Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Wednesday, August 8, 1973:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Saturday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › The Sting
🎮 Number one video game › Space Race
🎵 Number one song › "The Morning After" by Maureen McGovern
🐂 Chinese Zodiac › Ox
☀️ Sun Sign › Leo
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Sun ☉
🐼 Spirit Animal › Salmon
🔢 Life Path Number › 9
🌼 Birth flower › Gladiolus
🪨 Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx
📅 Lucky day › Sunday ⬤Power Color › Orange
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.39
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 3,927,538,695 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 30,030,400,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 459,465,120 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,162,188,800 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,153,192,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 378,383,040 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on April 16, 2005.
What happened on my birthday
1509
Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India.
US Congress unanimously chooses the dollar as the money unit for the United States.
1925
1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (between 25,000 and 40,000 marchers) in Washington, D.C.
1945
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea.
1974
US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day.
1988
Ceasefire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war.
Famous people with my birthday
1986
Peyton List, American model and actress (As The World Turns, 2001-05 - "Lucy"; Mad Men)
1948
Floyd Reese, American football administrator (GM Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans 1994-2006) and analyst (ESPN's NFL Live, ESPN.com)
1977
Lindsay Sloane, American actress
1980
Michael Urie, American actor and director
1938
Connie Stevens [Concetta Ingoglia], American actress (Hawaiian Eye - "Cricket"; Back to the Beach), and singer ("Sixteen Reasons")
1978
Countess Vaughn, American actress and singer
1969
Dick Togo [Shigeki Sato], Japanese professional wrestler
1967
Howard Cross, American NFL tight end, 1989-2001 (NY Giants), and broadcaster
Holidays on Wednesday, August 8th
National Pickleball Day
National Pickleball Day, celebrated on August 8, is a fun holiday dedicated to playing and promoting pickleball, a mix of tennis, ping-pong, and badminton, created to make the sport accessible to everyone.
National CBD Day
National CBD Day, celebrated every August 8th, is a day to learn about and appreciate CBD, a substance from hemp plants that can help with things like pain, anxiety, and even moving or thinking better.
National Tarantula Appreciation Day
National Tarantula Appreciation Day, celebrated on August 8th, is all about showing love for these often misunderstood, hairy spiders, highlighting their gentleness and the powerful symbolism they carry.
National Perler Day
National Perler Day, celebrated on August 8th, is a cool holiday where everyone gets to show off their creativity by making awesome designs with tiny, colorful beads that you arrange and then melt together with an iron.
National Dollar Day
National Dollar Day, celebrated on August 8, marks the creation of the U.S. monetary system, acknowledging the importance of the dollar which is widely used around the world and had over $2 trillion in circulation as of early 2021.
