What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 8, 1953?

In the Chinese zodiac, August 8, 1953 falls in the year of the Water Snake.

What is the birthstone for August?

The birthstone for August is peridot.

What was the moon phase on August 8, 1953?

On August 8, 1953 the moon was a New Moon.

A Saturday

Born on August 8, 1953?

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📅 Weekday
Saturday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐍 Chinese zodiac
Water Snake
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
73 years

Famous people born on August 8, 1953

Nigel Mansell

British racing driver (born 1953)

Born the same week

Jean Tirole

August 9 · French economist

Ludo Peeters

August 9 · Belgian cyclist

Sandra Pierantozzi

August 9 · Palauan politician

Hulk Hogan

August 11 · American professional wrestler, actor and television personality (1953–2025)

Chen Danqing

August 11 · Chinese-American artist, writer, and art critic

What happened that day

Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.

Also that week

Operation Big Switch: Prisoners of war are repatriated to the United States after the Korean War.
The 1953 Ionian earthquake of magnitude 7.2 totally devastates Cephalonia and most of the other Ionian Islands, in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.
Soviet atomic bomb project: "Joe 4", the first Soviet thermonuclear weapon, is detonated at Semipalatinsk Test Site, Kazakh SSR.
Four million workers go on strike in France to protest against austerity measures.
19 – Cold War: 1953 Iranian coup d'état – Overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, by Iranian military in favour of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, with the support of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (as "Operation Ajax") and the United Kingdom.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

August 8, 1953 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 8, 1953 is a Leo. Someone born on August 8, 1953 is 73 years old today and has lived about 26,752 days. People born in 1953 belong to the Baby Boomers.

Also born on August 8

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Emiliano Zapata
1879 · Mexican revolutionary
Ernest Lawrence
1901 · American nuclear physicist
Paul Dirac
1902 · British theoretical physicist

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Questions about August 8, 1953

What day of the week was August 8, 1953?: August 8, 1953 was a Saturday.
What star sign is someone born on August 8, 1953?: Someone born on August 8, 1953 is a Leo.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 8, 1953?: In the Chinese zodiac, August 8, 1953 falls in the year of the Water Snake.
How old is someone born on August 8, 1953?: Someone born on August 8, 1953 is 73 years old today and has lived about 26,752 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 8, 1953?: On August 8, 1953 the moon was a New Moon.

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