It was the 1st Sunday of 1979. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 8, 5 and 1979 reveal that your life path number is 3. 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 5, 1979 was a Sunday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Leo
→ This date was 16,307 days ago
→ 1979 was the Year of the Goat
→ In 2024, August 5 is on Tuesday

View cool August 5, 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 13, 2011.

→ You’ve slept 5,436 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 391,374 hours
→ You are 23,482,497 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 45 years old

You were born on a Sunday

August 5, 1979 was the 1st Sunday of that year. It was also the 217th 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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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 777 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,436 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 328,749,120 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,878,566,400 times. You have also blinked over 399,195,360 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 5, 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 5, 1993).

Celebrities born on August 5, 1979

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What happened on August 5th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 5 August 1979. The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.
William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
Humphrey Gilbert claims Newfoundland for the British crown - first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire.
Battle of Petrovaradin/Peterwardein: Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Turks in a decisive victory.
Battle of Mobile Bay, won by the Union Army led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" (US Civil War).

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 3

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.