Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 16
October 16, 2025 is the 289th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 76 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 16
- 1780 –Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War.
- 1793 –Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- 1843 –Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
- 1939 –World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1968 –United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
- 1973 –Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1975 –The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government’s annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.
- 1991 –Luby’s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby’s Cafeteria.
- 1998 –Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
- 2002 –Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
Who were born on October 16?
- 1854 –Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
- 1900 –Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
- 1903 –Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
- 1925 –Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
- 1927 –Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 –Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
- 1959 –Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
- 1969 –Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
- 1984 –Shayne Ward, British singer
- 1990 –Yohanna, Icelandic singer
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