A Friday
Born on August 4, 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
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on August 4, 1978
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 4, 1978 was a Friday. Someone born on August 4, 1978 is a Leo. Someone born on August 4, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,625 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 4
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792 · British Romantic poet

William Rowan Hamilton
1805 · Irish mathematician and astronomer

Knut Hamsun
1859 · Norwegian novelist

Louis Armstrong
1901 · American jazz musician, trumpeter and singer

Yasser Arafat
1929 · Palestinian political leader and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority

Barack Obama
1961 · 44th President of the United States
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 August 4, 1978
- What day of the week was August 4, 1978?
- August 4, 1978 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 4, 1978?
- Someone born on August 4, 1978 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 4, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 4, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 4, 1978?
- Someone born on August 4, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,625 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1978?
- People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 4, 1978?
- On August 4, 1978 the moon was a New Moon.
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