Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Thursday, August 17, 1978:
🕰️ 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 › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Leo
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Sun ☉
🐼 Spirit Animal › Salmon
🔢 Life Path Number › 5
🌼 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 26,956,800,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 412,439,040 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,940,889,600 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,830,464,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 339,655,680 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on April 25, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
1590
Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier [or Aug 18, 1591].
1903
Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America.
1945
Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands.
1945
Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
1947
The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.
1998
Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship.
Famous people with my birthday
1900
Quincy Howe, American newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1969
Donnie Wahlberg, American pop singer (New Kids On The Block - "Hangin' Tough"), actor (Band of Brothers; Boomtown), and producer
1918
Mort Marshall [Mortimer Haig Lichtenstein], American actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Dumplings)
1985
Yū Aoi, Japanese actress (Hula Girls)
1981
Kristin Holt, American television personality (American Idol)
1951
Robert Joy, Canadian actor (Big Shots, CSI)
1933
Glenn Corbett [Glen Edwin Rothenburg], American actor (Route 66; Shenandoah; Chisum)
1939
Anthony Valentine, British actor (Colditz)
Holidays on Thursday, August 17th
National Nonprofit Day
National Nonprofit Day, celebrated on August 17th, is a day to recognize and appreciate the hard work and positive impact of nonprofit organizations that work to improve our communities and help people in need.
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day, celebrated on August 17th, honors the generation born between 1946 and 1964 for their contributions and achievements in shaping modern society.
National Thrift Shop Day
National Thrift Shop Day, celebrated on August 17, encourages people to shop at and support thrift stores, which help community members in need by selling donated goods at low prices.
National I LOVE My feet Day
National I Love My Feet Day, celebrated every August 17, is a day to appreciate and take care of our feet for all the hard work they do in supporting our body, helping us balance, and carrying us through life.
National Workers' Comp Adjuster Day
National Workers' Comp Adjuster Day, celebrated on August 17, is a special day to appreciate the hardworking people who help workers get the support and compensation they need when they're injured on the job.
