It was the 1st Tuesday of 1988. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 1, 5 and 1988 reveal that your life path number is 5. 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 5, 1988 was a Tuesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 13,231 days ago
→ 1988 was the Year of the Dragon
→ In 2025, January 5 is on Monday

View fun January 5, 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 449 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on September 13, 2019.

→ You’ve slept 4,410 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 317,566 hours
→ You are 19,053,999 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 37 years old

You were born on a Tuesday

January 5, 1988 was the 1st Tuesday of that year. It was also the 5th 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 4,410 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 266,736,960 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,524,211,200 times. You have also blinked over 323,894,880 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "So Emotional" by Whitney Houston. (Billboard Hot 100 – January 5, 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 5, 2002).

Celebrities born on January 5, 1988

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Mike Naran (pop singer), Brittany Taylor (YouTuber).

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, 1988.


What happened on January 5th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 5 January 1988. 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 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 5

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.