What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 21, 1979?

In the Chinese zodiac, October 21, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.

What is the birthstone for October?

The birthstone for October is opal.

What was the moon phase on October 21, 1979?

On October 21, 1979 the moon was a New Moon.

A Sunday

Born on October 21, 1979?

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📅 Weekday
Sunday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Earth Goat
🌑 Moon
New Moon
🎂 Age today
47 years

Famous people born on October 21, 1979

No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.

Born the same week

Jaroslav Drobný

October 18 · Czech footballer

Camel Meriem

October 18 · French footballer (born 1979)

Paul Ifill

October 20 · Barbadian footballer

Doni

October 22 · Brazilian association football player

Prabhas

October 23 · Indian film actor

Marijonas Petravičius

October 24 · Lithuanian basketball player (born 1979)

What happened that week

The first McDonald's in Singapore opens at Liat Towers in Orchard Road.
13 U.S. Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan, as a result of Typhoon Tip.
The Pittsburgh Pirates become only the fourth MLB team (as well as the only MLB franchise to accomplish the feat twice) to recover from a 3-games-to-1 deficit to win the 1979 World Series.
A tsunami in Nice, France, kills 23 people.
Park Chung Hee, the President of South Korea, is assassinated by KCIA director Kim Jae-gyu.
The eradication of the smallpox virus is announced by the World Health Organization, making smallpox the first of only two human diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

Rise

Herb Alpert

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🎵 No. 1 song

October 21, 1979 was a Sunday. Someone born on October 21, 1979 is a Libra. Someone born on October 21, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,182 days. People born in 1979 belong to Generation X.

Also born on October 21

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772 · English poet, literary critic and philosopher
Alfred Nobel
1833 · Swedish chemist and inventor
Celia Cruz
1925 · Cuban singer
Ursula K. Le Guin
1929 · American fantasy and science fiction author
Benjamin Netanyahu
1949 · Prime Minister of Israel (born ),

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Questions about October 21, 1979

What day of the week was October 21, 1979?: October 21, 1979 was a Sunday.
What star sign is someone born on October 21, 1979?: Someone born on October 21, 1979 is a Libra.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 21, 1979?: In the Chinese zodiac, October 21, 1979 falls in the year of the Earth Goat.
How old is someone born on October 21, 1979?: Someone born on October 21, 1979 is 47 years old today and has lived about 17,182 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 21, 1979?: On October 21, 1979 the moon was a New Moon.

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