July 16 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 16, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♋︎ Cancer
Jun 21 – Jul 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#51 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 16 birthdays
Mary Baker Eddy · American founder of Christian Science1821
Ida B. Wells · American journalist and civil rights activist1862
Roald Amundsen · Norwegian explorer1872
Frits Zernike · Dutch physicist1888
Trygve Lie · 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations1896
Barbara Stanwyck · American actress1907
Ginger Rogers · American actress and dancer1911
Irwin Rose · American biologist1926
Yasuo Fukuda · Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 20081936
Phoebe Cates · American actress, model, and entrepreneur1963
Miguel Induráin · Spanish cyclist1964
Will Ferrell · American actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer1967
Larry Sanger · American former professor1968
Jayma Mays · American actress1979
Jesse Jane · American pornographic actress1980
Carli Lloyd · American soccer player1982
Katrina Kaif · British actress1983
Rosa Salazar · American actress1985
Sergio Busquets · Spanish association football player1988
Gareth Bale · Welsh association football player1989
On this day in history
1790President 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.
1951The Catcher in the Rye (cover pictured), an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was published by Little, Brown.
2003A faction of the armed forces of São Tomé and Príncipe led by Major Fernando Pereira overthrew the government of Fradique de Menezes in a bloodless coup d'état.
2004Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the public.
1931Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
1950Uruguay won the decisive match of the fourth FIFA World Cup, defeating Brazil 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
1979Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1994Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter, with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
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