You are 78 Years, 05 Months, 0 Days old from January 16, 2026. You were born on Saturday and have been alive for 28643 days, your next Birthday will be after 06 Months, 30 Days or Your next birthday is in 212 days. You can see detailed informations about your birthdate below.
| Date Of Birth | August 16, 1947 (Saturday) |
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| Age From Date: | January 16, 2026 (Friday) |
| Age: | 78 Years, 05 Months, 0 Days |
| Birth Day Of The Week: | Saturday |
| Age In Months: | 941 Months 0 Day(s) |
| Age In Weeks: | 4091 Weeks 0 Day(s) |
| Age In Days: | 28643 Days |
| Age In Hours: | 687433 Hours (approx.) |
| Age In Minutes: | 41245977 Minutes (approx.) |
| Age In Seconds: | 2474758617 Seconds (approx.) |
| Next Birthday | August 16, 2026 (Sunday) |
| Next Birthday After: | 06 Months, 30 Days |
| Is My Birth Year Leap Year? | Year 1947 is not a leap year. |
August 16, 1947 Birthday Facts | |
| Do you want to know your zodiac sign? | Your zodiac sign, if your date of birth is August 16, 1947, is Leo.
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| Century: | You were born in the 20th century |
| Birthday in Roman numerals | VIII.XVI.MCMXLVII
August 16, 1947 in roman numerals? |
| What is your age in roman numerals? | Years: LXXVIII Months: V Days: |
| Birth Date Season: | You were born in Summer |
| Chinese zodiac sign: | You were born in the Chinese year of the Fire Pig
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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 16, 2026 00:56:57Here is a random list who born on August 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1908 | Orlando Cole, American cellist and educator (d. 2010) |
| 1557 | Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and etcher (d. 1602) |
| 1980 | Bob Hardy, English bass player |
| 1934 | Diana Wynne Jones, English author (d. 2011) |
| 1894 | George Meany, American plumber and labor leader (d. 1980) |
| 1856 | Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1904) |
| 1935 | Cliff Fletcher, Canadian businessman |
| 1942 | Robert Squirrel Lester, American soul singer (d. 2010) |
| 1991 | José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer |
| 1915 | Al Hibbler, American baritone singer (d. 2001) |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on August 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 1532 | John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468) |
| 1419 | Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (b. 1361) |
| 1983 | Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902) |
| 963 | Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general (b. 944) |
| 1948 | Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895) |
| 2013 | David Rees, Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1918) |
| 1733 | Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (b. 1657) |
| 1358 | Albert II, Duke of Austria (b. 1298) |
| 2003 | Idi Amin, Ugandan field marshal and politician, 3rd President of Uganda (b. 1928) |
| 1921 | Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844) |
Here is a list of some events happened on August 16. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1570 | The Principality of Transylvania is established after John II Zápolya renounces his claim as King of Hungary in the Treaty of Speyer. |
| 1920 | The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution. |
| 1906 | The 8.2 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw Valparaíso earthquake hits central Chile, killing 3,882 people. |
| 1987 | Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground. |
| 1975 | Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically hands over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 song by Paul Kelly and an annual celebration. |
| 1819 | Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England. |
| 1896 | Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush. |
| 1942 | World War II: US Navy L-class blimp L-8 drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in Daly City, California. The two-man crew cannot be found. |
| 1923 | The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator. |
| 2005 | West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. |