It was the 1st Wednesday of 1979. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 9, 5 and 1979 reveal that your life path number is 4. Your zodiac sign is Virgo with a ruling planet Mercury, your birthstone is the Sapphire, and your birth flower is the Aster/Myosotis. You are 43 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.

→ September 5, 1979 was a Wednesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Virgo
→ This date was 15,971 days ago
→ 1979 was the Year of the Goat
→ In 2023, September 5 is on Thursday

View interesting September 5, 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 44 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 Virgo with a ruling planet Mercury. There were precisely 541 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on May 14, 2011.

→ You’ve slept 5,324 days or 14.59 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Goat
→ You have been alive 383,318 hours
→ You are 22,999,136 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 44 years old

You were born on a Wednesday

September 5, 1979 was the 1st Wednesday of that year. It was also the 248th day and 9th 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.

There are left before your next birthday. Your 44th birthday will be on a Friday and a birthday after that will be on a Thursday. 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 14.59 years of your life.
You’ve slept 175 month of your life.
You’ve slept 761 week of your life.
You’ve slept 5,324 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 321,975,360 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,839,859,200 times. You have also blinked over 390,970,080 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "My Sharona" by The Knack. (Billboard Hot 100 – September 5, 1979). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "Dreamlover" by Mariah Carey (September 5, 1993).

Celebrities born on September 5, 1979

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What happened on September 5th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 5 September 1979.

Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead.
Twelve of the thirteen American colonies adopt a trade embargo against Great Britain at the first Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The First Opium War begins in China.
Hurricane Irma becomes the post powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history with winds of 185mph.

Sports in 1979

NBA – Seattle SuperSonics beat Washington Bullets (4 - 1) to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – Montreal Canadiens defeated New York Rangers (4 - 1) 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 World Series.


Your life path number is 4

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.

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