A Monday
Born on December 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
Monday
♐ Star sign
Sagittarius
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Wood Goat
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
70 years
Famous people born on December 5, 1955
Cai Qi
First Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
Juha Tiainen
athletics competitor (1955–2003)
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
December 5, 1955 was a Monday. Someone born on December 5, 1955 is a Sagittarius. Someone born on December 5, 1955 is 70 years old today and has lived about 25,903 days. People born in 1955 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on December 5
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Julius II
1443 · pope of the Catholic Church from to

Józef Piłsudski
1867 · Polish politician, First Marshall, and Prime Minister

Fritz Lang
1890 · Austrian filmmaker

Walt Disney
1901 · American animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company

Werner Heisenberg
1901 · German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner

Bhumibol Adulyadej
1927 · former King of Thailand

Little Richard
1932 · American musician
Gift ideas for someone born in 1955
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 71
- “Born in 1955” gifts
- Wine from 1955
- Books about 1955
- A newspaper from 1955
- Coin set from 1955
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Questions about December 5, 1955
- What day of the week was December 5, 1955?
- December 5, 1955 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on December 5, 1955?
- Someone born on December 5, 1955 is a Sagittarius.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 5, 1955?
- In the Chinese zodiac, December 5, 1955 falls in the year of the Wood Goat.
- How old is someone born on December 5, 1955?
- Someone born on December 5, 1955 is 70 years old today and has lived about 25,903 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1955?
- People born in 1955 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for December?
- The birthstone for December is turquoise.
- What was the moon phase on December 5, 1955?
- On December 5, 1955 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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