Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Sunday, August 20, 1978:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Thursday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Grease" by Frankie Valli
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Leo
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Sun ☉
🐼 Spirit Animal › Salmon
🔢 Life Path Number › 8
🌼 Birth flower › Gladiolus
🪨 Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx
📅 Lucky day › Sunday ⬤Power Color › Orange
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 27,035,200,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 413,638,560 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,946,534,400 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,838,696,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 340,643,520 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on April 28, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
1597
1st Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East.
1619
1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.
1741
Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition.
1866
President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over.
1905
Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
1968
During the night 200,000 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring.
1993
Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
Famous people with my birthday
1992
Alex Newell, American actor and singer (Glee, Shucked)
1956
Joan Allen, American actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country)
1943
Sylvester McCoy, Scottish actor (Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who)
1968
Yuri Shiratori, Japanese voice actress and singer
1949
Alan Hardwick, English TV presenter
1948
John Noble, Australian actor (Dr. Walter Bishop-Fringe) and theatre director
1987
Zakir Khan, Indian comedian (On Air with AIB)
1980
Corey Carrier, American actor (Young Indiana Jones)
Holidays on Sunday, August 20th
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day
National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day, celebrated on August 20th, is a fun holiday where we bake or eat this delicious dessert that combines the rich flavors of chocolate and pecans, ingredients enjoyed for thousands of years.
National Radio Day
National Radio Day, celebrated on August 20, is a day to appreciate how radio revolutionized communication by sharing news, music, and more, making the world feel more connected, even though we now often use the internet and TV for those purposes.
