March 16th, 1708

Born on March 16th, 1708

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 115,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 475 days, exactly on October 20th, 2025, people who were born on March 16th, 1708 will be 116,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on March 16th?

March 16th, 2014

Annexation of Crimea: The Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a controversial referendum in which voters overwhelmingly chose to join Russia as a federal subject.

March 16th, 2003

American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house.

March 16th, 2001

A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China, killed 108 people.

March 16th, 1984

William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.

March 16th, 1968

Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.

March 16th, 1962

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest searches in the history of the Pacific.

March 16th, 1935

Conscription was re-introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht.

March 16th, 1872

In the inaugural final of the FA Cup (trophy pictured) Wanderers defeated Royal Engineers 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

March 16th, 1802

Congress passed the Military Peace Establishment Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to operate the U.S. Military Academy (pictured) at West Point, New York.

March 16th, 1782

American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán from England off the coast of what is now Honduras.

March 16th, 1689

The Royal Welch Fusiliers (cap badge pictured), one of the oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.

March 16th, 1621

Samoset, a member of the Abenaki tribe, walked into Plymouth Colony and greeted the Pilgrims in English (depicted).

March 16th, 1322

Despenser War: A royalist army defeated troops loyal to Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, in the Battle of Boroughbridge, which allowed King Edward II of England to hold on to power for another five years.

March 16th, 1190

Around 150 Jews died inside York Castle, the majority committing mass suicide to avoid being killed by a mob.

March 16th, 0934

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period: Chinese general Meng Zhixiang proclaimed himself emperor and established Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.

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

Born on March 16th, 1708

65

Torcuato Ruiz del Peral

Spanish sculptor (1708-1773)

*March 16th, 1708, Exfiliana †July 5th, 1773

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

85

James Madison

President of the United States from 1809 to 1817

*March 16th, 1751, Port Conway †June 28th, 1836, Montpelier

39

Eriko Hirose

Japanese badminton player

*March 16th, 1985, Inagawa

31

Emily Sweeney

American luger

*March 16th, 1993, Portland

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

80

Attilio Nicora

Catholic cardinal

*March 16th, 1937, Varese †April 22nd, 2017, Rome

65

Georg Simon Ohm

German physicist and mathematician

*March 16th, 1789, Erlangen †July 6th, 1854, Munich

71

Richard Stallman

American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

32

Zuzana Pavelková

Badminton player

*March 16th, 1992, Přerov

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, 16th arrondissement of Paris

50

Indra Wijaya

Indonesian and Singaporean badminton player

*March 16th, 1974, Cirebon

22

Indah Cahya Sari Jamil

Badminton player

*March 16th, 2002, Gowa

65

Jens Stoltenberg

34th Prime Minister of Norway, subsequently 13th Secretary-General of NATO

*March 16th, 1959, Oslo

87

Wolfram Hoepfner

German architectural historian

*March 16th, 1937, Wrocław

97

Caroline Herschel

German-British astronomer (*1750 – †1848)

*March 16th, 1750, Hanover †January 9th, 1848, Hanover

75

Victor Garber

Canadian actor and singer

*March 16th, 1949, London

53

Mihaela Cârstoi

Romanian skier

*March 16th, 1971, Predeal

53

Alan Tudyk

American actor

*March 16th, 1971, El Paso

35

Gabriel Attal

French politician

*March 16th, 1989, Clamart

60

Jörg Schmadtke

German association football executive

*March 16th, 1964, Düsseldorf

54

Adriana Fonseca

Mexican actress

*March 16th, 1970, Veracruz

Same year
Born in 1708

69

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1766 to 1768

*November 15th, 1708, London †May 11th, 1778, London Borough of Bromley

56

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany

*December 8th, 1708, Nancy †August 18th, 1765, Innsbruck

75

Johann Jakob Zeiller

Austrian painter

*July 8th, 1708, Reutte †July 8th, 1783, Reutte

69

Albrecht von Haller

Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet (1708-1777)

*October 16th, 1708, Bern †December 12th, 1777, Bern

20

Anna Petrovna of Russia

Elder daughter of Emperor Peter I of Russia and Catherine I of Russia

*February 27th, 1708, Moscow †May 4th, 1728, Kiel

59

Daniel Gralath

18th century physicist and mayor of Gdansk

*May 30th, 1708, Gdańsk †July 23rd, 1767, Gdańsk

63

Georg Reutter II

Austrian composer (1708–1772)

*April 6th, 1708, Vienna †March 11th, 1772, Vienna

81

Jean Chastel

French farmer (1708-1789)

*March 31st, 1708, La Besseyre-Saint-Mary †January 1st, 1790, France

80

Paul Egede

Dano-Norwegian theologian

*September 9th, 1708, Kabelvåg †June 6th, 1789, Copenhagen

84

Frans Burman

Dutch theologian, university teacher and writer (1708-1793)

*October 3rd, 1708, Amsterdam †April 10th, 1793, Utrecht

61

Johann Caspar Richter

German merchant (1708-1770)

*September 16th, 1708, Leipzig †August 7th, 1770, Leipzig

41

Moyse Garrigue

(1708-1750)

*September 9th, 1708, Magdeburg †February 1st, 1750, Magdeburg

58

Friedrich Gottfried Houck

German jurist

*August 19th, 1708, Steinfurt †June 28th, 1767, Utrecht

79

Pompeo Batoni

Italian painter 1708-1787

*January 25th, 1708, Lucca †February 4th, 1787, Rome

80

Christian Andreas von Cothenius

German botanist (1708-1789)

*February 14th, 1708, Anklam †January 5th, 1789, Berlin

47

Caspar Ruetz

German musicologist

*March 21st, 1708, Wismar †December 21st, 1755, Lübeck

67

Egidio Duni

Italian composer

*February 11th, 1708, Matera †June 11th, 1775, Paris

55

Josef Bonaventura Pitter

Czech Roman Catholic priest

*November 5th, 1708, Třebechovice pod Orebem †May 15th, 1764, Rajhrad

81

Václav Jan Kopřiva

Czech composer and organist

*February 9th, 1708, Cítoliby †June 7th, 1789, Cítoliby

50

Charles Hanbury Williams

British politician, diplomat and poet (1708-1759)

*December 8th, 1708, London †November 2nd, 1759, London

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 16th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 16th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1708 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).

Calendar
March 1708