What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1962?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1962 falls in the year of the Metal Ox.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 1962?

On January 1, 1962 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

A Monday

Born on January 1, 1962?

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📅 Weekday
Monday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Metal Ox
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
64 years

Famous people born on January 1, 1962

Richard Roxburgh

Australian actor

Asha Haji Elmi

Member of Federal Parliament; peace activist

Carlos Gómez

American actor

Lael Brainard

American economist

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Jo Yeong-wook

South Korean Film Music Supervisor

Sven Nylander

Swedish athletics competitor (born 1962)

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C. Jay Cox

American screenwriter and director

Vladimir Popov

Russian wrestler (1962–2025)

What happened that day

Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.

Also that week

The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba.
Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster.

Famous people born on January 1, 1962

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

The Tokens

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

January 1, 1962 was a Monday. Someone born on January 1, 1962 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1962 is 64 years old today and has lived about 23,683 days. People born in 1962 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

Questions about January 1, 1962

What day of the week was January 1, 1962?: January 1, 1962 was a Monday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1962?: Someone born on January 1, 1962 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1962?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1962 falls in the year of the Metal Ox.
How old is someone born on January 1, 1962?: Someone born on January 1, 1962 is 64 years old today and has lived about 23,683 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1962?: People born in 1962 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, 1962?: On January 1, 1962 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

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