March 16th, 1717

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Born on March 16th, 1717 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on March 16th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on March 16th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (March 1717)

Born on March 16th, 1717

Weekday

Tuesday

March 16th, 1717 was a Tuesday.

Age

307

People born on March 16th, 1717 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 307 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

February 20th, 1717 - March 20th, 1717

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 112,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 827 days, exactly on August 3rd, 2026, people who were born on March 16th, 1717 will be 113,000 days old!

112,173 Days

16,024 Weeks

3,685 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

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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, 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.

March 18th, 2007

Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.

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

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

James Madison

President of the United States from 1809 to 1817

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

Eriko Hirose

Japanese badminton player

*March 16th, 1985, Inagawa

Emily Sweeney

American luger

*March 16th, 1993, Portland

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

Eberhard Heinrich Daniel Stosch

*March 16th, 1716, Liebenberg †March 27th, 1781, Frankfurt (Oder)

Attilio Nicora

Catholic cardinal

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

Georg Simon Ohm

German physicist and mathematician

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

Richard Stallman

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

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

Zuzana Pavelková

Badminton player

*March 16th, 1992, Přerov

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

Indra Wijaya

Indonesian and Singaporean badminton player

*March 16th, 1974, Cirebon City

Indah Cahya Sari Jamil

Badminton player

*March 16th, 2002, Gowa Regency

Caroline Herschel

German-British astronomer (*1750 – †1848)

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

Jens Stoltenberg

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

*March 16th, 1959, Oslo

Wolfram Hoepfner

German architectural historian

*March 16th, 1937, Wrocław

Victor Garber

Canadian actor and singer

*March 16th, 1949, London

Mihaela Cârstoi

Romanian skier

*March 16th, 1971, Predeal

Gabriel Attal

French politician

*March 16th, 1989, Clamart

Alan Tudyk

American actor

*March 16th, 1971, El Paso

Jörg Schmadtke

German association football executive

*March 16th, 1964, Düsseldorf

Same year
Born in 1717

David Garrick

British actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer (1717–1779)

*February 19th, 1717, Hereford †January 20th, 1779, London

Maria Theresa of Austria

Ruler of the Habsburg Dominions (1717-1780)

*May 13th, 1717, Vienna †November 29th, 1780, Vienna

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

*November 16th, 1717, Paris †October 29th, 1783, Paris

Ferdinand Stosch

German theologian (1717–1780)

*December 30th, 1717, Liebenberg †June 3rd, 1780, Detmold

Pedro III of Portugal

King of Portugal

*July 5th, 1717, Lisbon †May 25th, 1786, Sintra

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

German art historian and archaeologist, and conservator of the Vatican Library

*December 9th, 1717, Stendal †June 8th, 1768, Trieste

Pius VI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799

*December 25th, 1717, Cesena †August 29th, 1799, Valence

Horace Walpole

English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician (1717-1797)

*September 24th, 1717, London †March 2nd, 1797, London

Mustafa III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1757 to 1774

*January 28th, 1717, Constantinople †January 21st, 1774, Constantinople

Jean Dugain

French slave hunter and explorer

*February 23rd, 1717, Saint-Denis †January 1st, 1787

Louis François, Prince of Conti

French noble and art collector (1717-1776)

*August 13th, 1717, Paris †August 2nd, 1776, Paris

George Augustus Eliott

1st Lord Heathfield and Baron of Gibraltar, Army General, Governor of Gibraltar; (1717-1790)

*December 25th, 1717, Roxburghshire †July 6th, 1790, Aachen

Cardinal de Soubise

Catholic cardinal

*December 1st, 1717, Paris †June 28th, 1756, Saverne

Luis de Unzaga

Spanish colonial governor and administrator (1717-1793)

*April 6th, 1717, Málaga †June 21st, 1793, Málaga

Richard Owen Cambridge

British poet

*February 14th, 1717, London †September 17th, 1802, Richmond

Norbert Grund

Czech painter (1717-1767)

*December 4th, 1717, Prague †July 17th, 1767, Prague

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

British Army officer (1717-1797)

*January 29th, 1717, Riverhead †August 3rd, 1797, Montreal Park

Philipp Erasmus Reich

German publisher

*December 1st, 1717, Laubach †December 3rd, 1787, Leipzig

Johann Augustin Dietelmair

*January 1st, 1717, Nuremberg †January 1st, 1785

Johann Stamitz

Czech composer and violinist

*June 19th, 1717, Havlíčkův Brod †March 27th, 1757, Mannheim

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

XVI.III.MDCCXVII

16.3.1717

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1717 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
March 1717

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March 16th, 1717

Born on March 16th, 1717

Weekday

Tuesday

Age

Zodiac

♓

Pisces (The Fish)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 112,000 days old!

112,173 Days

16,024 Weeks

3,685 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 16th?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem and installed Zedekiah as King of Judah.

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

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

Same year Born in 1717

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 16th

Finian Lobhar (Finian the Leper)

Heribert of Cologne.

Hilarius of Aquileia

Julian of Antioch

March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of the Book Smugglers (Lithuania)

Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires (Latvia)

Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

16.3.1717

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 112,000 days old!

Birthdays
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Same year
Born in 1717

Calendar
March 1717

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
9	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
10	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
11	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
12	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
13	29	30	31