A Thursday
Born on February 22, 1979?
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
Thursday
♓ Star sign
Pisces
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Earth Goat
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
47 years
Famous people born on February 22, 1979
Brett Emerton
Australian association football player
Débora Falabella
Brazilian actress, director and producer
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
February 22, 1979 was a Thursday. Someone born on February 22, 1979 is a Pisces. Someone born on February 22, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,423 days. People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
Also born on February 22
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

George Washington
1732 · Founding Father and first U.S. president

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788 · German philosopher

Heinrich Hertz
1857 · German physicist

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 · lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement

Luis Buñuel
1900 · Spanish-Mexican filmmaker
Gift ideas for someone born in 1979
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 48
- “Born in 1979” gifts
- Wine from 1979
- Books about 1979
- A newspaper from 1979
- Coin set from 1979
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Questions about February 22, 1979
- What day of the week was February 22, 1979?
- February 22, 1979 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on February 22, 1979?
- Someone born on February 22, 1979 is a Pisces.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for February 22, 1979?
- In the Chinese zodiac, February 22, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.
- How old is someone born on February 22, 1979?
- Someone born on February 22, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,423 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1979?
- People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for February?
- The birthstone for February is amethyst.
- What was the moon phase on February 22, 1979?
- On February 22, 1979 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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