The 228th day of the year, the 229th in a leap year
Born on 16 August
Every 16 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Tuesday and Sunday16 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 August in any year.
Which weekday 16 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 16 August falls on every day of the week: Tuesday 16, Sunday 16, Monday 15, Wednesday 15, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Friday 15.
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How common a birthday 16 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,835 babies were born on 16 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 114th 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 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Madonna | 1958– | American singer |
| James Cameron | 1954– | Canadian filmmaker and explorer |
| Charles Bukowski | 1920–1994 | German-American writer |
| Menachem Begin | 1913–1992 | Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983 |
| Gabriel Lippmann | 1845–1921 | Luxembourg-born French physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics |
| Wilhelm Wundt | 1832–1920 | German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor |
| T. E. Lawrence | 1888–1935 | British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat |
| John Bosco | 1815–1888 | Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer |
| Jean de La Bruyère | 1645–1696 | 17th-century French writer and philosopher |
| Umaru Musa Yar'Adua | 1951–2010 | President of Nigeria |
| Steve Carell | 1962– | American actor and comedian |
| Jannik Sinner | 2001– | Italian tennis player |
| Angela Bassett | 1958– | American actress |
| Wendell Meredith Stanley | 1904–1971 | American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946) |
| Anne L'Huillier | 1958– | French physicist |
| Timothy Hutton | 1960– | American actor and director |
| Manisha Koirala | 1970– | Nepalese actress |
| Arthur Cayley | 1821–1895 | English mathematician |
Died on 16 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Elvis Presley | 1935–1977 | American singer and actor |
| Aretha Franklin | 1942–2018 | American singer, songwriter, and pianist |
| Ramakrishna | 1836–1886 | Indian mystic and religious preacher |
| Idi Amin | 1928–2003 | President of Uganda (1971-1979) |
| Margaret Mitchell | 1900–1949 | American author and journalist |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | 1924–2018 | Prime Minister of India in 1996 and from 1998 to 2004 |
| Robert Bunsen | 1811–1899 | German chemist |
| Jacob Bernoulli | 1655–1705 | Swiss mathematician |
| Babe Ruth | 1895–1948 | American baseball player |
| Irving Langmuir | 1881–1957 | American chemist and physicist |
| Peter Fonda | 1940–2019 | American actor and filmmaker |
| Selman Waksman | 1888–1973 | Ukrainian-born American biochemist and microbiologist |
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