A Saturday
Born on March 6, 1948?
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
Pisces
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Earth Rat
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
78 years
Famous people born on March 6, 1948
Born the same week
Jackie Mittoo
March 3 · Jamaican-Canadian keyboardist, songwriter and musical director
Eddy Grant
March 5 · British singer
Josip Pejaković
March 5 · Yugoslavian and Bosnian and Herzegovinan actor and writer
Emma Bonino
March 9 · Italian politician (1948–2026)
László Lovász
March 9 · Hungarian mathematician (1948–)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
March 6, 1948 was a Saturday. Someone born on March 6, 1948 is a Pisces. Someone born on March 6, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,733 days. People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on March 6
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jakob Fugger
1459 · German merchant

Michelangelo
1475 · Italian artist and architect

Humayun
1508 · second Mughal emperor from to and to

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1844 · Russian composer

Will Eisner
1917 · American cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur

Gabriel García Márquez
1927 · Colombian writer and Nobel laureate

Valentina Tereshkova
1937 · Russian cosmonaut and pilot, first woman to have flown in space (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1948
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 79
- “Born in 1948” gifts
- Wine from 1948
- Books about 1948
- A newspaper from 1948
- Coin set from 1948
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Questions about March 6, 1948
- What day of the week was March 6, 1948?
- March 6, 1948 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on March 6, 1948?
- Someone born on March 6, 1948 is a Pisces.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for March 6, 1948?
- In the Chinese zodiac, March 6, 1948 falls in the year of the Earth Rat.
- How old is someone born on March 6, 1948?
- Someone born on March 6, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,733 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1948?
- People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for March?
- The birthstone for March is aquamarine.
- What was the moon phase on March 6, 1948?
- On March 6, 1948 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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