July 16th, 1941

Born on July 16th, 1941

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on July 16th, 1941?

July 16th, 1941

Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record.

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What else 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 six 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 one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, 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 (pictured)—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 (cover pictured).

July 16th, 1950

Uruguay won the decisive match of the FIFA World Cup against Brazil 2–1 at Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro.

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

Wolfgang Amadeus 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, who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.

July 16th, 1945

The United States conducted the first detonation of a nuclear weapon during the Trinity test (pictured).

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

Born on July 16th, 1941

85

George Young

British Conservative politician (born 1941)

*July 16th, 1941, Oxford

85

Hans Wiegel

Dutch politician

*July 16th, 1941, Amsterdam

64

Desmond Dekker

Jamaican ska singer-songwriter (1941–2006)

*July 16th, 1941, Kingston †May 25th, 2006, Thornton Heath

85

Dag Solstad

Norwegian writer

*July 16th, 1941, Sandefjord Municipality

81

Kálmán Mészöly

Hungarian footballer

*July 16th, 1941, Budapest †November 21st, 2022, Budapest

85

Joe Ricketts

American businessman (born 1941)

*July 16th, 1941, Nebraska City

85

Karl Stetter

German microbiologist

*July 16th, 1941, Munich

85

Luciano Maiani

Sammarinese physicist

*July 16th, 1941, Rome

85

Ken Herock

American football player

*July 16th, 1941, Munhall

85

Mimmo Liguoro

Italian journalist

*July 16th, 1941, Torre del Greco

Same year
Born in 1941

76

Rolf Zacher

German actor (1941–2018)

*March 28th, 1941, Berlin †February 3rd, 2018, Hamburg

85

Volker Fadinger

German classical scholar and historian

*February 7th, 1941, Schulzendorf

80

Dieter Wedel

German director and screenwriter

*November 12th, 1941, Frankfurt †July 13th, 2022, Hamburg

84

Bernie Sanders

United States Senator from Vermont since 2007

*September 8th, 1941, Brooklyn

85

Bob Dylan

American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

*May 24th, 1941, Duluth

85

Sergio Mattarella

President of Italy since 2015

*July 23rd, 1941, Palermo

70

Cesária Évora

Cape Verdean singer-songwriter (1941–2011)

*August 27th, 1941, Mindelo †December 17th, 2011, Mindelo

75

Nicole Leblanc

Canadian actress

*September 2nd, 1941, Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine †May 23rd, 2017, Montreal

82

Frank Farian

German music producer (1941–2024)

*July 18th, 1941, Kirn †January 23rd, 2024, Miami

75

Gary Austin

American theatre director (1941-2017)

*October 18th, 1941, Duncan †April 1st, 2017, Los Angeles

85

Karin Tietze-Ludwig

German television presenter

*May 31st, 1941, Siegen

85

Faye Dunaway

American actress

*January 14th, 1941, Bascom

82

Diethelm Ferner

German association football player and manager

*July 13th, 1941 †November 7th, 2023

75

Jared Martin

American actor (1941-2017)

*December 21st, 1941, Queens †May 24th, 2017, Philadelphia

80

Anne Rice

American writer

*October 4th, 1941, New Orleans †December 11th, 2021, Rancho Mirage

85

Hayao Miyazaki

Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka (born 1941)

*January 5th, 1941, Bunkyo

84

Martha Stewart

American businesswoman, writer, television personality, and former fashion model

*August 3rd, 1941, Jersey City

70

Kim Jong-il

Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011

*February 16th, 1941, Vyatskoye †December 17th, 2011, Pyongyang

85

Richard Dawkins

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

*March 26th, 1941, Nairobi

80

David Warner

British actor (1941–2022)

*July 29th, 1941, Manchester †July 24th, 2022, Northwood

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No: With 365 days 1941 is a normal year and no leap year.

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