You are 69 Years, 04 Months, 24 Days old from January 09, 2026. You were born on Thursday and have been alive for 25348 days, your next Birthday will be after 07 Months, 6 Days or Your next birthday is in 219 days. You can see detailed informations about your birthdate below.
| Date Of Birth | August 16, 1956 (Thursday) |
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| Age From Date: | January 09, 2026 (Friday) |
| Age: | 69 Years, 04 Months, 24 Days |
| Birth Day Of The Week: | Thursday |
| Age In Months: | 832 Months 24 Day(s) |
| Age In Weeks: | 3621 Weeks 3 Day(s) |
| Age In Days: | 25348 Days |
| Age In Hours: | 608352 Hours (approx.) |
| Age In Minutes: | 36501144 Minutes (approx.) |
| Age In Seconds: | 2190068669 Seconds (approx.) |
| Next Birthday | August 16, 2026 (Sunday) |
| Next Birthday After: | 07 Months, 6 Days |
| Is My Birth Year Leap Year? | Year 1956 is a leap year. |
August 16, 1956 Birthday Facts | |
| Do you want to know your zodiac sign? | Your zodiac sign, if your date of birth is August 16, 1956, is Leo.
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| Century: | You were born in the 20th century |
| Birthday in Roman numerals | VIII.XVI.MCMLVI
August 16, 1956 in roman numerals? |
| What is your age in roman numerals? | Years: LXIX Months: IV Days: XXIV |
| Birth Date Season: | You were born in Summer |
| Chinese zodiac sign: | You were born in the Chinese year of the Fire Monkey
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Find out how many days you have been alive, what day of the week you were born on, and how long you have lived in days weeks months and years since your birth date. Chronological Age measures how old you are defined as how many years you have lived since birth.
The information above is calculated using UTC timezone where the date and time is Friday, January 09, 2026 00:24:29Here is a random list who born on August 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1892 | Hal Foster, Canadian-American author and illustrator (d. 1982) |
| 1934 | Ketty Lester, American singer and actress |
| 1882 | Désiré Mérchez, French swimmer and water polo player (d. 1968) |
| 1939 | Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian-English journalist and academic |
| 1993 | Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model |
| 1990 | Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer |
| 1888 | Armand J. Piron, American violinist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1943) |
| 1865 | Mary Gilmore, Australian socialist, poet and journalist (d. 1962) |
| 1947 | Carol Moseley Braun, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to New Zealand |
| 1975 | Didier Agathe, French footballer |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1979 | John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895) |
| 1992 | Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1951) |
| 2013 | David Rees, Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1918) |
| 1836 | Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755) |
| 1419 | Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (b. 1361) |
| 1945 | Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891) |
| 1518 | Loyset Compère, French composer (b. 1445) |
| 1993 | Stewart Granger, English-American actor (b. 1913) |
| 856 | Theutbald I, bishop of Langres |
| 1957 | Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) |
Here is a list of some events happened on August 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground. |
| 1966 | Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested. |
| 1916 | The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed. |
| 1869 | Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion largely made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War. |
| 1929 | The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed. |
| 1975 | Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically hands over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 song by Paul Kelly and an annual celebration. |
| 1896 | Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush. |
| 1906 | The 8.2 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people. |
| 2015 | Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42, crashes in Oksibl, Pegunungan Bintang, killing all 54 people on board. |
| 2010 | AIRES Flight 8250 crashes at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport in San Andrés, San Andrés y Providencia, Colombia, killing two people. |