A Thursday
Born on August 31, 1950?
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
Virgo
🐅 Chinese zodiac
Metal Tiger
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
76 years
Famous people born on August 31, 1950
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Antony Gormley
August 30 · British sculptor (born 1950)
Li Zhanshu
August 30 · 10th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
Mikhhail Fradkov
September 1 · Russian politician
Vagit Alekperov
September 1 · Russian businessman
Dudu Georgescu
September 1 · Romanian footballer
Jóhannes Eðvaldsson
September 3 · Icelandic football player (1950-2021)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 31, 1950 was a Thursday. Someone born on August 31, 1950 is a Virgo. Someone born on August 31, 1950 is 76 years old today and has lived about 27,825 days. People born in 1950 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 31
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Hermann von Helmholtz
1821 · German physicist and physiologist

Maria Montessori
1870 · Italian physician and educator

Edward Thorndike
1874 · American psychologist
Gift ideas for someone born in 1950
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- Wine from 1950
- Books about 1950
- A newspaper from 1950
- Coin set from 1950
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Questions about August 31, 1950
- What day of the week was August 31, 1950?
- August 31, 1950 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 31, 1950?
- Someone born on August 31, 1950 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 31, 1950?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 31, 1950 falls in the year of the Metal Tiger.
- How old is someone born on August 31, 1950?
- Someone born on August 31, 1950 is 76 years old today and has lived about 27,825 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1950?
- People born in 1950 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 31, 1950?
- On August 31, 1950 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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