History Births on October 16

Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician
#Tessa_Munt
Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer
#Erkki-Sven_Tüür

Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
#Eugene_O'Neill
Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965)
#Linda_Darnell

Justin Credible, American wrestler
#Justin_Credible
Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
#Big_Joe_Williams

Ismail Qemali, Albanian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
#Ismail_Qemali

Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795)
#Giovanni_Arduino_(geologist)

Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
#Zoltán_Stieber

Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
#Paul_Kariya

Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)
#Karl_Kautsky

Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist
#Olof_Lundh

Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler
#Takao_Omori

Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)
#Maria_Pia_of_Savoy
Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Chad_Gray

Robert Stephenson, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1859)
#Robert_Stephenson

Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
#Enver_Hoxha

Lucy Stanton, American activist (d. 1910)
#Lucy_Stanton_(abolitionist)

Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager
#Roy_McDonough

Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress
#Rachel_Reilly

Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816)
#Paul_Hamilton_(politician)

Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
#Tim_McCarver

András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790)
#András_Hadik

Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)
#Maria_Goretti
Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player
#Jay_Beagle

Nicola Blackwood, South African-English politician
#Nicola_Blackwood

Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
#Dave_DeBusschere

Naomi Osaka, Haitian-Japanese tennis player
#Naomi_Osaka

Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
#Rembrandt_Bugatti

Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)
#Nico

Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster
#Tom_Tolbert

Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
#Elsa_Zylberstein

Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
#Hema_Malini

Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714)
#Anna_Waser

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer
#Dmitri_Hvorostovsky

Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach
#Leo_Mazzone

Louis de Cazenave, French soldier (d. 2008)
#Louis_de_Cazenave

Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
#Günter_Grass

Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
#Charles_Colson

Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (d. 1968)
#Björn_Berglund

Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
#Goose_Goslin

Loreen, Swedish singer and producer
#Loreen_(singer)

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (d. 1827)
#Johann_Gottfried_Eichhorn
Marc Levy, French author
#Marc_Levy

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director
#Mary_Elizabeth_McGlynn

Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer
#Nicky_Adams

Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer
#Angela_Lansbury

Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator (d. 1885)
#Benjamin_Russell_(artist)

Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance (d. 1922)
#Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader)

Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter
#Wendy_Wilson

Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic
#Timothy_Leighton

Jedward, Irish twin singers
#Jedward
Richard Sears, American tennis player (d. 1943)
#Richard_Sears_(tennis)
Corinna Harfouch, German actress
#Corinna_Harfouch

Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator
#Priidu_Beier

Philip Maini ,Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford
#Philip_Maini

Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d. 1844)
#Morgan_Lewis_(governor)

William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1869)
#William_P._Fessenden

Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer
#Kostas_Fortounis

William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450)
#William_de_la_Pole,_1st_Duke_of_Suffolk
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992)
#Rudra_Mohammad_Shahidullah

William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876)
#William_Buell_Sprague

Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)
#Edward_Ardizzone

Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer
#Suzanne_Somers

David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
#David_Ben-Gurion

Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (d. 1942)
#Walter_Buckmaster

Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801)
#Daniel_Chodowiecki

Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
#Cristian_Riveros

Inna, Romanian singer
#Inna

John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, rapper, guitarist, and producer
#John_Mayer
François Pervis, French track cyclist
#François_Pervis

Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015)
#Guy_LeBlanc

J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)
#J._B._Bury

It? Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
#It?_Hirobumi

Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
#Bob_Mould

Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer
#Derk_Boerrigter

Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer
#Roy_Hargrove

Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (d. 1973)
#Richard_Titmuss

Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
#Philipp_Kohlschreiber

Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
#Fernanda_Montenegro

Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
#Casey_Stoner

Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
#Francis_Lubbock

Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (d. 1979)
#Paul_Popenoe

Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
#Noah_Webster

William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1882)
#William_Forster_(Australian_politician)

Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager
#Mehmet_Scholl

Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
#Bob_Weir

Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)
#Henry_Lewis_(musician)

Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player
#Adam_Elliott

Brian Harper, American baseball player
#Brian_Harper

Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)
#Oscar_Wilde

Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (d. 1931)
#Samad_bey_Mehmandarov

Verena Sailer, German sprinter
#Verena_Sailer

Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor
#Marin_Alsop

Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player
#Peter_Wallace

Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
#Aurela_Gaçe

Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
#Kazuyuki_Fujita

John Whittingdale, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
#John_Whittingdale

Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)
#Austin_F._Pike

Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015)
#Károly_Horváth

Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
#Sue_Bird

William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d. 1866)
#William_Burton_(governor)

Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (d. 2016)
#Ann_Morgan_Guilbert

Meg Rosoff, American-English author
#Meg_Rosoff

Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585)
#Niwa_Nagahide

Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)
#Jimmy_Sinclair

Bryce Harper, American baseball player
#Bryce_Harper

Frank Cuesta, Spanish television presenter
#Frank_Cuesta

Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
#Frédéric_Michalak
Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright
#Crazy_Mohan

Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
#Austen_Chamberlain

Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
#Barry_Corbin

Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)
#Gian_Galeazzo_Visconti

Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
#Christopher_Cox

Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896)
#Vicente_Riva_Palacio

James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
#James_II_of_Scotland

Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
#Anthony_Reyes

Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
#Emma_Nicholson,_Baroness_Nicholson_of_Winterbourne

Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-Russian ice hockey player and coach
#Darius_Kasparaitis

Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (d. 1990)
#Ernst_Kuzorra

Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician
#Glenys_Thornton,_Baroness_Thornton

Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913)
#Carl_von_In_der_Maur

Paul Strand, American photographer and director (d. 1975)
#Paul_Strand

Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
#Tony_Carey

Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
#Fred_Turner_(musician)

Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer
#Prithviraj_Sukumaran

Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657)
#Luke_Wadding

Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
#Jacques_Kallis

Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
#Caroline_Garcia

Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer.
#Todd_Stashwick

John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest
#John_Polkinghorne

Kenny Omega, Canadian professional wrestler
#Kenny_Omega

John Chavis, American football player and coach
#John_Chavis_(American_football)

Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009)
#Clifford_Hansen

Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
#Carmen_Sevilla

Tony Rolt, English racing driver and engineer (d. 2008)
#Tony_Rolt

Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (d. 1980)
#Bert_Kaempfert

Boyd Melson, American boxer
#Boyd_Melson

Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
#Tim_Robbins

David Unsworth, English footballer and manager
#David_Unsworth

Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)
#Isaac_Murphy

Ethan Luck, American guitarist and drummer
#Ethan_Luck

Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
#Gary_Kemp
Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player
#Dan_Biggar

Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
#Paulo_Roberto_Falcão

Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542)
#Gasparo_Contarini

Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (d. 2017)
#Angry_Grandpa

Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (d. 1963)
#Mario_Ruspoli,_2nd_Prince_of_Poggio_Suasa

Amelia Lily, English singer-songwriter
#Amelia_Lily

Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
#Matt_Batts

Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer
#Terri_J._Vaughn

Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player
#Timana_Tahu

Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor
#Flea_(musician)

Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician
#Kevin_Brennan_(politician)

William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980)
#William_O._Douglas

Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
#Kuroda_Kiyotaka

Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer
#Kellie_Martin

Davina McCall, English television host and actress
#Davina_McCall