A Wednesday
Born on August 30, 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 Crescent
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on August 30, 1978
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 30, 1978 was a Wednesday. Someone born on August 30, 1978 is a Virgo. Someone born on August 30, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,599 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 30
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jacques-Louis David
1748 · French painter

Mary Shelley
1797 · English writer

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
1852 · Dutch physical and organic chemist

Ernest Rutherford
1871 · New Zealand physicist

Warren Buffett
1930 · American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
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 30, 1978
- What day of the week was August 30, 1978?
- August 30, 1978 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 30, 1978?
- Someone born on August 30, 1978 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 30, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 30, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on August 30, 1978?
- Someone born on August 30, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,599 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 30, 1978?
- On August 30, 1978 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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