Sunday 20 May, 1979

How old am I if I was born on May 20, 1979?

You are 45 years, 7 months and 9 days old
You were born on a Sunday and have been alive for 16,660 days!
Your next birthday will be on Tuesday after 142 days.

You are 45 years, 7 months and 9 days old
Or 547 months
Or 2,380 weeks
Or 16,660 days
Or 399,839 hours
Or 23,990,399 minutes
Or 1,439,423,999 seconds

If you were born on this date:

Your heart has experienced approximately 1,847,260,723 heartbeats since your birth.
You've slept for 5,548 days or 15.20 years!
You've had about 83,300 dreams.
You have taken around 383,846,400 breaths of air.
You have spent around 26.64 months eating and drinking.
You have eaten about 44.98 tons of food.
You have drank about 36,652 liters of water.
You have laughed around 283,220 times.
You have farted roughly 233,240 times.
You have spent about 346.53 days in the bathroom.
If your hair were never cut since b-day, today, it would be 6.8 meters long.

Historical Events on May 20

1861 American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.

1862 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.

1891 History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

1902 Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.

1932 Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.

1940 The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.

1949 In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.

1989 The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

1996 Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

All Events

Famous Birthdays on May 20

1908 James Stewart

1971 Tony Stewart

1985 Chris Froome

All Births

Famous Deaths on May 20

1506 Christopher Columbus

1834 Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

2002 Stephen Jay Gould

2011 Randy Savage

All Deaths