A Sunday
Born on February 9, 1947?
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
Sunday
♒ Star sign
Aquarius
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Fire Pig
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
79 years
Famous people born on February 9, 1947
Born the same week
Robert Cailliau
February 8 · Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)
Louise Arbour
February 10 · Governor General of Canada
Yukio Hatoyama
February 11 · Prime Minister of Japan from 2009 to 2010
Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
February 12 · religious leader of the Sikh organization Damdami Taksal (1947–1984)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
February 9, 1947 was a Sunday. Someone born on February 9, 1947 is a Aquarius. Someone born on February 9, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 29,124 days. People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on February 9
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Thomas Paine
1737 · American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist

Natsume Sōseki
1867 · Japanese novelist

Gerhard Richter
1932 · German visual artist (b. )

J. M. Coetzee
1940 · South African and Australian writer and scholar (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1947
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 80
- “Born in 1947” gifts
- Wine from 1947
- Books about 1947
- A newspaper from 1947
- Coin set from 1947
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Questions about February 9, 1947
- What day of the week was February 9, 1947?
- February 9, 1947 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on February 9, 1947?
- Someone born on February 9, 1947 is a Aquarius.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for February 9, 1947?
- In the Chinese zodiac, February 9, 1947 falls in the year of the Fire Pig.
- How old is someone born on February 9, 1947?
- Someone born on February 9, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 29,124 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1947?
- People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for February?
- The birthstone for February is amethyst.
- What was the moon phase on February 9, 1947?
- On February 9, 1947 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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