January 1, 1996 facts
It was the 2nd Monday of 1996. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 1, 8, and 1996 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 28 old, and were born in the 1990s, 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 8, 1996 was a Monday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 10,307 days ago
→ 1996 was the Year of the Rat
→ In 2025, January 8 is on Thursday
→ You are 29 years old in Korean Age

View must-know January 8, 1996 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 29 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. On your birthday, the moon was in Waning Gibbous 🌖 phase, and there were precisely 349 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on September 16, 2027.

→ You’ve slept 3,436 days or 9.41 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Rat
→ You have been alive 247,379 hours
→ You are 14,842,748 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 29 years old

You were born on a Monday

January 8, 1996, was the 2nd Monday of that year. It was also the 8th day and 1st month of 1996 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse the 1996 calendar will be in 2024. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 29th birthday will be on a Wednesday, and the birthday after that will be on a Thursday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and automatically updated.

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Your next birthday is on a Wednesday

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 9.41 years of your life.
You’ve slept 113 month of your life.
You’ve slept 491 week of your life.
You’ve slept 3,436 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 207,789,120 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,187,366,400 times. You have also blinked over 252,315,360 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men (Billboard Hot 100 – January 8, 1996). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Celebrities born on January 8, 1996

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Jared Scott (tv actor), Isabel Bedoya (Instagram star), Emma Heesters (YouTuber), Orkun Isitmak (YouTuber), Khylin Rhambo (tv actor)

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 all celebrity birthdays born on January 8, 1996.


Holidays on January 8, 1996

Here are a few holidays that are celebrated on your birthday:

We track thousands of holidays, you can view all of the holidays on January 8 here.

What happened on January 8th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 8 January 1996.

  • Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands).
  • 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address.
  • US national debt is $0 for the first and only time in history.
  • Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms.
  • WWI: ANZAC forces withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople.
  • Sports in 1996

    NBA – Chicago Bulls beat Seattle SuperSonics (4 - 2) to win the 1996 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

    NHL – Colorado Avalanche defeated Florida Panthers (4 - 0) to win the 1996 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

    NFL – Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers (27 - 17) to win Super Bowl XXX on January 28, 1996 in Tempe, AZ.

    MLB – New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves (4 - 2) to win the 1996 World Series. to win the World Series.

    Tennis –


    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.