A Monday
Born on August 9, 1954?
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
Monday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Wood Horse
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
72 years
Famous people born on August 9, 1954
Born the same week
Valery Gazzaev
August 7 · Soviet footballer and manager
Viktor Medvedchuk
August 7 · Pro-Russian politician in Ukraine, deprived lawyer and businessman
Kim Pyong-il
August 10 · North Korean diplomat
François Hollande
August 12 · President of France from 2012 to 2017 (born 1954)
CY Leung
August 12 · Hong Kong surveyor and politician
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 9, 1954 was a Monday. Someone born on August 9, 1954 is a Leo. Someone born on August 9, 1954 is 72 years old today and has lived about 26,386 days. People born in 1954 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 9
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

John Dryden
1631 · 17th-century English poet and playwright

Amedeo Avogadro
1776 · Italian scientist

Jean Piaget
1896 · Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic

Rod Laver
1938 · Australian tennis player
Gift ideas for someone born in 1954
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 73
- “Born in 1954” gifts
- Wine from 1954
- Books about 1954
- A newspaper from 1954
- Coin set from 1954
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Questions about August 9, 1954
- What day of the week was August 9, 1954?
- August 9, 1954 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 9, 1954?
- Someone born on August 9, 1954 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 9, 1954?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 9, 1954 falls in the year of the Wood Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 9, 1954?
- Someone born on August 9, 1954 is 72 years old today and has lived about 26,386 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1954?
- People born in 1954 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 9, 1954?
- On August 9, 1954 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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