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 ›
161 days
Countdown time to your next birthday:
6 months
21 days
8 hours
4 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 27,208,000,000 miles through the Milky Way. You have blinked over 416,282,400 times in your lifetime Your heart beat over 1,958,976,000 times. You have taken about 2,856,840,000 steps. You have taken about 342,820,800 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
1971
Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor
1968
Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1980
Sonja Bennett, Canadian actress (Punch)
1973
Barret Oliver, American actor (The Neverending Story; The Secret Garden)
1961
Jared Harris, Irish-British actor (Valery Legasov-Chernobyl)
1977
Funke Akindele, Nigerian director, *producer and actress (Jenifa)
1990
Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress (The Great Gatsby; Widows; Tenet)
1962
Craig Kilborn, American television host (ESPN's SportsCenter, 1993-96; The Daily Show, 1996-98; The Late Late Show, 1999-2004)
Holidays on Thursday, August 24th
National Knife Day
National Knife Day, on August 24th, celebrates the importance and versatility of knives, tools humans have used since the Stone Age, by showcasing skills, buying new knives, and sharing with others.
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 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 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 ›
161 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 27,208,000,000 miles through the Milky Way.
Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on May 2, 2010.