A Wednesday
Born on September 24, 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
Libra
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Fire Pig
🌓 Moon
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
79 years
Famous people born on September 24, 1947
Born the same week

Stephen King
September 21 · American novelist and writer (born 1947)
Jacques-Édouard Alexis
September 21 · Haitian politician
Hernán Larraín
September 21 · Chilean politician
Guðmundur Sigurjónsson
September 25 · Icelandic chess player
Dick Advocaat
September 27 · Dutch association football player and manager
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 24, 1947 was a Wednesday. Someone born on September 24, 1947 is a Libra. Someone born on September 24, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 28,897 days. People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on September 24
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Gerolamo Cardano
1501 · Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer

Alaungpaya
1714 · King of Burma

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 · American writer

Ruhollah Khomeini
1902 · Supreme Leader of Iran from to

Jim Henson
1936 · American puppeteer
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 September 24, 1947
- What day of the week was September 24, 1947?
- September 24, 1947 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 24, 1947?
- Someone born on September 24, 1947 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 24, 1947?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 24, 1947 falls in the year of the Fire Pig.
- How old is someone born on September 24, 1947?
- Someone born on September 24, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 28,897 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1947?
- People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for September?
- The birthstone for September is sapphire.
- What was the moon phase on September 24, 1947?
- On September 24, 1947 the moon was a First Quarter.
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