A Saturday
Born on October 16, 1976?
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
Saturday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐉 Chinese zodiac
Fire Dragon
🌗 Moon
Last Quarter
🎂 Age today
50 years
Famous people born on October 16, 1976
Huang Chih-hsiung
Taiwan taekwondo practitioner and politician
Hichem Mezaïr
Algerian footballer
Sharfuddoula
International cricket umpire
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 16, 1976 was a Saturday. Someone born on October 16, 1976 is a Libra. Someone born on October 16, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,282 days. People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
Also born on October 16
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Noah Webster
1758 · American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author

Itō Hirobumi
1841 · 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan

Oscar Wilde
1854 · Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

David Ben-Gurion
1886 · Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel - (born1886– )

Michael Collins
1890 · Irish revolutionary and politician
Gift ideas for someone born in 1976
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 51
- “Born in 1976” gifts
- Wine from 1976
- Books about 1976
- A newspaper from 1976
- Coin set from 1976
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Questions about October 16, 1976
- What day of the week was October 16, 1976?
- October 16, 1976 was a Saturday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 16, 1976?
- Someone born on October 16, 1976 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 16, 1976?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 16, 1976 falls in the year of the Fire Dragon.
- How old is someone born on October 16, 1976?
- Someone born on October 16, 1976 is 50 years old today and has lived about 18,282 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1976?
- People born in 1976 belong to Generation X.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 16, 1976?
- On October 16, 1976 the moon was a Last Quarter.
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