A Saturday
Born on August 17, 1946?
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
Saturday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐕 Chinese zodiac
Fire Dog
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
80 years
Famous people born on August 17, 1946
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 17, 1946 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 17, 1946 is a Leo. Someone born on August 17, 1946 is 80 years old today and has lived about 29,300 days. People born in 1946 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 17
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Pierre de Fermat
1601 · French mathematician and lawyer

John III Sobieski
1629 · King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

Menilek II
1844 · Emperor of Ethiopia and King of Shewa

Samuel Goldwyn
1882 · Polish-American film producer

Marcus Garvey
1887 · Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur

Mae West
1893 · American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer

Jiang Zemin
1926 · former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

V. S. Naipaul
1932 · Trinidadian-British writer

Robert De Niro
1943 · American actor (born )
Questions about August 17, 1946
- What day of the week was August 17, 1946?
- August 17, 1946 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 17, 1946?
- Someone born on August 17, 1946 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 17, 1946?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 17, 1946 falls in the year of the Fire Dog.
- How old is someone born on August 17, 1946?
- Someone born on August 17, 1946 is 80 years old today and has lived about 29,300 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1946?
- People born in 1946 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 17, 1946?
- On August 17, 1946 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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