What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 16, 1943?

In the Chinese zodiac, December 16, 1943 falls in the year of the Water Goat.

What is the birthstone for December?

The birthstone for December is turquoise.

What was the moon phase on December 16, 1943?

On December 16, 1943 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.

A Thursday

Born on December 16, 1943?

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📅 Weekday
Thursday
♐ Star sign
Sagittarius
🐐 Chinese zodiac
Water Goat
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
82 years

Famous people born on December 16, 1943

Salvador Mariona

Salvadoran footballer

Born the same week

Arturo Ripstein

December 13 · Mexican film director

Ignacio Calderón

December 13 · Mexican footballer

António Simões

December 14 · Portuguese footballer

Keith Richards

December 18 · British musician, guitarist of the Rolling Stones

Faraj Garayev

December 19 · Azerbaijani musician

What happened that day

WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is returned to the United States by the USS Iowa after completing his trip to the Cairo and Tehran Conferences.

Also that week

WWII: American and Australian forces begin the Battle of Arawe as a diversion before a larger landing at Cape Gloucester on New Britain, in Papua New Guinea.
WWII: Massacre of Kalavryta – The occupying 117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht) machine-guns all adult males from Kalavryta, Greece, subsequently burning the town.
A military coup is staged in Bolivia.
28 – WWII: Italian Campaign – Battle of Ortona: Canadian infantry defeat elite German paratroops.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song

December 16, 1943 was a Thursday. Someone born on December 16, 1943 is a Sagittarius. Someone born on December 16, 1943 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,275 days. People born in 1943 belong to the Silent Generation.

Also born on December 16

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 · German composer
Jane Austen
1775 · author, novelist, writer
Margaret Mead
1901 · American anthropologist
Arthur C. Clarke
1917 · British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist

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Questions about December 16, 1943

What day of the week was December 16, 1943?: December 16, 1943 was a Thursday.
What star sign is someone born on December 16, 1943?: Someone born on December 16, 1943 is a Sagittarius.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for December 16, 1943?: In the Chinese zodiac, December 16, 1943 falls in the year of the Water Goat.
How old is someone born on December 16, 1943?: Someone born on December 16, 1943 is 82 years old today and has lived about 30,275 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1943?: People born in 1943 belong to the Silent Generation.
What is the birthstone for December?: The birthstone for December is turquoise.
What was the moon phase on December 16, 1943?: On December 16, 1943 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.

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