A Thursday
Born on June 21, 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
Cancer
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Earth Goat
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
47 years
Famous people born on June 21, 1979
Chris Pratt
American actor (born 1979)
Kostas Katsouranis
Greek footballer
Maleagi Ngarizemo
Namibian footballer
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
June 21, 1979 was a Thursday. Someone born on June 21, 1979 is a Cancer. Someone born on June 21, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,304 days. People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
Also born on June 21
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646 · German mathematician and philosopher

Siméon Denis Poisson
1781 · French mathematician, mechanician and physicist

Machado de Assis
1839 · Brazilian writer

Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 · French existentialist philosopher

Benazir Bhutto
1953 · 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan
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 June 21, 1979
- What day of the week was June 21, 1979?
- June 21, 1979 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on June 21, 1979?
- Someone born on June 21, 1979 is a Cancer.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for June 21, 1979?
- In the Chinese zodiac, June 21, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.
- How old is someone born on June 21, 1979?
- Someone born on June 21, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,304 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1979?
- People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for June?
- The birthstone for June is pearl.
- What was the moon phase on June 21, 1979?
- On June 21, 1979 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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