December 16th, 1959

Born on December 16th, 1959

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1959

64

Ingo Wellenreuther

German politician

*December 16th, 1959, Karlsruhe

64

Alexander Lebedev

Russian businessman

*December 16th, 1959, Moscow

64

H. D. Kumaraswamy

12th Chief Minister of Karnataka

*December 16th, 1959, Haradanahalli

64

Ana Miralles

Spanish comic books artist born 1959

*December 16th, 1959, Madrid

64

Marina de Graaf

Dutch actress

*December 16th, 1959, Utrecht

64

Roberto De Angelis

Italian comic artist

*December 16th, 1959, Naples

64

Mutsumi Aoki

Japanese artist

*December 16th, 1959, Saitama

64

Yuri Shevtsov

Belarusian handball player

*December 16th, 1959, Slutsk

64

Alison LaPlaca

American actress

*December 16th, 1959, New Jersey

64

Eric Forsberg

American film director

*December 16th, 1959, Chicago

64

Claribel Medina

Puerto Rican actress

*December 16th, 1959, San Juan

64

Larry Poindexter

American actor

*December 16th, 1959, Dallas

64

Nick Thomas

British theatre producer

*December 16th, 1959, Blandford Forum

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

26

Zara Larsson

Swedish singer and songwriter

*December 16th, 1997, Solna Municipality

62

LaChanze

American actress, singer, and dancer

*December 16th, 1961, St. Augustine

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

56

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer (1770–1827)

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

77

Benny Andersson

Swedish musician and composer

*December 16th, 1946, Stockholm

61

Charly Mottet

French cyclist

*December 16th, 1962, Valence

65

Wolfgang Pissors

German actor

*December 16th, 1958, Lindenberg im Allgäu

70

Rebecca Forstadt

American voice actress

*December 16th, 1953, Denver

54

Simon Grayson

English footballer and manager (born 1969)

*December 16th, 1969, Ripon

62

Sam Robards

American actor

*December 16th, 1961, New York City

91

Karl Heinz Oppel

German actor and voice actor

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

87

Egill Jacobsen

Danish painter (1910-1998)

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

77

Barbara Smith

American activist and academic (born 1946)

*December 16th, 1946, Cleveland

67

Catherine Jacob

French actress

*December 16th, 1956, 17th arrondissement of Paris

62

Shane Black

American actor, screenwriter and film director

*December 16th, 1961, Pittsburgh

76

Margaret Mead

American anthropologist (1901—1978)

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

83

Norbert Kunisch

German classical archaeologist

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

68

Carol Browner

American cabinet secretary, environmentalist, lawyer

*December 16th, 1955, Miami

54

Adam Riess

American Nobel laureate and astrophysicist

*December 16th, 1969, Washington, D.C.

75

Christopher Biggins

British actor

*December 16th, 1948, Oldham

Same year
Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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, 1959
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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