Born on October 16
October 16 birthdays & history
If you were born on October 16, you share a birthday with Oscar Wilde, Günter Grass and David Ben-Gurion. October 16 babies are Libra, with opal as their birthstone and the marigold as their birth flower. October 16 is the 290th day of the year in leap years (289th in other years).
Famous people born on October 16
- 1854Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet
- 1927Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1886David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel
- 1888Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1997Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
- 1918Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic
- 1983Loreen, Swedish singer
- 1925Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer
- 1854Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian
- 1958Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
What happened on October 16
- 1384Jadwiga was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right.
- 1817Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, uncovered the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings.
- 1841The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada.
- 1843William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.
- 1846William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
- 1869The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
- 1875Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah, United States.
- 1905Authorities of the British Raj partitioned the Bengal Presidency, separating the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas.
- 1916Margaret Sanger established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
- 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.
- 1926Háry János, a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály, was premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest.
- 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.
Also observed on October 16
- Air Force Day (Bulgaria)
- Boss's Day (United States)
- Pope John Paul II Day (Poland)
- Teachers' Day (Chile)
- World Food Day (International)
Questions, answered
What star sign is October 16?
People born on October 16 are Libra. Their birthstone is opal and their birth flower is the marigold.
Which famous people were born on October 16?
Oscar Wilde (1854), Günter Grass (1927), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Naomi Osaka (1997), Louis Althusser (1918) were all born on October 16.
What happened on October 16 in history?
Among other things: in 1923, Roy 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; in 1926, Háry János, a Hungarian folk opera by Zoltán Kodály, was premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest; in 1973, The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize would be jointly awarded to Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ, sparking international controversy.
Can I get a newspaper front page from October 16?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any October 16 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “October 16”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.