A Monday
Born on January 1, 1968?
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
Monday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Fire Goat
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
58 years
Famous people born on January 1, 1968
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Egyptian al-Qaeda member (1967–2010)
Azza Soliman
Egyptian lawyer and activist
Sulaiman Al-Alwan
شيخ الإسلام
Akhtar Mansour
2nd leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Davor Šuker
Croatian footballer
Jafar Hassan
Prime Minister of Jordan since 2024
Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak
Prime Minister of Yemen
Asim Munir
Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of the Army Staff of Pakistan (born 1968)
Turki bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Saudi royal
Indira Bajramović
Roma activist and economist
Anne Coesens
Belgian actress
Fatou Diome
French-Senegalese writer
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 1, 1968 was a Monday. Someone born on January 1, 1968 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1968 is 58 years old today and has lived about 21,493 days. People born in 1968 belong to Generation X.
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
Gift ideas for someone born in 1968
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 59
- “Born in 1968” gifts
- Wine from 1968
- Books about 1968
- A newspaper from 1968
- Coin set from 1968
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Questions about January 1, 1968
- What day of the week was January 1, 1968?
- January 1, 1968 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1968?
- Someone born on January 1, 1968 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1968?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1968 falls in the year of the Fire Goat.
- How old is someone born on January 1, 1968?
- Someone born on January 1, 1968 is 58 years old today and has lived about 21,493 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1968?
- People born in 1968 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 1, 1968?
- On January 1, 1968 the moon was a New Moon.
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