It was the 4th Tuesday of 1976. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 8, 24 and 1976 reveal that your life path number is 1. Your zodiac sign is Virgo with a ruling planet Mercury, your birthstone is the Peridot and Sardonyx, and your birth flower is the Gladiolus. You are 47 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 24, 1976 was a Tuesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Virgo
→ This date was 17,383 days ago
→ 1976 was the Year of the Dragon
→ In 2024, August 24 is on Sunday

View fun August 24, 1976 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 48 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Dragon. Your birth sign is Virgo with a ruling planet Mercury. There were precisely 589 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on May 2, 2008.

→ You’ve slept 5,794 days or 15.87 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Dragon
→ You have been alive 417,208 hours
→ You are 25,032,510 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 48 years old

You were born on a Tuesday

August 24, 1976 was the 4th Tuesday of that year. It was also the 237th day and 8th month of 1976 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 1976 calendar will be in 2032. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 48th birthday will be on a Wednesday and a birthday after that will be on a Sunday. 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 Wednesday

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 15.87 years of your life.
You’ve slept 190 month of your life.
You’ve slept 828 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,794 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 350,441,280 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 2,002,521,600 times. You have also blinked over 425,535,840 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee. (Billboard Hot 100 – August 24, 1976). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey (August 24, 1990).

Celebrities born on August 24, 1976

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Danica DeCosto (YouTuber), Alex O'Loughlin (movie actor).

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 24, 1976.


What happened on August 24th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 24 August 1976. Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die.
Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate.
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces.
Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer.

Sports in 1976

NBA – Boston Celtics beat Phoenix Suns (4 - 2) to win the 1976 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – Montreal Canadiens defeated Philadelphia Flyers (4 - 0) to win the 1976 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

NFL –

MLB – Cincinnati Reds beat New York Yankees (4 - 0) to win the 1976 World Series. to win the World Series.


Your life path number is 1

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.