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane.
  • Sports in 2008

    NBA – Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers (4 - 2) to win the 2008 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

    NHL – Detroit Red Wings defeated Pittsburgh Penguins (4 - 2) to win the 2008 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

    NFL – New York Giants beat New England Patriots (17 - 14) to win Super Bowl XLII on February 3, 2008 in Glendale, AZ.

    MLB – Philadelphia Phillies beat Tampa Bay Rays (4 - 1) to win the 2008 World Series. to win the World Series.

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    Your life path number is 5

    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.