October 16 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 16, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#144 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 16 birthdays
Itō Hirobumi · 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan1841
Austen Chamberlain · British politician1863
David Ben-Gurion · Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel1886
Eugene O'Neill · American playwright1888
Michael Collins · Irish revolutionary and politician1890
Dino Buzzati · Italian writer1906
Louis Althusser · French Marxist philosopher1918
Linda Darnell · American actress1923
Angela Lansbury · British-American-Irish actress and singer1925
Günter Grass · German novelist1927
Mary Daly · American feminist philosopher and theologian1928
Suzanne Somers · American actress1946
Hema Malini · Indian actress, dancer, and politician1948
Tim Robbins · American actor1958
Flea · Australian musician1962
John Mayer · American musician1977
Loreen · Swedish singer1983
Inna · Romanian singer and songwriter1986
Naomi Osaka · Japanese tennis player1997
Charles Leclerc · Monegasque racing driver1997
On this day in history
1875Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah, United States.
1916Margaret Sanger established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
1944A four-day air battle over Taiwan ended with a decisive American victory, destroying hundreds of Japanese aircraft and military facilities.
1995The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.
1923Roy and Walt Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, which eventually grew to become one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world.
1950The first novel of the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, was published in the United Kingdom.
1964With the success of Project 596, China became the world's fifth nuclear power.
1973The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize would be jointly awarded to Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ, sparking international controversy.
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