A Tuesday
Born on August 5, 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
Leo
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Water Dragon
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
74 years
Famous people born on August 5, 1952
Tamás Faragó
Hungarian water polo player and coach
Louis Walsh
Irish music manager and television personality
Wu Nien-jen
Taiwanese scriptwriter, film director and author
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 5, 1952 was a Tuesday. Someone born on August 5, 1952 is a Leo. Someone born on August 5, 1952 is 74 years old today and has lived about 27,120 days. People born in 1952 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 5
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Vitus Bering
1681 · Danish-born Russian explorer

Guy de Maupassant
1850 · French writer

Neil Armstrong
1930 · American astronaut and lunar explorer
Gift ideas for someone born in 1952
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 75
- “Born in 1952” gifts
- Wine from 1952
- Books about 1952
- A newspaper from 1952
- Coin set from 1952
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Questions about August 5, 1952
- What day of the week was August 5, 1952?
- August 5, 1952 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 5, 1952?
- Someone born on August 5, 1952 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 5, 1952?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 5, 1952 falls in the year of the Water Dragon.
- How old is someone born on August 5, 1952?
- Someone born on August 5, 1952 is 74 years old today and has lived about 27,120 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1952?
- People born in 1952 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 5, 1952?
- On August 5, 1952 the moon was a Full Moon.
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