Did you know that August 29, 1948 was not only a very special day, but also a very unique one? Here are 14 funny facts about this unique day that will help you understand why it's so special. It's very important to pay attention to these facts because otherwise you might miss out on something truly amazing.
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We have calculated your birthday for the next 10 years. It's going to be a fun time to celebrate with family and friends. You'll get lots of gifts, too! There are 248 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 78 years old. There have been 28241 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 9414 days, which is equivalent to 25.79 years. You spent 33.49% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Saturday | 78 Years Old |
| 2027 | Sunday | 79 Years Old |
| 2028 | Tuesday | 80 Years Old |
| 2029 | Wednesday | 81 Years Old |
| 2030 | Thursday | 82 Years Old |
| 2031 | Friday | 83 Years Old |
| 2032 | Sunday | 84 Years Old |
| 2033 | Monday | 85 Years Old |
| 2034 | Tuesday | 86 Years Old |
| 2035 | Wednesday | 87 Years Old |

According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on August 29

Peridot is birthstone for people born on 29
When you were born, there were many famous people in history who were born on the same day as you but in different years. The following are famous people in history who commemorate birthdays on August 29
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1969 | Lucero, Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, and television host |
| 1971 | Alex Griffin, English bass player |
| 1971 | Carla Gugino, American actress |
| 1971 | Henry Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player and coach |
| 1972 | Amanda Marshall, Canadian singer-songwriter |
| 1972 | Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor |
| 1973 | Olivier Jacque, French motorcycle racer |
| 1973 | Vincent Cavanagh, English singer and guitarist |
| 1974 | Kumi Tanioka, Japanese keyboard player and composer |
| 1975 | Dante Basco, American actor |
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| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1971 | Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr., American murderer (b. 1904) |
| 1972 | Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (b. 1905) |
| 1975 | Éamon de Valera, Irish soldier and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (b. 1882) |
| 1977 | Brian McGuire, Australian race car driver (b. 1945) |
| 1977 | Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923) |
| 1979 | Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (b. 1890) |
| 1981 | Lowell Thomas, American journalist and author (b. 1892) |
| 1982 | Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (b. 1915) |
| 1982 | Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor (b. 1910) |
| 1985 | Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress (b. 1918) |
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on August 29
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1965 | The Gemini V spacecraft returns to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 1966 | Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. |
| 1966 | The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. |
| 1970 | Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War, East Los Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar. |
| 1975 | El Tacnazo: Peruvian Prime Minister Francisco Morales Bermúdez carries out a coup d’état in the city of Tacna, forcing the sitting President of Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado, to resign and assuming his place as the new President. |
| 1982 | The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. |
| 1987 | Odaeyang mass suicide: Thirty-three individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact. |
| 1991 | Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. |
| 1991 | Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. |
| 1996 | Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard. |
In 1948, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, James is the most used. A total of 88,589 baby boys were named James in 1948. The rest were named Robert, John, William and David. While the popular baby girl name in 1948 was Linda. There were 96,212 baby girls named Linda that year. While the rest were named Mary, Barbara, Patricia and Susan. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
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