It was the 1st Monday of 1979. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 7, 2 and 1979 reveal that your life path number is 8. Your zodiac sign is Cancer with a ruling planet Moon, your birthstone is the Ruby, and your birth flower is the Larkspur. You are 44 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.

→ July 2, 1979 was a Monday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Cancer
→ This date was 16,341 days ago
→ 1979 was the Year of the Goat
→ In 2024, July 2 is on Wednesday

View fun July 2, 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 45 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 Cancer with a ruling planet Moon. There were precisely 554 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on March 10, 2011.

→ You’ve slept 5,447 days or 14.92 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Goat
→ You have been alive 392,191 hours
→ You are 23,531,474 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 45 years old

You were born on a Monday

July 2, 1979 was the 1st Monday of that year. It was also the 183rd day and 7th 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 45th birthday will be on a Wednesday and a birthday after that will be on a Wednesday. 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 14.92 years of your life.
You’ve slept 179 month of your life.
You’ve slept 778 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,447 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 329,434,560 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,882,483,200 times. You have also blinked over 400,027,680 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward. (Billboard Hot 100 – July 2, 1979). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "That's the Way Love Goes" by Janet Jackson (July 2, 1993).

Celebrities born on July 2, 1979

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What happened on July 2nd

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 2 July 1979. Incident at Xuanwu Gate: in fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng.
Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are & of right ought to be Free and Independent States".
Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law.
Panic in tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death.

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 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.