A Sunday
Born on March 23, 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
Aries
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Fire Pig
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
79 years
Famous people born on March 23, 1947
Koyagialo Ngbase te Gerengo Louis Alphonse
Congolese politician
Ray Phiri
South African jazz musician (1947–2017)
Born the same week

Ali Abdullah Saleh
March 21 · President of North Yemen (1978–1990) and Yemen (1990–2012)
Elton John
March 25 · British singer, songwriter and musician (born 1947)
Ibrahim al-Jaafari
March 25 · Prime Minister of Iraq from 2005 to 2006
Subhash Kak
March 26 · Indian computer scientist
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
March 23, 1947 was a Sunday. Someone born on March 23, 1947 is a Aries. Someone born on March 23, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 29,082 days. People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on March 23
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Pierre-Simon Laplace
1749 · French mathematician and astronomer

Emmy Noether
1882 · German Jewish mathematician

Akira Kurosawa
1910 · Japanese filmmaker

Wernher von Braun
1912 · German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect
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 23, 1947
- What day of the week was March 23, 1947?
- March 23, 1947 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on March 23, 1947?
- Someone born on March 23, 1947 is a Aries.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for March 23, 1947?
- In the Chinese zodiac, March 23, 1947 falls in the year of the Fire Pig.
- How old is someone born on March 23, 1947?
- Someone born on March 23, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 29,082 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 23, 1947?
- On March 23, 1947 the moon was a New Moon.
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