A Thursday
Born on October 20, 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
Thursday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Earth Dragon
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
38 years
Famous people born on October 20, 1988
Candice Swanepoel
South African model
Ma Long
Chinese table tennis player
Ray Bassil
Lebanese sport shooter
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 20, 1988 was a Thursday. Someone born on October 20, 1988 is a Libra. Someone born on October 20, 1988 is 38 years old today and has lived about 13,895 days. People born in 1988 belong to the Millennials.
Also born on October 20
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Christopher Wren
1632 · English architect

Arthur Rimbaud
1854 · French poet

John Dewey
1859 · American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

Don Stephen Senanayake
1884 · Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

James Chadwick
1891 · English physicist , who discovered the neutron in

Jomo Kenyatta
1893 · first Prime Minister and President of self-governing Kenya
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 October 20, 1988
- What day of the week was October 20, 1988?
- October 20, 1988 was a Thursday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 20, 1988?
- Someone born on October 20, 1988 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 20, 1988?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 20, 1988 falls in the year of the Earth Dragon.
- How old is someone born on October 20, 1988?
- Someone born on October 20, 1988 is 38 years old today and has lived about 13,895 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1988?
- People born in 1988 belong to the Millennials.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 20, 1988?
- On October 20, 1988 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.
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