A Monday
Born on October 20, 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
Monday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Fire Pig
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
79 years
Famous people born on October 20, 1947
Mamadou Keïta
Malian football manager (1947-2008)
Abdul Hadi Awang
President of Malaysian Islamic Party
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 20, 1947 was a Monday. Someone born on October 20, 1947 is a Libra. Someone born on October 20, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 28,871 days. People born in 1947 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on October 20
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Christopher Wren
1632 · English architect

Arthur Rimbaud
1854 · French poet

John Dewey
1859 · American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

Don Stephen Senanayake
1884 · Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

James Chadwick
1891 · English physicist , who discovered the neutron in

Jomo Kenyatta
1893 · first Prime Minister and President of self-governing Kenya
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 20, 1947
- What day of the week was October 20, 1947?
- October 20, 1947 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 20, 1947?
- Someone born on October 20, 1947 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 20, 1947?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 20, 1947 falls in the year of the Fire Pig.
- How old is someone born on October 20, 1947?
- Someone born on October 20, 1947 is 79 years old today and has lived about 28,871 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 20, 1947?
- On October 20, 1947 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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