Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Wednesday, January 31, 1979:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Saturday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Kramer vs. Kramer
🎮 Number one video game › Asteroids
🎵 Number one song › "Le Freak" by Chic
🐐 Chinese Zodiac › Goat
☀️ Sun Sign › Aquarius
💨 Zodiac Element › Air
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Uranus ♅
🐼 Spirit Animal › Otter
🔢 Life Path Number › 4
🌼 Birth flower › Carnation
🪨 Birthstone › Garnet
📅 Lucky day › Wednesday ⬤Power Color › Blue
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.86
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,380,585,755 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,819,200,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 410,333,760 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,930,982,400 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,816,016,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 337,921,920 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on October 9, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
1865
Congress passes the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (passes 121-24).
1865
General Robert E. Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies during US Civil War.
1943
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrenders to Soviet troops at Stalingrad.
1950
US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb.
1985
South African President P. W. Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence.
Famous people with my birthday
1970
Amelia "Minnie" Driver, British-American actress (Good Will Hunting; The Riches), and singer-songwriter (Everything I've Got in My Pocket)
1946
Glynn Turman, American actor (Lew-Peyton Place, Manimal, Centennial)
1975
Preity Zinta, Indian actress and entrepreneur
1934
James Franciscus, American actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Mr Novak, Longstreet)
1939
Claude Gauthier, Canadian folk singer-songwriter, and actor
1941
Jessica Walter, American actress (Play Misty For Me, Arrested Development)
1980
James Adomian, American actor
1952
Thomas Lawrence Toscano, American conductor (Opera OGGI NY), composer, and broadcaster
Holidays on Wednesday, January 31st
Hug An Economist Day
Hug An Economist Day, celebrated on January 31st, is a fun way to show appreciation for economists and spark interest in how economics affects our lives, despite its origins being a bit of a mystery.
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day is a special day every January 31 where we celebrate how music, paintings, and other forms of art can touch our feelings and spark new ideas.
Brandy Alexander Day
Brandy Alexander Day, celebrated on January 31, is a day dedicated to enjoying a creamy and sweet alcoholic drink made from brandy, chocolate liqueur, and cream.
National Backward Day
National Backward Day, celebrated on January 31, is a fun holiday where you do things in reverse, like reading poems backwards, to see how changing directions can be both interesting and a different way to learn.
Scotch Tape Day
Scotch Tape Day, celebrated on January 31st, honors the invention of the sticky tape we use to fix or attach almost anything, thanks to Richard Drew who invented it to help paint cars with two colors without mixing them up.