May 16th, 1984

Born on May 16th, 1984

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What happened on May 16th?

May 16th, 2014

At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya.

May 16th, 1977

The first Chuck E. Cheese location, the first family restaurant to integrate food, animated entertainment (example pictured), and an indoor arcade, opened in San Jose, California.

May 16th, 1975

Japanese climber Junko Tabei (pictured) became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

May 16th, 1961

Led by Park Chung-hee, the Military Revolution Committee carried out a bloodless coup against the government of Yun Posun in Seoul, ending the Second Republic of Korea.

May 16th, 1960

American physicist Theodore Maiman operated the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.

May 16th, 1959

The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, one of Malta's most important Modernist landmarks, was turned on for the first time.

May 16th, 1958

The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a supersonic interceptor aircraft, set a world flight airspeed record of 1,404.012 mph (2,259.538 km/h).

May 16th, 1943

Second World War: The Royal Air Force's "Dambusters" squadron embarked on an attack on German dams using bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis.

May 16th, 1929

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.

May 16th, 1925

The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.

May 16th, 1918

The Sedition Act was passed in the United States, forbidding Americans from using "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the government, flag, or armed forces during the ongoing World War I.

May 16th, 1866

The United States Congress authorized the minting of the Shield nickel (example pictured), the country's first five-cent piece to be made of a copper–nickel alloy.

May 16th, 1832

Prospector Juan Godoy discovered a silver outcrop in Chañarcillo, sparking the Chilean silver rush.

May 16th, 1811

Peninsular War: Allied British, Spanish, and Portuguese forces clashed with French troops at the Battle of Albuera fought south of Badajoz, Spain.

May 16th, 1605

After a scuffle in which one cardinal received broken bones, the papal conclave elected Camillo Borghese as Pope Paul V.

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

Born on May 16th, 1984

39

Julien Antomarchi

Cyclist

*May 16th, 1984, Marseille

39

Noel Barrionuevo

Field hockey player

*May 16th, 1984, Martínez

39

Jensen Lewis

American baseball player

*May 16th, 1984, Cincinnati

39

Natálie Kocábová

Writer

*May 16th, 1984, Prague

39

Issey Nakajima-Farran

Canadian association football player

*May 16th, 1984, Calgary

39

Mickie Knuckles

American professional wrestler

*May 16th, 1984, Clarksville

39

Quincy Douby

American basketball player

*May 16th, 1984, Brooklyn

39

Worrawech Danuwong

Thai singer, actor and film director

*May 16th, 1984, Suphan Buri

39

Brandon Mann

American professional baseball player who plays for the Washington Nationals

*May 16th, 1984, Tacoma

39

Ahmad Jamshidian

Iranian footballer

*May 16th, 1984, Hamadan

39

Simon Keizer

Dutch singer-songwriter

*May 16th, 1984, Volendam

39

Esteri Tebandeke

Ugandan actress

*May 16th, 1984, Kampala

39

Jhon Kennedy Hurtado

Colombian footballer

*May 16th, 1984, Palmira

27

Rick Rypien

Canadian ice hockey player (1984–2011)

*May 16th, 1984, Blairmore †August 15th, 2011, Crowsnest Pass

39

Darío Cvitanich

Argentine footballer

*May 16th, 1984, Baradero

39

Tomáš Fleischmann

Czech ice hockey player

*May 16th, 1984, Kopřivnice

39

Naveed Akram

Football player

*May 16th, 1984, Multan

39

Javi Soria

Spanish footballer

*May 16th, 1984, Cuenca

39

Hacran Dias

Brazilian martial artist

*May 16th, 1984, Rio de Janeiro

39

Gerry Hurley

Irish rugby union player

*May 16th, 1984, Midleton

39

Francisco Alberoni

Football player

*May 16th, 1984, Niterói

39

Evan Stoflet

American ice hockey player

*May 16th, 1984, Madison

39

Darren Elkins

American martial artist

*May 16th, 1984, Hobart

39

Anton Grebnev

Russian footballer

*May 16th, 1984, Saratov

39

Hà Thị Hoa

Vietnamese volleyball player

*May 16th, 1984, Haiphong

39

Osama Al-Muwallad

Saudi Arabian footballer

*May 16th, 1984, Jeddah

39

Michael Woodley

British ecologist and intelligence researcher

*May 16th, 1984, Guildford

39

Nicolas Peschier

French canoeist

*May 16th, 1984, Guilherand-Granges

39

Akihiro Sakata

Japanese association football player

*May 16th, 1984, Kyoto

39

Lavalu Fatu

American Samoan soccer player

*May 16th, 1984, American Samoa

39

Joe Vide

American soccer player

*May 16th, 1984, Fort Worth

39

Brian Beaman

Olympic pistol shooter

*May 16th, 1984, Mobridge

39

Cheng Wei-hao

Taiwanese film director and screenwriter

*May 16th, 1984, Kaohsiung

39

Nenad Simić

Association football player

*May 16th, 1984, Serbia

39

Srđan Mrvaljević

Montenegrin judoka

*May 16th, 1984, Belgrade

39

James Fauntleroy II

American singer, songwriter and record producer from California

*May 16th, 1984, Inglewood

39

Wayne Arnold

American basketball player (1984-)

*May 16th, 1984, Lilburn

39

Katie Downes

Model

*May 16th, 1984, Liverpool

39

Pania Rose

Australian model

*May 16th, 1984, Kalamunda

39

Setu Taase

American Samoan actor

*May 16th, 1984, American Samoa

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

46

Melanie Lynskey

New Zealand actress

*May 16th, 1977, New Plymouth

37

Megan Fox

American actress and model

*May 16th, 1986, Oak Ridge

41

Heide Wollert

German judoka

*May 16th, 1982, Halle (Saale)

43

Jens Spahn

German politician

*May 16th, 1980, Ahaus

42

Joseph Morgan

English actor and director

*May 16th, 1981, London

65

Glenn Gregory

English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

*May 16th, 1958, Sheffield

38

Anja Mittag

German female footballer

*May 16th, 1985, Chemnitz

31

Konstantin Abramov

Badminton player

*May 16th, 1992, Moscow

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

29

Phillip Chew

Badminton player

*May 16th, 1994, Anaheim

26

Sören Opti

Badminton player

*May 16th, 1997, Paramaribo

40

Nancy Ajram

Lebanese actress and singer

*May 16th, 1983, Archafrieh

43

Simon Gerrans

Road bicycle racer

*May 16th, 1980, Melbourne

25

Emma Karlsson

Badminton player

*May 16th, 1998, Älmhult

89

Hannes Hegen

German Illustrator and caricaturist (1925-2014)

*May 16th, 1925, Česká Kamenice †November 8th, 2014, Berlin

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

67

Justus Carrière

German actor

*May 16th, 1956, Schwerin

32

Ashley Wagner

American figure skater

*May 16th, 1991, Heidelberg

35

Rafig Huseynov

Azerbaijani wrestler

*May 16th, 1988, Tashkent

53

Gabriela Sabatini

Argentine tennis player

*May 16th, 1970, Buenos Aires

Same year
Born in 1984

39

Basshunter

Swedish singer, record producer and DJ

*December 22nd, 1984, Halmstad

40

Marc Zwiebler

German badminton player

*March 13th, 1984, Bonn

39

Helene Fischer

German singer

*August 5th, 1984, Krasnoyarsk

40

Juliette Armanet

French singer

*March 4th, 1984, Lille

39

Robert Huth

German association football player

*August 18th, 1984, East Berlin

39

Molly Nilsson

Swedish record producer, keyboardist and singer-songwriter

*December 14th, 1984, Stockholm

39

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

40

Salakjit Ponsana

Badminton player

*February 14th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Avril Lavigne

Canadian singer and songwriter (born 1984)

*September 27th, 1984, Belleville

40

Chanan Colman

Danish-American-Israeli former basketball player

*March 10th, 1984, Gladsaxe Municipality

39

Scarlett Johansson

American actress (born 1984)

*November 22nd, 1984, Manhattan

40

Valeria Sorokina

Russian badminton player

*March 29th, 1984, Reshetikha, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

39

French Montana

American rapper

*November 9th, 1984, Casablanca

40

Patrícia Kimberly

Brazilian pornographic actress

*January 6th, 1984, São Paulo

40

Duanganong Aroonkesorn

Thai badminton player

*February 6th, 1984, Bangkok

39

Valeriy Atrashchenkov

Badminton player

*August 20th, 1984, Kharkiv

39

Andrej Ashmarin

Badminton player

*November 9th, 1984, Moscow

39

Mark Zuckerberg

American internet entrepreneur

*May 14th, 1984, White Plains

39

Jinjin Harder

German singer

*August 30th, 1984, Wuhan

39

Ave Pajo

Estonian badminton and football player

*July 9th, 1984, Estonia

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 16th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on May 16th.

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Born on May 16th, 1984
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Leap year

Yes: 1984 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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