when is barack obama birthday
Getty Images. Birth certificate theories aside, Tuesday is President Barack Obama's 54th birthday. Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961 in Honolulu, and at age 47 he became the United States' fifth-youngest commander-in-chief. He's beaten out by Ulysses S. Grant, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy and Theodore Roosevelt, who was only 42 when he took office.