History Births on December 16

Paul Maynard, English politician

#Paul_Maynard

Moe Miura, Japanese model, actress, and singer (9nine)

#Moe_Miura

Billy Gibbons, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

#Billy_Gibbons

John Morris, Canadian curler and firefighter

#John_Morris_(curler)

Mihai Tr?istariu, Romanian singer-songwriter

#Mihai_Tr?istariu

Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player

#Kelenna_Azubuike

Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actress and screenwriter

#Rebecca_Forstadt

Diego Silang, Filipino revolutionary leader (d. 1763)

#Diego_Silang

Morris Dees, American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center

#Morris_Dees

Frankie Ballard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Frankie_Ballard

Simon Grayson, English footballer and manager

#Simon_Grayson

Catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess, later queen consort of England (d. 1536)

#Catherine_of_Aragon

Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist (d. 1963)

#Jack_Hobbs

Valentin B?doi, Romanian footballer and manager

#Valentin_B?doi

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (d. 1944)

#Wassily_Kandinsky

Stuart Donaldson, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (d. 1867)

#Stuart_Donaldson

Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2009)

#Antonio_Vega_(singer)

Chris Jones, American baseball player and manager

#Chris_Jones_(1990s_outfielder)

Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer

#Mame_Biram_Diouf

Stanislav Šesták, Slovak footballer

#Stanislav_Šesták

Charles Dennis, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

#Charles_Dennis

Seyhan Kurt, French-Turkish poet and sociologist

#Seyhan_Kurt

Anton Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947)

#Anton_Denikin

Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist (Beaux Arts Trio)

#Menahem_Pressler

Jane Austen, English novelist (d. 1817)

#Jane_Austen

Hardie Albright, American actor (d. 1975)

#Hardie_Albright

Antrel Rolle, American football player

#Antrel_Rolle

Adam Riess, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate

#Adam_Riess

H. D. Kumaraswamy, Indian social worker and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka

#H._D._Kumaraswamy

Benjamin Bratt, American actor and producer

#Benjamin_Bratt

Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, author, and poet (d. 1996)

#Piet_Hein_(scientist)

Aykut Barka, Turkish scientist (d. 2002)

#Aykut_Barka

Kim Chwa-chin, South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930)

#Kim_Chwa-chin

Michael McCary, American R&B singer

#Michael_McCary

Carol Browner, American lawyer and environmentalist, 8th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

#Carol_Browner

Randall Garrett, American author and poet (d. 1987)

#Randall_Garrett

A. N. R. Robinson, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)

#A._N._R._Robinson

Lesley Stahl, American journalist and actress

#Lesley_Stahl

John Gunn, Australian politician, 29th Premier of South Australia (d. 1959)

#John_Gunn_(Australian_politician)

Donald Carcieri, American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island

#Donald_Carcieri

Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide

#Ruth_Johnson_Colvin

Bertha Lamme Feicht, American electrical engineer (d. 1943)

#Bertha_Lamme_Feicht

Zoltán Kovács, Hungarian footballer (d. 2013)

#Zoltán_Kovács_(footballer,_born_1986)

Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

#Benjamin_Kowalewicz

Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer and manager

#Francesco_Graziani

Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (d. 2014)

#Ernst_Florian_Winter

Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, British botanist (d. 1715)

#Mary_Somerset,_Duchess_of_Beaufort_(1630-1715)

Kent Hehr, Canadian politician

#Kent_Hehr

James Mangold, American director, producer, and screenwriter

#James_Mangold

Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet (d. 1918)

#Olavo_Bilac

Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player

#Éric_Bélanger

John Selden, English jurist and scholar (d. 1654)

#John_Selden

Bill Young, American sergeant and politician (d. 2013)

#Bill_Young

Robben Ford, American guitarist and songwriter

#Robben_Ford

Scott Storch, American songwriter and producer, founded Storch Music Company

#Scott_Storch

Elizabeth Carter, English poet and scholar (d. 1806)

#Elizabeth_Carter

Vincent Matthews, American sprinter

#Vincent_Matthews_(athlete)

Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)

#Mark_Heard

Claudia Cohen, American journalist (d. 2007)

#Claudia_Cohen

Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist (d. 1967)

#Zoltán_Kodály

Livia della Rovere, Italian noble (d. 1641)

#Livia_della_Rovere

Xander Berkeley, American actor and producer

#Xander_Berkeley

Todd Glass, American comedian

#Todd_Glass

Max Linder, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1925)

#Max_Linder

Quentin Blake, English author and illustrator

#Quentin_Blake

James Nash, English race car driver

#James_Nash_(racing_driver)

Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (d. 1974)

#Walther_Meissner

André Andersen, Russian-Danish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

#André_Andersen

Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1889)

#Viktor_Bunyakovsky

Bill Hicks, American comedian and musician (d. 1994)

#Bill_Hicks

Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator (d. 1917)

#Antonio_de_La_Gándara

Trevor Immelman, South African golfer

#Trevor_Immelman

Hans Bol, Flemish artist (d. 1593)

#Hans_Bol

Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German field marshal (d. 1819)

#Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Blücher

Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (d. 2013)

#Sam_Most

Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (d. 1827)

#Ludwig_van_Beethoven

Jon Tenney, American actor and director

#Jon_Tenney

Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865)

#Leopold_I_of_Belgium

Anna Popplewell, English actress

#Anna_Popplewell

George Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1989)

#George_Ignatieff

Alexander Lebedev, Russian businessman and politician

#Alexander_Lebedev

Freddie Brown, Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1991)

#Freddie_Brown_(cricketer)

Theo James, English actor

#Theo_James

Frank Deford, American journalist and author (d. 2017)

#Frank_Deford

Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer (d. 2008)

#Arthur_C._Clarke

Mats Hummels, German footballer

#Mats_Hummels

Donovan Bailey, Canadian sprinter and sportscaster

#Donovan_Bailey

Trevor Pinnock, English harpsichord player and conductor

#Trevor_Pinnock

Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player

#Alcides_Escobar

Heike Drechsler, German sprinter and long jumper

#Heike_Drechsler

Tom Rogic, Australian footballer

#Tom_Rogic

Károly Kós, Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician (d. 1977)

#Károly_Kós

Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist and manager (d. 2006)

#Roy_Schuiten

Shane Black, American actor, director, and screenwriter

#Shane_Black

Miranda Otto, Australian actress

#Miranda_Otto

Billy Ripken, American baseball player and sportscaster

#Billy_Ripken

Nicholas Courtney, Egyptian-English actor (d. 2011)

#Nicholas_Courtney

Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond (d. 1417)

#Manuel_III_of_Trebizond

Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French poet and diplomat (d. 1798)

#Louis_Jules_Mancini_Mazarini

François-Adrien Boieldieu, French pianist and composer (d. 1834)

#François-Adrien_Boieldieu

Pärt Uusberg, Estonian actor, composer, and conductor.

#Pärt_Uusberg

Joel Garner, Barbadian cricketer and manager

#Joel_Garner

LaChanze, American actress, singer, and dancer

#LaChanze

George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (d. 1952)

#George_Santayana

Paul McGinley, Irish golfer

#Paul_McGinley

Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)

#Eberhard_III,_Duke_of_Württemberg

Joyce Bulifant, American actress

#Joyce_Bulifant

Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810)

#Johann_Wilhelm_Ritter

Krysten Ritter, American actress, musician, and model

#Krysten_Ritter

Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973)

#Noël_Coward

Steven Bochco, American television writer and producer (d. 2018)

#Steven_Bochco

Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1952)

#Hristo_Tatarchev

Dennis Wise, English footballer and manager

#Dennis_Wise

Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (d. 1968)

#Lin_Zhao

Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic (d. 1907)

#Ernst_von_Bergmann

John Kirwan, New Zealand rugby player and coach

#John_Kirwan_(rugby)

Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter

#Zara_Larsson

Benny Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

#Benny_Andersson

Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter

#Anna_Sedokova

Greg Kovacs, Canadian bodybuilder (d. 2013)

#Greg_Kovacs

Ulrikke Eikeri, Norwegian tennis player

#Ulrikke_Eikeri

Danish Kaneria, Pakistani cricketer

#Danish_Kaneria

Anna Anderson, an imposter who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d. 1984)

#Anna_Anderson

Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (d. 1967)

#Alphonse_Juin

Stanislav Manolev, Bulgarian footballer

#Stanislav_Manolev

Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)

#Alexander_I_of_Yugoslavia

Travis Morrison, American singer-songwriter

#Travis_Morrison

Elliot Lee, English footballer

#Elliot_Lee

Harold Whitlock, English race walker and coach (d. 1985)

#Harold_Whitlock

Melanie Sloan, American lawyer and activist

#Melanie_Sloan

George Whitefield, English Anglican priest (d. 1770)

#George_Whitefield

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (d. 1642)

#Robert_Bertie,_1st_Earl_of_Lindsey

Barbara Kent, Canadian-born American film actress (d. 2011)

#Barbara_Kent

Sylvain Distin, French footballer

#Sylvain_Distin

Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (d. 1855)

#Mary_Russell_Mitford

Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian (d. 1951)

#Amy_Carmichael

James McCracken, American tenor and actor (d. 1988)

#James_McCracken

Maruschka Detmers, Dutch-French actress

#Maruschka_Detmers

Jessie Ward, American wrestler and producer

#Jessie_Ward

Martyn Poliakoff, English chemist and academic

#Martyn_Poliakoff

Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter

#Liv_Ullmann

Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and theorist (d. 1910)

#Léon_Walras

Philip Langridge, English tenor (d. 2010)

#Philip_Langridge

Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (d. 1978)

#Margaret_Mead

Tony Hicks, English singer and guitarist

#Tony_Hicks

Terry Carter, American actor, director, and producer

#Terry_Carter

Mike Flanagan, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2011)

#Mike_Flanagan_(baseball)

The Dolan Twins, American Comedian and YouTuber

Mira Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player

José Rodríguez Martínez, Spanish footballer

Nicola Murru, Italian footballer

Pietro Perdichizzi, Belgian footballer

Anamul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer

Mirei Kiritani, Japanese model, actress, and journalist

Hallee Hirsh, American actress

Beau Dowler, Australian footballer

Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer

Luke Harper, American wrestler

Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer and manager

Jen Golbeck, American computer scientist and academic

Kaba Diawara, French-Guinean footballer

Themba Mnguni, South African footballer

Paul Leyden, Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

Charles Gipson, American baseball player

Valerie Chow, Canadian-Hong Kong actress and publicist

Craig White, English cricketer and coach

Dmitri Tymoczko, American composer and theorist

Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer

Lalah Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Wendy Doolan, Australian golfer

Indrek Kaseorg, Estonian decathlete

Clifford Robinson, American basketball player

Georgie Parker, Australian actress

Cathy Johnston-Forbes, American golfer

William Perry, American football player and wrestler

Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer and manager

Steve Mattsson, American author and illustrator

Bart Oates, American football player and lawyer

Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (d. 2004)

Chiharu Matsuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter

Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este

Sally Emerson, English author and poet

Heather Hallett, English lawyer and judge

Ben Cross, English actor

Tom Stern, American cinematographer

Patti Deutsch, American actress and comedian (d. 2017)

Don Meyer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)

Jeff Kanew, American director and screenwriter

Roger Neil Wheeler, English general

Gordon Miller, English high jumper

Edward Ruscha, American painter and photographer

Grace Alele-Williams, Nigerian mathematician and academic

Bill Brittain, American author (d. 2011)

Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author (d. 1982)

Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet (d. 2015)

Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2012)

Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator (d. 1993)

Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records (d. 2008)

Eulalio González, Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)

Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2005)

Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (d. 2013)

Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2011)

O. Winston Link, American photographer (d. 2001)

Remedios Varo, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist (d. 1963)

Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1999)

#Rafael_Alberti

V. S. Pritchett, British writer and literary critic (d. 1997)

Lucille Lortel, American actress and producer (d. 1999)

Marie Hall Ets, American author and illustrator (d. 1984)

Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor (d. 1987)

John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (d. 1841)

Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland, English diplomat (d. 1663)