Births on 16 February
2000s
Yuki Naito
2001
Japanese tennis player (born 2001)
Original Koffee
2000
Jamaican musician (born 2000)
Coby White
2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Carlos Yulo
2000
Filipino artistic gymnast (born 2000)
1900s
Ignatius Ganago
1999
Cameroonian footballer (born 1999)
Girl in Red
1999
Norwegian singer-songwriter (born 1999)
An Hye-jin
1998
South Korean volleyball player (born 1998)
Kim Su-ji (diver)
1998
South Korean diver (born 1998)
Jordan Greenway
1997
American ice hockey player (born 1997)
Denzel Curry
1995
American rapper (born 1995)
Katy Dunne
1995
British tennis player (born 1995)
Carina Witthöft
1995
German tennis player
Annika Beck
1994
German tennis player
Federico Bernardeschi
1994
Italian footballer (born 1994)
Ava Max
1994
American singer and songwriter (born 1993)
Nicolai Boilesen
1992
Danish footballer (born 1992)
Zsófia Susányi
1992
Hungarian tennis player
Sergio Canales
1991
Spanish footballer (born 1991)
The Weeknd
1990
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1990)
Elizabeth Olsen
1989
American actress (born 1989)
Diego Capel
1988
Spanish footballer
Denílson (footballer, born 1988)
1988
Brazilian footballer
Korbinian Holzer
1988
German ice hockey player (born 1988)
Zhang Jike
1988
Chinese table tennis player who was the 4th player to achieve a grand slam title
Andrea Ranocchia
1988
Italian footballer (born 1988)
Kim Soo-hyun
1988
South Korean actor (born 1988)
Luc Bourdon
1987
Canadian ice hockey player (1987–2008)
Theresa Goh
1987
Singaporean Paralympic swimmer
Tommy Milone
1987
American baseball player (born 1987)
Jon Ossoff
1987
American politician (born 1987)
Hasheem Thabeet
1987
Tanzanian basketball player (born 1987)
Diego Godín
1986
Uruguayan footballer (born 1986)
Shawne Williams
1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Simon Francis (footballer)
1985
English footballer
Stacy Lewis
1985
American professional golfer (born 1985)
Ron Vlaar
1985
Dutch former footballer (born 1985)
Sofia Arvidsson
1984
Swedish tennis player (born 1984)
Oussama Mellouli
1984
Tunisian swimmer (born 1984)
Agyness Deyn
1983
English model and actress (born 1983)
Tuomo Ruutu
1983
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1983)
Manny Delcarmen
1982
American baseball player (born 1982)
Aleksandr Dmitrijev
1982
Estonian footballer and coach
Lupe Fiasco
1982
American rapper and record producer (born 1982)
Rickie Lambert
1982
English footballer (born 1982)
Jay Howard
1981
British racing driver
Susanna Kallur
1981
Swedish hurdler (born 1981)
Jerry Owens
1981
American baseball player (born 1981)
Qyntel Woods
1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
Longineu W. Parsons III
1980
French-born American rock musician
Stéphane Dalmat
1979
French footballer (born 1979)
Eric Mun
1979
South Korean rapper (born 1979)
Valentino Rossi
1979
Italian motorcycle racer (born 1979)
Tia Hellebaut
1978
Belgian track and field athlete (born 1978)
Wasim Jaffer
1978
Indian cricketer
John Tartaglia
1978
American puppeteer, actor, and singer (b. 1978)
Ian Clarke (computer scientist)
1977
Irish computer scientist
Ahman Green
1977
American gridiron football player (born 1977)
Alexei Morozov
1977
Russian ice hockey player (born 1977)
Eric Byrnes
1976
American baseball player (born 1976)
Kyo (musician)
1976
Japanese musician
Mahershala Ali
1974
American actor (born 1974)
José Dominguez
1974
Portuguese footballer & manager (born 1974)
Cathy Freeman
1973
Aboriginal Australian athlete and Olympic gold medallist (born 1973)
Jerome Bettis
1972
American football player (born 1972)
Zoran Čampara
1972
Serbian footballer (born 1972)
Sarah Clarke
1972
American actress
Naomi Nishida
1972
Japanese actress (born 1970)
Michael Avenatti
1971
American attorney (born 1971)
Craig Laundy
1971
Australian politician
Angelo Peruzzi
1970
Italian footballer (born 1970)
Warren Ellis
1968
English comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter (born 1968)
Keith Gretzky
1967
Canadian ice hockey player and executive (born 1967)
Dave Lombardo
1965
Cuban-American drummer (born 1965)
Bebeto
1964
Brazilian footballer and politician (born 1964)
Christopher Eccleston
1964
English actor (born 1964)
John Balance
1962
English musician and poet (1962–2004)
Niko Nirvi
1961
Finnish video game critic
Andy Taylor (guitarist)
1961
English pop rock guitarist
Pete Willis
1960
English guitarist (born 1960)
John McEnroe
1959
American former tennis player (born 1959)
Kelly Tripucka
1959
American basketball player (born 1959)
Natalie Angier
1958
American writer
Ice-T
1958
American rapper and actor (born 1958)
Oscar Schmidt
1958
Brazilian basketball player (born 1958)
Herb Williams
1958
American basketball player (born 1958)
LeVar Burton
1957
American actor, director, and television host (born 1957)
Vincent Ward (director)
1956
New Zealand film director, screenwriter and artist
Iain Banks
1954
Scottish writer (1954–2013)
Margaux Hemingway
1954
American fashion model and actress (1954–1996)
Michael Holding
1954
Jamaican cricketer and commentator (born 1954)
John Bradbury (drummer)
1953
Musical artist
Lanny McDonald
1953
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)
Roberta Williams
1953
American video game designer (born 1953)
James Ingram
1952
American singer, songwriter, and record producer (1952–2019)
Peter Kitchen
1952
English footballer (born 1952)
William Katt
1951
American actor and musician (born 1951)
Peter Hain
1950
British politician (born 1950)
Kaiketsu Masateru
1948
Japanese sumo wrestler
Jaroslav Kubera
1947
Czech politician (1947–2020)
Glyn Davies (politician)
1944
Welsh Conservative politician
Richard Ford
1944
American author
António Mascarenhas Monteiro
1944
President of Cape Verde from 1991 to 2001
Yang Jen-fu
1942
Taiwanese Amis politician (1942–2024)
Kim Jong Il
1941
Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
Hannelore Schmatz
1940
German mountaineer (1940–1979)
Adolfo Azcuna
1939
Filipino jurist (born 1939)
John Corigliano
1938
American composer (born 1938)
Paul Bailey (British writer)
1937
English novelist (1937–2024)
Valentin Bondarenko
1937
Soviet fighter pilot and cosmonaut candidate (1937–1961)
Yuri Manin
1937
Russian mathematician (1937–2023)
Carl Icahn
1936
American businessman and financier (born 1936)
Brian Bedford
1935
English actor (1935–2016)
Sonny Bono
1935
American singer, record producer, comedian, actor, and politician (1935–1998)
Stephen Gaskin
1935
American activist (1935–2014)
Bradford Parkinson
1935
American engineer
Kenneth Price
1935
American artist (1935–2021)
Ken Brown (footballer)
1934
English footballer and manager
August Coppola
1934
American academic (1934–2009)
Marlene Hagge
1934
American professional golfer (1934–2023)
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
1932
3rd President of Sierra Leone (1996–97, 1998–2007)
Gretchen Wyler
1932
American actress (1932–2007)
Otis Blackwell
1931
American songwriter (1931–2002)
Bernie Geoffrion
1931
Canadian ice hockey player
Ken Takakura
1931
Japanese actor (1931–2014)
Gerhard Hanappi
1929
Austrian footballer (1929–1980)
Peter Porter (poet)
1929
British-based Australian poet (1929– 2010)
June Brown
1927
English actress (1927–2022)
Margot Frank
1926
Older sister of Anne Frank and Holocaust victim (1926–1945)
John Schlesinger
1926
English film and theatre director (1926–2003)
Ed Emshwiller
1925
American illustrator and filmmaker (1925–1990)
Samuel Willenberg
1923
Polish survivor of Treblinka (1923–2016)
Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer
1922
German night fighter pilot (1922–1950)
Jean Behra
1921
French racing driver (1921–1959)
John Galbraith Graham
1921
British crossword compiler
Vera-Ellen
1921
American actress, singer and dancer (1921–1981)
Anna Mae Hays
1920
20th-century United States Armed Forces officer
Georges Ulmer
1919
Danish-born French composer and actor
Bill Doggett
1916
American swing and R&B pianist and organist (1916–1996)
Jimmy Wakely
1914
American singer-songwriter (1914–1982)
Hugh Beaumont
1909
American actor (1910–1982)
Richard and Maurice McDonald
1909
American fast food company founders
Vera Menchik
1906
Czechoslovak chess player (1906–1944)
Henrietta Barnett (WRAF officer)
1905
James Baskett
1904
American actor (1904–1948)
George F. Kennan
1904
American diplomat, political scientist, and historian (1904–2005)
Edgar Bergen
1903
American ventriloquist, comedian and actor (1903–1978)
Cyril Vincent
1902
South African cricketer (1902–1968)
Wayne King
1901
American songwriter and bandleader (1901–1985)
Chester Morris
1901
American actor (1901–1970)
1800s
List of French supercentenarians
1896
Katharine Cornell
1893
German-born American actress (1893–1974)
Hans F. K. Günther
1891
German writer, advocate of scientific racism and eugenicist (1891–1968)
Kathleen Clifford
1887
American actress
Robert J. Flaherty
1884
American documentary filmmaker
Pamela Colman Smith
1878
British occultist, artist and illustrator (1878–1951)
Big Jim Colosimo
1878
American mobster (1878–1920)
Tom Crean (explorer)
1877
Irish Antarctic explorer (1877–1938)
G. M. Trevelyan
1876
British historian and academic (1876–1962)
Radoje Domanović
1873
Serbian journalist, writer and teacher (1873–1908)
Billy Hamilton (baseball, born 1866)
1866
American baseball player (1866–1940)
Ossian E. Mills
1856
American fraternity founder (1856–1920)
Hugo de Vries
1848
Dutch botanist (1848–1935)
Octave Mirbeau
1848
French writer, art critic and journalist (1848–1917)
George Kennan (explorer)
1845
American journalist (1845–1924)
Henry M. Leland
1843
American engineer, machinist, and entrepreneur (1843–1932)
Armand Guillaumin
1841
French painter
Henry Adams
1838
American historian (1838–1918)
Ernst Haeckel
1834
German zoologist (1834–1919)
Nikolai Leskov
1831
Russian writer and novelist (1831–1895)
Lars Hertervig
1830
Norwegian painter (1830–1902)
Joseph Victor von Scheffel
1826
German poet and novelist (1826–1886)
Peter Kosler
1824
Francis Galton
1822
British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist (1822–1911)
Heinrich Barth
1821
German explorer (1821–1865)
Henry Wilson
1812
Vice President of the United States from 1873 to 1875
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
1804
German physiologist and zoologist (1804–1885)
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
1802
American writer and folk healer, 1802 – 1866
Before 1800
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1786
Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Pierre Rode
1774
French violinist and composer (1774-1830)
Jean-Charles Pichegru
1761
French Army officer (1761–1804)
Giambattista Bodoni
1740
Italian type-designer, printer, and publisher (1740–1813)
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
1727
Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands
Pierre Bouguer
1698
French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1698–1758)
John Sharp (bishop)
1643
Archbishop of York from 1691 to 1714
Frederick William, the Great Elector
1620
Elector of Brandenburg from 1640 to 1688
Kanō Eitoku
1543
Japanese painter (1543–1590)
Gaspard II de Coligny
1519
French nobleman and Admiral of France, leader of the Huguenots (1519–1572)
Georg Joachim Rheticus
1514
Austrian astronomer and mathematician (1514–1576)
Philip Melanchthon
1497
German Lutheran reformer and theologian (1497–1560)
Krishnadevaraya
1471
Emperor of Vijayanagara from 1509 to 1529
Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1470
Duke in the Holy Roman Empire
John I, Duke of Cleves
1419
Duke of Cleves and Count of Mark (1419–1481)
Coluccio Salutati
1331
Italian classical scholar and Renaissance humanist (1331–1406)
Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür
1304
Emperor of Yuan dynasty from 1328 to 1332
Nichiren
1222
Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher (1222–1282)