16 August
Notable Births
Jannik Sinner
b. 2001
Italian tennis player (born 2001)
Karen Chen
b. 1999
American figure skater (born 1999)
Greyson Chance
b. 1997
American singer-songwriter and musician
Sophie Cunningham
b. 1996
American basketball player and analyst (born 1996)
Caeleb Dressel
b. 1996
American swimmer (born 1996)
Cameron Monaghan
b. 1993
American actor and model (born 1993)
Diego Schwartzman
b. 1992
Argentine tennis player (born 1992)
Evanna Lynch
b. 1991
Irish actress and activist (born 1991)
Young Thug
b. 1991
American rapper (born 1991)
Godfrey Oboabona
b. 1990
Nigerian footballer
Cedric Alexander
b. 1989
American professional wrestler (born 1989)
Wang Hao (race walker)
b. 1989
Chinese racewalker
Moussa Sissoko
b. 1989
French footballer (born 1989)
Ismaïl Aissati
b. 1988
Moroccan footballer (born 1988)
Ryan Kerrigan
b. 1988
American football player and coach (born 1988)
Rumer Willis
b. 1988
American actress (born 1988)
Carey Price
b. 1987
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Eri Kitamura
b. 1987
Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1987)
Yu Darvish
b. 1986
Japanese baseball pitcher (born 1986)
Martín Maldonado
b. 1986
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
Howard S. Becker
d. 2023
American sociologist (1928–2023)
Sean Lock
d. 2021
English comedian and actor (1963–2021)
Peter Fonda
d. 2019
American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)
Richard Williams (animator)
d. 2019
Canadian and British animator (1933–2019)
Aretha Franklin
d. 2018
American singer (1942–2018)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
d. 2018
Prime Minister of India (1996; 1998–99, 1999–2004)
João Havelange
d. 2016
Brazilian businessman, athlete and football administrator (1916–2016)
John McLaughlin (host)
d. 2016
American journalist and political commentator (1927–2016)
Jacob Bekenstein
d. 2015
Mexican-Israeli physicist (1947–2015)
Anna Kashfi
d. 2015
British actress (1934–2015)
Shuja Khanzada
d. 2015
Pakistani officer and politician (1943–2015)
Mile Mrkšić
d. 2015
Croatian Serb war criminal (1947–2015)
Peter Scholl-Latour
d. 2014
German journalist and author
David Rees (mathematician)
d. 2013
Martine Franck
d. 2012
Belgian photographer (1938–2012)
Abune Paulos
d. 2012
Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church from 1992 to 2012
William Windom (actor)
d. 2012
American actor (1923–2012)
Mihri Belli
d. 2011
Turkish socialist revolutionary
Dimitrios Ioannidis
d. 2010
Greek military dictator (1923–2010)
Dorival Caymmi
d. 2008
Brazilian singer, songwriter, actor, and painter