A Wednesday
Born on December 6, 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
Sagittarius
🐎 Chinese zodiac
Earth Horse
🌓 Moon
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
47 years
Famous people born on December 6, 1978
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
December 6, 1978 was a Wednesday. Someone born on December 6, 1978 is a Sagittarius. Someone born on December 6, 1978 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,501 days. People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
Also born on December 6
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
1778 · French chemist and physicist

Leonid Brezhnev
1906 · General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Gift ideas for someone born in 1978
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 48
- “Born in 1978” gifts
- Wine from 1978
- Books about 1978
- A newspaper from 1978
- Coin set from 1978
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Questions about December 6, 1978
- What day of the week was December 6, 1978?
- December 6, 1978 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on December 6, 1978?
- Someone born on December 6, 1978 is a Sagittarius.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 6, 1978?
- In the Chinese zodiac, December 6, 1978 falls in the year of the Earth Horse.
- How old is someone born on December 6, 1978?
- Someone born on December 6, 1978 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,501 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1978?
- People born in 1978 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for December?
- The birthstone for December is turquoise.
- What was the moon phase on December 6, 1978?
- On December 6, 1978 the moon was a First Quarter.
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