June 16th, 1947

Born on June 16th, 1947

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What happened on June 16th?

June 16th, 2016

Jo Cox, a British Member of Parliament, was murdered in her constituency.

June 16th, 2012

Liu Yang (pictured), a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.

June 16th, 1972

English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

June 16th, 1963

Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (pictured) became the first woman in space.

June 16th, 1960

Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock (pictured) and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.

June 16th, 1936

A Junkers Ju 52 aircraft of Norwegian Air Lines crashed into a mountainside near Hyllestad, Norway, killing all seven people on board.

June 16th, 1911

The technology company IBM was founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

June 16th, 1904

Irish author James Joyce began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922 novel Ulysses, commemorated as Bloomsday.

June 16th, 1883

In the Victoria Hall disaster, 183 children were crushed to death when they ran down the stairs to collect gifts after a variety show in Sunderland, England.

June 16th, 1819

A strong earthquake in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India, caused a local zone of uplift that dammed the Nara River, which was later named the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').

June 16th, 1755

After a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in present-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, marking the end of Father Le Loutre's War.

June 16th, 1632

The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, who became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine.

June 16th, 1407

Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in modern-day northern Vietnam, capturing Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and bringing the country under Chinese rule.

June 16th, 0632

The final king of the Sasanian Empire of Iran, Yazdegerd III, ascended the throne at the age of eight.

June 16th, 2019

Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history.

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

Born on June 16th, 1947

76

Danielle Ouimet

Canadian actress

*June 16th, 1947, Montreal

76

Fernando Ónega

Spanish journalist and television presenter

*June 16th, 1947, Mosteiro (Pol)

76

Willy Munyoki Mutunga

13th Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya

*June 16th, 1947, Kitui County

76

-minu

Swiss journalist

*June 16th, 1947, Basel

76

Al Cowlings

American football player

*June 16th, 1947, San Francisco

76

Tom Malone

American musician

*June 16th, 1947, Honolulu

64

Günther Kaufmann

German actor (1947-2012)

*June 16th, 1947, Munich †May 10th, 2012, Berlin

76

Tom Wyner

English voice actor

*June 16th, 1947, Sheffield

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Who's birthday is on June 16th?

56

Jürgen Klopp

German football manager (born 1967)

*June 16th, 1967, Stuttgart

61

Chairul Tanjung

Indonesian businessman and bureaucrat

*June 16th, 1962, Jakarta

75

Willie Wilson

American businessman

*June 16th, 1948, Gilbert

68

Laurie Metcalf

American actress

*June 16th, 1955, Carbondale

80

Joan Van Ark

American actress (born 1943)

*June 16th, 1943, New York City

50

Eddie Cibrian

American actor

*June 16th, 1973, Burbank

41

Christoph Letkowski

German actor and musician

*June 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

77

Simon Williams

British actor

*June 16th, 1946, Windsor

48

Sun Jun

Chinese badminton player

*June 16th, 1975, Nanjing

73

Mithun Chakraborty

Indian film actor

*June 16th, 1950, Kolkata

82

Georges Vigarello

French historian

*June 16th, 1941, Monaco

53

Phil Mickelson

American professional golfer

*June 16th, 1970, San Diego

74

Milan Hurtala

Czechoslovakian rower

*June 16th, 1946, Bratislava †March 20th, 2021

48

Willemijn Verkaik

Dutch singer-actor

*June 16th, 1975, Son en Breugel

77

Tom Harrell

American composer, arranger, jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist

*June 16th, 1946, Urbana

62

Petru Iosub

Romanian rower

*June 16th, 1961, Fălticeni

92

Annie Cordy

Belgian actress and singer

*June 16th, 1928, Laeken - Laken †September 4th, 2020, Vallauris

75

Hans-Werner Kammer

German politician

*June 16th, 1948, Varel

84

Katharine Graham

American publisher, editor and author (1917–2001)

*June 16th, 1917, New York City †July 17th, 2001, Boise

77

Derek Sanderson

Canadian ice hockey player

*June 16th, 1946, Niagara Falls

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Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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