December 16th, 1675

Born on December 16th, 1675

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 127,000 days old!

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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

73

Noël Coward

English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer

*December 16th, 1899, Teddington †March 26th, 1973, Firefly Estate

77

Benny Andersson

Swedish musician and composer

*December 16th, 1946, Stockholm

86

Agnes Baden-Powell

British scouting pioneer

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

83

Norbert Kunisch

German classical archaeologist

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

54

Simon Grayson

English footballer and manager (born 1969)

*December 16th, 1969, Ripon

90

Arthur C. Clarke

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

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

62

LaChanze

American actress, singer, and dancer

*December 16th, 1961, St. Augustine

70

Rebecca Forstadt

American voice actress

*December 16th, 1953, Denver

25

Reece Oxford

English association football player (born 1998)

*December 16th, 1998, Edmonton

77

Barbara Smith

American activist and academic (born 1946)

*December 16th, 1946, Cleveland

40

Ted Wilde

American film director, screenwriter (1889-1929)

*December 16th, 1889, New York City †December 17th, 1929, Hollywood

66

Robert Leinert

German politician (1873-1940)

*December 16th, 1873, Striesen †February 10th, 1940, Hanover

68

Nancy Andrews

American actress and singer (1924-1989)

*December 16th, 1920, Minneapolis †July 29th, 1989, Queens

Same year
Born in 1675

83

Benedict XIV

Catholic pope from 1740 to 1758

*March 31st, 1675, Bologna †May 3rd, 1758, Rome

81

Rosalba Carriera

Rococo portrait painter (1673-1757)

*October 7th, 1675, Venice †April 15th, 1757, Venice

53

Samuel Clarke

English philosopher and clergyman (*1675 – †1729)

*October 11th, 1675, Norwich †May 17th, 1729, London

80

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

French writer

*January 16th, 1675, Paris †March 2nd, 1755, Paris

75

Paul Dudley

Colonial Massachusetts attorney general and chief justice

*September 3rd, 1675, Roxbury †January 25th, 1751, Roxbury

61

Vakhtang VI of Kartli

King of Kartli

*September 15th, 1675, Tbilisi †March 26th, 1737, Astrakhan

69

Heinrich Klausing

German mathematician, astronomer and theologian (1675-1745)

*December 28th, 1675, Herford †October 2nd, 1745, Leipzig

67

Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

Italian composer and violinist

*July 12th, 1675, Verona †July 12th, 1742, Munich

34

Higashiyama

Emperor of Japan (1675-1710)

*October 21st, 1675, Kyoto †January 16th, 1710, Kyoto

69

Johann Ignaz Egedacher

Organ builder

*January 1st, 1675, Salzburg †June 19th, 1744, Passau

74

Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl

Bavarian politician (1675-1750)

*February 21st, 1675, Munich †January 22nd, 1750, Munich

47

Johann Daniel Herrnschmidt

German theologian

*April 11th, 1675, Bopfingen †February 5th, 1723, Halle (Saale)

58

James Thornhill

British painter (1675-1734)

*July 25th, 1675, Melcombe Regis †May 4th, 1734, Weymouth

58

Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg

German princess (1675-1733)

*January 21st, 1675, Ratzeburg †July 10th, 1733, Ettlingen

89

Caspar König

Organ builder

*November 15th, 1675, Ingolstadt †July 9th, 1765, Ingolstadt

51

Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt

German politician (1675-1726)

*January 10th, 1675, Dresden †April 13th, 1726, Nadarzyn

76

Jean Pierre de Caussade

Roman Catholic theologian

*March 7th, 1675, Cahors †December 8th, 1751, Toulouse

61

Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand

Governor of Louisiana

*February 21st, 1675, Montreal †June 7th, 1736, France

56

Johann Cyriak Hackhofer

Austrian painter (1675-1731)

*February 14th, 1675, Veldidena †May 9th, 1731, Vorau

15

John William, Duke of Saxe-Jena

German noble

*March 28th, 1675, Jena †November 4th, 1690, Jena

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.

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1675 is a normal year and no leap year.

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