It was the 3rd Wednesday of 1980. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 1, 16 and 1980 reveal that your life path number is 8. Your zodiac sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn, your birthstone is the Garnet, and your birth flower is the Carnation. You are 44 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 16, 1980 was a Wednesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 16,143 days ago
→ 1980 was the Year of the Monkey
→ In 2025, January 16 is on Friday

View must-know January 16, 1980 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 Monkey. Your birth sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn. There were precisely 547 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on September 24, 2011.

→ You’ve slept 5,381 days or 14.74 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Monkey
→ You have been alive 387,440 hours
→ You are 23,246,454 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 45 years old

You were born on a Wednesday

January 16, 1980 was the 3rd Wednesday of that year. It was also the 16th day and 1st month of 1980 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 1980 calendar will be in 2036. 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 Friday and a birthday after that will be on a Friday. 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 Friday

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 14.74 years of your life.
You’ve slept 177 month of your life.
You’ve slept 769 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,381 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 325,442,880 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,859,673,600 times. You have also blinked over 395,180,640 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Rock With You" by Michael Jackson. (Billboard Hot 100 – January 16, 1980). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "All for Love" by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Sting (January 16, 1994).

Celebrities born on January 16, 1980

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Alyssa Edwards (reality star), James Young (guitarist), Lin-Manuel Miranda (stage actor), Albert Pujols (baseball player).

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 January 16, 1980.


What happened on January 16th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 16 January 1980. The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Moscow.
The first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution.
British House of Commons accepts Home Rule for Ireland (but the Great War gets in the way of it happening).

Sports in 1980

NBA – Los Angeles Lakers beat Philadelphia 76ers (4 - 2) to win the 1980 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – New York Islanders defeated Philadelphia Flyers (4 - 2) to win the 1980 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

NFL – Pittsburgh Steelers beat Los Angeles Rams (31 - 19) to win Super Bowl XIV on January 20, 1980 in Pasadena, CA.

MLB – Philadelphia Phillies beat Kansas City Royals (4 - 2) to win the 1980 World Series. to win the World Series.


Your life path number is 8

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.