A Thursday
Born on October 18, 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
Libra
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Earth Goat
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
47 years
Famous people born on October 18, 1979
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 18, 1979 was a Thursday. Someone born on October 18, 1979 is a Libra. Someone born on October 18, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,185 days. People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
Also born on October 18
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Eugene of Savoy
1663 · prince of the house of Savoy, then commander in chief of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire

Henri Bergson
1859 · French philosopher

Félix Houphouët-Boigny
1905 · First President of Ivory Coast, from to

Pierre Trudeau
1919 · Prime Minister of Canada from to and to

Chuck Berry
1926 · American musician

Martina Navratilova
1956 · Czech-American tennis player
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 October 18, 1979
- What day of the week was October 18, 1979?
- October 18, 1979 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 18, 1979?
- Someone born on October 18, 1979 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 18, 1979?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 18, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.
- How old is someone born on October 18, 1979?
- Someone born on October 18, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,185 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1979?
- People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 18, 1979?
- On October 18, 1979 the moon was a Waning Crescent.
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