December 16 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 16, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#181 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 16 birthdays
Léon Walras · French mathematical economist1834
Edward Emerson Barnard · American astronomer and astronomical photographer1857
George Santayana · Spanish-American philosopher1863
Anton Denikin · Russian military and political leader1872
Alexander I of Yugoslavia · Prince regent of Kingdom of Serbia and later King of Yugoslavia 1921–341888
Noël Coward · English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer1899
Margaret Mead · American anthropologist1901
Arthur C. Clarke · British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist1917
Philip K. Dick · American science fiction author1928
Mitsuo Kamata · Japanese association football player1937
Liv Ullmann · Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter1938
Benny Andersson · Swedish musician and composer1946
Bill Hicks · American comedian1961
James Mangold · American film director, screenwriter1963
Benjamin Bratt · American actor1963
Viorica Dăncilă · 67th Prime Minister of Romania1963
Adam Riess · American astrophysicist1969
Krysten Ritter · American actress1981
Mats Hummels · German footballer1988
Zara Larsson · Swedish singer-songwriter1997
On this day in history
1773American Revolution: A group of colonists threw chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest British taxation without representation.
1893Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (audio featured) premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1971The surrender of Pakistani forces in Dacca, East Pakistan, concluded the Bangladesh Liberation War and the India-Pakistan War.
1997Amid an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the British government banned the sale of beef on the bone for human consumption.
1863American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints General Joseph E. Johnston to replace General Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee.
1901English writer Beatrix Potter privately published 250 copies of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (illustration shown) after several publishers' rejections.
1918Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declared the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, a puppet state created by Soviet Russia to justify the Lithuanian–Soviet War.
1938Adolf Hitler instituted the Cross of Honour of the German Mother, an order of merit for German mothers with at least four children.
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