A Friday
Born on January 1, 1982?
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
Capricorn
🐓 Chinese zodiac
Metal Rooster
🌓 Moon
First Quarter
🎂 Age today
44 years
Famous people born on January 1, 1982
Egidio Arévalo Rios
Uruguayan footballer
Abdullah Al-Mutairi
Kuwaiti football manager
Ayah Bdeir
Entrepreneur, inventor, and interactive artist (born 1982)
Zersenay Tadese
Eritrean long-distance runner
David Nalbandian
Argentine tennis player (1982-)
Benoît Angbwa
Cameroonian footballer
Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim
Somali activist (born 1982)
Sabina Ćudić
Bosnian politician
Sebastián Pardo
Chilean footballer
Ayanda Denge
South African trans woman and sex worker
Ara Khachatryan
Armenian weightlifter
Alsarah
Sudanese-American singer, songwriter, and ethnomusicologist
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
January 1, 1982 was a Friday. Someone born on January 1, 1982 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 1982 is 44 years old today and has lived about 16,379 days. People born in 1982 belong to the Millennials.
Also born on January 1
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Alexander VI
1431 · pope of the Catholic Church – from the Borgia family

Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist

Huldrych Zwingli
1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder

Hong Xiuquan
1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion

Sándor Petőfi
1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

Pierre de Coubertin
1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian

George Washington Carver
1864 · African American botanist and inventor

Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath

Ousmane Sembène
1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author
Gift ideas for someone born in 1982
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 45
- “Born in 1982” gifts
- Wine from 1982
- Books about 1982
- A newspaper from 1982
- Coin set from 1982
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Questions about January 1, 1982
- What day of the week was January 1, 1982?
- January 1, 1982 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on January 1, 1982?
- Someone born on January 1, 1982 is a Capricorn.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 1982?
- In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 1982 falls in the year of the Metal Rooster.
- How old is someone born on January 1, 1982?
- Someone born on January 1, 1982 is 44 years old today and has lived about 16,379 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1982?
- People born in 1982 belong to the Millennials.
- What is the birthstone for January?
- The birthstone for January is garnet.
- What was the moon phase on January 1, 1982?
- On January 1, 1982 the moon was a First Quarter.
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