A Thursday
Born on August 1, 1985?
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
Leo
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Wood Ox
🌕 Moon
Full Moon
🎂 Age today
41 years
Famous people born on August 1, 1985
Dušan Švento
Slovak footballer
Tendai Mtawarira
South African rugby union footballer
Maria Nalbandian
Armenian musician
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
August 1, 1985 was a Thursday. Someone born on August 1, 1985 is a Leo. Someone born on August 1, 1985 is 41 years old today and has lived about 15,071 days. People born in 1985 belong to the Millennials.
Also born on August 1
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
1744 · French naturalist

Herman Melville
1819 · American writer and poet

Pierre Bourdieu
1930 · French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher

Yves Saint Laurent
1936 · French fashion designer
Gift ideas for someone born in 1985
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 42
- “Born in 1985” gifts
- Wine from 1985
- Books about 1985
- A newspaper from 1985
- Coin set from 1985
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Questions about August 1, 1985
- What day of the week was August 1, 1985?
- August 1, 1985 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on August 1, 1985?
- Someone born on August 1, 1985 is a Leo.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for August 1, 1985?
- In the Chinese zodiac, August 1, 1985 falls in the year of the Wood Ox.
- How old is someone born on August 1, 1985?
- Someone born on August 1, 1985 is 41 years old today and has lived about 15,071 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1985?
- People born in 1985 belong to the Millennials.
- What is the birthstone for August?
- The birthstone for August is peridot.
- What was the moon phase on August 1, 1985?
- On August 1, 1985 the moon was a Full Moon.
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