It was the 2nd Tuesday of 1988. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 1, 12 and 1988 reveal that your life path number is 3. Your zodiac sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn, your birthstone is the Garnet, and your birth flower is the Carnation. You are 36 old, and were born in 1980s, in the middle of Millennials Generation. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means.

→ January 12, 1988 was a Tuesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 13,225 days ago
→ 1988 was the Year of the Dragon
→ In 2025, January 12 is on Monday

View cool January 12, 1988 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 37 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 Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn. There were precisely 448 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on September 20, 2019.

→ You’ve slept 4,408 days or 12.08 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Dragon
→ You have been alive 317,420 hours
→ You are 19,045,238 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 37 years old

You were born on a Tuesday

January 12, 1988 was the 2nd Tuesday of that year. It was also the 12th day and 1st month of 1988 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 1988 calendar will be in 2044. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 37th birthday will be on a Thursday 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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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 12.08 years of your life.
You’ve slept 145 month of your life.
You’ve slept 630 week of your life.
You’ve slept 4,408 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 266,616,000 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,523,520,000 times. You have also blinked over 323,748,000 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison. (Billboard Hot 100 – January 12, 1988). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback (January 12, 2002).

Celebrities born on January 12, 1988

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What happened on January 12th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 12 January 1988. Gustav I of Sweden crowned King of Sweden, rules for 37 years and becomes known as the "father of the nation".
Bayinnaung crowned King of Burma, goes on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia.
Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.
Earthquake occurs in Haiti killing approximately 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.

Sports in 1988

NBA – Los Angeles Lakers beat Detroit Pistons (4 - 3) to win the 1988 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – Edmonton Oilers defeated Boston Bruins (4 - 0) to win the 1988 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

NFL – Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos (42 - 10) to win Super Bowl XXII on January 31, 1988 in San Diego, CA.

MLB – Los Angeles Dodgers beat Oakland Athletics (4 - 1) to win the 1988 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.