It was the 4th Wednesday of 1979. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 1, 24 and 1979 reveal that your life path number is 6. Your zodiac sign is Aquarius with a ruling planet Uranus, your birthstone is the Garnet, and your birth flower is the Carnation. You are 45 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.

→ January 24, 1979 was a Wednesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Aquarius
→ This date was 16,499 days ago
→ 1979 was the Year of the Goat
→ In 2025, January 24 is on Saturday

View snazzy January 24, 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 46 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 Aquarius with a ruling planet Uranus. There were precisely 559 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on October 2, 2010.

→ You’ve slept 5,500 days or 15.07 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Goat
→ You have been alive 395,998 hours
→ You are 23,759,896 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 46 years old

You were born on a Wednesday

January 24, 1979 was the 4th Wednesday of that year. It was also the 24th day and 1st 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 46th birthday will be on a Thursday and a birthday after that will be on a Saturday. 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 Thursday

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 15.07 years of your life.
You’ve slept 181 month of your life.
You’ve slept 786 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,500 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 332,619,840 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,900,684,800 times. You have also blinked over 403,895,520 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Le Freak" by Chic. (Billboard Hot 100 – January 24, 1979). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston (January 24, 1993).

Celebrities born on January 24, 1979

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Tatyana Ali (tv actress).

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 24, 1979.


What happened on January 24th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 24 January 1979. Claudius succeeds his nephew Caligula as Roman Emperor after the later's assassination by officers of the Praetorian Guard.
University of Calcutta founded as the first full-fledged university in South Asia.
Rubber heel for boots or shoes patented by American Humphrey O'Sullivan.
Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-improvement. The book becomes the inspiration for the Scout Movement.
Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer.

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 6

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.