A Saturday
Born on August 8, 1942?
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
Saturday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
84 years
Famous people born on August 8, 1942
Born the same week
Sergio Ramírez
August 5 · Nicaraguan novelist and journalist, vice president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and winner of the 2017 Cervantes Prize
George Jung
August 6 · major player in the cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s
Sigfried Held
August 7 · German association football player and manager
Caetano Veloso
August 7 · Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist
Miguel Littin
August 9 · Chilean film director, film producer and writer
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 8, 1942 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 8, 1942 is a Leo. Someone born on August 8, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,770 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on August 8
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Emiliano Zapata
1879 · Mexican revolutionary

Ernest Lawrence
1901 · American nuclear physicist

Paul Dirac
1902 · British theoretical physicist
Questions about August 8, 1942
- What day of the week was August 8, 1942?
- August 8, 1942 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 8, 1942?
- Someone born on August 8, 1942 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 8, 1942?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 8, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 8, 1942?
- Someone born on August 8, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,770 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 8, 1942?
- On August 8, 1942 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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