June 16th, 1291

Born on June 16th, 1291

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 267,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 311 days, exactly on March 20th, 2025, people who were born on June 16th, 1291 will be 268,000 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

62

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian author and poet (1313–1375)

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

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

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

Same year
Born in 1291

51

Aymon, Count of Savoy

Count of Savoy

*December 15th, 1291, Bourg-en-Bresse †June 22nd, 1343, Rossillon

66

Afonso IV of Portugal

King of Portugal

*February 8th, 1291, Coimbra †May 28th, 1357, Lisbon

23

Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester

14th-century English magnate

*May 4th, 1291, Clare Castle †June 24th, 1314, Bannockburn

69

Philippe de Vitry

French composer, music theorist and poet

*October 31st, 1291, Paris †June 9th, 1361, Meaux

38

Cangrande I della Scala

Italian noble

*March 9th, 1291, Verona †July 22nd, 1329, Treviso

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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 1291 is a normal year and no leap year.

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