A Monday
Born on August 4, 1941?
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
Monday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐍 Chinese zodiac
Metal Snake
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
85 years
Famous people born on August 4, 1941
Born the same week
Jordi Savall
August 1 · Spanish-Catalan composer, conductor, viol player, and musicologist (born 1941)
Jules A. Hoffmann
August 2 · French biologist
Hage Geingob
August 3 · President of Namibia from 2015 to 2024
Martha Stewart
August 3 · American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)
Leonid Kizim
August 5 · Soviet cosmonaut (1941-2010)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 4, 1941 was a Monday. Someone born on August 4, 1941 is a Leo. Someone born on August 4, 1941 is 85 years old today and has lived about 31,139 days. People born in 1941 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
Gift ideas for someone born in 1941
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 86
- “Born in 1941” gifts
- Wine from 1941
- Books about 1941
- A newspaper from 1941
- Coin set from 1941
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Questions about August 4, 1941
- What day of the week was August 4, 1941?
- August 4, 1941 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 4, 1941?
- Someone born on August 4, 1941 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1941?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1941 falls in the year of the Metal Snake.
- How old is someone born on August 4, 1941?
- Someone born on August 4, 1941 is 85 years old today and has lived about 31,139 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1941?
- People born in 1941 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, 1941?
- On August 4, 1941 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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