Born on December 16th, 1272
Weekday
Friday
December 16th, 1272 was a Friday.
Zodiac
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Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer)
November 23rd, 1272 - December 21st, 1272
Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 274,000 days old!
Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 506 days, exactly on November 19th, 2025, people who were born on December 16th, 1272 will be 275,000 days old!
274,494 Days
39,213 Weeks
9,018 Months
... in seconds, minutes and hours
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What happened on December 16th?
Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on December 16th
Same Day
Who's birthday is on December 16th?
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56 Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer (1770–1827)
*December 16th, 1770, Bonn †March 26th, 1827, Vienna.jpg "Zara Larsson")
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41 Jane Austen
English novelist (1775–1817)
*December 16th, 1775, Steventon †July 18th, 1817, WinchesterKarl Heinz Oppel
German actor and voice actor
*December 16th, 1924, Dresden †October 27th, 2016, BerlinEgill Jacobsen
Danish painter (1910-1998)
*December 16th, 1910, Copenhagen †April 21st, 1998, Copenhagen.jpg "Margaret Mead")
76 Margaret Mead
American anthropologist (1901—1978)
*December 16th, 1901, Philadelphia †November 15th, 1978, New York City
73 Noël Coward
English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer
*December 16th, 1899, Teddington †March 26th, 1973, Firefly Estate
50 Catherine of Aragon
First wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536)
*December 16th, 1485, Alcalá de Henares †January 7th, 1536, Kimbolton Castle.jpg "Simon Grayson")
Norbert Kunisch
German classical archaeologist
*December 16th, 1934, Dortmund †May 2nd, 2018, Oxford
90 Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917-2008)
*December 16th, 1917, Minehead †March 19th, 2008, Colombo
86 Agnes Baden-Powell
British scouting pioneer
*December 16th, 1858, Paddington †June 2nd, 1945, England
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68 Nancy Andrews
American actress and singer (1924-1989)
*December 16th, 1920, Minneapolis †July 29th, 1989, Queens
40 Ted Wilde
American film director, screenwriter (1889-1929)
*December 16th, 1889, New York City †December 17th, 1929, HollywoodRobert Leinert
German politician (1873-1940)
*December 16th, 1873, Striesen †February 10th, 1940, Hanover
88 George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
*December 16th, 1863, Madrid †September 26th, 1952, Rome
Piet Hein
20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet
*December 16th, 1905, Copenhagen †April 17th, 1996, Middelfart
Josef Jochum
German theatre director and stage actor (1930-2017)
*December 16th, 1930, Satchinez †April 15th, 2017, Wilhermsdorf_(cropped2).jpg "Flo Rida")
Léon Walras
French mathematical economist (*1834 – †1910)
*December 16th, 1834, Évreux †January 5th, 1910, Clarens.jpg "Zoltán Kodály")
84 Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue
*December 16th, 1882, Kecskemét †March 6th, 1967, Budapest.jpg "Jyoti Amge"){kind=small}
30 Jyoti Amge
Indian actress notable for being the world's smallest living woman
*December 16th, 1993, Nagpur
76 Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
Prussian field marshal (1742–1819)
*December 16th, 1742, Rostock †September 12th, 1819, Krobielowice.jpg "Park Seo-joon")
Birthdays of famous people
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Public holidays on December 16th
Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born) which are celebrated on December 16th.
Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Upjohn and John La Farge (Episcopal Church (USA))
Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Adams_CramDecember 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)Day of Reconciliation, formerly celebrated as Day of the Vow by the Afrikaners (South Africa)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_ReconciliationIndependence Day, celebrates the independence of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union in 1991.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Kazakhstan)National Day, celebrates the withdrawal of United Kingdom from Bahrain, making Bahrain an independent emirate in 1971.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_dayNational Sports Day (Thailand)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_ThailandThe first day of Las Posadas (Mexico, Latin America)
The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born (Hispanidad)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_PosadasThe first day of the Simbang Gabi novena of masses (Philippines)
The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born (Hispanidad)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbang_GabiVictory Day (Bangladesh) and Victory Day (India)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(Bangladesh)Victory Day observances, celebration of the Indo-Bangla allied victory over Pakistan armed forces and the Liberation of Bangladesh. (Bangladesh and India)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(Bangladesh)Date as a Roman numeral / digit
16.12.1272
Legend
| M = 1000 | C = 100 | L = 50 | X = 10 | V = 5 | I = 1 |
Leap year
Yes: 1272 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).