A Monday
Born on August 6, 1945?
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
Monday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐓 Chinese zodiac
Wood Rooster
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
81 years
Famous people born on August 6, 1945
Born the same week
George Saitoti
August 3 · Kenyan politician (1945-2012)
Tom Marsters
August 4 · New Zealand politician
Frank Hansen
August 4 · Norwegian rower
Nils Torvalds
August 7 · Finnish broadcast journalist, writer and politician, former Member of European Parliament
Zurab Sakandelidze
August 9 · Soviet Georgian basketball player (1945–2004)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 6, 1945 was a Monday. Someone born on August 6, 1945 is a Leo. Someone born on August 6, 1945 is 81 years old today and has lived about 29,676 days. People born in 1945 belong to the Silent Generation.
Also born on August 6
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Friedrich List
1789 · German economist

Alexander Fleming
1881 · Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, botanist, and Nobel laureate

Lucille Ball
1911 · American actress

Andy Warhol
1928 · American artist, film director, and producer
Gift ideas for someone born in 1945
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 82
- “Born in 1945” gifts
- Wine from 1945
- Books about 1945
- A newspaper from 1945
- Coin set from 1945
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Questions about August 6, 1945
- What day of the week was August 6, 1945?
- August 6, 1945 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 6, 1945?
- Someone born on August 6, 1945 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 6, 1945?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 6, 1945 falls in the year of the Wood Rooster.
- How old is someone born on August 6, 1945?
- Someone born on August 6, 1945 is 81 years old today and has lived about 29,676 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 6, 1945?
- On August 6, 1945 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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