It was the 1st Wednesday of 1972. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 1, 5 and 1972 reveal that your life path number is 7. Your zodiac sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn, your birthstone is the Garnet, and your birth flower is the Carnation. You are 52 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 5, 1972 was a Wednesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 19,076 days ago
→ 1972 was the Year of the Rat
→ In 2025, January 5 is on Monday

View fun January 5, 1972 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 53 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Rat. Your birth sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn. There were precisely 647 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on September 13, 2003.

→ You’ve slept 6,359 days or 17.42 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Rat
→ You have been alive 457,837 hours
→ You are 27,470,226 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 53 years old

You were born on a Wednesday

January 5, 1972 was the 1st Wednesday of that year. It was also the 5th day and 1st month of 1972 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 1972 calendar will be in 2028. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 53rd birthday will be on a Friday 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 17.42 years of your life.
You’ve slept 209 month of your life.
You’ve slept 908 week of your life.
You’ve slept 6,359 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 384,572,160 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 2,197,555,200 times. You have also blinked over 466,980,480 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Brand New Key" by Melanie. (Billboard Hot 100 – January 5, 1972). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie (January 5, 1986).

Celebrities born on January 5, 1972

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Ms. Juicy Baby (radio host), Sakis Rouvas (pop singer).

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 5, 1972.


What happened on January 5th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 5 January 1972. Battle of Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7,000 + killed including their leader Charles Duke of Burgundy.
British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond, Virginia.
National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers' Party.
Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire".
US President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal".

Sports in 1972

NBA – Los Angeles Lakers beat New York Knicks (4 - 1) to win the 1972 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – Boston Bruins defeated New York Rangers (4 - 2) to win the 1972 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

NFL –

MLB – Oakland Athletics beat Cincinnati Reds (4 - 3) to win the 1972 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.