A Wednesday
Born on August 17, 2011?
Here's the world on that day. Add a name and a birthplace for the full time capsule: the weather, the sky above your town and what things cost.
📅 Weekday
Wednesday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐇 Chinese zodiac
Metal Rabbit
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
15 years
Famous people born on August 17, 2011
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Also born in August 2011
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 17, 2011 was a Wednesday. Someone born on August 17, 2011 is a Leo. Someone born on August 17, 2011 is 15 years old today and has lived about 5,559 days. People born in 2011 belong to Generation Z.
Also born on August 17
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Pierre de Fermat
1601 · French mathematician and lawyer

John III Sobieski
1629 · King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

Menilek II
1844 · Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Shewa

Samuel Goldwyn
1882 · Polish-American film producer

Marcus Garvey
1887 · Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur

Mae West
1893 · American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer

Jiang Zemin
1926 · former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

V. S. Naipaul
1932 · Trinidadian-British writer

Robert De Niro
1943 · American actor (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 2011
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 16
- “Born in 2011” gifts
- Wine from 2011
- Books about 2011
- A newspaper from 2011
- Coin set from 2011
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Questions about August 17, 2011
- What day of the week was August 17, 2011?
- August 17, 2011 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 17, 2011?
- Someone born on August 17, 2011 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 17, 2011?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 17, 2011 falls in the year of the Metal Rabbit.
- How old is someone born on August 17, 2011?
- Someone born on August 17, 2011 is 15 years old today and has lived about 5,559 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 2011?
- People born in 2011 belong to Generation Z.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 17, 2011?
- On August 17, 2011 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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