Here are all the facts you need to know about your birthday on Sunday, April 16, 1978:
🕰️ Born into › Generation X
🎉 Next birthday will be on › Thursday
🎂 How many days until my birthday ›
Countdown time to your next birthday:
🍿 Number one movie › Grease
🎮 Number one video game › Space Invaders
🎵 Number one song › "Night Fever" by The Bee Gees
🐎 Chinese Zodiac › Horse
☀️ Sun Sign › Aries
🔥 Zodiac Element › Fire
🌠 Zodiac Quality › Cardinal
🪐 Ruling Planet › Mars ♂
🐼 Spirit Animal › Hawk
🔢 Life Path Number › 9
🌼 Birth flower › Sweet Pea/Daisy
🪨 Birthstone › Diamond
📅 Lucky day › Tuesday ⬤Power Color › Red
⛽ Gas price per gallon › $0.63
🏛️ President of United States ›
🌎 World population › 4,304,377,112 Source: un.org
⚡️ You’ve traveled over 26,905,600,000 miles through the Milky Way.
⚡️ You have blinked over 411,655,680 times in your lifetime
⚡️ Your heart beat over 1,937,203,200 times.
⚡️ You have taken about 2,825,088,000 steps.
⚡️ You have taken about 339,010,560 breaths since your birth.
⏱️ Your billionth (1,000,000,000) second was on December 23, 2009.
What happened on my birthday
1705
Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge.
1746
Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army.
1900
US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps.
1917
Vladimir Lenin issues his radical "April Theses" calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4].
1948
Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris.
2003
Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
Famous people with my birthday
1943
Ruth Madoc, British singer and actress (Hi Di Hi)
1915
Gerard McLarnon, British-Irish actor and writer (The Wrestler's Honeymoon)
1953
Jay O. Sanders, American actor (Meeting Venus, V I Warshawski)
1939
Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor
1932
Goopy Geer, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Rudolf Ising (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Goopy Geer"
1904
Fifi D'Orsay [Yvonne Lussier] Canadian-American vaudeville and film actress and singer known as the "French Bombshell" (The Life Jimmy Dolan; Dixie Jamboree)
2002
Sadie Sink, American actress (Stranger Things)
1964
David Kohan, American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and television producer (Will & Grace)
Holidays on Sunday, April 16th
Day of the Mushroom
The Day of the Mushroom, celebrated on April 16th, is a day dedicated to appreciating all types of mushrooms and their unique role in nature and cuisine.
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day, observed every April 16th, encourages families to show their daughters the importance of volunteering, teaching them about giving back to the community and helping others from a young age.
National Healthcare Decisions Day
National Healthcare Decisions Day is a day to think about and share your choices for medical care in case a time comes when you can't make those decisions yourself.
Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday is the day before Easter when Christians remember Jesus being laid in his tomb, marking a day of reflection and the end of Lent before celebrating his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
National Eggs Benedict Day
National Eggs Benedict Day, celebrated on April 16th, is all about enjoying a special breakfast dish made with a poached egg on an English muffin with Canadian bacon and creamy Hollandaise sauce, and it's named not after a traitor but from a more interesting story tied to American dining history.
