A Tuesday
Born on May 21, 1974?
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
Gemini
🐅 Chinese zodiac
Wood Tiger
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
52 years
Famous people born on May 21, 1974
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
May 21, 1974 was a Tuesday. Someone born on May 21, 1974 is a Gemini. Someone born on May 21, 1974 is 52 years old today and has lived about 19,161 days. People born in 1974 belong to Generation X.
Also born on May 21
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Philip II of Spain
1527 · King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived -

Alexander Pope
1688 · English poet

Henri Rousseau
1844 · French painter

Andrei Sakharov
1921 · Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
Gift ideas for someone born in 1974
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 53
- “Born in 1974” gifts
- Wine from 1974
- Books about 1974
- A newspaper from 1974
- Coin set from 1974
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Questions about May 21, 1974
- What day of the week was May 21, 1974?
- May 21, 1974 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on May 21, 1974?
- Someone born on May 21, 1974 is a Gemini.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for May 21, 1974?
- In the Chinese zodiac, May 21, 1974 falls in the year of the Wood Tiger.
- How old is someone born on May 21, 1974?
- Someone born on May 21, 1974 is 52 years old today and has lived about 19,161 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1974?
- People born in 1974 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for May?
- The birthstone for May is emerald.
- What was the moon phase on May 21, 1974?
- On May 21, 1974 the moon was a New Moon.
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