A Tuesday
Born on September 26, 1972?
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
Tuesday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐀 Chinese zodiac
Water Rat
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
54 years
Famous people born on September 26, 1972
Born the same week
Umaro Sissoco Embaló
September 23 · President of Guinea-Bissau from 2020 to 2025
Michał Probierz
September 24 · Polish association football player and manager
Gwyneth Paltrow
September 27 · American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer (born 1972)
Lhasa de Sela
September 27 · American singer
Omar Diallo
September 28 · Senegalese footballer
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 26, 1972 was a Tuesday. Someone born on September 26, 1972 is a Libra. Someone born on September 26, 1972 is 54 years old today and has lived about 19,763 days. People born in 1972 belong to Generation X.
Also born on September 26
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Ivan Pavlov
1849 · Russian physiologist

Winsor McCay
1869 · American cartoonist and animator

T. S. Eliot
1888 · US-British poet

Martin Heidegger
1889 · German philosopher

George Gershwin
1898 · American composer and pianist

Manmohan Singh
1932 · Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician

Serena Williams
1981 · American tennis player (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1972
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 55
- “Born in 1972” gifts
- Wine from 1972
- Books about 1972
- A newspaper from 1972
- Coin set from 1972
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Questions about September 26, 1972
- What day of the week was September 26, 1972?
- September 26, 1972 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 26, 1972?
- Someone born on September 26, 1972 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 26, 1972?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 26, 1972 falls in the year of the Water Rat.
- How old is someone born on September 26, 1972?
- Someone born on September 26, 1972 is 54 years old today and has lived about 19,763 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1972?
- People born in 1972 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for September?
- The birthstone for September is sapphire.
- What was the moon phase on September 26, 1972?
- On September 26, 1972 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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