The 47th day of the year
Born on 16 February
Every 16 February birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- AmethystThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Violet, PrimroseUsually taken today to mean faithfulness and young love.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Thursday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
No new year here after 2018
The new year fell on 16 February in 1923, the Water Pig, 1980, the Metal Monkey, 1999, the Earth Rabbit, and 2018, the Earth Dog. 2018 is the last for a long time: the engine finds no new year on 16 February in any later year up to 2100. 1980, 1999 and 2018 are nineteen years apart, and the next step, 2037, falls a day earlier, on 15 February 2037. In 1980 the day before, 15 February 1980, still belonged to the Earth Goat of 1979.
It is a late date for the new year to reach, and only 13 of the 107 years from 1920 to 2026 put a 16 February birthday before it: 1920, 1931, 1939, 1950, 1958, 1969, 1977, 1985, 1988, 1996, 2007, 2015 and 2026. In those years the birthday belongs to the animal of the year before. 16 February 2026, the day before the Fire Horse began, belongs to the Wood Snake.
The sign did not vary either: Aquarius all day, in every time zone.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 16 February in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 16 February in 13 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 94 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1923, 1980, 1999 and 2018.
Shaded: 16 February came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 16 February. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 16 February falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 16 February falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Thursday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Tuesday 15, Sunday 15.
Showing 16 February in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 16 February is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,784 babies were born on 16 February in each year of the twenty, making it the 261st most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 16 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Octave Mirbeau | 1848–1917 | French writer, art critic and journalist |
| Kim Jong Il | 1941–2011 | Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 |
| Ernst Haeckel | 1834–1919 | German zoologist |
| Anne, Queen of Great Britain | 1665–1714 | Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714; born 16 February in the Gregorian calendar, 6 February in the Julian |
| Philipp Melanchthon | 1497–1560 | German reformer |
| Elizabeth Olsen | 1989– | American actress |
| John McEnroe | 1959– | American former tennis player |
| Diego Godín | 1986– | Uruguayan association football player |
| Francis Galton | 1822–1911 | British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist |
| The Weeknd | 1990– | Canadian singer and songwriter |
| Radoje Domanović | 1873–1908 | Serbian writer |
| Valentino Rossi | 1979– | Italian motorcycle racer |
| Mahershala Ali | 1974– | American actor |
| Bebeto | 1964– | Brazilian association football player |
| Henry Adams | 1838–1918 | American journalist, historian, academic, novelist |
| George F. Kennan | 1904–2005 | American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian |
| Ava Max | 1994– | American singer and songwriter |
| Nikolai Leskov | 1831–1895 | Russian writer |
Died on 16 February
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Octave Mirbeau | 1848–1917 | French writer, art critic and journalist |
| Alexei Navalny | 1976–2024 | Russian jurist and opposition leader |
| Giosuè Carducci | 1835–1907 | Italian poet and literary critic |
| Charles II of England | 1630–1685 | King of England, Scotland, and Ireland; died 16 February in the Gregorian calendar, 6 February in the Julian |
| Boutros Boutros-Ghali | 1922–2016 | Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996 |
| Chien-Shiung Wu | 1912–1997 | Chinese-American physicist |
| Bruno Ganz | 1941–2019 | Swiss actor |
| Keith Haring | 1958–1990 | American artist and social activist |
| Félix Faure | 1841–1899 | 7th President of the French Republic |
| John V Palaiologos | 1332–1391 | Byzantine emperor |
| Ferdinand Buisson | 1841–1932 | French academic and politician |
| Afonso III of Portugal | 1210–1279 | King of Portugal |
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