Born on 16 October 1961

At A Glance

16 October 1961 at a glance

Day of the week

16 October 1961 was a Monday.

Australian No. 1 (Kent retrospective)

“I'm Counting on You / Right Now” by Johnny O'Keefe was No. 1 on David Kent's retrospective Australian chart. This chart was compiled later by David Kent from radio station charts.

Top Film of 1961

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1961 was One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Star sign

The star sign for 16 October is Libra.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 16 October 1961 fell in the Year of the Ox.

Birthstone

The birthstone for October is Opal.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 16 October 1961 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 16 October

• 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
• 1964 China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
• 1964 Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
• 1968 Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
• 1968 Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Famous people born on 16 October

• Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1958)
• Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player (born 1997)
• Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer (1925–2022)
• Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (1854–1900)

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