A Thursday
Born on July 7, 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
Cancer
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Earth Ox
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on July 7, 1949
Born the same week
Horst Seehofer
July 4 · German politician (CSU) and former Federal Minister of the Interior (born 1949)
Slavenka Drakulić
July 4 · Croatian journalist and novelist (1949–2026)
Mohamed Akid
July 5 · Tunisian association football player (1949-1979)
Noli de Castro
July 6 · Filipino broadcaster; Vice President of the Philippines from 2004 to 2010
Raoul Cédras
July 9 · Haitian Junta leader
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
July 7, 1949 was a Thursday. Someone born on July 7, 1949 is a Cancer. Someone born on July 7, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,245 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on July 7
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Gustav Mahler
1860 · Austrian late-Romantic composer

Vittorio De Sica
1901 · Italian film director

Robert A. Heinlein
1907 · American author and aeronautical engineer
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 July 7, 1949
- What day of the week was July 7, 1949?
- July 7, 1949 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on July 7, 1949?
- Someone born on July 7, 1949 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for July 7, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, July 7, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Ox.
- How old is someone born on July 7, 1949?
- Someone born on July 7, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,245 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for July?
- The birthstone for July is ruby.
- What was the moon phase on July 7, 1949?
- On July 7, 1949 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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