Today is Wednesday, July 16, the 199th day of 2025 with 168 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include journalist/civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett in 1862; explorer Roald Amundsen in 1872; baseball great/"Black Sox" scandal figure "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in 1887; actor Percy Kilbride ("Pa Kettle") in 1888; first U.N.