What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1940?

In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1940 falls in the year of the Metal Dragon.

What is the birthstone for August?

The birthstone for August is peridot.

What was the moon phase on August 4, 1940?

On August 4, 1940 the moon was a New Moon.

A Sunday

Born on August 4, 1940?

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📅 Weekday
Sunday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Metal Dragon
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
86 years

Famous people born on August 4, 1940

Abdurrahman Wahid

4th President of the Republic of Indonesia (1940–2009)

Jamshed Karimov

tajikistani politician

Born the same week

Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

August 1 · Iranian writer and actor

Martin Sheen

August 3 · American actor (born 1940)

Talal Maddah

August 5 · Saudi musician (1940–2000)

Jean-Luc Dehaene

August 7 · Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999 (1940–2014)

What happened that day

U.S. Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.

Also that week

The Lithuanian SSR is annexed into the Soviet Union, followed by the Latvian SSR on August 5 and the Estonian SSR August 6, just seven weeks after their occupation. Ethnic Germans will be deported to Germany.
19 – WWII: The Italian conquest of British Somaliland is completed.
WWII: British submarine is sunk off the coast of Norway
WWII: German general Wilhelm Keitel signs the Aufbau Ost directive, which eventually leads to the invasion of the Soviet Union.
WWII: British armed merchant cruiser is torpedoed off Malin Head, Ireland, by German submarine U-56.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

August 4, 1940 was a Sunday. Someone born on August 4, 1940 is a Leo. Someone born on August 4, 1940 is 86 years old today and has lived about 31,504 days. People born in 1940 belong to the Silent Generation.

Also born on August 4

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 · British Romantic poet
William Rowan Hamilton
1805 · Irish mathematician and astronomer
Knut Hamsun
1859 · Norwegian novelist
Louis Armstrong
1901 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
Yasser Arafat
1929 · Palestinian political leader and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority
Barack Obama
1961 · 44th President of the United States

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Questions about August 4, 1940

What day of the week was August 4, 1940?: August 4, 1940 was a Sunday.
What star sign is someone born on August 4, 1940?: Someone born on August 4, 1940 is a Leo.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1940?: In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1940 falls in the year of the Metal Dragon.
How old is someone born on August 4, 1940?: Someone born on August 4, 1940 is 86 years old today and has lived about 31,504 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1940?: People born in 1940 belong to the Silent Generation.
What is the birthstone for August?: The birthstone for August is peridot.
What was the moon phase on August 4, 1940?: On August 4, 1940 the moon was a New Moon.

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