Who are famous people born on August 31?

Famous people born on August 31 include Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Maria Montessori (1870), Edward Thorndike (1874), Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (1985), Richard Gere (1949).

What star sign is someone born on August 31?

Someone born on August 31 is a Virgo.

What is the birthstone for August 31?

The birthstone for August is peridot.

How common is a birthday on August 31?

In the US, August 31 is the No. 73 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,825 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).

Famous birthdays on August 31

Famous people born on August 31, from every year, and what happened on this day in history.

♍ Star sign
Virgo
💎 Birthstone
Peridot
👶 How common
No. 73 of 366

Born on August 31

August 31 in history

2025A landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan kills over 1000 people.
2016Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
1999The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1994Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
1988CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.
1972Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in Bashkortostan, Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing all 102 people aboard.
1959A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1943USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1936Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1918World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
1876Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother, Abdul Hamid II.
1795War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1420The 8.8–9.4 Caldera earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunami in Chile, Hawaii, and Japan.
1056After a sudden gastric illness, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.

Holidays and observances

Baloch-Pakhtun Unity Day (Balochs and Pashtuns, International observance)
Christian feast day: Aidan of Lindisfarne
Christian feast day: Aristides of Athens
Christian feast day: Cuthburh
Christian feast day: Joseph of Arimathea
Christian feast day: Nicodemus
Christian feast day: Paulinus of Trier
Christian feast day: Raymond Nonnatus
Christian feast day: Wala of Corbie
Christian feast day: August 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

August 31 in every year

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Questions about August 31 birthdays

Who are famous people born on August 31?: Famous people born on August 31 include Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Maria Montessori (1870), Edward Thorndike (1874), Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (1985), Richard Gere (1949).
What star sign is someone born on August 31?: Someone born on August 31 is a Virgo.
What is the birthstone for August 31?: The birthstone for August is peridot.
How common is a birthday on August 31?: In the US, August 31 is the No. 73 most common birthday of the 366, with about 11,825 babies born on it on average (2000–2014).