A Tuesday
Born on January 1, 1952?
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
Tuesday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐇 Chinese zodiac
Metal Rabbit
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
74 years
Famous people born on January 1, 1952
Essam Sharaf
Egyptian politician and engineer; Prime Minister of Egypt
İbrahim Tatlıses
Turkish musician (born 1952)
Muhammad Ayyub
Imam of Prophet's Mosque (1952–2016)
Sa'id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani
Saudi Arabian scholar and writer
Shelley McNamara
Irish architect
Mustafa Abdul Jalil
De facto leader of Libya from 2011 to 2012
Robert Beugré Mambé
Ivorian politician
Abbas al-Musawi
Lebanese Shia cleric and co-founder and Secretary General of Hezbollah (1952-1992)
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013
Riek Machar
first vice president of the independent Republic of South Sudan
Mahamadou Issoufou
President of Niger from 2011 to 2021
Cleopas Dlamini
prime Minister of Eswatini
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 1, 1952 was a Tuesday. Someone born on January 1, 1952 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1952 is 74 years old today and has lived about 27,336 days. People born in 1952 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on January 1
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Alexander VI
1431 · pope of the Catholic Church – from the Borgia family

Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist

Huldrych Zwingli
1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder

Hong Xiuquan
1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion

Sándor Petőfi
1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Pierre de Coubertin
1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian

George Washington Carver
1864 · African American botanist and inventor

Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath

Ousmane Sembène
1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author
Questions about January 1, 1952
- What day of the week was January 1, 1952?
- January 1, 1952 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1952?
- Someone born on January 1, 1952 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1952?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1952 falls in the year of the Metal Rabbit.
- How old is someone born on January 1, 1952?
- Someone born on January 1, 1952 is 74 years old today and has lived about 27,336 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1952?
- People born in 1952 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 1, 1952?
- On January 1, 1952 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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