A Friday
Born on July 21, 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
Friday
♋ Star sign
Cancer
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on July 21, 1978
Deniz Aytekin
Turkish association football referee (born 1978)
Damian Marley
Jamaican DJ, singer and rapper
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
July 21, 1978 was a Friday. Someone born on July 21, 1978 is a Cancer. Someone born on July 21, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,639 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on July 21
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Ernest Hemingway
1899 · American author and journalist

Marshall McLuhan
1911 · Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar
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 21, 1978
- What day of the week was July 21, 1978?
- July 21, 1978 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on July 21, 1978?
- Someone born on July 21, 1978 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for July 21, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, July 21, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on July 21, 1978?
- Someone born on July 21, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,639 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 21, 1978?
- On July 21, 1978 the moon was a Full Moon.
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