A Sunday
Born on August 13, 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
Sunday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on August 13, 1978
Benjani Mwaruwari
Zimbabwean footballer (born 1978)
Moussa Latoundji
Beninese footballer
Kreshnik Qato
Albanian boxer (born 1978)
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 13, 1978 was a Sunday. Someone born on August 13, 1978 is a Leo. Someone born on August 13, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,616 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 13
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

John Logie Baird
1888 · Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television

Alfred Hitchcock
1899 · British filmmaker

Frederick Sanger
1918 · British biochemist

Fidel Castro
1926 · Cuban politician, author and revolutionary
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 13, 1978
- What day of the week was August 13, 1978?
- August 13, 1978 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 13, 1978?
- Someone born on August 13, 1978 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 13, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 13, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 13, 1978?
- Someone born on August 13, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,616 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 13, 1978?
- On August 13, 1978 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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