A Thursday
Born on August 30, 1956?
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
Virgo
🐒 Chinese zodiac
Fire Monkey
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
70 years
Famous people born on August 30, 1956
Said Belqola
Moroccan football referee (1956–2002)
Ismaël Lô
Senegalese musician
Nelly Mutti
Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 30, 1956 was a Thursday. Someone born on August 30, 1956 is a Virgo. Someone born on August 30, 1956 is 70 years old today and has lived about 25,634 days. People born in 1956 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on August 30
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jacques-Louis David
1748 · French painter

Mary Shelley
1797 · English writer

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
1852 · Dutch physical and organic chemist

Ernest Rutherford
1871 · New Zealand physicist

Warren Buffett
1930 · American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
Gift ideas for someone born in 1956
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 71
- “Born in 1956” gifts
- Wine from 1956
- Books about 1956
- A newspaper from 1956
- Coin set from 1956
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Questions about August 30, 1956
- What day of the week was August 30, 1956?
- August 30, 1956 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 30, 1956?
- Someone born on August 30, 1956 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 30, 1956?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 30, 1956 falls in the year of the Fire Monkey.
- How old is someone born on August 30, 1956?
- Someone born on August 30, 1956 is 70 years old today and has lived about 25,634 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1956?
- People born in 1956 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 30, 1956?
- On August 30, 1956 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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