A Monday
Born on August 30, 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
Monday
♍ Star sign
Virgo
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Earth Rat
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
78 years
Famous people born on August 30, 1948
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 30, 1948 was a Monday. Someone born on August 30, 1948 is a Virgo. Someone born on August 30, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,556 days. People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 30
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jacques-Louis David
1748 · French painter

Mary Shelley
1797 · English writer

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
1852 · Dutch physical and organic chemist

Ernest Rutherford
1871 · New Zealand physicist

Warren Buffett
1930 · American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
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 August 30, 1948
- What day of the week was August 30, 1948?
- August 30, 1948 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 30, 1948?
- Someone born on August 30, 1948 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 30, 1948?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 30, 1948 falls in the year of the Earth Rat.
- How old is someone born on August 30, 1948?
- Someone born on August 30, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,556 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1948?
- People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 30, 1948?
- On August 30, 1948 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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