It was the 4th Sunday of 1979. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 12, 23 and 1979 reveal that your life path number is 7. Your zodiac sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn, your birthstone is the Tanzanite, Turquoise, Zircon and Topaz, and your birth flower is the Narcissus. 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.

→ December 23, 1979 was a Sunday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 16,167 days ago
→ 1979 was the Year of the Goat
→ In 2024, December 23 is on Tuesday

View fun December 23, 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 Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn. There were precisely 548 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on August 31, 2011.

→ You’ve slept 5,389 days or 14.76 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Goat
→ You have been alive 388,016 hours
→ You are 23,281,012 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 45 years old

You were born on a Sunday

December 23, 1979 was the 4th Sunday of that year. It was also the 357th day and 12th 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 Tuesday and a birthday after that will be on a Tuesday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and is automatically updated.

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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 14.76 years of your life.
You’ve slept 177 month of your life.
You’ve slept 770 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,389 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 325,926,720 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,862,438,400 times. You have also blinked over 395,768,160 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Escape (Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes. (Billboard Hot 100 – December 23, 1979). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "Hero" by Mariah Carey (December 23, 1993).

Celebrities born on December 23, 1979

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Kenny Miller (soccer player), Holly Madison (model).

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 December 23, 1979.


What happened on December 23rd

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 23 December 1979. Byzantine-Arab Wars: Under the future Emperor Nicephorus Phocas, Byzantine troops stormed city of Aleppo, recovering the tattered tunic of John the Baptist.
King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange.
US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress.
Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear with a razor, after argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin, and sends to a prostitute for safe keeping.
Government of Ireland Act / Home Rule Act passed partitioning Ireland.

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 7

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.