Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Tuesday, April 17, 1979:
Born into › Generation X Next birthday will be on › Friday How many days until my birthday ›
12 days
Countdown time to your next birthday:
11 months
18 days
7 hours
32 minutes
Number one movie › Kramer vs. Kramer Number one video game › Asteroids Number one song › "Knock on Wood" by Amii Stewart
Chinese Zodiac › Goat Sun Sign › Aries Zodiac Element › Fire Zodiac Quality › Cardinal Ruling Planet › Mars Spirit Animal › Hawk
Life Path Number › 11 Birth flower › Sweet Pea/Daisy Birthstone › Diamond Lucky day › Tuesday ⬤Power Color › Red
Gas price per gallon › $0.86
President of United States › World population › 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org
You’ve traveled over 26,862,400,000 miles through the Milky Way. You have blinked over 410,994,720 times in your lifetime Your heart beat over 1,934,092,800 times. You have taken about 2,820,552,000 steps. You have taken about 338,466,240 breaths since your birth.
Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on December 24, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
1387
Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" characters begin their pilgrimage to Canterbury (according to scholars).
1492
Christopher Columbus signs a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the "Indies" with the stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promises him 10% of all riches found, and the governorship of any lands encountered.
1895
Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed ending the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).
1961
1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.
1982
Proclamation of the Constitution Act by Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Famous people with my birthday
1963
Joel Murray, American actor (Mad Men)
1966
Vikram [Kennedy John Victor], Indian actor (I)
1979
Siddharth Narayan, Indian film actor
1982
Lee Joon-gi, South Korean actor and model
1956
Elizabeth Lindsey, American explorer, filmmaker (Then There Were None), and actress (China Beach; The Byrds of Paradise)
1957
Byron Cherry, American actor (Coy-Dukes of Hazzard)
1920
Genevieve [Ginette Auger], French actress and singer (The Jack Paar Show)
1937
Daffy Duck, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Porky's Duck Hunt"
Holidays on Tuesday, April 17th
Blah Blah Blah Day
Blah Blah Blah Day, celebrated every April 17th, is all about finally doing those things people keep nagging you about, like starting your New Year's resolutions, and comes from a term first used in 1918 to describe pointless chatter.
National Cheese Ball Day
National Cheese Ball Day, celebrated on April 17th, is a fun holiday where people enjoy making and eating cheese balls, which are tasty snacks made from cheese and often coated in nuts or spices, not about funny sweaters.
National Kickball Day
National Kickball Day, celebrated on April 17th, is a day dedicated to enjoying the globally loved game of kickball, a mix of soccer and baseball, that encourages everyone to gather in parks and have fun kicking balls and running bases.
Orthodox Easter Monday
Orthodox Easter Monday, also called "Bright Monday" or "Monday of Renewal," is celebrated by Orthodox Christians as a continuation of Easter, marking Jesus Christ's resurrection, and it falls on a different date than Catholic Easter due to different calendars used.
Yom HaShoah
Yom HaShoah is a day when Jews around the world remember the 6 million Jews who were killed by Hitler and his followers during the Holocaust, ensuring we never forget this tragic part of history.
Born into › Generation X
Next birthday will be on › Friday
How many days until my birthday ›
12 days
Number one movie › Kramer vs. Kramer
Number one video game › Asteroids
Number one song › "Knock on Wood" by Amii Stewart
Chinese Zodiac › Goat
Sun Sign › Aries
Zodiac Element › Fire
Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
Ruling Planet › Mars 
Spirit Animal › Hawk 
Life Path Number › 11
Birth flower › Sweet Pea/Daisy
Birthstone › Diamond
Lucky day › Tuesday
Gas price per gallon › $0.86
President of United States › 
World population › 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org
You’ve traveled over 26,862,400,000 miles through the Milky Way.
Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on December 24, 2010.