A Monday
Born on October 2, 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
Monday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
48 years
Famous people born on October 2, 1978
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 2, 1978 was a Monday. Someone born on October 2, 1978 is a Libra. Someone born on October 2, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,565 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on October 2
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Paul von Hindenburg
1847 · Prussian-German field marshal of the German Empire, statesman and president of Weimar Germany and Nazi Germany

Ferdinand Foch
1851 · French marchal and military theorist

Mahatma Gandhi
1869 · Indian independence activist
Questions about October 2, 1978
- What day of the week was October 2, 1978?
- October 2, 1978 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 2, 1978?
- Someone born on October 2, 1978 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 2, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 2, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on October 2, 1978?
- Someone born on October 2, 1978 is 48 years old today and has lived about 17,565 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1978?
- People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 2, 1978?
- On October 2, 1978 the moon was a New Moon.
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