Tuesday 16 May, 1978

How old am I if I was born on May 16, 1978?

You are 47 years, 6 months and 28 days old
You were born on a Tuesday and have been alive for 17,379 days!
Your next birthday will be on Saturday after 153 days.

You are 47 years, 6 months and 28 days old
Or 570 months
Or 2,482 weeks
Or 17,379 days
Or 417,095 hours
Or 25,025,759 minutes
Or 1,501,545,599 seconds

If you were born on this date:

Your heart has experienced approximately 1,926,983,443 heartbeats since your birth.
You've slept for 5,787 days or 15.86 years!
You've had about 86,895 dreams.
You have taken around 400,412,160 breaths of air.
You have spent around 27.76 months eating and drinking.
You have eaten about 46.92 tons of food.
You have drank about 38,234 liters of water.
You have laughed around 295,443 times.
You have farted roughly 243,306 times.
You have spent about 361.48 days in the bathroom.
If your hair were never cut since b-day, today, it would be 7.1 meters long.

Historical Events on May 16

1822 Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.

1866 The United States Congress establishes the nickel.

1888 Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.

1943 The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

1966 The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

1974 Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.

1991 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.

2003 In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.

All Events

Famous Birthdays on May 16

1966 Janet Jackson

1969 Tucker Carlson

1974 Laura Pausini

1991 Grigor Dimitrov

All Births

Famous Deaths on May 16

1953 Django Reinhardt

1990 Sammy Davis Jr.

1990 Jim Henson

2013 Dick Trickle

All Deaths