A Thursday
Born on January 6, 1944?
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
Thursday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Water Goat
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
82 years
Famous people born on January 6, 1944
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss immunologist (born 1944)
Gabor Maté
Hungarian-Canadian physician (1944–)
Pak Li-sup
North Korean footballer
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 6, 1944 was a Thursday. Someone born on January 6, 1944 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 6, 1944 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,254 days. People born in 1944 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on January 6
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Joan of Arc
1412 · French folk heroine , military leader who crowned Charles VII and Roman Catholic saint, canonized 500 years after her death

Heinrich Schliemann
1822 · German businessman and archaeologist

Eduard Bernstein
1850 · German politician and theorist

Kahlil Gibran
1883 · Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter
Gift ideas for someone born in 1944
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 83
- “Born in 1944” gifts
- Wine from 1944
- Books about 1944
- A newspaper from 1944
- Coin set from 1944
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Questions about January 6, 1944
- What day of the week was January 6, 1944?
- January 6, 1944 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 6, 1944?
- Someone born on January 6, 1944 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 6, 1944?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 6, 1944 falls in the year of the Water Goat.
- How old is someone born on January 6, 1944?
- Someone born on January 6, 1944 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,254 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 6, 1944?
- On January 6, 1944 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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