Births on 16 January
2000s
Andrew Nembhard
2000
Canadian basketball player (born 2000)
1900s
Seungkwan
1998
South Korean singer (born 1998)
Jennie (singer)
1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Zhou Qi
1996
Chinese basketball player (born 1996)
Jonathan Allen
1995
American football player (born 1995)
Mikaela Turik
1995
Canadian womens cricketer (born 1995)
Tre'Davious White
1995
American football player (born 1995)
Mikko Lehtonen (ice hockey, born 1994)
1994
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Hannes Anier
1993
Estonian footballer (born 1993)
Amandine Hesse
1993
French tennis player (born 1993)
Sungjin
1993
South Korean singer (born 1993)
Jason Zucker
1992
American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Matt Duchene
1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Dennis Kelly (American football)
1990
American football player (born 1990)
Nicklas Bendtner
1988
Danish footballer (born 1988)
Jorge Torres Nilo
1988
Mexican footballer (born 1988)
FKA Twigs
1988
English singer, songwriter, and dancer (born 1988)
Jake Epstein
1987
Canadian actor and singer (born 1987)
Charlotte Henshaw
1987
British Paralympic swimmer
Greivis Vásquez
1987
Venezuelan basketball player and coach (born 1987)
Johannes Rahn
1986
German footballer
Mark Trumbo
1986
American baseball player (born 1986)
Reto Ziegler
1986
Swiss footballer (born 1986)
Joe Flacco
1985
American football player (born 1985)
Jayde Herrick
1985
Australian cricketer (born 1985)
Gintaras Januševičius
1985
Lithuanian musician
Sidharth Malhotra
1985
Indian actor (born 1985)
Jonathan Richter
1985
Danish footballer (born 1985)
Simon Richter
1985
Danish-born Gambian footballer (born 1985)
Renée Felice Smith
1985
American actress (born 1985)
Stephan Lichtsteiner
1984
Swiss footballer (born 1984)
Miroslav Radović
1984
Serbian footballer (born 1984)
Emanuel Pogatetz
1983
Austrian footballer (born 1983)
Andriy Rusol
1983
Ukrainian footballer (born 1983)
Preston (singer)
1982
English singer (born 1982)
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
1982
Danish actress (born 1982)
Tuncay Şanlı
1982
Turkish football manager (born 1982)
Jamie Lundmark
1981
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1981)
Paul Rofe (cricketer)
1981
Australian cricketer (born 1981)
Nick Valensi
1981
American musician
Bobby Zamora
1981
English footballer
Lin-Manuel Miranda
1980
American songwriter, actor, filmmaker and librettist (born 1980)
Albert Pujols
1980
Dominican-American baseball player (born 1980)
Seydou Keita
1980
Malian footballer (born 1980)
Aaliyah
1979
American singer (1979–2001)
Brenden Morrow
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Jason Ward (ice hockey)
1979
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1979)
Alfredo Amézaga
1978
Mexican baseball player (born 1978)
Jeff Foster (basketball)
1977
American basketball player (born 1977)
Viktor Maslov (racing driver)
1976
Russian racing driver
Martina Moravcová
1976
Slovak swimmer (born 1976)
Marc Jackson
1975
American basketball player (born 1975)
Kate Moss
1974
English model and businesswoman (born 1974)
Josie Davis
1973
American actress (born 1973)
Ruben Bagger
1972
Danish footballer (born 1972)
Ang Christou
1972
Australian rules footballer
Yuri Drozdov (footballer)
1972
Russian footballer
Ezra Hendrickson
1972
Vincentian association football player and head coach
Joe Horn
1972
American football player and coach (born 1972)
Richard T. Jones
1972
American actor (born 1972)
Sergi Bruguera
1971
Spanish tennis player (born 1971)
Josh Evans (film producer)
1971
American filmmaker
Jonathan Mangum
1971
American actor and comedian (born 1971)
Don MacLean (basketball)
1970
American basketball player (born 1970)
Marinus Bester
1969
German footballer
Stevie Jackson
1969
Musical artist
Roy Jones Jr.
1969
American boxer (born 1969)
David Chokachi
1968
American actor (born 1968)
Rebecca Stead
1968
American writer
Jack McDowell
1966
American baseball player (born 1966)
Gail Graham
1964
Canadian professional golfer
James May
1963
English television presenter and journalist (born 1963)
Joel Fitzgibbon
1962
Australian politician (born 1962)
Maxine Jones
1962
American singer
Kenneth Sivertsen (musician)
1961
Norwegian musician, composer, poet, and comedian
Lisa Milroy
1959
Canadian artist (born 1959)
Sade (singer)
1959
British singer and songwriter (born 1959)
Anatoli Boukreev
1958
Kazakh mountain climber and author (1958–1997)
Lena Ek
1958
Swedish politician (born 1958)
Andris Šķēle
1958
Latvian politician and businessman
Jurijs Andrejevs
1957
Latvian footballer (born 1957)
Ricardo Darín
1957
Argentine actor, director and producer (born 1957)
Wayne Daniel
1956
West Indian cricketer
Gerald Henderson
1956
American basketball player (born 1956)
Martin Jol
1956
Dutch football manager (born 1956)
Greedy Smith
1956
Australian musician (1956–2019)
Jerry M. Linenger
1955
American astronaut (born 1955)
Robin Davies
1954
Welsh actor (1954–2010)
Wolfgang Schmidt (athlete)
1954
East German discus thrower (born 1954)
Vasili Zhupikov
1954
Russian footballer
Robert Jay Mathews
1953
American neo-Nazi (1953–1984)
Fuad II of Egypt
1952
King of Egypt and the Sudan from 1952 to 1953
Piercarlo Ghinzani
1952
Italian racing driver (born 1952)
Debbie Allen
1950
American actress and dancer (born 1950)
Robert Schimmel
1950
American comedian (1950–2010)
Anne F. Beiler
1949
American businesswoman
R. F. Foster (historian)
1949
Irish historian (born 1949)
Andrew Refshauge
1949
Australian politician
John Carpenter
1948
American filmmaker (born 1948)
Ants Laaneots
1948
Estonian officer and politician (born 1948)
Ruth Reichl
1948
American chef, writer, and editor (born 1948)
Cliff Thorburn
1948
Canadian snooker player (born 1948)
Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy
1947
British psychiatrist, academic and peer (born 1947)
Harvey Proctor
1947
British former politician
Laura Schlessinger
1947
American author and radio personality (born 1947)
Kabir Bedi
1946
Indian film actor (born 1946)
Katia Ricciarelli
1946
Italian soprano
Wim Suurbier
1945
Dutch footballer (1945–2020)
Dieter Moebius
1944
Musical artist
Jim Stafford
1944
American singer, songwriter, musician, and comedian
Jill Tarter
1944
American astronomer
Judy Baar Topinka
1944
American politician (1944–2014)
Michael Attwell
1943
English actor (1943–2006)
Gavin Bryars
1943
Musical artist
Brian Ferneyhough
1943
British composer (born 1943)
Ronnie Milsap
1943
American country singer (b. 1943)
René Angélil
1942
Canadian musical producer, talent manager, and singer (1942–2016)
Barbara Lynn
1942
American rhythm and blues and electric blues guitarist and singer
Claire Gordon
1941
British film actress, comedian (1941–2015)
Christine Truman
1941
British tennis player (born 1941)
Ralph Gibson
1939
American photographer (born 1939)
Marina Vaizey
1938
Anglo-American art critic, broadcaster, exhibition curator, author and journalist
Luiz Bueno
1937
Brazilian racing driver (1937-2011)
Francis George
1937
American Catholic bishop and cardinal (1937–2015)
Michael White (producer)
1936
British theatre/film producer (1936–2016)
A. J. Foyt
1935
American racing driver (born 1935)
Udo Lattek
1935
German football player and coach (1935–2015)
Bob Bogle
1934
American musician (1934–2009)
Marilyn Horne
1934
American opera singer (born 1934)
Susan Sontag
1933
American writer, critic and public intellectual (1933–2004)
Victor Ciocâltea
1932
Romanian chess grandmaster (1932–1983)
Dian Fossey
1932
American primatologist (1932–1985)
John Enderby
1931
British physicist (1931–2021)
Robert L. Park
1931
American physicist & skeptic (1931–2020)
Johannes Rau
1931
President of Germany from 1999 to 2004
Mary Ann McMorrow
1930
American judge (1930–2013)
Norman Podhoretz
1930
American writer (1930–2025)
Paula Tilbrook
1930
English actress (1930–2019)
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
1929
American anthropologist (1929–2014)
William Kennedy (author)
1928
American writer and journalist (born 1928)
Pilar Lorengar
1928
Spanish opera singer
Peter Hirsch (metallurgist)
1925
British metallurgist (1925–2025)
James Robinson Risner
1925
US Air Force general (1925–2013)
Katy Jurado
1924
Mexican actress (1924–2002)
Allen Swift
1924
American voice actor (1924–2010)
Gene Feist
1923
Anthony Hecht
1923
American poet (1923–2004)
Francesco Scavullo
1921
American fashion photographer
Elliott Reid
1920
American actor (1920–2013)
Jerome Horwitz
1919
American scientist (1919–2012)
Nel Benschop
1918
Dutch poet (1918–2005)
Allan Ekelund
1918
Swedish film produce
Clem Jones
1918
Australian politician
Stirling Silliphant
1918
American screenwriter (1918–1996)
Carl Karcher
1917
American businessman, founded Carl's Jr.
Philip Lucock
1916
Australian politician
Leslie H. Martinson
1915
American film director
Roger Wagner
1914
American choral musician, administrator and educator
Ivan Barrow
1911
Jamaican cricketer
Eduardo Frei Montalva
1911
President of Chile From 1964 to 1970
Roger Lapébie
1911
French cyclist
Dizzy Dean
1910
American baseball player and coach (1910–1974)
Clement Greenberg
1909
American essayist and visual art critic (1909–1994)
Sammy Crooks
1908
English footballer (1908–1981)
Ethel Merman
1908
American actress and singer (1908–1984)
Günther Prien
1908
German U-boat commander during World War II
Alexander Knox
1907
Canadian actor and writer (1907–1995)
Paul Nitze
1907
American government official (1907–2004)
Johannes Brenner
1906
Estonian footballer
Diana Wynyard
1906
English stage and film actress (1906–1964)
Ernesto Halffter
1905
Spanish composer and conductor
William Grover-Williams
1903
British racing driver (1903–1945)
Eric Liddell
1902
Scottish athlete and missionary (1902–1945)
Fulgencio Batista
1901
President of Cuba (1940–1944; 1952–1959)
Frank Zamboni
1901
American inventor and engineer (1901–1988)
Kiku Amino
1900
Japanese novelist
Edith Frank
1900
Mother of Anne Frank (1900–1945)
1800s
Margaret Booth
1898
American film editor (1898–2002)
Irving Rapper
1898
American film director (1898–1999)
Carlos Pellicer
1897
Mexican poet (1897–1977)
Evripidis Bakirtzis
1895
Greek politician (1895–1947)
T. M. Sabaratnam
1895
Ceylon Tamil lawyer and politician
Nat Schachner
1895
American writer (1895-1955)
Irving Mills
1894
American music publisher and lyricist (1894–1985)
Daisy Kennedy
1893
Australian violinist (1893–1981)
Homer Burton Adkins
1892
American chemist (1892–1949)
Osip Brik
1888
Russian, writer, lawyer and literary critic
Zhou Zuoren
1885
Chinese writer
Margaret Wilson (novelist)
1882
American novelist
Samuel Jones (athlete)
1880
American high jumper (1880–1954)
Harry Carey (actor)
1878
American actor (1878-1947)
Claude Buckenham
1876
English cricketer and footballer
Leonor Michaelis
1875
German chemist and physician (1875–1949)
Robert W. Service
1874
British-Canadian poet and writer (1874–1958)
Henri Büsser
1872
French composer, organist, and conductor (1872–1973)
Jüri Jaakson
1870
Estonian statesman (1870–1942)
Johnston Forbes-Robertson
1853
English actor (1853–1937)
Ian Hamilton (British Army officer)
1853
British Army general (1853–1947)
André Michelin
1853
French industrialist (1853–1931)
William Hall-Jones
1851
Prime minister of New Zealand in 1906
Ismail Qemali
1844
Founder and 1st Prime Minister of Albania
Franz Brentano
1838
Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher (1838–1917)
Francis II of the Two Sicilies
1836
King of the Two Sicilies from 1859 to 1861
Robert R. Hitt
1834
American politician (1834–1906)
John C. Breckinridge
1821
Vice President of the United States from 1857 to 1861
Henry Halleck
1815
General in Chief of the Union Armies in the American Civil War (1815-1872)
Charles Henry Davis
1807
United States Navy admiral (1807–1877)
Before 1800
Richard Goodwin Keats
1757
Royal Navy Admiral of the Blue and colonial administrator (1757–1834)
Vittorio Alfieri
1749
Italian dramatist and poet (1749–1803)
Niccolò Piccinni
1728
Italian composer (1728-1800)
Peter Scheemakers
1691
18th century London-based Flemish-born sculptor
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
1675
French courtier and memoirist (1675–1755)
Johann Conrad Brunner
1653
Swiss anatomist
Dorothe Engelbretsdatter
1634
Norwegian writer
Guru Har Rai
1630
Seventh Sikh guru from 1644 to 1661
Lucas Achtschellinck
1626
Flemish painter
François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort
1616
Duke of Beaufort
Jakobea of Baden
1558
Bayinnaung
1516
Emperor of the Toungoo dynasty
Anthony Denny
1501
English politician (1501 – 1549)
Johannes Schöner
1477
German priest, mathematician, cosmographer and globe maker
René of Anjou
1409
King of Naples (1435–1442) and Duke of Anjou (1434–1480)
Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford
1362
English 14th century nobleman and a favourite of Richard II, King of England
Edmund Crouchback
1245
English nobleman (1245–1296)
Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I)
1093
Sebastokrator
Emperor Shengzong of Liao
972
Emperor of the Liao dynasty from 982 to 1031