Funny Birthday Facts About May 16, 1968
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What day were you born on May 16, 1968?
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Countdown to Your 58th Birthday
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What day was May 16, 2025?
This year you are getting older. You have celebrated your 57th birthday on Friday. How was your 57th birthday? Is it fun? We wish you good memories on your birthday. Celebrating a festive birthday party with family and friends, getting gifts and surprises will certainly make you happier.
FYI: You are more than 21,000 days old
Did you know that people born on May 16
Your Age in Days, Weeks, Months & Years
21,041 Days
2,764 Weeks
691 Months
57 Years
Your Age in Seconds, Minutes and Hours
Your Upcoming Birthdays for The Next 10 Years
We have calculated your birthday for the next 10 years. It's going to be a fun time to celebrate with family and friends. You'll get lots of gifts, too! There are 143 days until your next birthday. By then, you will be 58 years old. There have been 21041 days since the day you were born. If you slept for 8 hours each day since birth, you have slept for a total of 7014 days, which is equivalent to 19.22 years. You spent 33.72% of your life sleeping!
| Year | Day | Your Age |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Saturday | 58 Years Old |
| 2027 | Sunday | 59 Years Old |
| 2028 | Tuesday | 60 Years Old |
| 2029 | Wednesday | 61 Years Old |
| 2030 | Thursday | 62 Years Old |
| 2031 | Friday | 63 Years Old |
| 2032 | Sunday | 64 Years Old |
| 2033 | Monday | 65 Years Old |
| 2034 | Tuesday | 66 Years Old |
| 2035 | Wednesday | 67 Years Old |
What is your zodiac and birthstone for May 16, 1968?
According to western astrology, the zodiac sign of people born on May 16
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Famous People Born on May 16
When you were born, there were many famous people in history who were born on the same day as you but in different years. The following are famous people in history who commemorate birthdays on May 16
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1909 | Luigi Villoresi, Italian race car driver (d. 1997) |
| 1909 | Margaret Sullavan, American actress and singer (d. 1960) |
| 1910 | Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter and educator (d. 1972) |
| 1910 | Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (d. 2014) |
| 1910 | Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and author (d. 1975) |
| 1912 | Studs Terkel, American historian and author (d. 2008) |
| 1913 | Gordon Chalk, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Queensland (d. 1991) |
| 1913 | Woody Herman, American singer, saxophonist, and clarinet player (d. 1987) |
| 1914 | Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author (d. 2009) |
| 1915 | Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2010) |
Famous People Died on May 16
Did you know that on May 16
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1936 | Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860) |
| 1938 | Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870) |
| 1943 | Nigger, black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. |
| 1943 | Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865) |
| 1944 | Filip Mișea, Aromanian activist, physician and politician (b. 1873) |
| 1944 | George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866) |
| 1946 | Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890) |
| 1947 | Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861) |
| 1947 | Kalle Hakala, Finnish politician (b. 1880) |
| 1947 | Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903) |
Historical Events on May 16
History has been made on your birthday. The following are important historical events that occurred on May 16
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1943 | The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. |
| 1945 | Beginning of the Levant Crisis between Britain and France in Syria. The latter try to quell nationalist protests but backs down after threat of military action by the British. |
| 1951 | The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. |
| 1959 | The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time. |
| 1960 | Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. |
| 1961 | Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea. |
| 1966 | The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. |
| 1969 | Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus. |
| 1974 | Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia. |
| 1975 | Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
Popular Baby Name on May 16, 1968
In 1968, there were many popular baby names. For baby boys, Michael is the most used. A total of 81,995 baby boys were named Michael in 1968. The rest were named David, John, James and Robert. While the popular baby girl name in 1968 was Lisa. There were 49,534 baby girls named Lisa that year. While the rest were named Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. These statistics are obtained from ssa.gov which compiles popular baby names of the last century in United States.
Based on World Population Data, in 1968 there were 3,551,599,436 babies born into the world. If we take the mean value, we get 295,966,620. This shows that there were 295,966,620 babies born every month in 1968. It can also be concluded that there are 9,865,554 babies born every day and 6,852 babies born every minute which is mean that 115 babies born every second in the year 1968. Maybe one of them is you.
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