Sunday 20 August, 1978

How old am I if I was born on August 20, 1978?

You are 47 years, 5 months and 10 days old
You were born on a Sunday and have been alive for 17,330 days!
Your next birthday will be on Thursday after 202 days.

You are 47 years, 5 months and 10 days old
Or 569 months
Or 2,475 weeks
Or 17,330 days
Or 415,919 hours
Or 24,955,199 minutes
Or 1,497,311,999 seconds

If you were born on this date:

Your heart has experienced approximately 1,921,550,323 heartbeats since your birth.
You've slept for 5,771 days or 15.81 years!
You've had about 86,650 dreams.
You have taken around 399,283,200 breaths of air.
You have spent around 27.71 months eating and drinking.
You have eaten about 46.79 tons of food.
You have drank about 38,126 liters of water.
You have laughed around 294,610 times.
You have farted roughly 242,620 times.
You have spent about 360.46 days in the bathroom.
If your hair were never cut since b-day, today, it would be 7.1 meters long.

Historical Events on August 20

1914 World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.

1940 World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".

1950 Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Nakdong River and assault the city of Taegu.

1988 Iran-Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.

1988 The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.

1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.

1991 Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of its pre-World War II statehood.

2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.

2006 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.

All Events

Famous Birthdays on August 20

1890 H. P. Lovecraft

1935 Ron Paul

1974 Amy Adams

1992 Demi Lovato

All Births

Famous Deaths on August 20

1914 Pope Pius X

1939 Agnes Giberne

2012 Meles Zenawi

2017 Jerry Lewis

All Deaths

19. August 1978

21. August 1978