Births on 16 July
2000s
Amiah Miller
2004
American actress
Island Boys
2001
American rap duo and TikTokers
1900s
Jarred Kelenic
1999
American baseball player (born 1999)
Kevin Abstract
1996
American rapper and singer (born 1996)
Luke Hemmings
1996
Australian singer and guitarist (born 1996)
Shericka Jackson
1994
Jamaican sprinter (born 1994)
Safiya Nygaard
1992
American YouTuber
Dylan Grimes
1991
Australian rules footballer
Nate Schmidt
1991
American ice hockey player (born 1991)
Andros Townsend
1991
English footballer (born 1991)
James Maslow
1990
American actor and singer (born 1990)
Wizkid
1990
Nigerian singer (born 1990)
Johann Zarco
1990
French motorcycle racer
Gareth Bale
1989
Welsh footballer (born 1989)
Sergio Busquets
1988
Spanish footballer (born 1988)
Mousa Dembélé (Belgian footballer)
1987
Belgian footballer (born 1987)
AnnaLynne McCord
1987
American actress (born 1987)
Knowshon Moreno
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Misako Uno
1986
Musical artist (born 1986)
Mārtiņš Kravčenko
1985
Latvian basketball player (born 1985)
Hayanari Shimoda
1984
Japanese racing driver (born 1984)
Attila Szabó (athlete)
1984
Hungarian decathlete
Katrina Kaif
1983
British actress (born 1983)
Duncan Keith
1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)
André Greipel
1982
German road bicycle racer (born 1982)
Carli Lloyd
1982
American soccer player (born 1982)
Michael Umaña
1982
Costa Rican footballer (born 1982)
Giuseppe Di Masi
1981
Italian footballer
Robert Kranjec
1981
Slovenian ski jumper
Zach Randolph
1981
American basketball player (born 1981)
Vicente Rodríguez
1981
Spanish footballer
Adam Scott (golfer)
1980
Australian golfer (born 1980)
Jayma Mays
1979
American actress (born 1979)
Chris Mihm
1979
American basketball player (born 1979)
Kim Rhode
1979
American sport shooter (born 1979)
Konstantin Skrylnikov
1979
Russian footballer
Bryan Budd
1977
Recipient of the Victoria Cross
Tomasz Kuchar
1976
Polish rally and rallycross driver (born 1976)
Bobby Lashley
1976
American wrestler & mixed martial artist (born 1976)
Carlos Paredes (footballer)
1976
Paraguayan footballer and coach (born 1976)
Anna Smashnova
1976
Israeli tennis player
Maret Maripuu
1974
Estonian politician (born 1974)
Wendell Sailor
1974
Australia international rugby footballer
João Dias (politician)
1973
Portuguese politician (born 1973)
Shaun Pollock
1973
South African cricketer (born 1973)
Tim Ryan (Ohio politician)
1973
American politician (born 1973)
François Drolet
1972
Short-track speed skater
Corey Feldman
1971
American actor and musician (born 1971)
Ed Kowalczyk
1971
American musician (born 1971)
Raimonds Miglinieks
1970
Latvian basketball player and coach
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1970
Thai film director (born 1970)
Serena Chen
1970
American social psychologist
Sahra Wagenknecht
1969
German politician (born 1969)
Kathryn Harby-Williams
1969
Dhanraj Pillay
1968
Indian field hockey player
Barry Sanders
1968
American football player (born 1968)
Larry Sanger
1968
Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1968)
Robert J. Sherman
1968
American songwriter (born 1968)
Olga Souza
1968
Brazilian singer (born 1968)
Will Ferrell
1967
American actor and comedian (born 1967)
Jyrki Lumme
1966
Finnish ice hockey player
Michel Desjoyeaux
1965
French sailor
Claude Lemieux
1965
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1965)
Billy Mitchell (gamer)
1965
American video game player (born 1965)
Phil Hellmuth
1964
American poker player (born 1964)
Miguel Induráin
1964
Spanish cyclist (born 1964)
Phoebe Cates
1963
American actress (born 1963)
Srečko Katanec
1963
Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1963)
Mikael Pernfors
1963
Swedish tennis player (born 1963)
Grigory Leps
1962
Russian singer (born 1962)
James MacMillan
1959
Scottish composer and conductor
Jürgen Ligi
1959
Estonian politician (born 1959)
Mick Cornett
1958
American journalist
Michael Flatley
1958
American step dancer (born 1958)
Faye Grant
1957
American actress (born 1957)
Maurice Kottelat
1957
Swiss ichthyologist
Tony Kushner
1956
American playwright and screenwriter (born 1956)
Susan Wheeler
1955
American poet
Saw Swee Leong
1955
Malaysian badminton player (born 1955)
Douglas Feith
1953
American political official (born 1953)
Stewart Copeland
1952
American drummer and composer (born 1952)
Marc Esposito
1952
French film director
Ken McEwan
1952
South African cricketer
Jean-Luc Mongrain
1951
Canadian journalist, television host and news anchor
Che Rosli Che Mat
1951
Malaysian politician
Gary Indiana
1950
American writer, playwright and poet (1950–2024)
Pierre Paradis
1950
Canadian politician (born 1950)
Dennis Priestley
1950
English darts player (born 1950)
Frances Spalding
1950
British art historian (born 1950)
Tom Terrell (journalist)
1950
American music journalist (1950–2007)
Rubén Blades
1948
Panamanian musician (born 1948)
Lars Lagerbäck
1948
Swedish footballer and manager
Kevin McKenzie (cricketer)
1948
South African cricketer (born 1948)
Pinchas Zukerman
1948
Israeli-American violinist, violist and conductor (born 1948)
Don Burke
1947
Australian television presenter, author, and horticulturist (born 1947)
Alexis Herman
1947
23rd United States Secretary of Labor (1947–2025)
Assata Shakur
1947
American political activist (1947–2025)
Louise Fréchette
1946
1st United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
Angharad Rees
1944
British actress (1944–2012)
Reinaldo Arenas
1943
Cuban writer (1943–1990)
Vernon Bogdanor
1943
British political scientist (born 1943)
Jimmy Johnson (American football coach)
1943
American football broadcaster, coach and executive (born 1943)
Margaret Court
1942
Australian former tennis player (born 1942)
Desmond Dekker
1941
Jamaican musician (1941–2006)
Dag Solstad
1941
Norwegian writer (1941–2025)
Hans Wiegel
1941
Dutch politician (1941–2025)
George Young, Baron Young of Cookham
1941
British Conservative politician (born 1941)
William Bell (singer)
1939
American soul singer and songwriter (born 1939)
Lido Vieri
1939
Italian footballer and manager
Ruth Perry
1939
Head of state of Liberia from 1996 to 1997
Shringar Nagaraj
1939
Indian film actor (1939–2013)
Corin Redgrave
1939
English actor (1939–2010)
Mariele Ventre
1939
Cynthia Enloe
1938
American feminist writer, theorist, and professor (born 1938)
Tony Jackson (singer)
1938
Musical artist
Richard Bryan
1937
American attorney and politician (born 1937)
John Daly (producer)
1937
British film producer
Yasuo Fukuda
1936
Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008
Buddy Merrill
1936
American musician (1936–2021)
Jerry Norman (sinologist)
1936
American sinologist and linguist (1936–2012)
Venkataraman Subramanya
1936
Carl Epting Mundy Jr.
1935
United States Marine Corps general
Lynn Wyatt
1935
American socialite (born 1935)
Denise LaSalle
1934
American singer (1934–2018)
Tomás Eloy Martínez
1934
Argentine journalist and writer (1934 – 2010)
Katherine D. Ortega
1934
38th Treasurer of the United States
Donald M. Payne
1934
American politician (1934–2012)
Julian A. Brodsky
1933
American businessman
John Chilton
1932
British jazz trumpeter and writer (1932–2016)
Max McGee
1932
American football player (1932–2007)
Dick Thornburgh
1932
American lawyer and politician (1932–2020)
Fergus Kerr
1931
British theologian (1931–2025)
Norm Sherry
1931
American baseball player and manager (1931–2021)
Guy Béart
1930
French singer and songwriter
Michael Bilirakis
1930
American politician (born 1930)
Bert Rechichar
1930
American football player (1930–2019)
Charles Ray Hatcher
1929
American serial killer
Sheri S. Tepper
1929
American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (1929–2016)
Gaby Tanguy
1929
French swimmer
Anita Brookner
1928
English novelist and art historian (1928–2016)
Bella Davidovich
1928
Soviet and American pianist (born 1928)
Robert Sheckley
1928
American writer
Jim Rathmann
1928
American racing driver (1928–2011)
Dave Treen
1928
American politician (1928–2009)
Andrzej Zawada
1928
Polish mountaineer (1928–2000)
Pierre F. Côté
1927
Canadian civil servant and lawyer
Shirley Hughes
1927
English illustrator and author (1927–2022)
Derek Hawksworth
1927
English footballer (1927–2021)
Ivica Horvat
1926
Croatian footballer
Irwin Rose
1926
American biologist
Frank Jobe
1925
American orthopedic surgeon and co-founder of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic
Rosita Quintana
1925
Mexican actress (1925–2021)
Cal Tjader
1925
American vibraphonist (1925–1982)
James L. Greenfield
1924
American journalist and government official (1924–2024)
Bess Myerson
1924
American actress and politician (1924–2014)
Rupert Deese
1924
American ceramic artist
Chris Argyris
1923
American management scientist (1923–2013)
Bola Sete
1923
Brazilian guitarist (1923–1987)
Anatole Broyard
1920
American writer (1920–1990)
Hermine Braunsteiner
1919
Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard (1919–1999)
Choi Kyu-hah
1919
President of South Korea from 1979 to 1980
Denis Edward Arnold
1918
British army officer
Paul Farnes
1918
British World War II flying ace
Samuel Victor Perry
1918
England international rugby union player & biochemist
Barnard Hughes
1915
American actor (1915–2006)
Elaine Barrie
1915
American actress (1915–2003)
Milt Bocek
1912
American baseball player (1912–2007)
Amy Patterson
1912
Argentinian composer (1912–2019)
Ginger Rogers
1911
American actress, singer, and dancer (1911–1995)
Sonny Tufts
1911
American actor (1911–1970)
Stan McCabe
1910
Australian cricketer (1910–1968)
Gordon Prange
1910
American historian
Frances Horwich
1907
American children's television host (1907–2001)
Orville Redenbacher
1907
American businessman (1907–1995)
Barbara Stanwyck
1907
American actress (1907–1990)
Vincent Sherman
1906
American film director (1906–2006)
Goffredo Petrassi
1904
Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor and teacher
Fritz Bauer
1903
German judge (1903–1968)
Carmen Lombardo
1903
Canadian-American saxophonist and vocalist
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
1903
German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer
Alexander Luria
1902
Russian neuropsychologist (1902–1977)
Mary Philbin
1902
American silent film actress (1902–1993)
1800s
Lady Eve Balfour
1898
British organic farmer (1898–1990)
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer
1896
German biologist, National Socialist, and geneticist (1896–1969)
Trygve Lie
1896
UN Secretary-General from 1946 to 1952
Wilfrid Hamel
1895
Canadian politician
Arthur Bowie Chrisman
1889
American writer
Percy Kilbride
1888
American character actor
Frits Zernike
1888
Dutch physicist (1888–1966)
Shoeless Joe Jackson
1887
American baseball player (1887–1951)
Anna Vyrubova
1884
Russian Empire lady-in-waiting
Charles Sheeler
1883
American painter (1883–1965)
Violette Neatley Anderson
1882
American lawyer (1882–1937)
Kathleen Norris
1880
American writer (1880–1966)
Roald Amundsen
1872
Norwegian polar explorer (1872–1928)
Frank Arthur Cooper
1872
Australian politician (1872–1949)
John Maxwell (golfer)
1871
American golfer (1871–1906)
Lambert McKenna
1870
Irish academic (1870–1956)
Ellen Oliver (suffragette)
1870
Purity activist and Southcottian from Guernsey
Anderson Dawson
1863
Australian politician (1863–1910)
Ida B. Wells
1862
American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
Eugène Ysaÿe
1858
Belgian violinist and composer (1858–1931)
Nikolai von Glehn
1841
Baltic German activist
Mary Baker Eddy
1821
American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)
Before 1800
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
1796
French painter and printmaker (1796–1875)
Cyrus Griffin
1748
American lawyer and politician (1748–1810)
Samuel Huntington (Connecticut politician)
1731
American Founding Father and politician (1731–1796)
Joshua Reynolds
1723
English painter (1723–1792)
Joseph Wilton
1722
English sculptor (1722–1803)
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert
1714
French Royal Army officer and writer
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
1661
French soldier (1661–1706)
Cecilia Renata of Austria
1611
Queen of Poland from 1637 to 1644
Petrus Peckius the Elder
1529
Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk
1517
English noblewoman (1517–1559)
Andrea del Sarto
1486
Italian painter (1486–1530)
Clare of Assisi
1194
Foundress of the Franciscan Second Order and saint