A Wednesday
Born on August 13, 1980?
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
Wednesday
♌ Star sign
Leo
🐒 Chinese zodiac
Metal Monkey
🌒 Moon
Waxing Crescent
🎂 Age today
46 years
Famous people born on August 13, 1980
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 13, 1980 was a Wednesday. Someone born on August 13, 1980 is a Leo. Someone born on August 13, 1980 is 46 years old today and has lived about 16,885 days. People born in 1980 belong to Generation X.
Also born on August 13
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

John Logie Baird
1888 · Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television

Alfred Hitchcock
1899 · British filmmaker

Frederick Sanger
1918 · British biochemist

Fidel Castro
1926 · Cuban politician, author and revolutionary
Gift ideas for someone born in 1980
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 47
- “Born in 1980” gifts
- Wine from 1980
- Books about 1980
- A newspaper from 1980
- Coin set from 1980
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Questions about August 13, 1980
- What day of the week was August 13, 1980?
- August 13, 1980 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 13, 1980?
- Someone born on August 13, 1980 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 13, 1980?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 13, 1980 falls in the year of the Metal Monkey.
- How old is someone born on August 13, 1980?
- Someone born on August 13, 1980 is 46 years old today and has lived about 16,885 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1980?
- People born in 1980 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 13, 1980?
- On August 13, 1980 the moon was a Waxing Crescent.
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