A Saturday
Born on August 13, 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
Saturday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Wood Goat
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
71 years
Famous people born on August 13, 1955
Paul Greengrass
English writer and film director (born 1955)
Hicran Hüseynova
Azerbaijani academic and politician
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 13, 1955 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 13, 1955 is a Leo. Someone born on August 13, 1955 is 71 years old today and has lived about 26,017 days. People born in 1955 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 13
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

John Logie Baird
1888 · Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television

Alfred Hitchcock
1899 · British filmmaker

Frederick Sanger
1918 · British biochemist

Fidel Castro
1926 · Cuban politician, author and revolutionary
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 August 13, 1955
- What day of the week was August 13, 1955?
- August 13, 1955 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 13, 1955?
- Someone born on August 13, 1955 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 13, 1955?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 13, 1955 falls in the year of the Wood Goat.
- How old is someone born on August 13, 1955?
- Someone born on August 13, 1955 is 71 years old today and has lived about 26,017 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 13, 1955?
- On August 13, 1955 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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