What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1944?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1944 falls in the year of the Water Goat.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 1944?

On January 1, 1944 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.

A Saturday

Born on January 1, 1944?

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📅 Weekday
Saturday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Water Goat
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
82 years

Famous people born on January 1, 1944

Omar al-Bashir

President of Sudan from 1989 to 2019

Aguila Saleh Issa

Libyan politician

Abdul Fatah Younis

Libyan militarry officer (1944-2011)

Muhammad Naji al-Otari

Syrian politician

Abdul Hamid

president of Bangladesh in 2013-2023

Zafarullah Khan Jamali

15th Prime Minister of Pakistan (1944–2020)

Goukouni Oueddei

Chadian politician

Mary Therese Kalin Arroyo

New Zealand botanist

Ján Čarnogurský

Slovak politician (born 1944)

Fatima Abdel Mahmoud

politician

Adolfo Calisto

Portuguese footballer (1944–2024)

Awad Hamed al-Bandar

Iraqi politician (1945-2007)

What happened that week

WWII:
Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa.
Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat.
WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

January 1, 1944 was a Saturday. Someone born on January 1, 1944 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1944 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,259 days. People born in 1944 belong to the Silent Generation.

Also born on January 1

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Alexander VI
1431 · pope of the Catholic Church – from the Borgia family
Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist
Huldrych Zwingli
1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder
Hong Xiuquan
1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion
Sándor Petőfi
1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
George Washington Carver
1864 · African American botanist and inventor
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
Ousmane Sembène
1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author

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Questions about January 1, 1944

What day of the week was January 1, 1944?: January 1, 1944 was a Saturday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1944?: Someone born on January 1, 1944 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1944?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1944 falls in the year of the Water Goat.
How old is someone born on January 1, 1944?: Someone born on January 1, 1944 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,259 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1944?: People born in 1944 belong to the Silent Generation.
What is the birthstone for January?: The birthstone for January is garnet.
What was the moon phase on January 1, 1944?: On January 1, 1944 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.

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