March 16 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on March 16, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Aquamarine
Birth flower
Daffodil
How common
#304 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous March 16 birthdays
Sully Prudhomme · French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 19011839
César Vallejo · Peruvian writer1892
Pat Nixon · First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 19741912
Frederick Reines · American physicist1918
Jerry Lewis · American comedian, actor and film director1926
Vladimir Komarov · Soviet cosmonaut1927
Bernardo Bertolucci · Italian film director and screenwriter1941
Andrew S. Tanenbaum · American-Dutch computer scientist1944
Richard Stallman · American software freedom activist1953
Isabelle Huppert · French actress1953
Jens Stoltenberg · Norwegian politician1959
Gore Verbinski · American film director1964
Mark Carney · 24th prime minister of Canada since 20251965
Lauren Graham · American actress, producer and novelist1967
Alan Tudyk · American actor1971
Péter Magyar · Hungarian lawyer and politician1981
Alexandra Daddario · American actress1986
Blake Griffin · American basketball player1989
Theo Walcott · English association football player1989
Gabriel Attal · Prime Minister of France in 20241989
On this day in history
1819The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in New York City, was incorporated.
1960African American civil rights activists in Savannah, Georgia, conducted a sit-in, commencing the Savannah Protest Movement.
1962Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest searches in the history of the Pacific.
1984William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
1782American Revolutionary War: Spain captured the island of Roatán from England off the coast of what is now Honduras.
1802Congress passed the Military Peace Establishment Act, authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to operate the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
1988Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
2002Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern was premiered in Hamburg, together with her Johannes-Passion, by soloists, choirs and orchestras from the Mariinsky Theatre and the NDR.
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