A Sunday
Born on September 24, 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
Libra
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on September 24, 1978
Born the same week
Harry Kewell
September 22 · Australian soccer manager (born 1978)
Irakli Kobakhidze
September 25 · Prime Minister of Georgia since 2024
Ricardo Gardner
September 25 · Jamaican footballer
Roudolphe Douala
September 25 · Cameroonian footballer
Ani Lorak
September 27 · Ukrainian-born Russian singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 24, 1978 was a Sunday. Someone born on September 24, 1978 is a Libra. Someone born on September 24, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,574 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on September 24
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Gerolamo Cardano
1501 · Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer

Alaungpaya
1714 · King of Burma

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 · American writer

Ruhollah Khomeini
1902 · Supreme Leader of Iran from to

Jim Henson
1936 · American puppeteer
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 September 24, 1978
- What day of the week was September 24, 1978?
- September 24, 1978 was a Sunday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 24, 1978?
- Someone born on September 24, 1978 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 24, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 24, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on September 24, 1978?
- Someone born on September 24, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,574 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1978?
- People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for September?
- The birthstone for September is sapphire.
- What was the moon phase on September 24, 1978?
- On September 24, 1978 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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