Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Wednesday, August 23, 1972:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Sunday
🎂 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 › 5
🌼 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 30,588,800,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 468,008,640 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,202,393,600 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,211,824,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 385,418,880 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on May 1, 2004.
What happened on my birthday
1542
Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code.
1850
1st US National Women's Rights Convention convenes in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1942
Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die).
1996
Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places".
2005
Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane.
Famous people with my birthday
1951
Mark Hudson, American television personality (The Hudson Brothers), musician, songwriter, and record producer (Aerosmith; Hanson; Ringo Starr; Ozzy Osbourne)
1930
Jack Bannister, English cricket commentator (BBC; Talksport radio) and bowler (Warwickshire 1,198 wickets)
1976
Scott Caan, American actor
1922
Jean Darling, American child actress (Our Gang)
1935
Roy Strong, English writer, art historian and director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
1973
Malaika Arora Khan, Indian actress and model
1956
Skipp Sudduth, American actor (Third Watch)
1940
Richard Sanders, American actor (WKRP in Cincinnati - "Les Nessman")
Holidays on Wednesday, August 23rd
National Valentino Day
National Valentino Day, celebrated on August 23, is a day to remember Rudolph Valentino, a famous movie star from the 1920s, by watching his classic films.
Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
The Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition, observed on August 22, celebrates the brave uprising of enslaved people in Santo Domingo (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in 1791, leading to Haiti's independence and highlighting the fight against the cruel transatlantic slave trade.
Find Your Inner Nerd Day
Find Your Inner Nerd Day is a fun day created by a cool nerd named Beth Z, where you get to dive into what you love most, like video games or books, and let your inner geek shine without worrying about what others think.
National Sponge Cake Day
National Sponge Cake Day, celebrated on August 23rd, is a fun holiday to bake and enjoy sponge cake, a light and fluffy dessert invented for a Spanish nobleman by an Italian chef in the 1500s.
Health Unit Coordinators Day
Health Unit Coordinators Day, celebrated on August 23, is a special day to appreciate the behind-the-scenes heroes in hospitals who make sure everything runs smoothly, from patient check-ins to handling important paperwork.