A Monday
Born on January 5, 1976?
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
Monday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐇 Chinese zodiac
Wood Rabbit
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
50 years
Famous people born on January 5, 1976
Diego Tristán
Spanish footballer
Ivan Tomić
Serbian football player
Mohamed Ben Attia
Tunisian film director
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 5, 1976 was a Monday. Someone born on January 5, 1976 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 5, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,567 days. People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
Also born on January 5
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jacob Bernoulli
1655 · Swiss mathematician

Constantine Stanislavsky
1863 · Russian actor and theatre director

Konrad Adenauer
1876 · German politician, Chancellor of West Germany , Zentrum and CDU

Paramahansa Yogananda
1893 · Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

Umberto Eco
1932 · Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

Juan Carlos I of Spain
1938 · King of Spain from to

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
1938 · Kenyan writer

Hayao Miyazaki
1941 · Japanese animator, filmmaker, and mangaka (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1976
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 51
- “Born in 1976” gifts
- Wine from 1976
- Books about 1976
- A newspaper from 1976
- Coin set from 1976
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Questions about January 5, 1976
- What day of the week was January 5, 1976?
- January 5, 1976 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 5, 1976?
- Someone born on January 5, 1976 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 5, 1976?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 5, 1976 falls in the year of the Wood Rabbit.
- How old is someone born on January 5, 1976?
- Someone born on January 5, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,567 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1976?
- People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 5, 1976?
- On January 5, 1976 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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