A Wednesday
Born on August 23, 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
Virgo
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on August 23, 1978
Kobe Bryant
American basketball player (1978–2020)
Georgi Chilikov
Bulgarian footballer
Romik Khachatryan
Armenian football player
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 23, 1978 was a Wednesday. Someone born on August 23, 1978 is a Virgo. Someone born on August 23, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,606 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 23
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Louis XVI of France
1754 · King of France and Navarre from to , then King of the French from to

Georges Cuvier
1769 · French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist

Gene Kelly
1912 · American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer

Clifford Geertz
1926 · American anthropologist
Questions about August 23, 1978
- What day of the week was August 23, 1978?
- August 23, 1978 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 23, 1978?
- Someone born on August 23, 1978 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 23, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 23, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 23, 1978?
- Someone born on August 23, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,606 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 23, 1978?
- On August 23, 1978 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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