A Wednesday
Born on August 18, 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
Wednesday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Wood Horse
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
72 years
Famous people born on August 18, 1954
Born the same week

James Cameron
August 16 · Canadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
Andrés Pastrana Arango
August 17 · President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002
Luis Mandoki
August 17 · Mexican film director
Didier Six
August 21 · French footballer (born 1954)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 18, 1954 was a Wednesday. Someone born on August 18, 1954 is a Leo. Someone born on August 18, 1954 is 72 years old today and has lived about 26,377 days. People born in 1954 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 18
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Franz Joseph I of Austria
1830 · Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
1863 · Russian chemist and photographer

Roman Polanski
1933 · French-Polish filmmaker (born )
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 18, 1954
- What day of the week was August 18, 1954?
- August 18, 1954 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 18, 1954?
- Someone born on August 18, 1954 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 18, 1954?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 18, 1954 falls in the year of the Wood Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 18, 1954?
- Someone born on August 18, 1954 is 72 years old today and has lived about 26,377 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 18, 1954?
- On August 18, 1954 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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