Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Thursday, August 24, 1972:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Monday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › The Godfather
🎮 Number one video game › Pong
🎵 Number one song › "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass
🐀 Chinese Zodiac › Rat
☀️ Sun Sign › Virgo
🌎 Zodiac Element › Earth
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Mutable
🪐 Ruling Planet › Mercury ☿
🐼 Spirit Animal › Bear
🔢 Life Path Number › 6
🌼 Birth flower › Gladiolus
🪨 Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx
📅 Lucky day › Wednesday ⬤Power Color › Brown
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.36
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 3,851,545,181 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 30,537,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 467,225,280 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,198,707,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,206,448,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 384,773,760 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on May 2, 2004.
What happened on my birthday
79
Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die.
410
Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
1516
Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate.
1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces.
1662
Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer.
1814
British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812).
1968
France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.
Famous people with my birthday
1947
Anne Archer, American actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
1998
Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality
1975
[Simon] James D'Arcy, English actor (Agent Carter; Dunkirk)
1984
Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
1995
Runa Tsukishima, Japanese child model
1960
Takashi Miike, Japanese filmmaker (Dead or Alive)
1990
Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress (The Great Gatsby; Widows; Tenet)
1973
Barret Oliver, American actor (The Neverending Story; The Secret Garden)
Holidays on Thursday, August 24th
National Peach Pie Day
National Peach Pie Day, celebrated on August 24th, is a day when everyone who loves or makes peach pies celebrates by baking, eating, and sharing them, marking the peak season for peach harvesting.
Vesuvius Day
Vesuvius Day is observed every August 24th to remember the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum and took many lives.
National Waffle Day
National Waffle Day, celebrated on August 24th, is a fun holiday where people enjoy all kinds of waffles, from Belgian to Hong Kong style, with toppings like syrup and fruit, or even as sandwiches and hotdog buns.
National SKAM Artist Day
National SKAM Artist Day, celebrated on August 24th, honors Sujit Kundu, the founder of SKAM Artist, a DJ management company with famous DJs, marking his contributions to the entertainment industry.
William Wilberforce Day
William Wilberforce Day celebrates the birthday of William Wilberforce, a British politician who fought to end the slave trade, with various festivities and events held in his honor.
