March 16th, 1949

Born on March 16th, 1949

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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, 1949

75

Victor Garber

Canadian actor and singer

*March 16th, 1949, London

75

Elliott Murphy

American singer-songwriter

*March 16th, 1949, Rockville Centre

75

Erik Estrada

American actor

*March 16th, 1949, New York City

71

Sergio Denis

Argentine singer

*March 16th, 1949, Coronel Suárez †May 15th, 2020, Buenos Aires

75

Janice Crystal

American actress and producer

*March 16th, 1949, New York City

75

Jerry Goodman

American violinist (born 1949)

*March 16th, 1949, Chicago

73

Jane Haist

Canadian shot putter and discus thrower

*March 16th, 1949, St. Catharines †May 21st, 2022, Fort Erie

75

Kabir Suman

Bengali singer

*March 16th, 1949, Cuttack

59

Michael Aichhorn

Austrian actor and painter

*March 16th, 1949, Vienna †July 18th, 2008, Vienna

75

Selma Egrei

Brazilian actress

*March 16th, 1949, São Paulo

75

Jan Laverty Jones

American businesswoman and politician

*March 16th, 1949, Los Angeles

75

Marcos Carlos Cruz Martínez

Mexican politician

*March 16th, 1949, Frontera

75

Francine Fox

Canoe racer

*March 16th, 1949, Washington, D.C.

75

Bill Van Gerpen

American politician

*March 16th, 1949, Scotland

75

Anders Folkestad

Norwegian schoolteacher and labour unionist

*March 16th, 1949, Volda

75

Alan Gowling

English footballer (born 1949)

*March 16th, 1949, Stockport

70

Joseph Pilato

American actor (1949-2019)

*March 16th, 1949, Boston †March 24th, 2019, Los Angeles

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Who's birthday is on March 16th?

71

Richard Stallman

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

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

39

Eriko Hirose

Japanese badminton player

*March 16th, 1985, Inagawa

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

80

Attilio Nicora

Catholic cardinal

*March 16th, 1937, Varese †April 22nd, 2017, Rome

31

Emily Sweeney

American luger

*March 16th, 1993, Portland

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

73

Jaques Wagner

Brazilian unionist and politician

*March 16th, 1951, Rio de Janeiro

65

Jens Stoltenberg

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

*March 16th, 1959, Oslo

74

Kate Nelligan

Canadian actress

*March 16th, 1950, London

87

Wolfram Hoepfner

German architectural historian

*March 16th, 1937, Wrocław

50

Indra Wijaya

Indonesian and Singaporean badminton player

*March 16th, 1974, Cirebon City

80

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

American-Dutch computer scientist

*March 16th, 1944, New York City

32

Zuzana Pavelková

Badminton player

*March 16th, 1992, Přerov

60

Jörg Schmadtke

German association football executive

*March 16th, 1964, Düsseldorf

53

Mihaela Cârstoi

Romanian skier

*March 16th, 1971, Predeal

79

Helene Ritchie

New Zealand politician

*March 16th, 1945, Wellington

87

Teresa Berganza

Spanish mezzo-soprano

*March 16th, 1935, Madrid †May 13th, 2022, San Lorenzo de El Escorial

53

Alan Tudyk

American actor

*March 16th, 1971, El Paso

77

Bernardo Bertolucci

Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)

*March 16th, 1941, Parma †November 22nd, 2018, Rome

81

John Leeson

English actor

*March 16th, 1943, Leicester

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Born in 1949

75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

75

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

74

Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

75

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

74

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

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Born on March 16th, 1949
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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