A Wednesday
Born on January 12, 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
Wednesday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Water Goat
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
82 years
Famous people born on January 12, 1944
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 12, 1944 was a Wednesday. Someone born on January 12, 1944 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 12, 1944 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,248 days. People born in 1944 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on January 12
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Charles Perrault
1628 · French author

Edmund Burke
1729 · Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher

Swami Vivekananda
1863 · Indian Hindu monk and philosopher

Jack London
1876 · American author, journalist and social activist

Hermann Göring
1893 · German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal

Haruki Murakami
1949 · Japanese writer (born )
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 12, 1944
- What day of the week was January 12, 1944?
- January 12, 1944 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 12, 1944?
- Someone born on January 12, 1944 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 12, 1944?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 12, 1944 falls in the year of the Water Goat.
- How old is someone born on January 12, 1944?
- Someone born on January 12, 1944 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,248 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 12, 1944?
- On January 12, 1944 the moon was a Full Moon.
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