A Thursday
Born on March 17, 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
Thursday
♓ Star sign
Pisces
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Earth Ox
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on March 17, 1949
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
March 17, 1949 was a Thursday. Someone born on March 17, 1949 is a Pisces. Someone born on March 17, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,357 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on March 17
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1537 · Japanese samurai and daimyo

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
1920 · President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and first President of Bangladesh

Rudolf Nureyev
1938 · Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
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 March 17, 1949
- What day of the week was March 17, 1949?
- March 17, 1949 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on March 17, 1949?
- Someone born on March 17, 1949 is a Pisces.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for March 17, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, March 17, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Ox.
- How old is someone born on March 17, 1949?
- Someone born on March 17, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,357 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for March?
- The birthstone for March is aquamarine.
- What was the moon phase on March 17, 1949?
- On March 17, 1949 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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