December 16th, 1949

Born on December 16th, 1949

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 27,000 days old!

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What happened on December 16th?

December 16th, 2014

A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages.

December 16th, 2012

A woman was gang-raped and fatally assaulted on a bus in Delhi, generating protests across India against inadequate security for women.

December 16th, 1997

Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption.

December 16th, 1971

The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the Indo-Pakistani War.

December 16th, 1942

World War II: Americans engaged Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse in the hills near the Matanikau River area on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign.

December 16th, 1938

Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother as an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.

December 16th, 1930

German-American gangster Herman Lamm killed himself during a botched robbery attempt in Clinton, Indiana, to avoid being captured by police.

December 16th, 1922

Gabriel Narutowicz, the first president of Poland, was assassinated only five days after having taken office.

December 16th, 1918

Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.

December 16th, 1914

First World War: The Imperial German Navy attacked ports in northern England, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.

December 16th, 1901

English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (illustration shown) after several publishers' rejections.

December 16th, 1893

Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

December 16th, 1850

Settlers of the Canterbury Association (poster pictured) aboard Randolph and Charlotte Jane arrived to establish a colony at Christchurch, New Zealand.

December 16th, 1811

The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes struck the Midwestern United States and made the Mississippi River appear to run backward.

December 16th, 1773

American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor (pictured) to protest British taxation without representation.

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

Born on December 16th, 1949

74

Billy Gibbons

American musician

*December 16th, 1949, Houston

50

Stephanie Lawrence

British actress (1949-2000)

*December 16th, 1949, Hayling Island †November 4th, 2000, London

74

Thotta Tharani

Indian art director and production designer

*December 16th, 1949, Chennai

74

Allan Graf

College football player, Hollywood stuntman, stunt coordinator, film director

*December 16th, 1949, Los Angeles

69

Larry Brand

Film director (1949-2019)

*December 16th, 1949, New York City †February 9th, 2019, Los Angeles

67

Klaus Jörg Schönmetzler

German author

*December 16th, 1949, Bad Aibling †May 25th, 2017

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

26

Zara Larsson

Swedish singer and songwriter

*December 16th, 1997, Solna Municipality

77

Benny Andersson

Swedish musician and composer

*December 16th, 1946, Stockholm

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

75

Christopher Biggins

British actor

*December 16th, 1948, Oldham

77

Barbara Smith

American activist and academic (born 1946)

*December 16th, 1946, Cleveland

56

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer (1770–1827)

*December 16th, 1770, Bonn †March 26th, 1827, Vienna

70

Rebecca Forstadt

American voice actress

*December 16th, 1953, Denver

91

Karl Heinz Oppel

German actor and voice actor

*December 16th, 1924, Dresden †October 27th, 2016, Berlin

73

Peter van Norden

American actor

*December 16th, 1950, New York City

72

Ben Cross

British actor (1947-2020)

*December 16th, 1947, London †August 18th, 2020, Vienna

62

LaChanze

American actress, singer, and dancer

*December 16th, 1961, St. Augustine

87

Egill Jacobsen

Danish painter (1910-1998)

*December 16th, 1910, Copenhagen †April 21st, 1998, Copenhagen

83

Norbert Kunisch

German classical archaeologist

*December 16th, 1934, Dortmund †May 2nd, 2018, Oxford

54

Simon Grayson

English footballer and manager (born 1969)

*December 16th, 1969, Ripon

71

Francesco Graziani

Italian footballer

*December 16th, 1952, Subiaco

76

Margaret Mead

American anthropologist (1901—1978)

*December 16th, 1901, Philadelphia †November 15th, 1978, New York City

85

Liv Ullmann

Norwegian actress and director

*December 16th, 1938, Tokyo

75

Pat Quinn

American politician: 41st Governor of Illinois

*December 16th, 1948, Hinsdale

73

Noël Coward

English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer

*December 16th, 1899, Teddington †March 26th, 1973, Firefly Estate

61

Charly Mottet

French cyclist

*December 16th, 1962, Valence

Same year
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

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on December 16th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born) which are celebrated on December 16th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on December 16th, 1949
Future birthdays

Leap year

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

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