A Sunday
Born on October 9, 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
Libra
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Earth Ox
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on October 9, 1949
Ángeles Mastretta
Mexican writer
Ottavia Piccolo
Italian actress (born 1949)
Fan Chung
Taiwanese-born American mathematician
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 9, 1949 was a Sunday. Someone born on October 9, 1949 is a Libra. Someone born on October 9, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,151 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on October 9
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Léopold Sédar Senghor
1906 · first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist

Sayyid Qutb
1906 · Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary

John Lennon
1940 · British musician
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 October 9, 1949
- What day of the week was October 9, 1949?
- October 9, 1949 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 9, 1949?
- Someone born on October 9, 1949 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 9, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 9, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Ox.
- How old is someone born on October 9, 1949?
- Someone born on October 9, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,151 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 9, 1949?
- On October 9, 1949 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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