A Friday
Born on December 23, 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
Friday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Earth Ox
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
76 years
Famous people born on December 23, 1949
Ivan Kostov
Bulgarian politician, economist, prime minister
Gilbert Dussier
Luxembourgian footballer (1949–1979)
Born the same week

Thomas Sankara
December 21 · President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
Nawaz Sharif
December 25 · former prime minister of Pakistan
Mikhail Boyarsky
December 26 · Soviet and Russian actor and singer
José Ramos-Horta
December 26 · 2nd and 5th President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
December 23, 1949 was a Friday. Someone born on December 23, 1949 is a Capricorn. Someone born on December 23, 1949 is 76 years old today and has lived about 28,076 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on December 23
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Joseph Smith
1805 · American religious leader and founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
Gift ideas for someone born in 1949
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 77
- “Born in 1949” gifts
- Wine from 1949
- Books about 1949
- A newspaper from 1949
- Coin set from 1949
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Questions about December 23, 1949
- What day of the week was December 23, 1949?
- December 23, 1949 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on December 23, 1949?
- Someone born on December 23, 1949 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 23, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, December 23, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Ox.
- How old is someone born on December 23, 1949?
- Someone born on December 23, 1949 is 76 years old today and has lived about 28,076 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for December?
- The birthstone for December is turquoise.
- What was the moon phase on December 23, 1949?
- On December 23, 1949 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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