Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Wednesday, February 8, 1978:
🕰️ 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 › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Stayin' Alive" by The Bee Gees
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Aquarius
💨 Zodiac Element › Air
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Uranus ♅
🐼 Spirit Animal › Otter
🔢 Life Path Number › 8
🌼 Birth flower › Violet
🪨 Birthstone › Amethyst
📅 Lucky day › Wednesday ⬤Power Color › Blue
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 27,017,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 413,369,280 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,945,267,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,836,848,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 340,421,760 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on October 17, 2009.
What happened on my birthday
1672
Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London.
1807
Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - 1st battle Napoleon isn't victorious.
1960
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1971
Nasdaq Composite stock market index debuts with 50 companies and a starting value of 100.
Famous people with my birthday
1974
Seth Green, American actor and producer (Family Guy; Austin Powers)
1931
Shadia [Fatmah Ahmed Kamal Shaker], Egyptian actress (Midaq Alley; The Thief and the Dogs), and singer
1995
Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1979
Deng Chao, Chinese actor (The Mermaid, The Dead End)
1980
Ralf Little, English actor/comedian (The Royle Family)
1941
Nick Nolte, American actor (The Thin Red Line, 48 Hrs)
1982
Danny Tamberelli, American actor, comedian, and musician
1928
Jack Larson, American actor (The Adventures of Superman - "Jimmy Olsen"), screenwriter, and librettist (Virgil Thomson's "Lord Byron")
Holidays on Wednesday, February 8th
National Iowa Day
National Iowa Day, celebrated on February 8, honors the state of Iowa for its beautiful landscapes, smart people, and contributions to American culture and history, including its origin with the Iowa Native Americans and its settlement in the 1830s.
National Boy Scout Day
National Boy Scout Day, celebrated on February 8, honors the founding of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, recognizing young individuals who embody values like trustworthiness, kindness, and respect, inspired by a good deed from a British scout.
National Kite-Flying Day
National Kite-Flying Day is a fun holiday on February 8th where you get to run around with a kite and hope for lots of wind to make it fly high!
Molasses Bar Day
Molasses Bar Day, celebrated on February 8th, is a day to enjoy and discover the sweet, rich flavor of molasses, a thick syrup made from sugarcane or sugar beets, often used as a healthier sugar substitute in cooking and baking.
Laugh and Get Rich Day
Laugh and Get Rich Day, celebrated on February 8th, is about enjoying laughter's health benefits and how a good chuckle can make us happier, healthier, and potentially more successful at work.
