What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1945?

In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1945 falls in the year of the Wood Rooster.

What is the birthstone for August?

The birthstone for August is peridot.

What was the moon phase on August 4, 1945?

On August 4, 1945 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

A Saturday

Born on August 4, 1945?

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📅 Weekday
Saturday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐓 Chinese zodiac
Wood Rooster
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
81 years

Famous people born on August 4, 1945

Tom Marsters

New Zealand politician

Frank Hansen

Norwegian rower

Esther Anderson

Jamaican filmmaker, photographer and actress

Born the same week

George Saitoti

August 3 · Kenyan politician (1945-2012)

Jorge Lara Castro

August 5 · Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs

Nils Torvalds

August 7 · Finnish broadcast journalist, writer and politician, former Member of European Parliament

What happened that week

WWII: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima – United States Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops a uranium-235 atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy", on the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. local time, resulting in between 90,000 and 146,000 deaths.
U.S. President Harry Truman announces the successful atomic bombing of Hiroshima, while he is returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser , in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The United Nations Charter is ratified by the United States Senate.
WWII: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
WWII: Heavy cruiser is hit and sunk by torpedoes from the in the Philippine Sea. Some 900 survivors jump into the sea and are adrift for up to four days. Nearly 600 die before help arrives. Captain Charles B. McVay III of the cruiser is later court-martialed and convicted; in 2000, he is posthumously exonerated.
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What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

August 4, 1945 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 4, 1945 is a Leo. Someone born on August 4, 1945 is 81 years old today and has lived about 29,678 days. People born in 1945 belong to the Silent Generation.

Also born on August 4

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 · British Romantic poet
William Rowan Hamilton
1805 · Irish mathematician and astronomer
Knut Hamsun
1859 · Norwegian novelist
Louis Armstrong
1901 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer
Yasser Arafat
1929 · Palestinian political leader and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority
Barack Obama
1961 · 44th President of the United States

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Questions about August 4, 1945

What day of the week was August 4, 1945?: August 4, 1945 was a Saturday.
What star sign is someone born on August 4, 1945?: Someone born on August 4, 1945 is a Leo.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1945?: In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1945 falls in the year of the Wood Rooster.
How old is someone born on August 4, 1945?: Someone born on August 4, 1945 is 81 years old today and has lived about 29,678 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1945?: People born in 1945 belong to the Silent Generation.
What is the birthstone for August?: The birthstone for August is peridot.
What was the moon phase on August 4, 1945?: On August 4, 1945 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

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