A Monday
Born on March 5, 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
Monday
♓ Star sign
Pisces
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Earth Goat
🌓 Moon
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
47 years
Famous people born on March 5, 1979
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
March 5, 1979 was a Monday. Someone born on March 5, 1979 is a Pisces. Someone born on March 5, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,412 days. People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
Also born on March 5
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Rosa Luxemburg
1871 · Polish-German Marxist revolutionary

Zhou Enlai
1898 · 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

Jiang Qing
1914 · Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong

Olusegun Obasanjo
1937 · Nigerian president and military leader
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 March 5, 1979
- What day of the week was March 5, 1979?
- March 5, 1979 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on March 5, 1979?
- Someone born on March 5, 1979 is a Pisces.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for March 5, 1979?
- In the Chinese zodiac, March 5, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.
- How old is someone born on March 5, 1979?
- Someone born on March 5, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,412 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1979?
- People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for March?
- The birthstone for March is aquamarine.
- What was the moon phase on March 5, 1979?
- On March 5, 1979 the moon was a First Quarter.
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