April 16 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 16, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♈︎ Aries
Mar 21 – Apr 19
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#256 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 16 birthdays
Anatole France · French writer1844
Ernst Thälmann · German communist politician1886
Charlie Chaplin · English actor and filmmaker1889
Peter Ustinov · British actor, writer and director1921
Henry Mancini · American film composer1924
Pope Benedict XVI · 265 th pope of the Catholic Church1927
Margrethe II · Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 20241940
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · American basketball player1947
Ellen Barkin · American actress1954
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg · Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg1955
Antony Blinken · American lawyer and diplomat and former United States1962
Martin Lawrence · American actor and comedian1965
Selena · American singer1971
Akon · Senegalese-American singer1973
Freddie Ljungberg · Swedish association football player and manager1977
Lara Dutta · Indian actress1978
Gina Carano · American actress and former mixed martial artist1982
Shinji Okazaki · Japanese association football player1986
Anya Taylor-Joy · American actress and model1996
Sadie Sink · American actress2002
On this day in history
1862Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
1912American pilot Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1947American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
2018The New York Times and The New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
1945Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupation.
1948The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded.
1963In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in defence of the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
2001India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
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