A Wednesday
Born on February 16, 1949?
Here's the world on that day. Add a name and a birthplace for the full time capsule: the weather, the sky above your town and what things cost.
📅 Weekday
Wednesday
♒ Star sign
Aquarius
🐂 Chinese zodiac
Earth Ox
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
77 years
Famous people born on February 16, 1949
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Peter Kern
February 13 · Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer (1949-2015)
Francisco Maturana
February 15 · Colombian footballer
Anneli Saaristo
February 15 · Finnish singer
Ghazaleh Alizadeh
February 15 · Iranian poet and writer
Peter Piot
February 17 · Belgian microbiologist known for research into Ebola and AIDS (born 1949)
Omar Aziz
February 18 · Syrian anarchist, intellectual and revolutionary
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
February 16, 1949 was a Wednesday. Someone born on February 16, 1949 is a Aquarius. Someone born on February 16, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,386 days. People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
Also born on February 16
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Philipp Melanchthon
1497 · German reformer

Francis Galton
1822 · British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist

Ernst Haeckel
1834 · German zoologist
Gift ideas for someone born in 1949
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
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- “Born in 1949” gifts
- Wine from 1949
- Books about 1949
- A newspaper from 1949
- Coin set from 1949
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Questions about February 16, 1949
- What day of the week was February 16, 1949?
- February 16, 1949 was a Wednesday.
- What star sign is someone born on February 16, 1949?
- Someone born on February 16, 1949 is a Aquarius.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for February 16, 1949?
- In the Chinese zodiac, February 16, 1949 falls in the year of the Earth Ox.
- How old is someone born on February 16, 1949?
- Someone born on February 16, 1949 is 77 years old today and has lived about 28,386 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1949?
- People born in 1949 belong to the Baby Boomers.
- What is the birthstone for February?
- The birthstone for February is amethyst.
- What was the moon phase on February 16, 1949?
- On February 16, 1949 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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