Funny Birthday Facts About May 22, 1978
Did you know that May 22, 1978 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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What day were you born on May 22, 1978?
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Countdown to Your 48th Birthday
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What day was May 22, 2025?
This year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 47th birthday on Thursday. How was your 47th birthday? Is it fun? We wish you good memories on your birthday. Celebrating a festive birthday party with family and friends, getting gifts and surprises will certainly make you happier.
FYI: You are more than 17,000 days old
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Your Age in Days, Weeks, Months & Years
17,386 Days
2,284 Weeks
571 Months
47 Years
Your Age in Seconds, Minutes and Hours
Your Upcoming Birthdays for The Next 10 Years
We have calculated and figured out your birthday for the next 10 years. Prepare yourself to welcome your upcoming birthdays with your family and close friends. You will get many gifts from people who love and care about you. There are 146 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 48 years old. There have been 17386 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 5796 days, which is equivalent to 15.88 years. You spent 33.79% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Friday | 48 Years Old |
| 2027 | Saturday | 49 Years Old |
| 2028 | Monday | 50 Years Old |
| 2029 | Tuesday | 51 Years Old |
| 2030 | Wednesday | 52 Years Old |
| 2031 | Thursday | 53 Years Old |
| 2032 | Saturday | 54 Years Old |
| 2033 | Sunday | 55 Years Old |
| 2034 | Monday | 56 Years Old |
| 2035 | Tuesday | 57 Years Old |
What is your zodiac and birthstone for May 22, 1978?
According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on May 22
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Famous People Born on May 22
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 May 22
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1934 | Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor (d. 2023) |
| 1935 | Billy Rayner, Australian rugby league player (d. 2006) |
| 1936 | George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014) |
| 1937 | Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2011) |
| 1937 | Tomáš Janovic, Slovak writer (d.2023) |
| 1938 | Richard Benjamin, American actor and director |
| 1938 | Susan Strasberg, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 1939 | Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 1940 | Bernard Shaw, American journalist (d. 2022) |
| 1940 | E. A. S. Prasanna, Indian cricketer |
Famous People Died on May 22
Did you know that on May 22
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1967 | Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911) |
| 1967 | Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902) |
| 1972 | Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904) |
| 1972 | Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892) |
| 1974 | Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903) |
| 1975 | Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900) |
| 1982 | Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899) |
| 1983 | Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) |
| 1983 | Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (b. 1893) |
| 1984 | Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901) |
Historical Events on May 22
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on May 22
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1998 | A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton. |
| 2000 | In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. |
| 2002 | Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. |
| 2010 | Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610. |
| 2010 | Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League). |
| 2011 | An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history. |
| 2012 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. |
| 2012 | Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m). |
| 2014 | An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. |
| 2014 | General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil. |
Popular Baby Name on May 22, 1978
In 1978, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Michael is the most used. A total of 67,157 baby boys were named Michael in 1978. The rest were named Jason, Christopher, David and James. While the popular baby girl name in 1978 was Jennifer. There were 56,319 baby girls named Jennifer that year. While the rest were named Melissa, Jessica, Amy and Heather. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
Based on World Population Data, in 1978 there were 4,304,533,599 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 358,711,134. This shows that there were 358,711,134 babies born every month in 1978. It can also be concluded that there are 11,957,038 babies born every day and 8,304 babies born every minute which is mean that 139 babies born every second in the year 1978. Maybe one of them is you.
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