A Wednesday
Born on August 9, 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
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on August 9, 1978
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 9, 1978 was a Wednesday. Someone born on August 9, 1978 is a Leo. Someone born on August 9, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,620 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 9
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

John Dryden
1631 · 17th-century English poet and playwright

Amedeo Avogadro
1776 · Italian scientist

Jean Piaget
1896 · Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic

Rod Laver
1938 · Australian tennis player
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 9, 1978
- What day of the week was August 9, 1978?
- August 9, 1978 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 9, 1978?
- Someone born on August 9, 1978 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 9, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 9, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 9, 1978?
- Someone born on August 9, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,620 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 9, 1978?
- On August 9, 1978 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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