A Thursday
Born on July 21, 1955?
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
Thursday
♋ Star sign
Cancer
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Wood Goat
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
71 years
Famous people born on July 21, 1955
Béla Tarr
Hungarian filmmaker and anarchist (1955–2026)
Marcelo Bielsa
Argentinian football manager (born 1955)
Véronique Tadjo
Ivorian and French writer and painter
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
July 21, 1955 was a Thursday. Someone born on July 21, 1955 is a Cancer. Someone born on July 21, 1955 is 71 years old today and has lived about 26,040 days. People born in 1955 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on July 21
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Ernest Hemingway
1899 · American author and journalist

Marshall McLuhan
1911 · Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
Gift ideas for someone born in 1955
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 72
- “Born in 1955” gifts
- Wine from 1955
- Books about 1955
- A newspaper from 1955
- Coin set from 1955
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Questions about July 21, 1955
- What day of the week was July 21, 1955?
- July 21, 1955 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on July 21, 1955?
- Someone born on July 21, 1955 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for July 21, 1955?
- In the Chinese zodiac, July 21, 1955 falls in the year of the Wood Goat.
- How old is someone born on July 21, 1955?
- Someone born on July 21, 1955 is 71 years old today and has lived about 26,040 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1955?
- People born in 1955 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for July?
- The birthstone for July is ruby.
- What was the moon phase on July 21, 1955?
- On July 21, 1955 the moon was a New Moon.
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