A Thursday
Born on August 4, 1966?
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
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Fire Horse
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
60 years
Famous people born on August 4, 1966
Born the same week
Oswaldo Patricio Vintimilla Cabrera
August 2 · Roman Catholic Bishop of Azogues
Natalia Ramírez Cuello
August 3 · Colombian actress
Martha Tenorio
August 6 · Ecuadoran athletics competitor (born 1966)
Jimmy Wales
August 7 · co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)
Robert Seethaler
August 7 · Austrian actor and writer
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 4, 1966 was a Thursday. Someone born on August 4, 1966 is a Leo. Someone born on August 4, 1966 is 60 years old today and has lived about 22,008 days. People born in 1966 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 4
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 · British Romantic poet

William Rowan Hamilton
1805 · Irish mathematician and astronomer

Knut Hamsun
1859 · Norwegian novelist

Louis Armstrong
1901 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

Yasser Arafat
1929 · Palestinian political leader and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority

Barack Obama
1961 · 44th President of the United States
Gift ideas for someone born in 1966
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 61
- “Born in 1966” gifts
- Wine from 1966
- Books about 1966
- A newspaper from 1966
- Coin set from 1966
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Questions about August 4, 1966
- What day of the week was August 4, 1966?
- August 4, 1966 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 4, 1966?
- Someone born on August 4, 1966 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1966?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1966 falls in the year of the Fire Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 4, 1966?
- Someone born on August 4, 1966 is 60 years old today and has lived about 22,008 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1966?
- People born in 1966 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 4, 1966?
- On August 4, 1966 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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