A Monday
Born on November 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
Monday
♏ Star sign
Scorpio
🐓 Chinese zodiac
Metal Rooster
🌖 Moon
Waning Gibbous
🎂 Age today
44 years
Famous people born on November 16, 1981
Born the same week
What happened that day
🎵 No. 1 song
November 16, 1981 was a Monday. Someone born on November 16, 1981 is a Scorpio. Someone born on November 16, 1981 is 44 years old today and has lived about 16,425 days. People born in 1981 belong to the Millennials.
Also born on November 16
Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
1717 · French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist

Nnamdi Azikiwe
1904 · first President of Nigeria

José Saramago
1922 · Portuguese novelist

Chinua Achebe
1930 · Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

Shigeru Miyamoto
1952 · Japanese video game designer (born )
Gift ideas for someone born in 1981
AdPresents that go back to the year it all began.
- Decorations for turning 45
- “Born in 1981” gifts
- Wine from 1981
- Books about 1981
- A newspaper from 1981
- Coin set from 1981
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Questions about November 16, 1981
- What day of the week was November 16, 1981?
- November 16, 1981 was a Monday.
- What star sign is someone born on November 16, 1981?
- Someone born on November 16, 1981 is a Scorpio.
- What is the Chinese zodiac sign for November 16, 1981?
- In the Chinese zodiac, November 16, 1981 falls in the year of the Metal Rooster.
- How old is someone born on November 16, 1981?
- Someone born on November 16, 1981 is 44 years old today and has lived about 16,425 days.
- Which generation is someone born in 1981?
- People born in 1981 belong to the Millennials.
- What is the birthstone for November?
- The birthstone for November is topaz.
- What was the moon phase on November 16, 1981?
- On November 16, 1981 the moon was a Waning Gibbous.
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