A Friday
Born on September 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
Friday
♍ Star sign
Virgo
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Earth Goat
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
47 years
Famous people born on September 21, 1979
Richard Dunne
Irish footballer (born 1979)
Alaine Laughton
Jamaican singer
Sergio Aquino
Paraguayan footballer
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
September 21, 1979 was a Friday. Someone born on September 21, 1979 is a Virgo. Someone born on September 21, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,212 days. People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
Also born on September 21
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Abdul Hamid II
1842 · 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

H. G. Wells
1866 · English writer

Kwame Nkrumah
1909 · Ghanaian politician

Stephen King
1947 · American novelist and writer (born )

Shinzō Abe
1954 · Prime Minister of Japan from – and –
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 September 21, 1979
- What day of the week was September 21, 1979?
- September 21, 1979 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on September 21, 1979?
- Someone born on September 21, 1979 is a Virgo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for September 21, 1979?
- In the Chinese zodiac, September 21, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.
- How old is someone born on September 21, 1979?
- Someone born on September 21, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,212 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1979?
- People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for September?
- The birthstone for September is sapphire.
- What was the moon phase on September 21, 1979?
- On September 21, 1979 the moon was a New Moon.
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