What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1953?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1953 falls in the year of the Water Dragon.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 1953?

On January 1, 1953 the moon was a Full Moon.

A Thursday

Born on January 1, 1953?

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📅 Weekday
Thursday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Water Dragon
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
73 years

Famous people born on January 1, 1953

Mehmed Uzun

Turkish writer of Kurdish ancestry (1953–2007)

Mutaib bin Abdullah

Saudi National Guard officer

Mohammed Alrotayyan

Saudi Arabian journalist

Fahd bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud

Saudi Arabian politician

Hussein Arnous

68th Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic

Alpha Blondy

Ivorian reggae singer

Afonso Dhlakama

Mozambican politician (1953-2018)

Melchior Ndadaye

President of Burundi (1953–1993)

Riek Machar

first vice president of the independent Republic of South Sudan

Youssouf Saleh Abbas

Prime Minister of Chad

Pascal Affi N'Guessan

Ivorian politician

Ely Ould Mohamed Vall

Mauritanian President (1953-2017)

What happened that week

The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

January 1, 1953 was a Thursday. Someone born on January 1, 1953 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1953 is 73 years old today and has lived about 26,971 days. People born in 1953 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

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Questions about January 1, 1953

What day of the week was January 1, 1953?: January 1, 1953 was a Thursday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1953?: Someone born on January 1, 1953 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1953?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1953 falls in the year of the Water Dragon.
How old is someone born on January 1, 1953?: Someone born on January 1, 1953 is 73 years old today and has lived about 26,971 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1953?: People born in 1953 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, 1953?: On January 1, 1953 the moon was a Full Moon.

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