A Friday
Born on August 5, 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
Friday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Wood Goat
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
71 years
Famous people born on August 5, 1955
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Fakhraddin Manafov
August 2 · Azerbaijani actor
Lubna Olayan
August 4 · Saudi business woman
Tom Sandberg
August 6 · Norwegian former Nordic combined skier
Vladimir Sorokin
August 7 · Russian writer (born 1955)
Herbert Prohaska
August 8 · Austrian football player and coach
Abd al-Aziz ibn Habtour
August 8 · Yemeni politician (born 1955)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 5, 1955 was a Friday. Someone born on August 5, 1955 is a Leo. Someone born on August 5, 1955 is 71 years old today and has lived about 26,025 days. People born in 1955 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 5
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Vitus Bering
1681 · Danish-born Russian explorer

Guy de Maupassant
1850 · French writer

Neil Armstrong
1930 · American astronaut and lunar explorer
Gift ideas for someone born in 1955
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- “Born in 1955” gifts
- Wine from 1955
- Books about 1955
- A newspaper from 1955
- Coin set from 1955
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Questions about August 5, 1955
- What day of the week was August 5, 1955?
- August 5, 1955 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 5, 1955?
- Someone born on August 5, 1955 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 5, 1955?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 5, 1955 falls in the year of the Wood Goat.
- How old is someone born on August 5, 1955?
- Someone born on August 5, 1955 is 71 years old today and has lived about 26,025 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1955?
- People born in 1955 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 5, 1955?
- On August 5, 1955 the moon was a Full Moon.
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