A Tuesday
Born on August 4, 1953?
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 Snake
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
73 years
Famous people born on August 4, 1953
Antonio Tajani
Italian politician (born 1953)
Hiroyuki Usui
Japanese association football player
Hasse Borg
Swedish footballer
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 4, 1953 was a Tuesday. Someone born on August 4, 1953 is a Leo. Someone born on August 4, 1953 is 73 years old today and has lived about 26,756 days. People born in 1953 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 4
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 · British Romantic poet

William Rowan Hamilton
1805 · Irish mathematician and astronomer

Knut Hamsun
1859 · Norwegian novelist

Louis Armstrong
1901 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

Yasser Arafat
1929 · Palestinian political leader and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority

Barack Obama
1961 · 44th President of the United States
Gift ideas for someone born in 1953
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 74
- “Born in 1953” gifts
- Wine from 1953
- Books about 1953
- A newspaper from 1953
- Coin set from 1953
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Questions about August 4, 1953
- What day of the week was August 4, 1953?
- August 4, 1953 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 4, 1953?
- Someone born on August 4, 1953 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1953?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1953 falls in the year of the Water Snake.
- How old is someone born on August 4, 1953?
- Someone born on August 4, 1953 is 73 years old today and has lived about 26,756 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1953?
- People born in 1953 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 4, 1953?
- On August 4, 1953 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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