Humphry Davy
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Humphry Davy

British chemist

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in these separations, inventing the new field of electrochemistry. Davy is also credited with discovering clathrate hydrates.

Humphry Davy was born on Thursday, 17. December 1778.
That was day 351 of the year 1778.

Past away on Freitag May 29, 1829

Age when dead:
50 Jahre 5 Monate 12 Tage

Next birthday would be:
Thursday December 17, 1829

Humphry Davy is already dead since:
196 Jahre 5 Monate 24 Tage

Humphry Davy was alive for 18425 days.
Humphry Davy is already dead for 71765 days.
Difference: 53340 days (146,04 years).

Humphry Davy has the same birthday like
Joseph Henry, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Peter Snell

The death date of Humphry Davy is the birthday of
Rupert Everett, Halvor Egner Granerud and John F. Kennedy

Who has the same birthday as Humphry Davy?

December 17 is also the birthday of:


Same vintage - 1778


Did you know? Humphry Davy is ...

Astrology

Zodiac

♐ Sagittarius

(November 23, 1778 - December 21, 1778)

Life Number

7

(Likeable, loving, changeable)

Zodiac sign

Dog

(November 23, 1778 - December 21, 1778)

Birthstone

Blue Topaz

(Communication, wisdom, calm)

Age in absolute numbers

1.591.920.000 Seconds
26.532.000 Minutes
442.200 Hours
18.425 Days
2.632 Weeks
2963 Months
50 Years
5.04 Decades
0.5 Centuries

On February 10, 2028 would be Humphry Davy exactly 91000 days old.
On February 10, 2028 would be Humphry Davy exactly 13000 weeks old.

By the way: Since you are here you are getting seconds older 😉

Milestones

With 50 years alive you reached these milestones:

Sleeping

6.142 days

A human spends about one third of their life sleeping. That’s an average of around 6.142 hours per day. At your age of 50 years, that equals approximately 6.142 days (16,81 years).

Eat & Drink

768 days

The average person spends about 1 hour a day eating and drinking. At 50 years, you have therefore spent approximately 768 days eating. (2,10 years).

Toilet visits

384 days

The average person spends about 30 minutes on the toilet every day. That's a total of 384 days (1,05 years).

Wait

640 days

The average person spends about 30 minutes on the toilet every day. That's a total of 640 days (1,75 years).

Laugh

77 days

We laugh for about six minutes a day. That's actually far too less. That's a total of 77 days (0,21 years).

Brush teeth

51 days

We laugh for about six minutes a day. That's actually far too less. That's a total of 51 days (0,14 years).

Work

4.990 days

We laugh for about six minutes a day. That's actually far too less. That's a total of 4.990 days (13,66 years).




Name Zahl Beschreibung
Breaths 477.576.000 Approximately 18 Breaths per minute
Heartbeats 1.989.900.000 Approximately 50-100 heartbeats per minute, depending on your lifestyle. We'll take the average at 75.
Blink 397.980.000 A human blinks roughly 15 times per minute.
Cough 276.375 A human has an average of 15 coughs per day.
Colds 101 A person gets about 2 colds per year.
Sweat produced 2.764 A person produces approximately 0.5–1.5 liters of sweat per day, depending on lifestyle. We'll take the average at 1 liter per day.
Fart gases produced (in Liters) 18.425 A person farts approximately 12 times a day, producing almost 0.8 liters of gas.
Flies swatted 353 We swat 7 flies per year.
Mosquitoes killed 908 We kill approximately 18 mosquitoes per year.
Red blood cells formed 368.500.000.000.000 A person produces approximately 20 billion red blood cells per day.
Hair grown (in mm) 6.080 Our hair grows approximately 0.33mm per day.
Fingernails grown (in mm) 2.106 Fingernails grow approximately 0.8mm per week.
Cookies eaten 21.926 We eat approximately 35,000 cookies in our lifetime.
Bouts of vomiting 202 A person vomits approximately four times a year, depending on lifestyle.

Information is based on statistical average values of a person.

Travelled distances

According to statistical averages, you have walked 66.330 kilometers in your life...


... that corresponds to 1,66 orbits of the Earth...


... 6,08 moon orbits.


... and 3,11 Mars orbit on foot.



66.330 kilometers means:

2.522 years with a snail 🐌 (at 3m/h).
494 days on a donkey 🫏 (at 5,6km/h).
345 days on a Skateboard 🛹 (at 8km/h).
92 days travel with a subway train 🚇 (at 30km/h).
3 days on a plane ✈️ (at 800km/h)
2,37 hours on a Spaceshuttle 🚀 (at 28.000km/h)
65,41 minutes with spaceship Voyager 1 🚀 (at 60840km/h)
5,77 minutes with Parker Space Probe - the fastest object made by humans 🚀 (at 690000km/h)

and

2,24 days sonic speed (at 1234,8 km/h)
0,22 seconds light speed (at 1,08 Mrd km/h)

Astronomy

During the lifetime of Humphry Davy ...

... the Moon has orbited Earth 674 times.
... Mercury has orbited Sun 209,45 times.
... Venus has orbited Sun 82,00 times.
... Earth has orbited Sun 50,44 times.
... Mars has orbited Sun 26,82 times.
... Jupiter has orbited Sun 4,26 times.
... Saturn has orbited Sun 1,71 times.
... Uranus has orbited Sun 0,60 times.
... Neptune has orbited Sun 0,31 times.
... Pluto has orbited Sun 0,20 times.

My special birthdays

Birthday Year Weekday Date Candles blown
10. 1788 Wednesday December 17, 1788 55
18. 1796 Saturday December 17, 1796 171
20. 1798 Monday December 17, 1798 210
25. 1803 Saturday December 17, 1803 325
30. 1808 Saturday December 17, 1808 465
40. 1818 Thursday December 17, 1818 820
50. 1828 Wednesday December 17, 1828 1275
60. 1838 Monday December 17, 1838 1830
70. 1848 Sunday December 17, 1848 2485
80. 1858 Friday December 17, 1858 3240
90. 1868 Thursday December 17, 1868 4095
100. 1878 Tuesday December 17, 1878 5050
110. 1888 Monday December 17, 1888 6105
120. 1898 Saturday December 17, 1898 7260
130. 1908 Thursday December 17, 1908 8515
140. 1918 Tuesday December 17, 1918 9870
150. 1928 Monday December 17, 1928 11325
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Birthday in numbers

Decimal:
17 • 12 • 1778
Binary:
10001 • 1100 • 11011110010
Hexadecimal:
11 • c • 6f2
Octal:
21 • 14 • 3362
Roman:
XVII • XII • MDCCLXXVIII
Morsecode:
·−−−− −−··· ·−·−·− ·−−−− ··−−− ·−·−·− ·−−−− −−··· −−··· −−−··
Numbers to letters:
bh • bc • bhhi
Cross sum:
34
Factor product:
362712
Birthday in words:
seventeen • twelve • one thousand seven hundred seventy eight

Historical Events

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Geburtstags-FAQ von Humphry Davy

How many birthday candles did Humphry Davy blow out so far?

» At 50 years, Humphry Davy has already blown out 1275 birthday candles, if you add up all the birthdays.

When will Humphry Davy be twice as old as today?

» Humphry Davy ist 18.425 days old today. On 08.11.1879 Humphry Davy will be twice as old as today. Humphry Davy will then be 100 Jahre und 10 Monate years old.

When will Humphry Davy be half as old as today?

» On 08.03.1804 Humphry Davy was half of age today. Back then Humphry Davy were 25 Jahre und 2 Monate years old.

When was Humphry Davy conceived? - Time of your conception

» That's an interesting question. Let's try it this way: A pregnancy lasts an average of 268 days. If we subtract 268 days from the day of your birth (24.03.1778), we get the 24.03.1778. However, this statement is not very meaningful, since only 3% of pregnant women actually give birth after 268 days. Most pregnant women give birth within a time window of 10 days from the actual due date. Therefore, Humphry Davy were conceived between 14.03.1778 and 03.04.1778.

How many prime number birthdays has Humphry Davy had so far?

» At 50 years old, Humphry Davy has already celebrated 15 prime number birthdays (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47).

How many special birthdays have I had so far?

» At 50 years, you've already celebrated 4 special number birthdays (11, 22, 33, 44). To be able to celebrate 10 special number birthdays, you have to live to be 111. But you still have some time until then. You'll celebrate your 111th birthday on 17.12.1889. You can find out more on the page with all birthdays.

How old was Humphry Davy at the turn of the millennium in 2000?

» Humphry Davy was born exactly 80732 days before the turn of the millennium in January 1, 2000. At that time, Humphry Davy was 221 years and 0 months old.

Oldest person in the world

Humphry Davy is currently 72 years younger (44711 days) than the officially oldest person in the world, the Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment. She was born on February 21, 1875 and died on August 4, 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.

Humphry Davy is today already 53340 days longer dead than he/she was alive.

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