A Wednesday
Born on December 29, 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
Wednesday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Earth Rat
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on December 29, 1948
Born the same week
Gérard Depardieu
December 27 · French actor (born 1948)
Viktor Afanasyev
December 31 · Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and military pilot
İbrahim Kaypakkaya
January 1 · Turkish Marxist–Leninist revolutionary (1949-1973)
Ayşe Erzan
January 1 · Turkish physicist (born 1949)
Maggie Gobran
January 1 · Egyptian charity fundraiser
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
December 29, 1948 was a Wednesday. Someone born on December 29, 1948 is a Capricorn. Someone born on December 29, 1948 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,435 days. People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on December 29
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Elizabeth I of Russia
1709 · sixth Empress of Russia from to (lived - )

William Ewart Gladstone
1809 · British Liberal prime minister

Pau Casals
1876 · Spanish cellist, conductor and composer
Gift ideas for someone born in 1948
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 78
- “Born in 1948” gifts
- Wine from 1948
- Books about 1948
- A newspaper from 1948
- Coin set from 1948
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Questions about December 29, 1948
- What day of the week was December 29, 1948?
- December 29, 1948 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on December 29, 1948?
- Someone born on December 29, 1948 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 29, 1948?
- In the Chinese zodiac, December 29, 1948 falls in the year of the Earth Rat.
- How old is someone born on December 29, 1948?
- Someone born on December 29, 1948 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,435 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1948?
- People born in 1948 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for December?
- The birthstone for December is turquoise.
- What was the moon phase on December 29, 1948?
- On December 29, 1948 the moon was a New Moon.
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