A Sunday
Born on August 1, 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
Sunday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Fire Dragon
🌓 Moon
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
50 years
Famous people born on August 1, 1976
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 1, 1976 was a Sunday. Someone born on August 1, 1976 is a Leo. Someone born on August 1, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,358 days. People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 1
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
1744 · French naturalist

Herman Melville
1819 · American writer and poet

Pierre Bourdieu
1930 · French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher

Yves Saint Laurent
1936 · French fashion designer
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 August 1, 1976
- What day of the week was August 1, 1976?
- August 1, 1976 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 1, 1976?
- Someone born on August 1, 1976 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 1, 1976?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 1, 1976 falls in the year of the Fire Dragon.
- How old is someone born on August 1, 1976?
- Someone born on August 1, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,358 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1976?
- People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 1, 1976?
- On August 1, 1976 the moon was a First Quarter.
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