A Saturday
Born on October 18, 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
Saturday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Fire Pig
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
79 years
Famous people born on October 18, 1947
Stefan Aladzhov
Bulgarian footballer
Oscar Julio Vian Morales
Guatemalan archbishop (1947-2018)
Jury Chaščavacki
Belarusian filmmaker
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 18, 1947 was a Saturday. Someone born on October 18, 1947 is a Libra. Someone born on October 18, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 28,873 days. People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on October 18
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Eugene of Savoy
1663 · prince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire

Henri Bergson
1859 · French philosopher

Félix Houphouët-Boigny
1905 · First President of Ivory Coast, from to

Pierre Trudeau
1919 · Prime Minister of Canada from to and to

Chuck Berry
1926 · American musician

Martina Navratilova
1956 · Czech-American tennis player
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 October 18, 1947
- What day of the week was October 18, 1947?
- October 18, 1947 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 18, 1947?
- Someone born on October 18, 1947 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 18, 1947?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 18, 1947 falls in the year of the Fire Pig.
- How old is someone born on October 18, 1947?
- Someone born on October 18, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 28,873 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1947?
- People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 18, 1947?
- On October 18, 1947 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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