December 16th, 1986

Born on December 16th, 1986

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 13,000 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, 1986

37

Pärt Uusberg

Estonian composer

*December 16th, 1986, Rapla

37

Alcides Escobar

Venezuelan professional baseball player

*December 16th, 1986, Anzoátegui

37

Kyla Pratt

American actress and singer

*December 16th, 1986, Los Angeles

37

Awich

Musical artist

*December 16th, 1986, Naha

37

Harshdeep Kaur

Indian singer

*December 16th, 1986, Delhi

37

Toni Podpolinski

German handball player

*December 16th, 1986, Cottbus

37

Roman Anin

Russian investigative journalist

*December 16th, 1986, Chișinău

37

Roland Müller

Ski jumper

*December 16th, 1986, Innsbruck

26

Zoltán Kovács

Hungarian football player born 1986

*December 16th, 1986, Budapest †August 27th, 2013, Budapest

37

Tasuku Emoto

Japanese actor

*December 16th, 1986, Tokyo

37

Gabriella Tóth

Association footballer

*December 16th, 1986, Debrecen

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

35

Mats Hummels

German association football player

*December 16th, 1988, Bergisch Gladbach

26

Zara Larsson

Swedish singer and songwriter

*December 16th, 1997, Solna Municipality

56

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer (1770–1827)

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

36

Alejandro Hernán Martinuccio

Argentine footballer

*December 16th, 1987, Buenos Aires

35

Park Seo-joon

South Korean actor

*December 16th, 1988, Seoul

25

Reece Oxford

English association football player (born 1998)

*December 16th, 1998, Edmonton

36

Mame Biram Diouf

Senegalese association football player

*December 16th, 1987, Dakar

54

Simon Grayson

English footballer and manager (born 1969)

*December 16th, 1969, Ripon

91

Karl Heinz Oppel

German actor and voice actor

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

35

Anna Popplewell

English actress

*December 16th, 1988, London

38

Máximo Banguera

Ecuadorian footballer

*December 16th, 1985, Guayaquil

77

Benny Andersson

Swedish musician and composer

*December 16th, 1946, Stockholm

87

Egill Jacobsen

Danish painter (1910-1998)

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

38

James Nash

British racing driver.

*December 16th, 1985, Milton Keynes

62

LaChanze

American actress, singer, and dancer

*December 16th, 1961, St. Augustine

39

Theo James

British actor

*December 16th, 1984, Oxford

36

Mike Weber

American ice hockey player

*December 16th, 1987, Pittsburgh

30

Jyoti Amge

Indian actress notable for being the world's smallest living woman

*December 16th, 1993, Nagpur

76

Margaret Mead

American anthropologist (1901—1978)

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

70

Rebecca Forstadt

American voice actress

*December 16th, 1953, Denver

Same year
Born in 1986

37

Inna

Romanian singer

*October 16th, 1986, Mangalia

38

Lady Gaga

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1986)

*March 28th, 1986, Lenox Hill Hospital

37

Tian Qing

Chinese badminton player

*August 19th, 1986, Anhua County

38

Kenichi Hayakawa

Badminton player

*April 5th, 1986, Otsu

37

Hoon Thien How

Badminton player

*December 24th, 1986, Kuala Lumpur

37

Natti Natasha

Dominican american singer

*December 10th, 1986, Santiago de los Caballeros

38

Brice Leverdez

French badminton player

*April 9th, 1986, La Garenne-Colombes

37

Saint Jhn

Guyanese-American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer

*August 26th, 1986, Brooklyn

37

Ellie Goulding

English singer and songwriter

*December 30th, 1986, Hereford

37

Kim Min-jung

South Korean badminton player

*July 29th, 1986, Jeju

37

Anand Pawar

Badminton player

*July 18th, 1986, Mumbai

37

Elena Prus

Badminton player

*April 30th, 1986, Lysychansk

37

Chau Hoi Wah

Badminton player

*June 5th, 1986, British Hong Kong

38

Chen Hung-Ling

Taiwanese badminton player

*February 10th, 1986, Taipei

37

Łukasz Moreń

Badminton player

*June 1st, 1986, Warsaw

37

Johanna Goliszewski

Badminton player

*May 9th, 1986, Olsztyn

38

Isabelle Kaif

Indian actress and model

*March 22nd, 1986, British Hong Kong

37

Kaylee DeFer

American actress

*September 23rd, 1986, Tucson

37

Jenny Skavlan

Norwegian actress

*June 3rd, 1986, Oslo

37

Malynda Hale

Musical artist

*August 21st, 1986, Santa Barbara

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, 1986
Future birthdays

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1986 is a normal year and no leap year.

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