A Tuesday
Born on May 11, 1943?
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
Tuesday
♉ Star sign
Taurus
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Water Goat
🌓 Moon
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
83 years
Famous people born on May 11, 1943
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
May 11, 1943 was a Tuesday. Someone born on May 11, 1943 is a Taurus. Someone born on May 11, 1943 is 83 years old today and has lived about 30,494 days. People born in 1943 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on May 11
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Irving Berlin
1888 · American composer and lyricist

Martha Graham
1894 · American dancer and choreographer

Salvador Dalí
1904 · Spanish artist

Mikhail Sholokhov
1905 · Soviet writer

Richard Feynman
1918 · American theoretical physicist

Edsger W. Dijkstra
1930 · Dutch computer scientist
Gift ideas for someone born in 1943
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 84
- “Born in 1943” gifts
- Wine from 1943
- Books about 1943
- A newspaper from 1943
- Coin set from 1943
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Questions about May 11, 1943
- What day of the week was May 11, 1943?
- May 11, 1943 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on May 11, 1943?
- Someone born on May 11, 1943 is a Taurus.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for May 11, 1943?
- In the Chinese zodiac, May 11, 1943 falls in the year of the Water Goat.
- How old is someone born on May 11, 1943?
- Someone born on May 11, 1943 is 83 years old today and has lived about 30,494 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1943?
- People born in 1943 belong to the Silent Generation.
- What is the birthstone for May?
- The birthstone for May is emerald.
- What was the moon phase on May 11, 1943?
- On May 11, 1943 the moon was a First Quarter.
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