Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Saturday, August 19, 1978:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Tuesday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Three Times A Lady" by The Commodores
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Leo
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Sun ☉
🐼 Spirit Animal › Salmon
🔢 Life Path Number › 7
🌼 Birth flower › Gladiolus
🪨 Birthstone › Peridot and Sardonyx
📅 Lucky day › Sunday ⬤Power Color › Orange
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,715,200,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 408,742,560 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,923,494,400 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,805,096,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 336,611,520 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on April 27, 2010.
What happened on my birthday
1839
Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris.
1942
World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France.
1988
Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT).
1991
Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'etat.
2010
Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
Famous people with my birthday
1975
Tracie Thoms, American actress (Rent)
1956
Adam Arkin, American actor (Busting Loose; Pearl; Northern Exposure - "Adam")
1965
Kevin Dillon, American actor (Heaven Help Us, Platoon)
1982
Erika Christensen, American actress (Parenthood)
1969
Patrick Van Horn, American actor (Swingers)
1948
Toshio Suzuki, Japanese film producer (anime, co-founder Studio Ghibli)
1966
Lilian Garcia, Spanish-American wrestling announcer (WWE)
1999
Ethan Cutkosky, American actor (Shameless)
Holidays on Saturday, August 19th
National Photography Day
National Photography Day, celebrated on August 19, is a day to appreciate and give credit to photographers who capture and share the world's stories and beauty through their cameras, showcasing various photography styles like portraits, landscapes, and more.
National Soft Ice Cream Day
National Soft Ice Cream Day, celebrated on August 19, is a fun holiday that encourages everyone to enjoy soft serve ice cream while remembering all the joyful times we've had with this delicious treat at places like fairs and amusement parks, and it also has a cool backstory!
National Patient Advocacy Day
National Patient Advocacy Day, celebrated on August 19th, is a day to highlight the importance of patient advocates who help people navigate the confusing healthcare system, especially with things like Medicaid and insurance paperwork.
National Potato Day
National Potato Day, celebrated on August 19th, is a fun holiday where people celebrate and enjoy all things related to potatoes, from fries to mashed, in various delicious ways.
