A Saturday
Born on July 17, 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
Saturday
♋ Star sign
Cancer
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Fire Dragon
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
50 years
Famous people born on July 17, 1976
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
July 17, 1976 was a Saturday. Someone born on July 17, 1976 is a Cancer. Someone born on July 17, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,373 days. People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
Also born on July 17
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Ismail I
1487 · founder and first shah of Safavid Iran

Georges Lemaître
1894 · Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest

Angela Merkel
1954 · chancellor of Germany from to (born )

Wong Kar-wai
1958 · Chinese-born Hong Kong filmmaker (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 July 17, 1976
- What day of the week was July 17, 1976?
- July 17, 1976 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on July 17, 1976?
- Someone born on July 17, 1976 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for July 17, 1976?
- In the Chinese zodiac, July 17, 1976 falls in the year of the Fire Dragon.
- How old is someone born on July 17, 1976?
- Someone born on July 17, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,373 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1976?
- People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for July?
- The birthstone for July is ruby.
- What was the moon phase on July 17, 1976?
- On July 17, 1976 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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