July 16th, 1887

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Born on July 16th, 1887 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on July 16th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on July 16th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (July 1887)

Born on July 16th, 1887

Weekday

Saturday

July 16th, 1887 was a Saturday.

Age

136

People born on July 16th, 1887 will turn 137 this year (2024), in exactly 78 days .

Zodiac

♋

Cancer (The Crab)

June 22nd, 1887 - July 22nd, 1887

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 49,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 39 days, exactly on June 7th, 2024, people who were born on July 16th, 1887 will be 50,000 days old!

49,961 Days

7,137 Weeks

1,641 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on July 16th?

July 16th, 2013

At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.

July 16th, 2008

A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and 6 deaths.

July 16th, 2007

An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw6.6 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.

July 16th, 2004

Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and the world's largest rooftop garden, opened to the public.

July 16th, 1983

A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.

July 16th, 1965

South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.

July 16th, 1951

The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published.

July 16th, 1950

Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.

July 16th, 1931

Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.

July 16th, 1790

President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.

July 16th, 1782

Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes".

July 16th, 1377

The ten-year-old Richard II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

July 16th, 1232

Muhammad ibn Yusuf (pictured), who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.

July 16th, 2019

A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.

July 16th, 2015

Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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

Born on July 16th, 1887

Shoeless Joe Jackson

American baseball player

*July 16th, 1887, Pickens County †December 5th, 1951, Greenville

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

Roald Amundsen

Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole

*July 16th, 1872, Borge Municipality †June 18th, 1928, Arctic Ocean

Katrina Kaif

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

Luke Hemmings

Australian singer and guitarist

*July 16th, 1996, Freemans Reach

Kenichi Tago

Japanese badminton player

*July 16th, 1989, Warabi

Frits Zernike

Dutch physicist (1888–1966)

*July 16th, 1888, Amsterdam †March 10th, 1966, Amersfoort

Hwang Hye-young

South Korean badminton player

*July 16th, 1966, Jeungpyeong County

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

Trygve Lie

1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1896–1968)

*July 16th, 1896, Grünerløkka †December 30th, 1968, Geilo

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

Frida Maanum

Association football player

*July 16th, 1999, Norway

Wong Wai Lap

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1969, Hong Kong

Tan Wei Han

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1993, Singapore

Eva Janssens

German badminton player

*July 16th, 1996, Aachen

Leo Peelen

Dutch racing cyclist (1968-2017)

*July 16th, 1968, Arnhem †March 24th, 2017, Apeldoorn

Rasa von Werder

American bodybuilder and sex worker

*July 16th, 1945, Calw

Percy Kilbride

Actor (1888-1964)

*July 16th, 1888, San Francisco †December 11th, 1964, Los Angeles

Robert Lieberman

American film director

*July 16th, 1947, Buffalo †July 1st, 2023, Los Angeles

Barnard Hughes

American actor (1915–2006)

*July 16th, 1915, Westchester County †July 11th, 2006, New York City

Philipp Sichler

German cinematographer

*July 16th, 1974, Spaichingen

Guy Béart

French singer (1930-2015)

*July 16th, 1930, Cairo †September 16th, 2015, Garches

Same year
Born in 1887

Le Corbusier

Swiss-French architect, designer, urbanist, and writer (1886-1965)

*October 6th, 1887, La Chaux-de-Fonds †August 27th, 1965, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin

Pierre Taittinger

French politician

*October 4th, 1887, 18th arrondissement of Paris †January 22nd, 1965, Paris

Saint-John Perse

French poet and diplomat

*May 31st, 1887, Pointe-à-Pitre †September 20th, 1975, Hyères

Erwin Schrödinger

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

*August 12th, 1887, Vienna †January 4th, 1961, Vienna

Marc Chagall

Belarusian-born French artist (1887–1985)

*July 14th, 1887, Vitebsk †March 28th, 1985, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Arthur Rubinstein

Polish-American classical pianist (1887-1982)

*January 28th, 1887, Łódź †December 20th, 1982, Geneva

John Reed

American journalist, poet, and communist activist

*October 22nd, 1887, Portland †October 17th, 1920, Moscow

Hermann Hammerschmidt

*August 21st, 1887, Cottbus †November 30th, 1944

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George Abbott

American writer and director (1887-1995)

*June 25th, 1887, Chautauqua County †January 31st, 1995, Miami Beach

Lynn Fontanne

British actress (1887–1983)

*December 6th, 1887, London †July 30th, 1983, Waukesha County

Josef Lada

Czech illustrator, painter, caricaturist, scenographer and writer (1887-1957)

*December 17th, 1887, Hrusice †December 14th, 1957, Prague

Joseph Lamb

American composer of ragtime music

*December 6th, 1887, Montclair †September 3rd, 1960, Brooklyn

Carmen Lyra

Costa Rican politician and writer

*January 15th, 1887, San José †May 14th, 1949, Mexico City

Lajos Áprily

Hungarian poet/translator/recipient:1954 Attila József Prize

*November 14th, 1887, Brașov †August 6th, 1967, Budapest

Chiang Kai-shek

Chinese politician and military leader (1887–1975)

*October 31st, 1887, Xikou †April 5th, 1975, Taipei

Huntley Gordon

Canadian actor (1887-1956)

*October 8th, 1887, Montreal †December 7th, 1956, Van Nuys

Carlos Dávila

Chilean diplomat, journalist and politician (1887-1955)

*September 15th, 1887, Los Ángeles †October 19th, 1955, Washington, D.C.

Boris Karloff

English actor (1887–1969)

*November 23rd, 1887, Dulwich †February 2nd, 1969, Midhurst

Georgia O'Keeffe

American modernist artist (1887–1986)

*November 15th, 1887, Sun Prairie †March 6th, 1986, Santa Fe

Vidkun Quisling

Norwegian politician and Nazi collaborator (1887–1945)

*July 18th, 1887, Fyresdal †October 24th, 1945, Akershus Fortress

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 16th

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

Gondulphus of Tongeren

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondulph_of_Maastricht

Helier

Christian feast dayen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helier

Christian feast day: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Fiesta de La Tirana (Tarapacá Region, Chile)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_de_La_Tirana

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XVI.VII.MDCCCLXXXVII

16.7.1887

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1887 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
July 1887

July 1887

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July 16th, 1887

Born on July 16th, 1887

Weekday

Saturday

Age

Zodiac

♋

Cancer (The Crab)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 49,000 days old!

49,961 Days

7,137 Weeks

1,641 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on July 16th?

At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.

A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and 6 deaths.

An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw6.6 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.

Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and the world's largest rooftop garden, opened to the public.

A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.

South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.

The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published.

Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.

Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.

President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.

Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes".

The ten-year-old Richard II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

Muhammad ibn Yusuf (pictured), who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.

A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.

Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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

Born on July 16th, 1887

American baseball player

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

Same year Born in 1887

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 16th

Gondulphus of Tongeren

Helier

Christian feast day: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Fiesta de La Tirana (Tarapacá Region, Chile)

Reineldis

July 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Engineer's Day (Honduras)

Holocaust Memorial Day (France)

Guinea Pig Appreciation Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

16.7.1887

Legend

Leap year

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 49,000 days old!

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

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Who's birthday is on July 16th?

Same year
Born in 1887

Calendar
July 1887

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