A Saturday
Born on August 5, 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
Saturday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on August 5, 1978
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 5, 1978 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 5, 1978 is a Leo. Someone born on August 5, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,624 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 5
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Vitus Bering
1681 · Danish-born Russian explorer

Guy de Maupassant
1850 · French writer

Neil Armstrong
1930 · American astronaut and lunar explorer
Questions about August 5, 1978
- What day of the week was August 5, 1978?
- August 5, 1978 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 5, 1978?
- Someone born on August 5, 1978 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 5, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 5, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 5, 1978?
- Someone born on August 5, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,624 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 5, 1978?
- On August 5, 1978 the moon was a New Moon.
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