It was the 2nd Saturday of 1979. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 8, 11 and 1979 reveal that your life path number is 9. Your zodiac sign is Leo with a ruling planet Sun, your birthstone is the Peridot and Sardonyx, and your birth flower is the Gladiolus. You are 44 old, and were born in 1970s, in the middle of Generation X. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means.

→ August 11, 1979 was a Saturday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Leo
→ This date was 16,301 days ago
→ 1979 was the Year of the Goat
→ In 2024, August 11 is on Monday

View interesting August 11, 1979 birthday facts that no one tells you about, such as your life path number, birthstone, ruling planet, zodiac sign and birth flower.

You have been alive for:

People born on this day will turn 45 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Goat. Your birth sign is Leo with a ruling planet Sun. There were precisely 553 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on April 19, 2011.

→ You’ve slept 5,434 days or 14.89 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Goat
→ You have been alive 391,232 hours
→ You are 23,473,921 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 45 years old

You were born on a Saturday

August 11, 1979 was the 2nd Saturday of that year. It was also the 223rd day and 8th month of 1979 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 1979 calendar will be in 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 45th birthday will be on a Monday and a birthday after that will be on a Monday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and is automatically updated.

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Your next birthday is on a Monday

You’ve slept 33% of your life!

Assuming you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth. Here is how much time you’ve spent sleeping so far:

You’ve slept 14.89 years of your life.
You’ve slept 178 month of your life.
You’ve slept 776 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,434 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 328,628,160 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,877,875,200 times. You have also blinked over 399,048,480 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer. (Billboard Hot 100 – August 11, 1979). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "(I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You" by UB40 (August 11, 1993).

Celebrities born on August 11, 1979

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Chris Smith (self-help author).

We have over 150,000 celebrities in our database. We will continue to update this list with matching birthdays, so bookmark this page and check back often. You can also find out all celebrity birthdays born on August 11, 1979.


What happened on August 11th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 11 August 1979. Allies refuse Japan's offer to surrender on the condition that Emperor Hirohito retains his status.
Formal peace treaty ends over 7 yrs of fighting in Indochina between the French and the Communist Viet Minh.
Al-Qaeda formed at a meeting between Osama bin Laden, Zawahiri and Dr Fadl in Peshawar, Pakistan.
NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

Sports in 1979

NBA – Seattle SuperSonics beat Washington Bullets (4 - 1) to win the 1979 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – Montreal Canadiens defeated New York Rangers (4 - 1) to win the 1979 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

NFL – Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys (35 - 31) to win Super Bowl XIII on January 21, 1979 in Miami, FL.

MLB – Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles (4 - 3) to win the 1979 World Series. to win the World Series.


Your life path number is 9

So what does your birthday really say about you and what does your life path number mean? On the next page, we’ll explain what your birth sign, ruling planet, age generation, birthstone, and birth flower mean — and more!

Continue to the next page to discover the answers to the most important questions about your birthday.