It was the 3rd Tuesday of 1973. If you were born on this date your birthday numbers 1, 16 and 1973 reveal that your life path number is 1. Your zodiac sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn, your birthstone is the Garnet, and your birth flower is the Carnation. You are 51 old, and were born in 1970s, in the middle of Generation X. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means.

→ January 16, 1973 was a Tuesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 18,699 days ago
→ 1973 was the Year of the Ox
→ In 2025, January 16 is on Friday

View must-know January 16, 1973 birthday facts that no one tells you about, such as your life path number, birthstone, ruling planet, zodiac sign and birth flower.

You have been alive for:

People born on this day will turn 52 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Ox. Your birth sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn. There were precisely 634 full moons after you were born up to this day. Your billionth second was on was on September 24, 2004.

→ You’ve slept 6,233 days or 17.08 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Ox
→ You have been alive 448,784 hours
→ You are 26,927,058 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 52 years old

You were born on a Tuesday

January 16, 1973 was the 3rd Tuesday of that year. It was also the 16th day and 1st month of 1973 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse 1973 calendar will be in 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 52nd birthday will be on a Wednesday and a birthday after that will be on a Friday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and is automatically updated.

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You’ve slept 33% of your life!

Assuming you’ve been sleeping 8 hours daily since birth. Here is how much time you’ve spent sleeping so far:

You’ve slept 17.08 years of your life.
You’ve slept 205 month of your life.
You’ve slept 890 week of your life.
You’ve slept 6,233 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 376,971,840 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 2,154,124,800 times. You have also blinked over 457,751,520 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon. (Billboard Hot 100 – January 16, 1973). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Do you remember the number one song on your 14th birthday? It was "Shake You Down" by Gregory Abbott (January 16, 1987).

Celebrities born on January 16, 1973

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Josie Davis (tv actress).

We have over 150,000 celebrities in our database. We will continue to update this list with matching birthdays, so bookmark this page and check back often. You can also find out all celebrity birthdays born on January 16, 1973.


What happened on January 16th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 16 January 1973. The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Moscow.
The first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution.
British House of Commons accepts Home Rule for Ireland (but the Great War gets in the way of it happening).

Sports in 1973

NBA – New York Knicks beat Los Angeles Lakers (4 - 1) to win the 1973 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

NHL – Montreal Canadiens defeated Chicago Blackhawks (4 - 2) to win the 1973 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

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MLB – Oakland Athletics beat New York Mets (4 - 3) to win the 1973 World Series. to win the World Series.


Your life path number is 1

So what does your birthday really say about you and what does your life path number mean? On the next page, we’ll explain what your birth sign, ruling planet, age generation, birthstone, and birth flower mean — and more!

Continue to the next page to discover the answers to the most important questions about your birthday.