What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 16, 1983?

In the Chinese zodiac, October 16, 1983 falls in the year of the Water Pig.

What is the birthstone for October?

The birthstone for October is opal.

What was the moon phase on October 16, 1983?

On October 16, 1983 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.

A Sunday

Born on October 16, 1983?

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📅 Weekday
Sunday
♎ Star sign
Libra
🐖 Chinese zodiac
Water Pig
🌔 Moon
Waxing Gibbous
🎂 Age today
43 years

Famous people born on October 16, 1983

Philipp Kohlschreiber

German tennis player

Loreen

Swedish singer

Ramaz Nozadze

Georgian Olympic wrestler

Aloys Nong

Cameroonian footballer

Mamitu Daska

Ethiopian long-distance runner

Madeleine Ngono Mani

Cameroonian footballer

Dorji Dema

Bhutanese archer

What happened that week

The world's first commercial mobile cellular telephone call is made, in Chicago, United States.
Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.
Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others. The perpetrators are believed to be North Koreans.
Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

Bonnie Tyler

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🎵 No. 1 song

October 16, 1983 was a Sunday. Someone born on October 16, 1983 is a Libra. Someone born on October 16, 1983 is 43 years old today and has lived about 15,726 days. People born in 1983 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

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Questions about October 16, 1983

What day of the week was October 16, 1983?: October 16, 1983 was a Sunday.
What star sign is someone born on October 16, 1983?: Someone born on October 16, 1983 is a Libra.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for October 16, 1983?: In the Chinese zodiac, October 16, 1983 falls in the year of the Water Pig.
How old is someone born on October 16, 1983?: Someone born on October 16, 1983 is 43 years old today and has lived about 15,726 days.
Which generation is someone born in 1983?: People born in 1983 belong to the Millennials.
What is the birthstone for October?: The birthstone for October is opal.
What was the moon phase on October 16, 1983?: On October 16, 1983 the moon was a Waxing Gibbous.

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