Births on 16 December
2000s
Kai Cenat
2001
American internet personality and online streamer (born 2001)
1900s
Mira Antonitsch
1998
Austrian tennis player (born 1998)
Zhou Jieqiong
1998
Chinese singer and actress (born 1998)
Wilfred Ndidi
1996
Nigerian footballer (born 1996)
Sergio Reguilón
1996
Spanish footballer (born 1996)
Henry Thornton (cricketer)
1996
Australian cricketer
Nigel Hayes-Davis
1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Nicola Murru
1994
Italian footballer (born 1994)
José RodrÃguez (footballer, born 1994)
1994
Spanish footballer
Jyoti Amge
1993
Smallest living woman (born 1993)
Stephan James (actor)
1993
Canadian actor
Anamul Haque
1992
Bangladeshi cricketer
Tom Rogic
1992
Australian footballer (born 1992)
Craig Goodwin
1991
Australian soccer player
David Johnson (running back)
1991
American football player (born 1991)
Mats Hummels
1988
German footballer (born 1988)
Anna Popplewell
1988
English actress (born 1988)
Alexey Shved
1988
Russian basketball player (born 1988)
Alcides Escobar
1986
Venezuelan baseball player (born 1986)
Pärt Uusberg
1986
Estonian composer and conductor
Stanislav Manolev
1985
Bulgarian footballer
James Nash (racing driver)
1985
British racing driver (born 1985)
Amanda Setton
1985
American actress (born 1985)
Theo James
1984
British actor (born 1984)
Kelenna Azubuike
1983
Nigerian-American basketball player (born 1983)
Frankie Ballard
1983
American country singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Joey Dorsey
1983
American basketball player (born 1983)
Antrel Rolle
1982
American football player (born 1982)
Anna Sedokova
1982
Ukrainian singer (born 1982)
Stanislav Šesták
1982
Slovak footballer (born 1982)
Krysten Ritter
1981
American actress (born 1981)
Reanna Solomon
1981
Nauruan weightlifter (1981–2022)
Gareth Williams (footballer, born 1981)
1981
Scottish footballer
Danish Kaneria
1980
Pakistani former cricketer (born 1980)
Trevor Immelman
1979
South African professional golfer (born 1979)
Brodie Lee
1979
American professional wrestler (1979–2020)
Daniel Narcisse
1979
French handball player (born 1979)
Mihai Trăistariu
1979
Romanian singer
Jessie Ward
1979
American television producer and former wrestler
John Morris (curler)
1978
Canadian curler and Olympic gold medallist
Gunter Van Handenhoven
1978
Belgian footballer and manager
Éric Bélanger
1977
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1977)
Sylvain Distin
1977
French footballer (born 1977)
Jen Golbeck
1976
American computer scientist
Valentin Bădoi
1975
Romanian footballer
Kaba Diawara
1975
Guinean football manager (born 1975)
Benjamin Kowalewicz
1975
Canadian singer (born 1975)
Paul Maynard
1975
British politician
Themba Mnguni
1973
South African soccer player
Scott Storch
1973
American record producer and songwriter (born 1973)
Charles Gipson
1972
American baseball player (born 1972)
Zeljko Kalac
1972
Australian soccer player (born 1972)
Paul Leyden
1972
Australian actor, producer and screenwriter
Travis Morrison
1972
Musical artist
Seyhan Kurt
1971
French-Turkish sociologist
Paul van Dyk
1971
German DJ (born 1971)
Michael McCary
1971
American singer (born 1971)
Valerie Chow
1970
Hong Kong actress, fashion publicist and entrepreneur
Daniel Cosgrove
1970
American actor
Simon Grayson
1969
English footballer and coach (born 1969)
Kent Hehr
1969
Canadian politician (born 1969)
Adam Riess
1969
American astrophysicist (born 1969)
Michelle Smith
1969
Irish swimmer
Dmitri Tymoczko
1969
American music theorist and composer (born 1969)
Craig White
1969
English cricketer
Wendy Doolan
1968
Australian golfer
Lalah Hathaway
1968
American singer (born 1968)
Greg Kovacs
1968
Canadian bodybuilder (1968–2013)
Donovan Bailey
1967
Jamaican-Canadian sprinter (born 1967)
Indrek Kaseorg
1967
Estonian decathlete
Miranda Otto
1967
Australian actress (born 1967)
Fatima Lamarti
1966
Belgian politician (born 1966)
Paul McGinley
1966
Irish professional golfer (born 1966)
Clifford Robinson (basketball, born 1966)
1966
American basketball player (1966–2020)
Dennis Wise
1966
English football player and manager (born 1966)
Melanie Sloan
1965
American lawyer
J. B. Smoove
1965
American actor (born 1965)
Heike Drechsler
1964
German former track and field athlete
Todd Glass
1964
American comedian
John Kirwan (rugby)
1964
New Zealand rugby footballer and coach
Georgie Parker
1964
Australian actress (born 1964)
Billy Ripken
1964
American baseball player (born 1964)
Benjamin Bratt
1963
American actor (born 1963)
Cathy Johnston-Forbes
1963
American golfer (born 1963)
James Mangold
1963
American filmmaker (born 1963)
Nadia Moscufo
1963
Belgian politician (born 1963)
Maruschka Detmers
1962
Dutch actress (born 1962)
William Perry (American football)
1962
American football player (born 1962)
André Andersen
1961
Musical artist
Shane Black
1961
American filmmaker (born 1961)
Bill Hicks
1961
American comedian (1961–1994)
LaChanze
1961
American actress (born 1961)
Sam Robards
1961
American actor
Jon Tenney
1961
American actor (born 1961)
Sid Eudy
1960
American actor and professional wrestler (1960–2024)
Pat Van Den Hauwe
1960
Welsh footballer
H. D. Kumaraswamy
1959
Indian politician and film producer (born 1959)
Alison La Placa
1959
American actress (born 1959)
Alexander Lebedev
1959
Russian businessman (born 1959)
Steve Mattsson
1959
American comic book artist and writer (born 1959)
Bart Oates
1958
American football player (born 1958)
Jeff Ruland
1958
American basketball player and coach (born 1958)
Antonio Vega (singer)
1957
Musical artist
Lizzy Mercier Descloux
1956
French singer-songwriter (1956–2004)
Xander Berkeley
1955
American actor (born 1955)
Carol Browner
1955
American environmentalist and lawyer (born 1955)
Prince Lorenz of Belgium
1955
Archduke of Austria-Este
Chiharu Matsuyama
1955
Japanese folk singer and songwriter (born 1955)
Rebecca Forstadt
1953
American voice actress
Joel Garner
1952
West Indian cricketer (born 1952)
Francesco Graziani
1952
Italian footballer
Aykut Barka
1951
Turkish scientist
Sally Emerson
1951
English novelist and travel writer
Mike Flanagan (baseball)
1951
American baseball player (1951–2011)
Robben Ford
1951
American guitarist (born 1951)
Mark Heard
1951
American folk rock singer and songwriter (1951–1992)
Claudia Cohen
1950
American gossip columnist, socialite and television reporter
Roy Schuiten
1950
Dutch cyclist (1950–2006)
Billy Gibbons
1949
American rock musician (born 1949)
Heather Hallett, Baroness Hallett
1949
English judge (born 1949)
Ben Cross
1947
British actor (1947–2020)
Vincent Matthews (athlete)
1947
American sprinter
Martyn Poliakoff
1947
British chemist (born 1947)
Trevor Żahra
1947
Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator (born 1947)
Benny Andersson
1946
Swedish musician and composer (born 1946)
Charles Dennis
1946
Canadian actor
Trevor Pinnock
1946
English harpsichordist and conductor (born 1946)
Tom Stern (cinematographer)
1946
American cinematographer
Tony Hicks
1945
English guitarist and singer (born 1945)
Jeff Kanew
1944
American film director (born 1944)
Don Meyer
1944
American basketball player and coach (1944–2014)
Steven Bochco
1943
American television writer and producer (1943–2018)
Patti Deutsch
1943
American actress (1943–2017)
Donald Carcieri
1942
American politician and corporate executive
Lesley Stahl
1941
American journalist (born 1941)
Roger Wheeler (British Army officer)
1941
British Army general (born 1941)
Philip Langridge
1939
British opera singer
Gordon Miller (athlete)
1939
British high jumper (born 1939)
Frank Deford
1938
American sportswriter (1938–2017)
Liv Ullmann
1938
Norwegian actress (born 1938)
Joyce Bulifant
1937
American actress
Edward Ruscha
1937
American artist (born 1937)
Morris Dees
1936
American activist (born 1936)
Gloria Romero
1933
Filipino actress and model (1933–2025)
Grace Alele-Williams
1932
Nigerian mathematician and academic (1932–2022)
Quentin Blake
1932
British cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer (born 1932)
Lin Zhao
1932
Chinese dissident executed during the Cultural Revolution
Bill Brittain
1930
American novelist
Sam Most
1930
American jazz musician (1930–2013)
Bill Young (Florida politician)
1930
American politician (1930–2013)
Nicholas Courtney
1929
British actor (1929–2011)
Terry Carter
1928
American actor and filmmaker (1928–2024)
Philip K. Dick
1928
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
Peter Dickinson
1927
English author & poet (1927–2015)
Randall Garrett
1927
American writer
James McCracken
1926
American dramatic tenor
A. N. R. Robinson
1926
President of Trinidad and Tobago from 1997 to 2003
Jeffrey Stone
1926
American actor (1926–2012)
Nicolas Sidjakov
1924
American graphic designer and illustrator
Menahem Pressler
1923
Israeli-American pianist (1923–2023)
Ernst Florian Winter
1923
American historian and politologist (1923–2014)
Cy Leslie
1922
American businessman (1922–2008)
Eulalio González
1921
Musical artist
Frederick Rotimi Williams
1920
Nigerian lawyer (1920–2005)
Nabi Bakhsh Baloch
1917
Baloch scholar, historian, sindhologist, linguist and educationist
Pete Cenarrusa
1917
American politician
Arthur C. Clarke
1917
British science fiction writer (1917–2008)
Ruth Johnson Colvin
1916
American literacy advocate (1916–2024)
O. Winston Link
1914
American photographer (1914–2001)
George Ignatieff
1913
Canadian diplomat (1913–1989)
Freddie Brown (cricketer)
1910
English cricketer (1910–1991)
Remedios Varo
1908
Spanish Catalan artist (1908–1963)
Barbara Kent
1907
Canadian-American actress (1907–2011)
Piet Hein (scientist)
1905
Danish polymath (1905–1996)
Ruben Nirvi
1905
Finnish linguist
Hardie Albright
1903
American actor (1903–1975)
Harold Whitlock
1903
British racewalker
Rafael Alberti
1902
Spanish poet (1902–1999)
Margaret Mead
1901
American cultural anthropologist (1901–1978)
Lucille Lortel
1900
American actress
V. S. Pritchett
1900
British writer and critic (1900–1997)
1800s
Noël Coward
1899
English playwright, composer, actor (1899–1973)
Anna Anderson
1896
Impostor of Grand Duchess Anastasia (1896–1984)
Marie Hall Ets
1895
American writer (1895–1984)
Kim Chwajin
1889
Korean military officer, independence activist and anarchist (1889–1930)
Alexander I of Yugoslavia
1888
King of Yugoslavia from 1921 to 1934
Alphonse Juin
1888
French Army officer (1888–1967)
John Gunn (Australian politician)
1884
Australian politician (1884–1959)
Seibo Kitamura
1884
Japanese sculptor (1884–1987)
Károly Kós
1883
Hungarian architect (1883–1977)
Max Linder
1883
French actor and director (1883–1925)
Jack Hobbs
1882
English cricketer (1882–1963)
Zoltán Kodály
1882
Hungarian composer (1882–1967)
Walther Meissner
1882
German physicist (1882–1974)
Anton Denikin
1872
Russian military and political leader (1872–1947)
Hristo Tatarchev
1869
Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (1869–1952)
Bertha Lamme Feicht
1869
20th-century American engineer
Amy Carmichael
1867
Christian missionary to India (1867–1951)
Wassily Kandinsky
1866
Russian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)
Olavo Bilac
1865
Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator
George Santayana
1863
Spanish American philosopher (1863–1952)
Antonio de La Gándara
1861
French painter (1861–1917)
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
1849
American writer
Ernst von Bergmann
1836
German surgeon (1836–1907)
Léon Walras
1834
French mathematical economist (1834–1910)
Stuart Donaldson
1812
New South Wales politician and Premier (1812-1867)
Viktor Bunyakovsky
1804
Russian mathematician
Before 1800
Leopold I of Belgium
1790
King of the Belgians from 1831 to 1865
Mary Russell Mitford
1787
English writer (1787–1855)
John Ordronaux (privateer)
1778
French-born privateer and businessman (1778–1841)
Johann Wilhelm Ritter
1776
German chemist, physicist, and philosopher (1776–1810)
Jane Austen
1775
English novelist (1775–1817)
François-Adrien Boieldieu
1775
French composer (1775–1834)
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770
German composer (1770–1827)
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
1742
Prussian field marshal (1742–1819)
Diego Silang
1730
Filipino revolutionary leader (1730–1763)
Elizabeth Carter
1717
English poet and polymath (1717–1806)
Louis Jules Mancini, Duke of Nevers
1716
French diplomat and writer (1716–1798)
George Whitefield
1714
English cleric and preacher (1714–1770)
Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (gardener)
1630
English noblewoman, gardener, and botanist (1630–1715)
Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg
1614
Duke of Württemberg from 1628 to 1674
Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland
1605
English diplomat and landowner
Livia della Rovere
1585
Duchess consort of Urbino
John Selden
1584
English jurist (1584–1654)
Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
1582
English peer, soldier and courtier
Hans Bol
1534
Flemish painter, miniature painter, print artist and draftsman (1534–1593)
Catherine of Aragon
1485
Queen of England from 1509 to 1533
Manuel III of Trebizond
1364
Emperor of Trebizond from 1390 to 1417