A Thursday
Born on June 27, 1940?
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
Thursday
♋ Star sign
Cancer
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Metal Dragon
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
86 years
Famous people born on June 27, 1940
Born the same week
Shozo Tsugitani
June 25 · Japanese association football player (1940–1978)
Guillermo Castro
June 25 · Salvadoran footballer
Thomas Köhler
June 25 · East German luger
Muhammad Yunus
June 28 · Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
Víctor Erice
June 30 · Spanish film director (born 1940)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
June 27, 1940 was a Thursday. Someone born on June 27, 1940 is a Cancer. Someone born on June 27, 1940 is 86 years old today and has lived about 31,542 days. People born in 1940 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on June 27
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Carl XII of Sweden
1682 · The fifth and last emperor of Sweden

Emma Goldman
1869 · Russian-born American anarchist

Helen Keller
1880 · American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar
Gift ideas for someone born in 1940
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 87
- “Born in 1940” gifts
- Wine from 1940
- Books about 1940
- A newspaper from 1940
- Coin set from 1940
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Questions about June 27, 1940
- What day of the week was June 27, 1940?
- June 27, 1940 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on June 27, 1940?
- Someone born on June 27, 1940 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for June 27, 1940?
- In the Chinese zodiac, June 27, 1940 falls in the year of the Metal Dragon.
- How old is someone born on June 27, 1940?
- Someone born on June 27, 1940 is 86 years old today and has lived about 31,542 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1940?
- People born in 1940 belong to the Silent Generation.
- What is the birthstone for June?
- The birthstone for June is pearl.
- What was the moon phase on June 27, 1940?
- On June 27, 1940 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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