Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Tuesday, May 16, 1972:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Saturday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › The Godfather
🎮 Number one video game › Pong
🎵 Number one song › "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack
🐀 Chinese Zodiac › Rat
☀️ Sun Sign › Taurus
🌎 Zodiac Element › Earth
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Fixed
🪐 Ruling Planet › Venus ♀
🐼 Spirit Animal › Beaver
🔢 Life Path Number › 4
🌼 Birth flower › Lily of the valley
🪨 Birthstone › Emerald
📅 Lucky day › Friday ⬤Power Color › Green
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.36
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 3,851,545,181 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 30,753,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 470,530,080 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 2,214,259,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 3,229,128,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken approximately 387,495,360 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on January 23, 2004.
What happened on my birthday
1920
Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'arc) canonized a saint.
1943
Operation Chastise: No. 617 Squadron RAF begins the famous dambusters Raid, bombing the Mohne and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley with bouncing bombs.
1944
1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz.
2013
Human stem cells are successfully cloned.
Famous people with my birthday
1983
Nancy Ajram, Lebanese Arab-pop singer ("Betfakkar Fe Eih" (What Are You Thinking About); "Mitagalak"), and television personality (Arab Idol; The Voice Kids)
1954
Janet Maw, English actress (Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge)
1947
Bill Smitrovich, American character actor (Crime Story; Miami Vice; Life Goes On)
1916
Adriana Caselotti, voice of Snow White in Disney's animated film
Martine Carol [Maryse Mopurer], French actress (Lola Montèsm, Trente et quarante)
1909
Margaret Sullavan, American actress (Three Comrades, The Shop Around the Corner)
Holidays on Tuesday, May 16th
National Coquilles Saint Jacques Day
National Coquilles Saint Jacques Day, celebrated every May 16th, is all about enjoying a fancy French dish made with scallops, mushrooms, and a creamy sauce, honoring a seafood treat named after St. James.
National Biographer's Day
National Biographer's Day, celebrated on May 16th, commemorates the meeting of famous writer Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell, highlighting the importance of biographies which tell the stories of people's lives.
Ride a Unicycle Day
Ride a Unicycle Day, celebrated every May 16th in the US, is a fun day dedicated to getting more people to try riding a unicycle, a one-wheeled vehicle often seen in circuses but also used in unique sports like unicycle hockey and mountain unicycling.
Nickel Day
Nickel Day, celebrated on May 16th, is all about appreciating the metal nickel, highlighting its importance to our bodies in small amounts, and raising awareness of the health risks associated with too much nickel exposure.
Drawing Day
Drawing Day, celebrated on May 16, is a cool day where you get to unleash your creativity by drawing whatever you like, using anything from pencils and paper to digital tablets, just like people have been doing since the days of cave drawings.
