A Thursday
Born on April 13, 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
Thursday
♈ Star sign
Aries
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on April 13, 1978
Carles Puyol
Spanish footballer (born 1978)
Toni Sivera
Andorran footballer
Farrukh Amonatov
Tajikistani chess player
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
April 13, 1978 was a Thursday. Someone born on April 13, 1978 is a Aries. Someone born on April 13, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,738 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on April 13
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Catherine de' Medici
1519 · queen-consort and regent of France

Thomas Jefferson
1743 · Founding Father, U.S. president from to

Samuel Beckett
1906 · Irish writer

Julius Nyerere
1922 · Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania

Garry Kasparov
1963 · Russian chess grandmaster and activist
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 April 13, 1978
- What day of the week was April 13, 1978?
- April 13, 1978 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on April 13, 1978?
- Someone born on April 13, 1978 is a Aries.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for April 13, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, April 13, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on April 13, 1978?
- Someone born on April 13, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,738 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1978?
- People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for April?
- The birthstone for April is diamond.
- What was the moon phase on April 13, 1978?
- On April 13, 1978 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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