A Friday
Born on December 18, 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
Friday
♐ Star sign
Sagittarius
🐍 Chinese zodiac
Water Snake
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
72 years
Famous people born on December 18, 1953
Born the same week
Hossam Ramzy
December 15 · Egyptian percussionist and music producer (1953-2019)
Nawaf Salam
December 15 · Lebanese Prime Minister
Alexander Beliavsky
December 17 · Ukrainian and Slovenian chess player
Hina Jilani
December 19 · Pakistani activist
Justina Shiroka Pula
December 20 · Kosovan economist, academic, stateswoman and president of Kosovo
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
December 18, 1953 was a Friday. Someone born on December 18, 1953 is a Sagittarius. Someone born on December 18, 1953 is 72 years old today and has lived about 26,620 days. People born in 1953 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on December 18
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Joseph John Thomson
1856 · British physicist

Joseph Stalin
1878 · politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from to

Willy Brandt
1913 · German politician (SPD), chancellor of West Germany and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

Steven Spielberg
1946 · American filmmaker (born )

Steve Biko
1946 · South African anti-apartheid activist
Gift ideas for someone born in 1953
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 73
- “Born in 1953” gifts
- Wine from 1953
- Books about 1953
- A newspaper from 1953
- Coin set from 1953
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Questions about December 18, 1953
- What day of the week was December 18, 1953?
- December 18, 1953 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on December 18, 1953?
- Someone born on December 18, 1953 is a Sagittarius.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 18, 1953?
- In the Chinese zodiac, December 18, 1953 falls in the year of the Water Snake.
- How old is someone born on December 18, 1953?
- Someone born on December 18, 1953 is 72 years old today and has lived about 26,620 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1953?
- People born in 1953 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for December?
- The birthstone for December is turquoise.
- What was the moon phase on December 18, 1953?
- On December 18, 1953 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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