June 16 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 16, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#187 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 16 birthdays
Geronimo · Leader of the Bedonkohe Apache1829
Gustaf V · King of Sweden from 1907 to 19501858
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim · Finnish military leader and statesman1867
Alexander Friedmann · Russian mathematician1888
Stan Laurel · English actor1890
Barbara McClintock · American scientist and cytogeneticist1902
Jack Albertson · American actor1907
Katharine Graham · American publisher, editor and author1917
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah · Emir of Kuwait1929
William F. Sharpe · American economist1934
Erich Segal · American writer1937
Simeon II · Bulgarian politician and royal1937
Joyce Carol Oates · American author1938
George Papandreou · Greek politician, president of the Socialist International1952
Laurie Metcalf · American actress1955
Andrea M. Ghez · American astronomer1965
Jürgen Klopp · German association football manager1967
Tupac Shakur · American rapper and actor1971
John Cho · American actor1972
Federica Mogherini · Italian politician1973
On this day in history
1977Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1997The English rock band Radiohead released their landmark third album OK Computer in the United Kingdom.
2012Liu Yang, a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, became the first Chinese woman in space.
2015American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.
1911IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1960Psycho, a psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, premiered.
1963Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
1972English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
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