A Wednesday
Born on April 26, 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
Wednesday
♉ Star sign
Taurus
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on April 26, 1978
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
April 26, 1978 was a Wednesday. Someone born on April 26, 1978 is a Taurus. Someone born on April 26, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,725 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on April 26
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

David Hume
1711 · Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

John James Audubon
1785 · French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter

Eugène Delacroix
1798 · French painter

Frederick Law Olmsted
1822 · American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator

Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889 · Austrian philosopher and logician

I. M. Pei
1917 · Chinese-American architect

Fanny Blankers-Koen
1918 · Dutch track and field athlete
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 26, 1978
- What day of the week was April 26, 1978?
- April 26, 1978 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on April 26, 1978?
- Someone born on April 26, 1978 is a Taurus.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for April 26, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, April 26, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on April 26, 1978?
- Someone born on April 26, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,725 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 26, 1978?
- On April 26, 1978 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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