What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 9, 1942?

In the Chinese zodiac, August 9, 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 9, 1942?

On August 9, 1942 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

A Sunday

Born on August 9, 1942?

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📅 Weekday
Sunday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Water Horse
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
84 years

Famous people born on August 9, 1942

Miguel Littin

Chilean film director, film producer and writer

Born the same week

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

Carlos Monzón

August 7 · Argentine boxer (1942-1995)

Koji Funamoto

August 12 · Japanese association football player

What happened that day

Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay, by British forces.
Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kyiv. Against all odds, they win 5–3. Eight of them are later arrested and tortured, and at least four are killed.
Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, with the city still under siege.

Also that week

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.
WWII: In Washington, D.C., six German saboteurs are executed for their role in the failed mission Operation Pastorius (2 others are cooperative and receive sentences of life imprisonment instead, being freed a few years after the end of the war).

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

August 9, 1942 was a Sunday. Someone born on August 9, 1942 is a Leo. Someone born on August 9, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,769 days. People born in 1942 belong to the Silent Generation.

Also born on August 9

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

John Dryden
1631 · 17th-century English poet and playwright
Amedeo Avogadro
1776 · Italian scientist
Jean Piaget
1896 · Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic
Rod Laver
1938 · Australian tennis player

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Questions about August 9, 1942

What day of the week was August 9, 1942?: August 9, 1942 was a Sunday.
What star sign is someone born on August 9, 1942?: Someone born on August 9, 1942 is a Leo.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 9, 1942?: In the Chinese zodiac, August 9, 1942 falls in the year of the Water Horse.
How old is someone born on August 9, 1942?: Someone born on August 9, 1942 is 84 years old today and has lived about 30,769 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 9, 1942?: On August 9, 1942 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

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