A Tuesday
Born on March 9, 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
Tuesday
♓ Star sign
Pisces
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Earth Rat
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
78 years
Famous people born on March 9, 1948
Emma Bonino
Italian politician (1948–2026)
László Lovász
Hungarian mathematician (1948–)
Tan Kin Lian
Singaporean businessman and social activist (born 1948)
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
March 9, 1948 was a Tuesday. Someone born on March 9, 1948 is a Pisces. Someone born on March 9, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,730 days. People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on March 9
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Amerigo Vespucci
1454 · Florentine explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
1839 · Russian composer

Yuri Gagarin
1934 · Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space

Bobby Fischer
1943 · American chess player
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 9, 1948
- What day of the week was March 9, 1948?
- March 9, 1948 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on March 9, 1948?
- Someone born on March 9, 1948 is a Pisces.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for March 9, 1948?
- In the Chinese zodiac, March 9, 1948 falls in the year of the Earth Rat.
- How old is someone born on March 9, 1948?
- Someone born on March 9, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,730 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 9, 1948?
- On March 9, 1948 the moon was a New Moon.
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