A Sunday
Born on January 2, 1949?
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
Sunday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Earth Rat
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on January 2, 1949
Hyenadz Navitski
5th Prime Minister of Belarus 2001–2003
Jean Krier
poet (1949-2013)
Uładzimier Andrejčanka
Belarusian agronomist and politician
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 2, 1949 was a Sunday. Someone born on January 2, 1949 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 2, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,431 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on January 2
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Mehmed IV
1642 · 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Isaac Asimov
1920 · American writer and biochemist
Gift ideas for someone born in 1949
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 78
- “Born in 1949” gifts
- Wine from 1949
- Books about 1949
- A newspaper from 1949
- Coin set from 1949
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Questions about January 2, 1949
- What day of the week was January 2, 1949?
- January 2, 1949 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 2, 1949?
- Someone born on January 2, 1949 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 2, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 2, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Rat.
- How old is someone born on January 2, 1949?
- Someone born on January 2, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,431 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 2, 1949?
- On January 2, 1949 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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