A Wednesday
Born on May 4, 1988?
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
Taurus
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Earth Dragon
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
38 years
Famous people born on May 4, 1988
Radja Nainggolan
Belgian association football player (born 1988)
Oleksandr Abramenko
Ukrainian freestyle skier
Mihaela Buzărnescu
Romanian female tennis player
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
May 4, 1988 was a Wednesday. Someone born on May 4, 1988 is a Taurus. Someone born on May 4, 1988 is 38 years old today and has lived about 14,064 days. People born in 1988 belong to the Millennials.
Also born on May 4
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Kangxi Emperor
1654 · 3rd Emperor of the Qing dynasty (r. – )

Tyagaraja
1767 · Indian composer of Carnatic music

Thomas Henry Huxley
1825 · British biologist and comparative anatomist

Jane Jacobs
1916 · American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist

Audrey Hepburn
1929 · British actress
Gift ideas for someone born in 1988
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 39
- “Born in 1988” gifts
- Wine from 1988
- Books about 1988
- A newspaper from 1988
- Coin set from 1988
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Questions about May 4, 1988
- What day of the week was May 4, 1988?
- May 4, 1988 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on May 4, 1988?
- Someone born on May 4, 1988 is a Taurus.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for May 4, 1988?
- In the Chinese zodiac, May 4, 1988 falls in the year of the Earth Dragon.
- How old is someone born on May 4, 1988?
- Someone born on May 4, 1988 is 38 years old today and has lived about 14,064 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1988?
- People born in 1988 belong to the Millennials.
- What is the birthstone for May?
- The birthstone for May is emerald.
- What was the moon phase on May 4, 1988?
- On May 4, 1988 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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