A Sunday
Born on July 2, 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
Sunday
♋ Star sign
Cancer
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on July 2, 1978
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
July 2, 1978 was a Sunday. Someone born on July 2, 1978 is a Cancer. Someone born on July 2, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,658 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on July 2
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Thomas Cranmer
1489 · leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury

William Henry Bragg
1862 · British scientist

Hermann Hesse
1877 · Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter

Hans Bethe
1906 · German-American nuclear physicist

Patrice Lumumba
1925 · Congolese politician and independence leader
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 July 2, 1978
- What day of the week was July 2, 1978?
- July 2, 1978 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on July 2, 1978?
- Someone born on July 2, 1978 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for July 2, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, July 2, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on July 2, 1978?
- Someone born on July 2, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,658 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1978?
- People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for July?
- The birthstone for July is ruby.
- What was the moon phase on July 2, 1978?
- On July 2, 1978 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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