A Wednesday
Born on March 5, 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
Wednesday
♓ Star sign
Pisces
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Fire Pig
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
79 years
Famous people born on March 5, 1947
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Óscar Tabárez
March 3 · Uruguayan football manager and player
Jan Garbarek
March 4 · Norwegian saxophonist and composer (born 1947)
Gunnar Hansen
March 4 · Icelandic-born American actor (1947–2015)
Kazadi Mwamba
March 6 · DR Congolese footballer (1947-1996)
Rubén Suñé
March 7 · Argentine footballer (1947-2019)
Aram I
March 8 · Catholicos of Cilicia
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
March 5, 1947 was a Wednesday. Someone born on March 5, 1947 is a Pisces. Someone born on March 5, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 29,100 days. People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on March 5
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Rosa Luxemburg
1871 · Polish-German Marxist revolutionary

Zhou Enlai
1898 · 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

Jiang Qing
1914 · Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong

Olusegun Obasanjo
1937 · Nigerian president and military leader
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 March 5, 1947
- What day of the week was March 5, 1947?
- March 5, 1947 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on March 5, 1947?
- Someone born on March 5, 1947 is a Pisces.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for March 5, 1947?
- In the Chinese zodiac, March 5, 1947 falls in the year of the Fire Pig.
- How old is someone born on March 5, 1947?
- Someone born on March 5, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 29,100 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1947?
- People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for March?
- The birthstone for March is aquamarine.
- What was the moon phase on March 5, 1947?
- On March 5, 1947 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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