What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 5, 1942?

In the Chinese zodiac, August 5, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.

What is the birthstone for August?

The birthstone for August is peridot.

What was the moon phase on August 5, 1942?

On August 5, 1942 the moon was a Last Quarter.

A Wednesday

Born on August 5, 1942?

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📅 Weekday
Wednesday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
84 years

Famous people born on August 5, 1942

Sergio Ramírez

Nicaraguan novelist and journalist, vice president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and winner of the 2017 Cervantes Prize

Osvaldo Padilla

apostolic nuncio

Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez

Costa Rican catholic bishop (1942-2013)

Born the same week

Isabel Allende

August 2 · Chilean writer (born 1942)

Sigfried Held

August 7 · German association football player and manager

Caetano Veloso

August 7 · Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist

What happened that day

WWII: German forces of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth resume their advance and reach Abganerovo, 70 km southwest of Stalingrad. They are stopped by the Soviet 64th Army under General Vasily Chuikov, who defend the southern approach to Stalingrad.

Also that week

WWII: Operation Letica: An assassination attempt on Serbian fascist Minister of Finance Dušan Letica, by a group Yugoslav Resistance fighters, fails.
15 – WWII: Operation Pedestal – A British convoy of 14 merchant ships with a massive escort of two battleships, 4 aircraft carriers, 7 cruisers, 32 destroyers and smaller ships commanded by Admiral Edward Neville Syfret, sets sail to Malta under relentless attacks by day and night from enemy submarines, aircraft and Axis surface forces. The 55,000 tons of food and fuel (particularly from oil tanker ) delivered by this convoy saves Malta from surrender and allows Malta-based aircraft and submarines to resume their attacks against Rommel's supply lines, although over 500 British sea- and airmen are killed and many ships (including carrier HMS Eagle (1918)) are lost.
WWII: Guadalcanal campaign – The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps start the first American offensive of the war, with an amphibious landing on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands.
WWII: Battle of Savo Island: The Japanese Imperial Navy under Admiral Gunichi Mikawa wins a spectacular victory over the US Navy and the Australian Navy at Savo Island. Five cruisers and one destroyer are sunk, Mikawa's decision to withdraw under cover of the night rather than attempt to destroy the Allied invasion transports is primarily because of a possible Allied carrier strike against his fleet.
WWII: Allied North Atlantic convoy SC 94 loses 10 ships, as the first to be heavily attacked by U-boats resuming mid-Atlantic wolf pack attacks, through the climactic winter of 1942–43.

What happened that day

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August 5, 1942 was a Wednesday. Someone born on August 5, 1942 is a Leo. Someone born on August 5, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,773 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.

Also born on August 5

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Vitus Bering
1681 · Danish-born Russian explorer
Guy de Maupassant
1850 · French writer
Neil Armstrong
1930 · American astronaut and lunar explorer

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Questions about August 5, 1942

What day of the week was August 5, 1942?: August 5, 1942 was a Wednesday.
What star sign is someone born on August 5, 1942?: Someone born on August 5, 1942 is a Leo.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 5, 1942?: In the Chinese zodiac, August 5, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
How old is someone born on August 5, 1942?: Someone born on August 5, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,773 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1942?: People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
What is the birthstone for August?: The birthstone for August is peridot.
What was the moon phase on August 5, 1942?: On August 5, 1942 the moon was a Last Quarter.

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