June 16th, 1229

Born on June 16th, 1229

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 290,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 659 days, exactly on March 10th, 2026, people who were born on June 16th, 1229 will be 291,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on June 16th?

June 16th, 2016

Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.

June 16th, 2012

Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.

June 16th, 1972

English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

June 16th, 1963

Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.

June 16th, 1960

Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.

June 16th, 1936

A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.

June 16th, 1911

The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

June 16th, 1904

Irish author James Joyce began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.

June 16th, 1883

In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.

June 16th, 1819

A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').

June 16th, 1755

After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.

June 16th, 1632

The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine.

June 16th, 1407

Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in modern-day northern Vietnam, capturing Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and bringing the country under Chinese rule.

June 16th, 0632

The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.

June 16th, 2019

Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 16th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 16th?

56

Jürgen Klopp

German football manager (born 1967)

*June 16th, 1967, Stuttgart

61

Chairul Tanjung

Indonesian businessman and bureaucrat

*June 16th, 1962, Jakarta

41

Christoph Letkowski

German actor and musician

*June 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

50

Eddie Cibrian

American actor

*June 16th, 1973, Burbank

56

Otto Jahn

German classical philologist, archaeologist and musicologist (1813-1869)

*June 16th, 1813, Kiel †September 9th, 1869, Göttingen

48

Sun Jun

Chinese badminton player

*June 16th, 1975, Nanjing

62

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

*June 16th, 1313, Certaldo †September 21st, 1375, Certaldo

68

Laurie Metcalf

American actress

*June 16th, 1955, Carbondale

53

Phil Mickelson

American professional golfer

*June 16th, 1970, San Diego

48

Willemijn Verkaik

Dutch singer-actor

*June 16th, 1975, Son en Breugel

23

Bianca Andreescu

Canadian tennis player

*June 16th, 2000, Mississauga

74

Jack Albertson

American character actor, dancer, singer and comedian

*June 16th, 1907, Malden †November 25th, 1981, Hollywood

84

Katharine Graham

American publisher, editor and author (1917–2001)

*June 16th, 1917, New York City †July 17th, 2001, Boise

92

Annie Cordy

Belgian actress and singer

*June 16th, 1928, Laeken †September 4th, 2020, Vallauris

80

Joan Van Ark

American actress (born 1943)

*June 16th, 1943, New York City

90

Barbara McClintock

American scientist and cytogeneticist

*June 16th, 1902, Hartford †September 2nd, 1992, Huntington

62

Petru Iosub

Romanian rower

*June 16th, 1961, Fălticeni

45

Daniel Brühl

German actor

*June 16th, 1978, Barcelona

26

Camila Morrone

American actress

*June 16th, 1997, Los Angeles

25

Tupac Shakur

American rapper (1971–1996)

*June 16th, 1971, East Harlem †September 13th, 1996, University Medical Center of Southern Nevada

82

Georges Vigarello

French historian

*June 16th, 1941, Monaco

49

Rajiv Joseph

American writer

*June 16th, 1974, Cleveland

38

Cat Smith

British politician (born 1985)

*June 16th, 1985, Barrow-in-Furness

75

Willie Wilson

American businessman

*June 16th, 1948, Gilbert

73

Mithun Chakraborty

Indian film actor

*June 16th, 1950, Kolkata

57

Olivier Roumat

French rugby union player

*June 16th, 1966, Mont-de-Marsan

43

Sibel Kekilli

German actress

*June 16th, 1980, Heilbronn

86

Simeon II of Bulgaria

Bulgarian politician and royal (born 1937)

*June 16th, 1937, Sofia

37

Fernando Muslera

Uruguayan footballer

*June 16th, 1986, Buenos Aires

80

Anne-Rose Neumann

German journalist and news presenter

*June 16th, 1935, Apolda †April 15th, 2016, Greifswald

51

John Cho

American actor

*June 16th, 1972, Seoul

74

Stan Laurel

British-American actor (1890–1965)

*June 16th, 1890, Ulverston †February 23rd, 1965, Santa Monica

16

Emperor Konoe

Emperor of Japan (1139–1155)

*June 16th, 1139, Heian-kyō †August 22nd, 1155, Heian-kyō

36

Ali Stroker

American actress

*June 16th, 1987, Ridgewood

41

Missy Peregrym

Canadian actress

*June 16th, 1982, Montreal

77

Simon Williams

British actor

*June 16th, 1946, Windsor

59

Danny Burstein

American actor

*June 16th, 1964, New York City

30

Park Bo-gum

South Korean actor

*June 16th, 1993, Seoul

31

Angus Groom

British rower

*June 16th, 1992, Glasgow

64

Hagen Melzer

East German athletics competitor

*June 16th, 1959, Bautzen

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Public holidays on June 16th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast days) which are celebrated on June 16th.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1229 is a normal year and no leap year.

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