You are 47 Years, 01 Months, 7 Days old from January 23, 2026. You were born on Saturday and have been alive for 17206 days, your next Birthday will be after 10 Months, 23 Days or Your next birthday is in 326 days. You can see detailed informations about your birthdate below.
| Date Of Birth | December 16, 1978 (Saturday) |
|---|---|
| Age From Date: | January 23, 2026 (Friday) |
| Age: | 47 Years, 01 Months, 7 Days |
| Birth Day Of The Week: | Saturday |
| Age In Months: | 565 Months 7 Day(s) |
| Age In Weeks: | 2457 Weeks 0 Day(s) |
| Age In Days: | 17206 Days |
| Age In Hours: | 412935 Hours (approx.) |
| Age In Minutes: | 24776098 Minutes (approx.) |
| Age In Seconds: | 1486565909 Seconds (approx.) |
| Next Birthday | December 16, 2026 (Wednesday) |
| Next Birthday After: | 10 Months, 23 Days |
| Is My Birth Year Leap Year? | Year 1978 is not a leap year. |
December 16, 1978 Birthday Facts | |
| Do you want to know your zodiac sign? | Your zodiac sign, if your date of birth is December 16, 1978, is Sagittarius.
Famous people with Sagittarius zodiac sign? |
| Century: | You were born in the 20th century |
| Birthday in Roman numerals | XII.XVI.MCMLXXVIII
December 16, 1978 in roman numerals? |
| What is your age in roman numerals? | Years: XLVII Months: I Days: VII |
| Birth Date Season: | You were born in Fall |
| Chinese zodiac sign: | You were born in the Chinese year of the Earth Horse
When is the Chinese Year of the Horse? |
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 23, 2026 14:58:29Here is a random list who born on December 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1965 | Chris Jones, American baseball player and manager |
| 1966 | Paul McGinley, Irish golfer |
| 1959 | H. D. Kumaraswamy, Indian social worker and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka |
| 1534 | Hans Bol, Flemish artist (d. 1593) |
| 1939 | Philip Langridge, English tenor (d. 2010) |
| 1969 | Dmitri Tymoczko, American composer and theorist |
| 1944 | Don Meyer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014) |
| 1585 | Livia della Rovere, Italian noble (d. 1641) |
| 1955 | Chiharu Matsuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 1926 | A. N. R. Robinson, Tobagonian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014) |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on December 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1859 | Wilhelm Grimm, German anthropologist and author (b. 1786) |
| 2007 | Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951) |
| 1809 | Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755) |
| 1952 | Robert Henry Best, American journalist (b. 1896) |
| 1908 | American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840) |
| 1940 | Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858) |
| 1949 | Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873) |
| 1917 | Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878) |
| 1898 | Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832) |
| 1594 | Allison Balfour, Scottish witch |
Here is a list of some events happened on December 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1882 | Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match. |
| 1773 | American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. |
| 1971 | Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India. |
| 1653 | English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. |
| 1905 | In Rugby Union, The "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.[9] |
| 714 | Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. |
| 1575 | An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.5Mw strikes Valdivia, Chile. |
| 1971 | The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day. |
| 1843 | The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions, in a letter on this date. |
| 2014 | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attack an Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren. |