March 16th, 1823

Born on March 16th, 1823

Age in days, weeks and months
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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

Born on March 16th, 1823

75

William Henry Monk

English organist, church musician, and music editor

*March 16th, 1823, Greater London †March 1st, 1899, Greater London

64

Mikhail Sidorov

Russian explorer

*March 16th, 1823, Arkhangelsk †July 12th, 1887, Aachen

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39

Eriko Hirose

Japanese badminton player

*March 16th, 1985, Inagawa

31

Emily Sweeney

American luger

*March 16th, 1993, Portland

85

James Madison

President of the United States from 1809 to 1817

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

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

53

Georg von der Gabelentz

German linguist (1840-1893)

*March 16th, 1840, Poschwitz †December 11th, 1893, Berlin

71

Richard Stallman

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

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

65

Camilo Castelo Branco

19th-century Portuguese writer

*March 16th, 1825, Lisbon †June 1st, 1890, Seide

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

32

Zuzana Pavelková

Badminton player

*March 16th, 1992, Přerov

50

Indra Wijaya

Indonesian and Singaporean badminton player

*March 16th, 1974, Cirebon City

22

Indah Cahya Sari Jamil

Badminton player

*March 16th, 2002, Gowa Regency

87

Wolfram Hoepfner

German architectural historian

*March 16th, 1937, Wrocław

65

Jens Stoltenberg

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

*March 16th, 1959, Oslo

75

Victor Garber

Canadian actor and singer

*March 16th, 1949, London

53

Mihaela Cârstoi

Romanian skier

*March 16th, 1971, Predeal

35

Gabriel Attal

French politician

*March 16th, 1989, Clamart

68

Sully Prudhomme

French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901

*March 16th, 1839, 10th arrondissement of Paris †September 6th, 1907, Châtenay-Malabry

53

Alan Tudyk

American actor

*March 16th, 1971, El Paso

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90

Alfred Russel Wallace

British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913)

*January 8th, 1823, Usk †November 7th, 1913, Broadstone

62

Eduard Oscar Schmidt

German zoologist (1823–1886)

*February 21st, 1823, Torgau †January 17th, 1886, Kappelrodeck

70

Louis Martin

Father of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, spouse of and Marie-Azélie Guérin (1823-1894)

*August 22nd, 1823, Bordeaux †July 29th, 1894, Arnières-sur-Iton

63

Alexander Ostrovsky

Russian playwright (1823-1886)

*March 31st, 1823, Moscow †June 2nd, 1886, Schelykovo

93

Mackenzie Bowell

5th Prime Minister of Canada (1823-1917)

*December 27th, 1823, Rickinghall †December 10th, 1917, Belleville

76

Friedrich Max Müller

German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)

*December 6th, 1823, Dessau †October 28th, 1900, Oxford

68

Leopold Kronecker

German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebra (1823–1891)

*December 7th, 1823, Legnica †December 29th, 1891, Berlin

91

Jean-Henri Fabre

French entomologist and author (1823-1915)

*December 21st, 1823, Saint-Léons †October 11th, 1915, Sérignan-du-Comtat

38

Abdülmecid I

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1823-1861)

*April 25th, 1823, Istanbul †June 25th, 1861, Istanbul

76

Friedrich Max Müller

German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)

*December 6th, 1823, Dessau †October 28th, 1900, Oxford

75

Samuel Apolant

German author

*February 14th, 1823, Wałcz †March 4th, 1898, Berlin

26

Sándor Petőfi

Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary

*January 1st, 1823, Kiskőrös †July 31st, 1849, Albești

68

Gerónima Montealegre

First Lady and philanthropist

*October 30th, 1823, San José †September 16th, 1892

36

Phineas Gage

19th century american railway worker who suvived a large brain trauma

*July 9th, 1823, Grafton County †May 21st, 1860, San Francisco

85

Ernest Reyer

French opera composer and music critic

*December 1st, 1823, Marseille †January 15th, 1909, Le Lavandou

72

Richard Genée

Austrian librettist, playwright and composer

*February 7th, 1823, Gdańsk †June 15th, 1895, Baden

66

Charles Christopher Parry

British-American botanist and mountain climber (1823–1890)

*August 28th, 1823, Admington †February 20th, 1890, Davenport

82

Florent Willems

Belgian painter (1823-1905)

*January 8th, 1823, Liège †October 23rd, 1905, Paris

46

Victor Ruffy

Member of the Swiss Federal Council (1823-1869)

*January 18th, 1823, Lutry †December 29th, 1869, Lutry

85

Rudolf von Gottschall

German poet, dramatist literary critic and literary historian

*September 30th, 1823, Wrocław †March 21st, 1909, Leipzig

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1823 is a normal year and no leap year.

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