A Saturday
Born on August 12, 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
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on August 12, 1978
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Wesley Sonck
August 9 · Belgian association football player
Johan Fano
August 9 · Peruvian footballer
Benjani Mwaruwari
August 13 · Zimbabwean footballer (born 1978)
Moussa Latoundji
August 13 · Beninese footballer
Marcel Fischer
August 14 · fencer
Lilia Podkopayeva
August 15 · Ukrainian artistic gymnast, coach, and dancer (born 1978)
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 12, 1978 was a Saturday. Someone born on August 12, 1978 is a Leo. Someone born on August 12, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,617 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 12
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.
Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallah
1844 · Religious leader in the Sudan, self-proclaimed as the Mahdi
Cecil B. DeMille
1881 · American film director, producer and actor
Erwin Schrödinger
1887 · Austrian physicist
George Soros
1930 · Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born )
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 12, 1978
- What day of the week was August 12, 1978?
- August 12, 1978 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 12, 1978?
- Someone born on August 12, 1978 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 12, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 12, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 12, 1978?
- Someone born on August 12, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,617 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 12, 1978?
- On August 12, 1978 the moon was a First Quarter.
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