--- title: Hillary Clinton: Rally Sings Happy Birthday to the Candidate description: Hillary Clinton will celebrate her 69th birthday on Wednesday, but a Florida crowd decided to celebrate a day early canonical: https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-25T21:15:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:42:48.095Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch a Crowd Sing 'Happy Birthday' to Hillary Clinton—a Day Early og:description: Clinton will celebrate her 69th birthday on Wednesday og:url: https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc85af7319cd63/6988ab8a196cf415a703db26/hrc1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5568 og:image:height: 3132 og:image:alt: Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Crowd Sing 'Happy Birthday' to Hillary Clinton—a Day Early twitter:description: Clinton will celebrate her 69th birthday on Wednesday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc85af7319cd63/6988ab8a196cf415a703db26/hrc1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Crowd Sing 'Happy Birthday' to Hillary Clinton One Day Early > Sponsored content. 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"That last debate was like an early birthday present, right?"_ by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 25, 2016 9:15 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Oct 25, 2016 9:15 PM UTC [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4543898/hillary-clinton-millennial-voter-support/) will celebrate her 69th birthday on Wednesday, but that didn’t stop a crowd at a Florida rally from singing “[Happy Birthday](http://time.com/4213570/happy-birthday-song-to-you-song-lawsuit/)” to the Democratic candidate on Tuesday. “Thank you,” Clinton replied to the rally with laughter. “Yeah, you know, you’re right. That last debate was like an early birthday present, right?” When Clinton appeared on the [cover of TIME](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,987193-7,00.html) for her 50th birthday in 1997, she predicted that the years ahead would see her going on “to do something else that I find challenging and interesting.” If the polls are any indication, her 70th year may turn out to be the most challenging and interesting yet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/"},"headline":"Watch a Crowd Sing 'Happy Birthday' to Hillary Clinton One Day Early","datePublished":"2016-10-25T21:15:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:42:48.095Z","description":"\"That last debate was like an early birthday present, right?\"","url":"https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc85af7319cd63/6988ab8a196cf415a703db26/hrc1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc85af7319cd63/6988ab8a196cf415a703db26/hrc1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","caption":"Democratic Nominee for President of the United States former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/","name":"Watch a Crowd Sing 'Happy Birthday' to Hillary Clinton One Day Early"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"\"That last debate was like an early birthday present, right?\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4545302/hillary-clinton-69th-birthday/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```