What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1972?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1972 falls in the year of the Metal Pig.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 1972?

On January 1, 1972 the moon was a Full Moon.

A Saturday

Born on January 1, 1972?

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📅 Weekday
Saturday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Metal Pig
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
54 years

Famous people born on January 1, 1972

Lilian Thuram

French footballer (born 1972)

Elyes Fakhfakh

Tunisian politician

Hamza Abdi Barre

21st Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia

Andi Gutmans

Israeli businessman

Ahmed Miitig

Libyan businessman and politician

Shukria Barakzai

Afghan politician

Olivera Injac

Montenegrin politician and professor

Yermakhan Ibraimov

boxer

Yuri Landman

Luthier, comics artist

Daren Tang

Designed Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Miguel Gomes

Portuguese film director

Mukhtaran Bibi

rape survivor and one of Pakistan's most prominent rights activists [EPA]

What happened that day

Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Also that week

The first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395).
Iberia Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the island of Ibiza; 104 are killed.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

Brand New Key

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🎵 No. 1 song

January 1, 1972 was a Saturday. Someone born on January 1, 1972 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1972 is 54 years old today and has lived about 20,032 days. People born in 1972 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

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Questions about January 1, 1972

What day of the week was January 1, 1972?: January 1, 1972 was a Saturday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1972?: Someone born on January 1, 1972 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1972?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1972 falls in the year of the Metal Pig.
How old is someone born on January 1, 1972?: Someone born on January 1, 1972 is 54 years old today and has lived about 20,032 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1972?: People born in 1972 belong to Generation X.
What is the birthstone for January?: The birthstone for January is garnet.
What was the moon phase on January 1, 1972?: On January 1, 1972 the moon was a Full Moon.

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