What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1958?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1958 falls in the year of the Fire Rooster.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 1958?

On January 1, 1958 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.

A Wednesday

Born on January 1, 1958?

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📅 Weekday
Wednesday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐓 Chinese zodiac
Fire Rooster
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
68 years

Famous people born on January 1, 1958

Misha'al bint Fahd al Saud

Saudi royal (1958–1977)

Turgut Aykaç

Turkish boxer (born 1958)

Osman Öcalan

Turkish statesperson (1958–2021)

Hassan al-Saffar

Saudi Arabian scholar

Terry Fox

Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist

Ramadan Shalah

Founder of PIJ (1958-2020)

Abdul Kabir

acting prime minister of Afghanistan since 2023

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

Iranian general and physicist (1961–2020)

Grandmaster Flash

American DJ and rapper

Muayad Al-Haddad

Kuwaiti footballer

Stephen Hopkins

British director and producer

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Icelandic writer and art historian

What happened that day

The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.

Also that week

The West Indies Federation is formed.
Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles.
Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls towards Earth from its orbit and burns up.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

January 1, 1958 was a Wednesday. Someone born on January 1, 1958 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1958 is 68 years old today and has lived about 25,145 days. People born in 1958 belong to the Baby Boomers.

Also born on January 1

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Alexander VI
1431 · pope of the Catholic Church – from the Borgia family
Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist
Huldrych Zwingli
1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder
Hong Xiuquan
1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion
Sándor Petőfi
1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
George Washington Carver
1864 · African American botanist and inventor
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
Ousmane Sembène
1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author

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Questions about January 1, 1958

What day of the week was January 1, 1958?: January 1, 1958 was a Wednesday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1958?: Someone born on January 1, 1958 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1958?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1958 falls in the year of the Fire Rooster.
How old is someone born on January 1, 1958?: Someone born on January 1, 1958 is 68 years old today and has lived about 25,145 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1958?: People born in 1958 belong to the Baby Boomers.
What is the birthstone for January?: The birthstone for January is garnet.
What was the moon phase on January 1, 1958?: On January 1, 1958 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.

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