A Thursday
Born on August 4, 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
Leo
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Earth Ox
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on August 4, 1949
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
August 1 · Afghan politician, mujahid and drug trafficker (born 1949)
Kurmanbek Bakiyev
August 1 · Kyrgyzstani politician
Keto Losaberidze
August 1 · Soviet archer (1949–2022)
Hassan Hamdy
August 2 · Egyptian footballer
Bertalan Farkas
August 2 · Hungarian cosmonaut
Walid Jumblatt
August 7 · Lebanese politician (born 1949)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 4, 1949 was a Thursday. Someone born on August 4, 1949 is a Leo. Someone born on August 4, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,216 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 4
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 · British Romantic poet

William Rowan Hamilton
1805 · Irish mathematician and astronomer

Knut Hamsun
1859 · Norwegian novelist

Louis Armstrong
1901 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

Yasser Arafat
1929 · Palestinian political leader and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority

Barack Obama
1961 · 44th President of the United States
Questions about August 4, 1949
- What day of the week was August 4, 1949?
- August 4, 1949 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 4, 1949?
- Someone born on August 4, 1949 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Ox.
- How old is someone born on August 4, 1949?
- Someone born on August 4, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,216 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 4, 1949?
- On August 4, 1949 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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