A Saturday
Born on August 18, 1973?
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
Saturday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Water Ox
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
53 years
Famous people born on August 18, 1973
Born the same week
Lubna Azabal
August 15 · Belgian actress
Marco Materazzi
August 19 · Italian association football player and manager
Sergey Brin
August 21 · American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
Nikolai Valuev
August 21 · Russian politician and former heavyweight boxer
Robert Malm
August 21 · French and Togolese footballer
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 18, 1973 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 18, 1973 is a Leo. Someone born on August 18, 1973 is 53 years old today and has lived about 19,437 days. People born in 1973 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 18
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Franz Joseph I of Austria
1830 · Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii
1863 · Russian chemist and photographer

Roman Polanski
1933 · French-Polish filmmaker (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1973
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 54
- “Born in 1973” gifts
- Wine from 1973
- Books about 1973
- A newspaper from 1973
- Coin set from 1973
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Questions about August 18, 1973
- What day of the week was August 18, 1973?
- August 18, 1973 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 18, 1973?
- Someone born on August 18, 1973 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 18, 1973?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 18, 1973 falls in the year of the Water Ox.
- How old is someone born on August 18, 1973?
- Someone born on August 18, 1973 is 53 years old today and has lived about 19,437 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1973?
- People born in 1973 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 18, 1973?
- On August 18, 1973 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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