16 October Births

October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Births

1351 – Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450)
1430 – James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542)
1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585)
1588 – Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657)
1605 – Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677)
1620 – Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)
1678 – Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714)
1679 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (d. 1745)
1710 – András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790)
1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795)
1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801)
1729 – Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768)
1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (d. 1827)
1754 – Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d. 1844)
1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1762 – Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816)
1789 – William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d. 1866)
1795 – William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876)
1802 – Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)
1804 – Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator (d. 1885)
1806 – William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1869)
1815 – Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1818 – William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1882)
1819 – Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)
1831 – Lucy Stanton, American activist (d. 1910)
1832 – Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896)
1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
1847 – Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)
1852 – Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913)
1854 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)
1855 – Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (d. 1931)
1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)
1861 – Richard Sears, American tennis player (d. 1943)
1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
1867 – Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (d. 1963)
1869 – Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (d. 1930)
1872 – Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (d. 1942)
1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)
1881 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955)
1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1888 – Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (d. 1979)
1890 – Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance (d. 1922)
1890 – Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)
1890 – Paul Strand, American photographer and director (d. 1975)
1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French soldier (d. 2008)
1898 – William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980)
1900 – Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900 – Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d. 1988)
1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (d. 2003)
1903 – Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1904 – Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (d. 1968)
1905 – Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (d. 1990)
1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1907 – Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (d. 1973)
1908 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (d. 2006)
1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
1911 – Otto von Bülow, German commander (d. 2006)
1912 – Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009)
1918 – Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1990)
1918 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
1918 – Tony Rolt, English racing driver and engineer (d. 2008)
1919 – Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author (d. 2003)
1921 – Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1921 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003)
1921 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
1922 – Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer (d. 2012)
1922 – Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (d. 2001)
1923 – Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965)
1923 – Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (d. 1980)
1923 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1924 – Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (d. 2014)
1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer
1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
1927 – Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1928 – Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
1928 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (d. 2016)
1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
1930 – John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest
1930 – Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
1931 – Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1931 – Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator
1931 – Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress
1931 – P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1932 – John Grant, English journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1932 – Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)
1932 – Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)
1934 – Peter Ashdown, English racing driver
1936 – Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter
1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936 – Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (d. 1997)
1936 – Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan
1938 – Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d. 1999)
1938 – Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)
1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
1940 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
1940 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009)
1941 – Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
1941 – Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
1944 – Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
1945 – Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host
1945 – Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
1945 – Paul Monette, American author and poet (d. 1995)
1946 – Geoff Barnett, English footballer
1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer
1947 – Nicholas Day, English actor
1947 – Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach
1947 – Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and founding member of Grateful Dead
1947 – David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1948 – Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer
1948 – Bruce Fleisher, American golfer
1948 – Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
1948 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach
1949 – Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright
1950 – Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015)
1950 – Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (d. 2017)
1952 – Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
1952 – Cordell Mosson, American bass player (d. 2013)
1952 – Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician
1953 – Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
1954 – Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger
1954 – Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1954 – Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
1954 – Corinna Harfouch, German actress
1955 – Ellen Dolan, American actress
1956 – Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor
1956 – John Chavis, American football player and coach
1956 – Meg Rosoff, American-English author
1956 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992)
1957 – Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator
1958 – Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager
1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1959 – Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician
1959 – Brian Harper, American baseball player
1959 – Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1959 – Philip Maini, mathematician at the University of Oxford
1959 – Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician
1959 – Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1959 – Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer
1959 – John Whittingdale, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1960 – Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015)
1960 – Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1961 – Marc Levy, French author
1961 – Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer
1962 – Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor
1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010)
1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer
1962 – Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
1962 – Tamara McKinney, American skier
1963 – Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963 – Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic
1964 – Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1964 – James Thompson, American-Finnish author (d. 2014)
1965 – Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator
1965 – Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 – Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist
1966 – Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director
1967 – Michael Laffy, Australian footballer
1967 – Davina McCall, English television host and actress
1968 – Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer
1968 – Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and singer
1968 – Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor
1968 – Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer.
1968 – Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
1969 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer
1969 – Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler
1969 – Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer
1969 – Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter
1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager
1971 – Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Paul Sparks, American actor
1971 – Frank Cuesta, Television presenter
1972 – Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author
1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-Russian ice hockey player and coach
1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host
1973 – Justin Credible, American wrestler
1973 – David Unsworth, English footballer and manager
1974 – Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
1974 – Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer
1975 – Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
1975 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
1975 – Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer
1977 – John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, rapper, guitarist, and producer
1977 – Laura Wade, English playwright
1978 – Ethan Luck, American guitarist and drummer
1979 – Nicola Blackwood, South African-English politician
1979 – Erin Brown, American actress, director, and screenwriter
1980 – Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
1980 – Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player
1981 – Martin Halle, Danish footballer
1981 – Boyd Melson, American boxer
1981 – Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
1982 – Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
1982 – Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
1982 – Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1983 – Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
1983 – Loreen, Swedish singer and producer
1983 – Kenny Omega, Canadian professional wrestler
1984 – François Pervis, French track cyclist
1984 – Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress
1985 – Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Verena Sailer, German sprinter
1985 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
1985 – Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player
1986 – Inna, Romanian singer
1986 – Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer
1986 – Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer
1988 – Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
1989 – Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player
1990 – Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Danish-Icelandic singer
1991 – Jedward, Irish twin singers
1992 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player
1992 – Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer
1992 – Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player[2][better source needed]
1993 – Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
1994 – Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player
1994 – Amelia Lily, English singer-songwriter
1997 – Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver

Source: wikipedia