Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Thursday, August 24, 1978:
Born into › Generation X Next birthday will be on › Monday How many days until my birthday ›
155 days
Countdown time to your next birthday:
6 months
26 days
12 hours
35 minutes
Number one movie › Grease Number one video game › Space Invaders Number one song › "Grease" by Frankie Valli
Chinese Zodiac › Horse Sun Sign › Virgo Zodiac Element › Earth Zodiac Quality › Mutable Ruling Planet › Mercury ☿ Spirit Animal › Bear
Life Path Number › 3 Birth flower › Gladiolus Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx Lucky day › Wednesday ⬤Power Color › Brown
Gas price per gallon › $0.63
President of United States › World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
You’ve traveled over 27,217,600,000 miles through the Milky Way. You have blinked over 416,429,280 times in your lifetime Your heart beat over 1,959,667,200 times. You have taken about 2,857,848,000 steps. You have taken approximately 342,941,760 breaths since your birth.
Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on May 2, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
79
Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die.
410
Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
1516
Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate.
1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces.
1662
Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer.
1814
British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812).
1968
France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.
Famous people with my birthday
1973
Barret Oliver, American actor (The Neverending Story; The Secret Garden)
1990
Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress (The Great Gatsby; Widows; Tenet)
1964
Dana Gould, American comedian, actor, and writer (The Simpsons, 2001-07)
1981
Chad Michael Murray, American actor (One Tree Hill)
1984
Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
1958
Steve Guttenberg, American actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
1947
Anne Archer, American actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
2000
Griffin Gluck, American actor (Locke & Key)
Holidays on Thursday, August 24th
National Peach Pie Day
National Peach Pie Day, celebrated on August 24th, is a day when everyone who loves or makes peach pies celebrates by baking, eating, and sharing them, marking the peak season for peach harvesting.
National Waffle Day
National Waffle Day, celebrated on August 24th, is a fun holiday where people enjoy all kinds of waffles, from Belgian to Hong Kong style, with toppings like syrup and fruit, or even as sandwiches and hotdog buns.
Pluto Demoted Day
Pluto Demoted Day, on August 24, marks the day when scientists decided Pluto wasn't a main planet but a smaller "dwarf planet" because it's not the biggest thing in its path around the sun.
William Wilberforce Day
William Wilberforce Day celebrates the birthday of William Wilberforce, a British politician who fought to end the slave trade, with various festivities and events held in his honor.
National SKAM Artist Day
National SKAM Artist Day, celebrated on August 24th, honors Sujit Kundu, the founder of SKAM Artist, a DJ management company with famous DJs, marking his contributions to the entertainment industry.
Born into › Generation X
Next birthday will be on › Monday
How many days until my birthday ›
155 days
Number one movie › Grease
Number one video game › Space Invaders
Number one song › "Grease" by Frankie Valli
Chinese Zodiac › Horse
Sun Sign › Virgo
Zodiac Element › Earth
Zodiac Quality › Mutable
Ruling Planet › Mercury ☿
Spirit Animal › Bear 
Life Path Number › 3
Birth flower › Gladiolus
Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx
Lucky day › Wednesday
Gas price per gallon › $0.63
President of United States › 
You’ve traveled over 27,217,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on May 2, 2010.