May 5, 1996 facts
It was the 3rd Saturday of 1996. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 5, 18, and 1996 reveal that your life path number is 3. Your zodiac sign is Taurus with a ruling planet Venus, your birthstone is the Emerald, and your birth flower is the Lily of the valley. You are 27 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.

→ May 18, 1996 was a Saturday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Taurus
→ This date was 10,176 days ago
→ 1996 was the Year of the Rat
→ In 2024, May 18 is on Sunday
→ You are 29 years old in Korean Age

View must-know May 18, 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 28 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 Taurus, with a ruling planet Venus. On your birthday, the moon was in New 🌑 phase, and there were precisely 345 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on January 25, 2028.

→ You’ve slept 3,392 days or 9.29 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Rat
→ You have been alive 244,231 hours
→ You are 14,653,906 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 28 years old

You were born on a Saturday

May 18, 1996, was the 3rd Saturday of that year. It was also the 139th day and 5th 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 28th birthday will be on a Sunday, and the birthday after that will be on a Sunday. 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 Sunday

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 9.29 years of your life.
You’ve slept 111 month of your life.
You’ve slept 485 week of your life.
You’ve slept 3,392 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 205,148,160 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,172,275,200 times. You have also blinked over 249,108,480 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Billboard Hot 100 – May 18, 1996). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Celebrities born on May 18, 1996

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Juanpa Barbot (YouTuber), Josefine Pettersen (tv actress), Violett Beane (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 all celebrity birthdays born on May 18, 1996.


Holidays on May 18, 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 May 18 here.

What happened on May 18th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 18 May 1996.

  • Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil and his forces take the last Christian stronghold of Acre.
  • After 100 years of crusader control, Acre is the last crusader stronghold reconquered and destroyed by the Mamluks under Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil.
  • Napoleon Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
  • Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field, Moscow, during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
  • India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
  • 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 3

    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.