August 8, 1996 facts
It was the 4th Saturday of 1996. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 8, 24, and 1996 reveal that your life path number is 3. 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 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 24, 1996 was a Saturday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Virgo
→ This date was 10,078 days ago
→ 1996 was the Year of the Rat
→ In 2024, August 24 is on Sunday
→ You are 29 years old in Korean Age

View interesting August 24, 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 Virgo, with a ruling planet Mercury. On your birthday, the moon was in Waxing Gibbous 🌔 phase, and there were precisely 342 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on May 2, 2028.

→ You’ve slept 3,359 days or 9.2 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Rat
→ You have been alive 241,880 hours
→ You are 14,512,812 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 28 years old

You were born on a Saturday

August 24, 1996, was the 4th Saturday of that year. It was also the 237th 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 Sunday, and the birthday after that will be on a Sunday. 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 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 9.2 years of your life.
You’ve slept 110 month of your life.
You’ve slept 480 week of your life.
You’ve slept 3,359 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 203,172,480 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,160,985,600 times. You have also blinked over 246,709,440 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 24, 1996). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Celebrities born on August 24, 1996

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Holidays on August 24, 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 24 here.

What happened on August 24th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 24 August 1996.

  • Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die.
  • Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
  • Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate.
  • St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces.
  • Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer.
  • 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 3

    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.