A Thursday
Born on October 7, 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
Thursday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Earth Rat
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
78 years
Famous people born on October 7, 1948
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Mao Chi-kuo
October 4 · Taiwanese politician
Joseph Bruyère
October 5 · Belgian racing cyclist
Claude Jade
October 8 · French actress (1948-2006)
Gottfried Helnwein
October 8 · Austrian-Irish visual artist (born 1948)
Baldwin Spencer
October 8 · Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
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Calistrat Cuțov
October 10 · Romanian boxer (1948–2025)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 7, 1948 was a Thursday. Someone born on October 7, 1948 is a Libra. Someone born on October 7, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,518 days. People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on October 7
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.
Niels Bohr
1885 · Danish physicist
Heinrich Himmler
1900 · German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust
Desmond Tutu
1931 · South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Vladimir Putin
1952 · President of the Russian Federation
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 October 7, 1948
- What day of the week was October 7, 1948?
- October 7, 1948 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 7, 1948?
- Someone born on October 7, 1948 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 7, 1948?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 7, 1948 falls in the year of the Earth Rat.
- How old is someone born on October 7, 1948?
- Someone born on October 7, 1948 is 78 years old today and has lived about 28,518 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1948?
- People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 7, 1948?
- On October 7, 1948 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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