The 106th day of the year, the 107th in a leap year
Born on 16 April
Every 16 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aries, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AriesFire, cardinal, ruled by Mars.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Saturday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 16 April in any year.
Which weekday 16 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 16 April falls on every day of the week: Saturday 16, Thursday 16, Friday 15, Sunday 15, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Tuesday 15.
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How common a birthday 16 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,794 babies were born on 16 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 228th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 16 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Charlie Chaplin | 1889–1977 | English actor and filmmaker |
| Pope Benedict XVI | 1927–2022 | pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 |
| Anatole France | 1844–1924 | French writer |
| Selena | 1971–1995 | American singer |
| Margrethe II | 1940– | Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024 |
| Akon | 1973– | Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, and record producer |
| Peter Ustinov | 1921–2004 | British actor, writer and director |
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 1947– | American basketball player |
| Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | 1955– | Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 2000 to 2025 |
| Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun | 1755–1842 | French portrait painter |
| Martin Lawrence | 1965– | American actor and comedian |
| Shinji Okazaki | 1986– | Japanese association football player |
| Ernst Thälmann | 1886–1944 | German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany |
| Freddie Ljungberg | 1977– | Swedish association football player and manager |
| Anya Taylor-Joy | 1996– | American actress and model |
| Joseph Black | 1728–1799 | Scottish physicist and chemist |
| Rafael Benítez | 1960– | Spanish association football manager and former player |
| Sadie Sink | 2002– | American actress |
Died on 16 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Francisco Goya | 1746–1828 | Spanish painter and printmaker |
| Yasunari Kawabata | 1899–1972 | Japanese novelist |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | 1805–1859 | French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Rosalind Franklin | 1920–1958 | British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer |
| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | 1707–1788 | French natural historian |
| Aphra Behn | 1640–1689 | British playwright, poet and spy |
| Bernadette Soubirous | 1844–1879 | French saint |
| David Lean | 1908–1991 | British filmmaker and editor |
| Marie Tussaud | 1761–1850 | French artist |
| Rudolf Höss | 1901–1947 | German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz |
| Samuel Smiles | 1812–1904 | Scottish author |
| Helen McCrory | 1968–2021 | British actress |
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