June 16th, 1953

Born on June 16th, 1953

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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, 1953

70

Ian Mosley

English drummer

*June 16th, 1953, Paddington

70

María Graña

Argentinian singer

*June 16th, 1953, Buenos Aires

70

Malcolm Mortimore

British musician

*June 16th, 1953, Wimbledon

70

Valerie Mahaffey

American actress (b. 1953)

*June 16th, 1953, Sumatra

48

Juan Muñoz

Spanish sculptor

*June 16th, 1953, Madrid †August 28th, 2001, Ibiza

70

Sandra Nori

New South Wales politician

*June 16th, 1953, Newcastle

70

Daniel Cohen

French economist

*June 16th, 1953, Tunis †August 20th, 2023, 15th arrondissement of Paris

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

41

Christoph Letkowski

German actor and musician

*June 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

48

Sun Jun

Chinese badminton player

*June 16th, 1975, Nanjing

73

Mithun Chakraborty

Indian film actor

*June 16th, 1950, Kolkata

53

Phil Mickelson

American professional golfer

*June 16th, 1970, San Diego

71

Giorgos Papandreou

Greek politician, president of the Socialist International

*June 16th, 1952, Saint Paul

62

Petru Iosub

Romanian rower

*June 16th, 1961, Fălticeni

80

Joan Van Ark

American actress (born 1943)

*June 16th, 1943, New York City

75

Willie Wilson

American businessman

*June 16th, 1948, Gilbert

48

Willemijn Verkaik

Dutch singer-actor

*June 16th, 1975, Son en Breugel

71

Gino Vannelli

Canadian singer, songwriter and jazz musician

*June 16th, 1952, Montreal

72

Pamela Bellwood

American actress

*June 16th, 1951, New York City

82

Georges Vigarello

French historian

*June 16th, 1941, Monaco

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

57

Olivier Roumat

French rugby union player

*June 16th, 1966, Mont-de-Marsan

61

Willy Stähle

Dutch waterskier (1954-2015)

*June 16th, 1954, Amsterdam †August 27th, 2015, Amsterdam

Same year
Born in 1953

71

Harald Jähner

German journalist and writer

*January 1st, 1953, Duisburg

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor, director and musician

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, President of China since 2013

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

70

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

71

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Michael Wittenborn

German actor

*May 31st, 1953, Bielefeld

64

Stephen Paddock

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

*April 9th, 1953, Clinton †October 1st, 2017, Mandalay Bay

71

Barbara Schnitzler

German actress

*February 19th, 1953, East Berlin

34

Erland van Lidth

American sport wrestler and actor

*June 3rd, 1953, Hilversum †September 23rd, 1987, New York City

71

Richard Stallman

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

*March 16th, 1953, Manhattan

71

Kinji Zeniya

Badminton player

*March 13th, 1953, Kaga

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Dominique de Villepin

95th Prime Minister of France

*November 14th, 1953, Khemisset

71

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

70

Tom Barrett

Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1953–)

*December 8th, 1953, Milwaukee

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No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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