Births on 16 August
2000s
Jannik Sinner
2001
Italian tennis player (born 2001)
1900s
Karen Chen
1999
American figure skater (born 1999)
Greyson Chance
1997
American singer-songwriter and musician
Sophie Cunningham
1996
American basketball player and analyst (born 1996)
Caeleb Dressel
1996
American swimmer (born 1996)
Cameron Monaghan
1993
American actor and model (born 1993)
Diego Schwartzman
1992
Argentine tennis player (born 1992)
Zé Eduardo (footballer, born 1991)
1991
Brazilian footballer
Evanna Lynch
1991
Irish actress and activist (born 1991)
Young Thug
1991
American rapper (born 1991)
Godfrey Oboabona
1990
Nigerian footballer
Cedric Alexander
1989
American professional wrestler (born 1989)
Wang Hao (race walker)
1989
Chinese racewalker
Moussa Sissoko
1989
French footballer (born 1989)
Ismaïl Aissati
1988
Moroccan footballer (born 1988)
Ryan Kerrigan
1988
American football player and coach (born 1988)
Rumer Willis
1988
American actress (born 1988)
Carey Price
1987
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1987)
Eri Kitamura
1987
Japanese voice actress and singer (born 1987)
Yu Darvish
1986
Japanese baseball pitcher (born 1986)
MartÃn Maldonado
1986
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1986)
Shawn Pyfrom
1986
American actor
Cristin Milioti
1985
American actress and musician (born 1985)
Matteo Anesi
1984
Italian speed skater (born 1984)
Candice Dupree
1984
American basketball player and coach (born 1984)
Konstantin Vassiljev
1984
Estonian footballer (born 1984)
Nikos Zisis
1983
Greek basketball player (born 1983)
Cam Gigandet
1982
American actor (born 1982)
Joleon Lescott
1982
English footballer (born 1982)
Roque Santa Cruz
1981
Paraguayan footballer (born 1981)
Vanessa Carlton
1980
American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1980)
Bob Hardy (bassist)
1980
English musician
Emerson (footballer, born August 1980)
1980
Brazilian footballer
Piet Rooijakkers
1980
Dutch road cyclist
Paul Gallacher
1979
Scottish footballer
Ian Moran (cricketer)
1979
Australian cricketer
Didier Agathe
1975
French footballer (born 1975)
Jonatan Johansson (footballer)
1975
Finnish footballer and coach (born 1975)
George Stults
1975
American actor (born 1975)
Taika Waititi
1975
New Zealand filmmaker and actor (born 1975)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
1974
West Indian cricketer
Didier Cuche
1974
Swiss alpine skier
Krisztina Egerszegi
1974
Hungarian swimmer (born 1974)
Iván Hurtado
1974
Ecuadorian footballer (born 1974)
Ryan Longwell
1974
American football player (born 1974)
Stan Lazaridis
1972
Australian soccer player (born 1972)
Emily Strayer
1972
American songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist (b. 1972)
Stefan Klos
1971
German footballer
Bonnie Bernstein
1970
American sports journalist and executive
Manisha Koirala
1970
Nepali actress (born 1970)
Seth Peterson
1970
American actor (born 1970)
Arvind Kejriwal
1968
Chief Minister of Delhi (2013–14; 2015–2024)
Andy Milder
1968
American actor (born 1969)
Mateja Svet
1968
Slovenian alpine skier
Wolfgang Tillmans
1968
German photographer (born 1968)
Mark Coyne (rugby league)
1967
Australia international rugby league footballer
Ulrika Jonsson
1967
Swedish-British television presenter and model (born 1967)
Eddie Olczyk
1966
American ice hockey player and coach
Jimmy Arias
1964
American tennis player and TV commentator
AloÃsio (footballer, born 1963)
1963
Brazilian footballer
Christine Cavanaugh
1963
American actress (1963–2014)
Steve Carell
1962
American actor and comedian (born 1962)
Christian Okoye
1961
ÃŒgbo-American football player (born 1961)
Rosita Baltazar
1960
Timothy Hutton
1960
American actor and director (born 1960)
Franz Welser-Möst
1960
Austrian conductor (born 1960)
Marc Sergeant
1959
Belgian cyclist (born 1959)
Madonna
1958
American singer and actress (born 1958)
Angela Bassett
1958
American actress (born 1958)
Anne L'Huillier
1958
French-Swedish Nobel laureate physicist
José Luis Clerc
1958
Argentine tennis player (born 1958)
Laura Innes
1957
American actress and television director
R. R. Patil
1957
Indian politician (1956–2015)
Vahan Hovhannisyan
1956
Armenian politician (1956-2014)
Jeff Perry (American actor)
1955
American actor (born 1955)
James Reilly (Irish politician)
1955
Irish former politician (born 1955)
James Cameron
1954
Canadian filmmaker and deep-sea explorer (born 1954)
George Galloway
1954
British politician, broadcaster, and writer (born 1954)
Kathie Lee Gifford
1953
American entertainer (born 1953)
James "J.T." Taylor
1953
American singer (born 1953)
Reginald VelJohnson
1952
American actor (born 1952)
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
1951
President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010
Hasely Crawford
1950
Trinidadian sprinter
Marshall Manesh
1950
Iranian-American actor
Jeff Thomson
1950
Australian cricketer
Scott Asheton
1949
American drummer (1949–2014)
Paul Pasqualoni
1949
American football player and coach (born 1949)
Bill Spooner
1949
American musician
Earl Blumenauer
1948
American politician (born 1948)
Barry Hay
1948
Indian-born Dutch musician (born 1948)
Mike Jorgensen
1948
American baseball player and manager (born 1948)
Pierre Reid
1948
Canadian politician (1948–2021)
Joey Spampinato
1948
American singer-songwriter
Carol Moseley Braun
1947
American politician and lawyer (born 1947)
Katharine Hamnett
1947
English fashion designer (born 1947)
Masoud Barzani
1946
First president of the Kurdistan Region (2005–2017)
Lesley Ann Warren
1946
American singer-actress
Bob Balaban
1945
American actor (born 1945)
Russell Brookes
1945
British rally driver (1945–2019)
Suzanne Farrell
1945
American ballerina
Gary Loizzo
1945
American musician (1945–2016)
Nigel Terry
1945
English actor (1945–2015)
Kevin Ayers
1944
English singer-songwriter (1944–2013)
Woody Peoples
1943
American football player (1943–2010)
Lesley Turner Bowrey
1942
Australian tennis player
Barbara George
1942
American R&B singer and songwriter
Robert "Squirrel" Lester
1942
American musician
Bruce Beresford
1940
Australian filmmaker
Seán Brady (cardinal)
1939
Irish Catholic cardinal (born 1939)
Trevor McDonald
1939
British newsreader and journalist (born 1939)
Billy Joe Shaver
1939
American country singer (1939–2020)
Eric Weissberg
1939
American musician (1939–2020)
David Anderson (British Columbia politician)
1937
Former Canadian cabinet minister
David Behrman
1937
American composer
Ian Deans
1937
Canadian politician (1937–2016)
Boris Rõtov
1937
Russian-Estonian chess player
Anita Gillette
1936
American actress and singer (born 1936)
Alan Hodgkinson
1936
English footballer and coach
Cliff Fletcher
1935
Canadian ice hockey manager
Andreas Stamatiadis
1935
Greek footballer and manager (1935–2025)
Angela Buxton
1934
British tennis player (1934–2020)
Diana Wynne Jones
1934
British writer (1934–2011)
Douglas Kirkland
1934
Canadian photographer (1934–2022)
Ketty Lester
1934
American actress and singer (born 1934)
Pierre Richard
1934
French actor (born 1934)
John Standing
1934
English actor (born 1934)
Sam Trimble
1934
Australian cricketer (1934–2019)
Reiner Kunze
1933
German writer and GDR dissident (born 1933)
Tom Maschler
1933
British publisher and writer (1933–2020)
Julie Newmar
1933
American actress (born 1933)
Stuart Roosa
1933
American lunar astronaut (1933–1994)
Robert Culp
1930
American actor (1930–2010)
Frank Gifford
1930
American football player and television sportscaster (1930–2015)
Leslie Manigat
1930
President of Haiti (1930–2014)
Flor Silvestre
1930
Mexican singer and actress (1930–2020)
Bill Evans
1929
American jazz pianist (1929–1980)
Helmut Rahn
1929
German footballer (1929–2003)
Fritz Von Erich
1929
American professional wrestler (1929–1997)
Ann Blyth
1928
American actress (born 1928)
Eydie Gormé
1928
American pop singer (1928–2013)
Ara Güler
1928
Turkish photographer of Armenian descent
Eddie Kirkland
1928
American electric blues musician (1923–2011)
Wyatt Tee Walker
1928
American civil rights activist and pastor (1928–2018)
Lois Nettleton
1927
American actress (1927–2008)
Willie Jones (third baseman)
1925
American baseball player (1925–1983)
Mal Waldron
1925
American jazz pianist and composer (1925–2002)
Fess Parker
1924
American actor (1924–2010)
Inez Voyce
1924
American baseball player (1924–2022)
Millôr Fernandes
1923
Brazilian writer (1923–2012)
James Casey (variety artist)
1922
English comedian and radio producer
Ernie Freeman
1922
American pianist, arranger and composer (1922–1981)
Charles Bukowski
1920
American writer (1920–1994)
List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (E)
1919
Matt Christopher
1917
American writer
Roque Cordero
1917
Panamanian composer
Iggy Katona
1916
American racing driver (1916–2003)
Al Hibbler
1915
American pop and R&B singer (1915–2001)
Menachem Begin
1913
Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983
Ted Drake
1912
English footballer (1912–1995)
E. F. Schumacher
1911
British statistician and economist (1911–1977)
Gloria Blondell
1910
American actress (1915–1986)
Mae Clarke
1910
American actress (1910–1992)
Paul Callaway
1909
American organist and choral conductor (1909–1995)
Orlando Cole
1908
Musical artist
William Keepers Maxwell Jr.
1908
American journalist (1908–2000)
Minoru Genda
1904
Japanese aviator (1904–1989)
Wendell Meredith Stanley
1904
American biochemist, virologist, and Nobel laureate (1904–1971)
Georgette Heyer
1902
English writer (1902–1974)
Wallace Thurman
1902
American novelist
Ida Browne
1900
Australian geologist (1900–1976)
1800s
Albert Cohen (novelist)
1895
Greek-born Swiss novelist (1895-1981)
Liane Haid
1895
Austrian actress and singer (1895–2000)
Arthur Rose Eldred
1895
First Eagle Scout in the United States
George Meany
1894
American labor leader (1894–1980)
Hal Foster
1892
Canadian-American illustrator (1892–1982)
Otto Messmer
1892
American animator (1892–1983)
T. E. Lawrence
1888
British Army officer, diplomat and writer (1888–1935)
Armand J. Piron
1888
American jazz violinist (1888–1943)
Hugo Gernsback
1884
American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967)
Désiré Mérchez
1882
French swimmer (1882–1968)
Roque Ruaño
1877
Spanish civil engineer
Ivan Bilibin
1876
Russian illustrator (1876–1942)
Bernarr Macfadden
1868
American physical culturist and magazine publisher (1868–1955)
Mary Gilmore
1865
Australian poet (1865–1962)
Elsie Inglis
1864
Scottish doctor (1864–1917)
Amos Alonzo Stagg
1862
American athlete and coach (1862–1965)
Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke
1860
English cricketer (1860–1938)
Jules Laforgue
1860
Franco-Uruguayan poet
Arthur Achleitner
1858
German writer
Aparicio Saravia
1856
Uruguayan politician and military leader
James McGowen
1855
Australian politician (1855–1922)
Vladimir Sukhomlinov
1848
Russian general (1848–1926)
Gabriel Lippmann
1845
French applied physicist (1845–1921)
Jakob Rosanes
1842
German mathematician and chess player
Wilhelm Wundt
1832
German founder of psychology (1832–1920)
John Jones Ross
1831
Premier of Quebec from 1884 to 1887
John Chisum
1824
American businessman, rancher (1824–1884)
Arthur Cayley
1821
English mathematician (1821–1895)
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore
1820
Canadian politician
Zachary Taylor
1816
President of the United States from 1849 to 1850
Sara Prinsep
1816
British socialite
John Bosco
1815
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator, and writer
Before 1800
Yevstigney Fomin
1761
Russian opera composer
Pierre Méchain
1744
French mathematician and astronomer (1744–1804)
Louis, Duke of Burgundy
1682
Heir apparent to the French throne (1682–1712)
Vincenzo Coronelli
1650
Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist
Jean de La Bruyère
1645
French philosopher and moralist (1645–1696)
Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen
1637
German noblewoman and hymn author
Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland
1573
Queen of Poland and Sweden from 1592 to 1598
Christina of Lorraine
1565
Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1589 to 1609
Agostino Carracci
1557
Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1557–1602)
Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut
1401
Countess of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland
Hongxi Emperor
1378
Emperor of China from 1424 to 1425
Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster
1355
Medieval English princess