June 16th, 1948

Born on June 16th, 1948

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on June 16th, 1948?

June 16th, 1948

Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Communist_Party

What else 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.

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

Born on June 16th, 1948

75

Willie Wilson

American businessman

*June 16th, 1948, Gilbert

75

Hans-Werner Kammer

German politician

*June 16th, 1948, Varel

75

Ron LeFlore

American baseball player

*June 16th, 1948, Detroit

75

Bjørn Sundquist

Norwegian actor

*June 16th, 1948, Hammerfest Municipality

75

Klaus Kater

German handball player

*June 16th, 1948, Marienheide

75

Suely Rolnik

Brazilian psychotherapist and teacher

*June 16th, 1948, Brazil

65

Leopoldo María Panero

Spanish poet (1948-2014)

*June 16th, 1948, Madrid †March 5th, 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Same Day
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

68

Laurie Metcalf

American actress

*June 16th, 1955, Carbondale

50

Eddie Cibrian

American actor

*June 16th, 1973, Burbank

73

Mithun Chakraborty

Indian film actor

*June 16th, 1950, Kolkata

41

Christoph Letkowski

German actor and musician

*June 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

80

Joan Van Ark

American actress (born 1943)

*June 16th, 1943, New York City

48

Sun Jun

Chinese badminton player

*June 16th, 1975, Nanjing

77

Simon Williams

British actor

*June 16th, 1946, Windsor

53

Phil Mickelson

American professional golfer

*June 16th, 1970, San Diego

82

Georges Vigarello

French historian

*June 16th, 1941, Monaco

74

Geoff Pierson

American actor

*June 16th, 1949, Chicago

48

Willemijn Verkaik

Dutch singer-actor

*June 16th, 1975, Son en Breugel

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

84

Katharine Graham

American publisher, editor and author (1917–2001)

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

74

Milan Hurtala

Czechoslovakian rower

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

76

Danielle Ouimet

Canadian actress

*June 16th, 1947, Montreal

56

Otto Jahn

German classical philologist, archaeologist and musicologist (1813-1869)

*June 16th, 1813, Kiel †September 9th, 1869, Göttingen

74

Jack Albertson

American character actor, dancer, singer and comedian

*June 16th, 1907, Malden †November 25th, 1981, Hollywood

Same year
Born in 1948

69

Ole Thestrup

Danish actor (1948-2018)

*March 12th, 1948, Nibe †February 2nd, 2018, Tuse Næs

46

Maurizio Gucci

Italian businessman (1948-1995)

*September 26th, 1948, Florence †March 27th, 1995, Milan

75

Charles III of the United Kingdom

King of the United Kingdom since 2022

*November 14th, 1948, Buckingham Palace

75

Norbert Lammert

German politician, president of the Bundestag

*November 16th, 1948, Bochum

75

Jon Amiel

English film director

*May 20th, 1948, London

75

Marius Müller-Westernhagen

German actor and musician

*December 6th, 1948, Düsseldorf

75

Laila Dåvøy

Norwegian politician

*August 11th, 1948, Bergen

75

Richard Simmons

American fitness instructor, actor, and video producer (born 1948)

*July 12th, 1948, New Orleans

69

Bernard Bosson

French politician (1948-2017)

*February 25th, 1948, Annecy †May 13th, 2017, 8th arrondissement of Lyon

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

75

Kathy Bates

American film actress and director

*June 28th, 1948, Memphis

71

Robert Trump

US business executive and real estate developer (1948-2020)

*August 26th, 1948, Queens †August 15th, 2020, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital

68

Bernie Wrightson

American illustrator

*October 27th, 1948, Baltimore †March 18th, 2017, Austin

75

Gérard Depardieu

French actor (born 1948)

*December 27th, 1948, Châteauroux

76

John de Lancie

American actor

*March 20th, 1948, Philadelphia

76

Al Gore

Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)

*March 31st, 1948, Washington, D.C.

75

Jonathan Hyde

Australian-born English actor

*May 21st, 1948, Brisbane

68

Altamas Kabir

39th Chief Justice of India

*July 19th, 1948, Kolkata †February 19th, 2017, Kolkata

75

Brian Eno

British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)

*May 15th, 1948, Melton

68

Carlos Gardini

Argentinian journalist (1948-2017)

*August 26th, 1948, Buenos Aires †March 1st, 2017, Buenos Aires

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Leap year

Yes: 1948 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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