A Friday
Born on October 16, 1981?
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
Friday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐓 Chinese zodiac
Metal Rooster
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
45 years
Famous people born on October 16, 1981
No famous birthdays are recorded for this exact day.
Born the same week
Ruslan Alekhno
October 14 · Russian and Belarusian singer
Elena Dementieva
October 15 · Russian tennis player
Guo Jingjing
October 15 · Chinese female diver
Lucas Thwala
October 19 · South African footballer
Heikki Kovalainen
October 19 · Finnish racecar driver
Jonathan Santana
October 19 · Paraguayan association football player
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
October 16, 1981 was a Friday. Someone born on October 16, 1981 is a Libra. Someone born on October 16, 1981 is 45 years old today and has lived about 16,456 days. People born in 1981 belong to the Millennials.
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 1981
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 46
- “Born in 1981” gifts
- Wine from 1981
- Books about 1981
- A newspaper from 1981
- Coin set from 1981
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Questions about October 16, 1981
- What day of the week was October 16, 1981?
- October 16, 1981 was a Friday.
- What star sign is someone born on October 16, 1981?
- Someone born on October 16, 1981 is a Libra.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 16, 1981?
- In the Chinese zodiac, October 16, 1981 falls in the year of the Metal Rooster.
- How old is someone born on October 16, 1981?
- Someone born on October 16, 1981 is 45 years old today and has lived about 16,456 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1981?
- People born in 1981 belong to the Millennials.
- What is the birthstone for October?
- The birthstone for October is opal.
- What was the moon phase on October 16, 1981?
- On October 16, 1981 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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