A Tuesday
Born on January 10, 1978?
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
Capricorn
🐍 Chinese zodiac
Fire Snake
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on January 10, 1978
Tanel Tein
Estonian politician, former basketball player (born 1978)
Michael Pienaar
Namibian footballer
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 10, 1978 was a Tuesday. Someone born on January 10, 1978 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 10, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,831 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on January 10
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Sergei Eisenstein
1898 · Soviet filmmaker

Donald Knuth
1938 · American computer scientist and mathematician (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1978
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 49
- “Born in 1978” gifts
- Wine from 1978
- Books about 1978
- A newspaper from 1978
- Coin set from 1978
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Questions about January 10, 1978
- What day of the week was January 10, 1978?
- January 10, 1978 was a Tuesday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 10, 1978?
- Someone born on January 10, 1978 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 10, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 10, 1978 falls in the year of the Fire Snake.
- How old is someone born on January 10, 1978?
- Someone born on January 10, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,831 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1978?
- People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 10, 1978?
- On January 10, 1978 the moon was a New Moon.
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