December 16th, 1347

Born on December 16th, 1347

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 247,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 957 days, exactly on December 16th, 2026, people who were born on December 16th, 1347 will be 248,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on December 16th?

December 16th, 2014

A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.

December 16th, 2012

A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.

December 16th, 1997

Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption.

December 16th, 1971

The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War.

December 16th, 1942

World War II: Americans engaged Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.

December 16th, 1938

Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother as an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.

December 16th, 1930

German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.

December 16th, 1922

Gabriel Narutowicz, the first president of Poland, was assassinated only five days after having taken office.

December 16th, 1918

Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.

December 16th, 1914

First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked ports in northern England, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.

December 16th, 1901

English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (illustration shown) after several publishers' rejections.

December 16th, 1893

Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

December 16th, 1850

Settlers of the Canterbury Association (poster pictured) aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to establish a colony at Christchurch, New Zealand.

December 16th, 1811

The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.

December 16th, 1773

American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor (pictured) to protest British taxation without representation.

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

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

56

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer (1770–1827)

*December 16th, 1770, Bonn †March 26th, 1827, Vienna

26

Zara Larsson

Swedish singer and songwriter

*December 16th, 1997, Solna Municipality

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

41

Jane Austen

English novelist (1775–1817)

*December 16th, 1775, Steventon †July 18th, 1817, Winchester

91

Karl Heinz Oppel

German actor and voice actor

*December 16th, 1924, Dresden †October 27th, 2016, Berlin

87

Egill Jacobsen

Danish painter (1910-1998)

*December 16th, 1910, Copenhagen †April 21st, 1998, Copenhagen

76

Margaret Mead

American anthropologist (1901—1978)

*December 16th, 1901, Philadelphia †November 15th, 1978, New York City

77

Benny Andersson

Swedish musician and composer

*December 16th, 1946, Stockholm

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

54

Simon Grayson

English footballer and manager (born 1969)

*December 16th, 1969, Ripon

83

Norbert Kunisch

German classical archaeologist

*December 16th, 1934, Dortmund †May 2nd, 2018, Oxford

62

LaChanze

American actress, singer, and dancer

*December 16th, 1961, St. Augustine

86

Agnes Baden-Powell

British scouting pioneer

*December 16th, 1858, Paddington †June 2nd, 1945, England

90

Arthur C. Clarke

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917-2008)

*December 16th, 1917, Minehead †March 19th, 2008, Colombo

25

Reece Oxford

English association football player (born 1998)

*December 16th, 1998, Edmonton

70

Rebecca Forstadt

American voice actress

*December 16th, 1953, Denver

77

Barbara Smith

American activist and academic (born 1946)

*December 16th, 1946, Cleveland

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, Hollywood

Same year
Born in 1347

33

Catherine of Siena

Italian Dominican saint (1347-1380)

*March 25th, 1347, Siena †April 29th, 1380, Rome

47

Dorothea of Montau

Hermitess and visionary

*February 6th, 1347, Mątowy Wielkie †June 25th, 1394, Kwidzyn

46

Alberto d'Este

Marquis of Ferrara and Modena

*February 27th, 1347, Emilia-Romagna †July 30th, 1393, Ferrara

15

Frederick III, Duke of Austria

Austrian duke

*March 31st, 1347, Vienna †December 10th, 1362, Vienna

27

John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke

English noble

*August 29th, 1347, Sutton Valence Castle †April 16th, 1375, Picardy

65

Margaret of Durazzo

Queen of Naples and Hungary

*July 28th, 1347, Naples †August 6th, 1412, Baronissi

Birthdays of famous people

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.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1347 is a normal year and no leap year.

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