January 1, 1996 facts
It was the 3rd Tuesday of 1996. If you were born on this date, your birthday numbers 1, 16, and 1996 reveal that your life path number is 6. Your zodiac sign is Capricorn with a ruling planet Saturn, your birthstone is the Garnet, and your birth flower is the Carnation. You are 28 old, and were born in the 1990s, in the middle of Millennials Generation. The generation you are born into makes an impact on your life. Swipe up to find out what it all means.

→ January 16, 1996 was a Tuesday
→ Zodiac sign for this date is Capricorn
→ This date was 10,299 days ago
→ 1996 was the Year of the Rat
→ In 2025, January 16 is on Friday
→ You are 29 years old in Korean Age

View fun January 16, 1996 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 29 in exactly .

If you were born on this date:

You have been alive for . You were born in the Year of the Rat. Your birth sign is Capricorn, with a ruling planet Saturn. On your birthday, the moon was in Waning Crescent 🌘 phase, and there were precisely 349 full moons after you were born to this day. Your billionth second will happen sometime on September 24, 2027.

→ You’ve slept 3,433 days or 9.41 years.
→ Your next birthday is away
→ You’ve been alive
→ You were born in the Year of the Rat
→ You have been alive 247,186 hours
→ You are 14,831,184 minutes old
→ Age on next birthday: 29 years old

You were born on a Tuesday

January 16, 1996, was the 3rd Tuesday of that year. It was also the 16th day and 1st month of 1996 in the Georgian calendar. The next time you can reuse the 1996 calendar will be in 2024. Both calendars will be exactly the same.

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There are left before your next birthday. Your 29th birthday will be on a Thursday, and the birthday after that will be on a Friday. The timer below is a countdown clock to your next birthday. It’s always accurate and automatically updated.

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Your next birthday is on a Thursday

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 9.41 years of your life.
You’ve slept 113 month of your life.
You’ve slept 490 week of your life.
You’ve slept 3,433 days of your life.

Did you know you have taken approximately 207,627,840 breaths since your birth? Moreover, using 80 beats per minute as average, your heart has beaten over 1,186,444,800 times. You have also blinked over 252,119,520 times in your lifetime.


#1 Song on your birthday

The number one song in the US on the day of your birth was "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men (Billboard Hot 100 – January 16, 1996). Ask your parents if they remember this popular song.

Celebrities born on January 16, 1996

You share a birthday with You share a birthday with Jennie Kim (pop singer)

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 all celebrity birthdays born on January 16, 1996.


Holidays on January 16, 1996

Here are a few holidays that are celebrated on your birthday:

We track thousands of holidays, you can view all of the holidays on January 16 here.

What happened on January 16th

Below are some of the most important historical events that happened on 16 January 1996.

  • 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 1996

    NBA – Chicago Bulls beat Seattle SuperSonics (4 - 2) to win the 1996 NBA Finals. to win the NBA Finals.

    NHL – Colorado Avalanche defeated Florida Panthers (4 - 0) to win the 1996 Stanley Cup. to win the Stanley Cup.

    NFL – Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers (27 - 17) to win Super Bowl XXX on January 28, 1996 in Tempe, AZ.

    MLB – New York Yankees beat Atlanta Braves (4 - 2) to win the 1996 World Series. to win the World Series.

    Tennis –


    Your life path number is 6

    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.