November 16 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on November 16, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♏︎ Scorpio
Oct 23 – Nov 21
Birth stone
Topaz
Birth flower
Chrysanthemum
How common
#188 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous November 16 birthdays
Alexander Kolchak · Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement1874
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi · Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher1894
Paul Hindemith · German composer1895
Nnamdi Azikiwe · First President of Nigeria1904
Burgess Meredith · American actor1907
José Saramago · Portuguese novelist1922
Chinua Achebe · Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic1930
Robert Nozick · American political philosopher1938
Terence McKenna · American ethnobotanist and mystic1946
Shigeru Miyamoto · Japanese video game designer1952
Guillermo Lasso · 55th President of Ecuador from 2021 to 20231955
Marg Helgenberger · American actress1958
Sooronbay Jeenbekov · President of Kyrgyzstan from 2017 to 20201958
Lisa Bonet · American actress1967
Paul Scholes · English association football player1974
Maggie Gyllenhaal · American actress, singer and filmmaker1977
Amar'e Stoudemire · American basketball player1982
Sanna Marin · Prime Minister of Finland from 2019 to 20231985
Marcelo Brozović · Croatian association football player1992
Mackenyu · Japanese actor1996
On this day in history
1776American Revolutionary War: Fort Washington on Manhattan was captured from the Patriots by British and Hessian units.
1973U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska.
1981About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.
2022Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon.
1933The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1938Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
1959The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
2002The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
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