On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
April 16 1968
Born on This Day
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Akon🇺🇸
entrepreneur · b. 1973
Alexander Tschäppät🇨🇭
deceasedMayor of Bern (1952-2018) · 1952–2018
Days lived
24,124
Alipi Kostadinov🇨🇿
athlete · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Andreas Gruschke🇩🇪
deceasedjournalist · 1960–2018
Days lived
21,108
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Anna Järvinen🇸🇪
singer · b. 1970
Antony Blinken🇺🇸
Diplomat · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Brett Helms🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1986
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Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1987
Charlie Chaplin🇬🇧
deceasedactor · 1889–1977
Days lived
32,394
David Mercer🇬🇧
British weightlifter · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
Eldar Kurtanidze
athlete · b. 1972
Elmar Wepper🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1944–2023) · 1944–2023
Days lived
29,052
Emil Kübler🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1909–1981
Days lived
26,320
Frances Lankin🇨🇦
Canadian politician · b. 1954
Days alive
5,114
Freddie Ljungberg🇸🇪
football player · b. 1977
Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe🇩🇪
deceasedGerman tennis player (1888–1949) · 1888–1949
Days lived
22,222
Gerry Rafferty🇬🇧
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1947–2011
Days lived
23,274
Gertrud Meyen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress and voice actress · 1919–2012
Days lived
33,863
Gina Carano🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1982
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Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
politician · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Herbert Krenchel🇩🇰
deceasedscientist · 1922–2014
Days lived
33,615
Horst Schrade🇩🇪
deceasedGerman caricaturist and artist (1924–2014) · 1924–2014
Days lived
32,824
Igor Tudor🇭🇷
Association football player · b. 1978
J. Neil Schulman🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1953–2019
Days lived
24,222
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Jaycee Carroll🇺🇸
American professional basketball player · b. 1983
Kai Wiesinger🇩🇪
actor · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Kenny Hayes🇺🇸
American basketball player (born 1987) · b. 1987
Kitione Lave🌍
deceasedBoxer · 1934–2006
Days lived
26,345
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Leo Tindemans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1922–2014
Days lived
33,857
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Luol Deng🇬🇧
South Sudanese-British basketball player · b. 1985
Martin Lawrence
comedian · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
Mitrofan Zverev
deceasedSoviet astronomer (1903–1991) · 1903–1991
Days lived
32,357
Night Train Lane🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player (1927-2002) · 1927–2002
Days lived
27,317
Ove Arup🇬🇧
deceasedAnglo-Danish engineer (1895-1988) · 1895–1988
Days lived
33,897
Peter Ustinov🇬🇧
deceasedBritish actor, writer and director (1921–2004) · 1921–2004
Days lived
30,297
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Pierre Littbarski🇩🇪
German association football player and manager · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Piotr Gąsowski🇵🇱
Polish actor and comedian · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Raymond Chan🇨🇳
actor · b. 1972
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann🇩🇪
deceasedYouTube personality · 1940–1975
Days lived
12,790
Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen🇲🇽
deceasedwriter · 1899–1979
Days lived
29,245
Russ Schoene🇺🇸
American basketball player-coach · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Sadie Sink
television actor · b. 2002
Selena🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1971–1995
Days lived
8,750
Siegfried Lauterwasser🇩🇪
deceasedGerman photographer (1913–2000) · 1913–2000
Days lived
31,921
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Simon Child🇳🇿
New Zealand field hockey player · b. 1988
Stella Hohenfels🇦🇹
deceasedactor · 1854–1920
Days lived
24,051
Suren Zoljan🇦🇲
Armenian scientist, public figure, writer · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Taye Taiwo🇳🇬
football player · b. 1985
Thees Uhlmann🇩🇪
musician · b. 1974
Tristan Tzara🇫🇷
deceasedwriter · 1896–1963
Days lived
24,722
Tyler James Robinson🇺🇸
News · b. 2003
Uldis Sesks🇱🇻
athlete · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Waldemar Kobus🇩🇪
actor · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Wolfgang Leonhard🇦🇹
deceasedGerman author, historian (1921–2014) · 1921–2014
Days lived
34,091
Wolfgang Reinhold🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1923–2012
Days lived
32,647
Zack Whiting🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1984
Died on This Day
Alex Manninger🇦🇹
deceasedAssociation football player · 1977–2026
Days lived
17,848
Cerina Fairfax🌍
deceasedNotable Person · 1977–2026
Days lived
17,948
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Dagobert Peche🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian architect and artist (1887-1923) · 1887–1923
Days lived
13,161
David Lean🇬🇧
deceasedBritish film director (1908–1991) · 1908–1991
Days lived
30,337
Feliks Chmurkowski🇵🇱
deceasedactor (1896-1971) · 1896–1971
Days lived
27,360
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
deceasedphilosopher · 1867–1941
Days lived
26,833
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Heino Kleiminger🇩🇪
deceasedGerman football player (1939-2015) · 1939–2015
Days lived
27,831
Hugo Liepmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman neurologist and psychiatrist (1863–1925) · 1863–1925
Days lived
22,652
Josef Kirschner🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian journalist, presenter and writer (1931–2016) · 1931–2016
Days lived
30,932
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Justin Fairfax🇺🇸
deceasedPolitician · 1979–2026
Days lived
17,225
Kaoru Betto🇯🇵
deceasedfilm director · 1920–1999
Days lived
28,725
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Karl Fischer🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1901–1958
Days lived
20,842
Kevin Granata🇺🇸
deceasedprofessor and researcher (1961-2007) · 1961–2007
Days lived
16,544
Richard Neutra🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian–American architect (1892-1970) · 1892–1970
Days lived
28,496
Rosalind Franklin🇬🇧
deceasedBritish chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958) · 1920–1958
Days lived
13,779
Steve Bloomer🇬🇧
deceasedfilm director · 1874–1938
Days lived
23,461
Ulrich Kienzle🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist (1936–2020) · 1936–2020
Days lived
30,658
Volker Vogeler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film director and screenwriter (1930-2005) · 1930–2005
Days lived
27,322
Yasunari Kawabata🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese novelist (1899–1972) · 1899–1972
Days lived
26,607
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,108
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,779
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,952
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,649
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,222
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,664
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,630
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,264
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,708
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,360
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,159
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,673
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,691
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,360
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,712
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,255
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,165
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,142
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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