A Thursday
Born on August 12, 1971?
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
Metal Pig
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
55 years
Famous people born on August 12, 1971
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 12, 1971 was a Thursday. Someone born on August 12, 1971 is a Leo. Someone born on August 12, 1971 is 55 years old today and has lived about 20,174 days. People born in 1971 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 12
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah
1844 · Religious leader in the Sudan, self-proclaimed as the Mahdi

Cecil B. DeMille
1881 · American film director, producer and actor

Erwin Schrödinger
1887 · Austrian physicist

George Soros
1930 · Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1971
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 56
- “Born in 1971” gifts
- Wine from 1971
- Books about 1971
- A newspaper from 1971
- Coin set from 1971
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Questions about August 12, 1971
- What day of the week was August 12, 1971?
- August 12, 1971 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 12, 1971?
- Someone born on August 12, 1971 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 12, 1971?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 12, 1971 falls in the year of the Metal Pig.
- How old is someone born on August 12, 1971?
- Someone born on August 12, 1971 is 55 years old today and has lived about 20,174 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1971?
- People born in 1971 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 12, 1971?
- On August 12, 1971 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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