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Your Front Page: 16 November 1894

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The World Birthday Chronicle

Friday, 16th November 1894Broadsheet, pre-war

262 years ago today · 1632

Battle of Lützen

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus of SwedenPhoto: Presumably Jacob Hoefnagel · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Leipzig. The Battle of Lützen, fought on 16 November 1632, was one of the most important of the Thirty Years' War. A Swedish army under Gustavus Adolphus, supported by troops from Saxony and Hesse-Kassel, narrowly defeated an Imperial force under Albrecht von Wallenstein.

Although a narrow victory for Swedish forces, this battle saw the death of King Gustavus Adolphus, a major loss for the Protestant cause.

Famous birthdays: born on this date

Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Born 1894. Austrian-Japanese politician who founded the Paneuropean Union movement

Guillermo Lasso

Born 1955. Banker and conservative politician who served as President of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023 before calling early elections

José Saramago

Born 1922. Portuguese novelist of Blindness and The Gospel According to Jesus Christ who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

From the archives: also on this date

Battle of al-Qadisiyyah

636. The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah took place between the armies of the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sasanian Empire in November 636.

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024

2024. The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was the 22nd edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 16 November 2024 at the Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain, and presented by Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Clotet, and Melani García.

Battle of Kolubara

1914. The Battle of Kolubara was fought between Austria-Hungary and Serbia in November and December 1914, during the Serbian Campaign of 1914.

Your day in numbers

Star sign

Scorpio

Water sign, ruled by Pluto

Birthstone

Topaz

The birthstone for November

UK Number 1 single

Before the charts

The UK singles chart began on 14 November 1952

World population

About 1.6 billion

People on Earth in 1894

The cost of living in Britain, 1894

Average house

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Pint of beer

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Loaf of bread

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Average salary

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Approximate UK averages at the time, in the money of the day.

How your birthday newspaper is made

Enter your date of birth and we will print a one-off newspaper front page for the day you were born. The headline is a real historical event from our archive, chosen from your exact birth date where we have one, then from the same week, then from the same date in an earlier year. The page also shows famous people born on your birthday, your star sign and birthstone, the UK number one single, the world population and the cost of living in Britain at the time.

  • The layout, typefaces and colours follow the newspaper style of your birth decade: dense broadsheets before 1940, classic bold headlines in the 1940s and 1950s, tabloid energy in the 1960s and 1970s, colour accents in the 1980s and 1990s, and clean full-colour pages from 2000 onwards.
  • Headlines and summaries come from our archive of historical events, built from Wikidata and reviewed by our editorial team. When a famous person linked to the story has a profile on our site, their Wikimedia Commons portrait appears with the photographer's credit; otherwise you see an original woodcut or halftone illustration.
  • Add your town or country of birth to name the masthead, for example The Manchester Birthday Chronicle. Your birthplace is stored only on your device.
  • Every front page has its own link, so you can send it to friends and family, and you can download it as a high-resolution image to print or frame.

Questions people ask

Frequently asked questions

How do I get a newspaper front page from the day I was born?
Enter your day, month and year of birth above and press the button. Your personalised front page appears instantly, with its own link you can share and a download button for a print-quality image.
Are the headlines real?
Yes. Every headline is a real historical event from our archive. If nothing in our archive happened on your exact birth date, we use an event from the same week, or the most recent event on the same date in an earlier year, and the label above the headline says which.
Why does my front page look different from a friend's?
The design changes with the decade you were born in, from ornate pre-war broadsheets to modern full-colour layouts, so each page looks like a newspaper from its own era.
Is the birthday newspaper free?
Yes. Creating, sharing and downloading your personalised birthday front page costs nothing.

Further reading

Reviewed by the Who Shares My Birthday editorial team.

Last reviewed: October 2026