What is the Chinese zodiac sign for May 2, 1964?

In the Chinese zodiac, May 2, 1964 falls in the year of the Wood Dragon.

What is the birthstone for May?

The birthstone for May is emerald.

What was the moon phase on May 2, 1964?

On May 2, 1964 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.

A Saturday

Born on May 2, 1964?

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📅 Weekday
Saturday
♉ Star sign
Taurus
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Wood Dragon
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
62 years

Famous people born on May 2, 1964

No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.

Born the same week

Barrington Levy

April 30 · Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist

Lorenzo Staelens

April 30 · Belgian association football player

Hashem Safieddine

May 3 · Lebanese politician (1964-2024)

Muharrem İnce

May 4 · Turkish physics teacher and politician

Rocco Siffredi

May 4 · Italian pornographic actor (born 1964)

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih

May 4 · former President of the Maldives

What happened that day

Vietnam War: Attack on USNS Card – An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos causes carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.
Some 400–1,000 students march through Times Square, New York, and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, Wisconsin.
Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance in July during the search for missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.

Also that week

At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first computer program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language which they have created. BASIC is eventually included on many computers and even some games consoles.
Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon, California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot had been shot by a suicidal passenger.
At a mail rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany), three people are killed by a rocket explosion.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

Can't Buy Me Love

The Beatles

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🎵 No. 1 song

May 2, 1964 was a Saturday. Someone born on May 2, 1964 is a Taurus. Someone born on May 2, 1964 is 62 years old today and has lived about 22,832 days. People born in 1964 belong to the Baby Boomers.

Also born on May 2

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Catherine II of Russia
1729 · eighth Emperor of Russia, called the Great, r. – (lived - )
Theodor Herzl
1860 · father of modern political Zionism
Satyajit Ray
1921 · Indian filmmaker and writer

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Questions about May 2, 1964

What day of the week was May 2, 1964?: May 2, 1964 was a Saturday.
What star sign is someone born on May 2, 1964?: Someone born on May 2, 1964 is a Taurus.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for May 2, 1964?: In the Chinese zodiac, May 2, 1964 falls in the year of the Wood Dragon.
How old is someone born on May 2, 1964?: Someone born on May 2, 1964 is 62 years old today and has lived about 22,832 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1964?: People born in 1964 belong to the Baby Boomers.
What is the birthstone for May?: The birthstone for May is emerald.
What was the moon phase on May 2, 1964?: On May 2, 1964 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.

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