July 16th, 1969

Born on July 16th, 1969

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 20,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 984 days, exactly on January 13th, 2027, people who were born on July 16th, 1969 will be 21,000 days old!

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What happened on July 16th, 1969?

July 16th, 1969

Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

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What else happened on July 16th?

July 16th, 2013

At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.

July 16th, 2008

A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and 6 deaths.

July 16th, 2007

An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw6.6 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.

July 16th, 2004

Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and the world's largest rooftop garden, opened to the public.

July 16th, 1983

A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.

July 16th, 1965

South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.

July 16th, 1951

The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published.

July 16th, 1950

Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.

July 16th, 1931

Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.

July 16th, 1790

President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.

July 16th, 1782

Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes".

July 16th, 1377

The ten-year-old Richard II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

July 16th, 1232

Muhammad ibn Yusuf (pictured), who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.

July 16th, 2019

A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.

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

Born on July 16th, 1969

54

Wong Wai Lap

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1969, Hong Kong

54

Wong Chun Fan

Hong Kong badminton player

*July 16th, 1969, Hong Kong

54

Sahra Wagenknecht

German politician (born 1969)

*July 16th, 1969, Jena

54

Turlough O'Hare

Canadian swimmer

*July 16th, 1969, Victoria

54

Rain Pryor

American actor and comedian

*July 16th, 1969, Los Angeles

54

Robert Consalvo

Boston City Councilor

*July 16th, 1969, Hyde Park

54

Lev Yilmaz

American comics artist

*July 16th, 1969, Boston

54

Apollo Perelini

New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach, and rugby league footballer and coach

*July 16th, 1969, Auckland

54

Mirjam de Koning

Dutch swimmer

*July 16th, 1969, Amsterdam

54

Valérie Gomez-Bassac

French politician

*July 16th, 1969, Valenciennes

54

Joseba Permach

Spanish politician

*July 16th, 1969, San Sebastián

54

Martin Larocque

Canadian actor

*July 16th, 1969, Chillicothe

54

Bjørn Dunkerbeck

Dutch windsurfer

*July 16th, 1969, Ribe

54

Kathryn Harby-Williams

Australian netball player

*July 16th, 1969, Adelaide

54

Jerome Dillon

American musician

*July 16th, 1969, Columbus

54

Diana Cage

American writer

*July 16th, 1969, San Diego

54

Sentoryū Henri

American martial artist

*July 16th, 1969, Tachikawa

54

Simon Husbands

Barbadian jockey

*July 16th, 1969, Bridgetown

54

Markus Erdmann

German footballer

*July 16th, 1969, West Germany

54

Eric Pele

American martial artist

*July 16th, 1969, San Francisco

54

Mike Crocenzi

Sammarinese bobsledder

*July 16th, 1969, Warren

54

Michel Vatrican

Monegasque bobsledder

*July 16th, 1969, Monte Carlo

54

Chiara Dal Santo

Italian canoeist

*July 16th, 1969, Mirano

54

Hrvoje Vlašić

Croatian basketball coach

*July 16th, 1969, Zadar

54

Arturo Di Mezza

Athletics competitor

*July 16th, 1969, Naples

54

David Wolstencroft

American-born British television writer and author

*July 16th, 1969, Honolulu

54

Kim Tae-han

South Korean actor

*July 16th, 1969, Busan

54

Karina Arroyave

Colombian-American actress

*July 16th, 1969, Colombia

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Who's birthday is on July 16th?

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

40

Katrina Kaiftulutulu

British-Indian actress (born 1983)

*July 16th, 1983, Hong Kong

57

Hwang Hye-young

South Korean badminton player

*July 16th, 1966, Jeungpyeong County

48

Leo Peelen

Dutch racing cyclist (1968-2017)

*July 16th, 1968, Arnhem †March 24th, 2017, Apeldoorn

27

Luke Hemmings

Australian singer and guitarist

*July 16th, 1996, Freemans Reach

34

Kenichi Tago

Japanese badminton player

*July 16th, 1989, Warabi

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

49

Philipp Sichler

German cinematographer

*July 16th, 1974, Spaichingen

56

Will Ferrell

American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer (born 1967)

*July 16th, 1967, Irvine

50

Stefano Garzelli

Italian road racing cyclist

*July 16th, 1973, Varese

24

Frida Maanum

Association football player

*July 16th, 1999, Norway

52

Evelyn Großmann

German figure skater

*July 16th, 1971, Dresden

30

Tan Wei Han

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1993, Singapore

27

Eva Janssens

German badminton player

*July 16th, 1996, Aachen

36

Brinner Henrique Santos Souza

Brazilian footballer

*July 16th, 1987, Lavras

55

Robert J. Sherman

American songwriter

*July 16th, 1968, Los Angeles

55

Roald Amundsen

Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole

*July 16th, 1872, Borge Municipality †June 18th, 1928, Arctic Ocean

67

Tony Kushner

American playwright and screenwriter

*July 16th, 1956, Manhattan

34

Gareth Bale

Welsh association football player

*July 16th, 1989, Cardiff

78

Rasa von Werder

American bodybuilder and sex worker

*July 16th, 1945, Calw

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Born in 1969

55

Brian Krause

American actor

*February 1st, 1969, Lake Forest

54

Justine Frischmann

English musician

*September 16th, 1969, Kensington

54

Lucero

Mexican singer and actress

*August 29th, 1969, Mexico City

54

Thomas Vinterberg

Danish film director

*May 19th, 1969, Copenhagen

54

Søren Rasted

Danish musician

*June 13th, 1969, Blovstrød

54

Magnus Samuelsson

Swedish strongman

*December 21st, 1969, Kisa

54

Jens Eriksen

Danish badminton player

*December 30th, 1969, Copenhagen

55

Michael Schumacher

German racing driver

*January 3rd, 1969, Hürth

54

Ansgar Brinkmann

German footballer

*July 5th, 1969, Vechta

54

Brad Beven

Triathlete

*September 18th, 1969, Mirriwinni

54

Catrine Bengtsson

Badminton player

*September 21st, 1969, Gothenburg

54

Jyri Aalto

Finnish badminton player

*July 11th, 1969, Helsinki

54

Markus Gisdol

German association football player and manager

*August 17th, 1969, Geislingen an der Steige

55

Jintara Poonlarp

Thai female singer

*March 6th, 1969, Kaset Wisai

55

Arabella Kiesbauer

German talk show host

*April 8th, 1969, Vienna

54

Linus Torvalds

Finnish-American software engineer

*December 28th, 1969, Helsinki

54

Jennifer Lopez

American singer and actress

*July 24th, 1969, The Bronx

54

Maj Helen Sorkmo

Norwegian cross-country skier

*August 14th, 1969, Os Municipality

55

Bettina Stucky

Swiss actress

*January 1st, 1969, Bern

54

Matthew Perry

American-Canadian actor (1969–2023)

*August 19th, 1969, Williamstown †October 28th, 2023, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1969 is a normal year and no leap year.

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