October 16 - Births

Births

• 1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450)
• 1430 – James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• 1620 – Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)
• 1679 – Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech composer (d. 1745)
• 1710 – Andreas Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• 1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
• 1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• 1729 – Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768)
• 1751 – Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1805)
• 1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
• 1754 – Morgan Lewis, American politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d. 1844)
• 1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer and author (d. 1843)
• 1762 – Paul Hamilton, American politician, 42nd Governor of South Carolina (d. 1816)
• 1789 – William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d. 1866)
• 1795 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• 1802 – Isaac Murphy, American politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)
• 1804 – Benjamin Russell, American painter (d. 1885)
• 1806 – William P. Fessenden, American politician (d. 1869)
• 1815 – Francis Lubbock, American politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
• 1819 – Austin F. Pike, American politician (d. 1886)
• 1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
• 1841 – Itō Hirobumi, Japanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
• 1854 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-German theoretician (d. 1938)
• 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1900)
• 1855 – Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)
• 1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• 1872 – Walter Buckmaster, English polo player (d. 1942)
• 1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)
• 1881 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955)
• 1883 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
• 1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
• 1885 – Alfred Braunschweiger, German diver (d. 1952)
• 1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli 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 politician (d. 1922)
• 1890 – Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)
• 1890 – Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French soldier and super-centenarian (d. 2008)
• 1898 – William O. Douglas, American jurist (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971)
• 1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French author (d. 2003)
• 1905 – Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer (d. 1990)
• 1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentine director (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Clifford Hansen, American politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (d. 2007)
• 1916 – George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1918 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Kathleen Winsor, American author (d. 2003)
• 1921 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Max Bygraves, English 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 orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)
• 1923 – Bill McLaren, Scottish sportscaster (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress and singer
• 1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
• 1927 – Günter Grass, German author, poet, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 – Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
• 1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 – Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1931 – Charles Colson, American lawyer and author (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Valery Klimov, Russian violinist
• 1931 – Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress
• 1932 – John Grant, English politician (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Peter Ashdown, English race car driver
• 1936 – Peter Bowles, English actor
• 1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1936 – Akira Machida, Japanese judge
• 1938 – Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)
• 1938 – Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d. 1999)
• 1939 – Joe Dolan, Irish singer (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor
• 1940 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and author (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Tim McCarver, American baseball player
• 1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player (Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Brave Belt)
• 1944 – Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
• 1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress
• 1947 – Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
• 1947 – Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, Bobby and the Midnites, Kingfish, RatDog, Furthur, and The Dead)
• 1947 – David Zucker, American director
• 1948 – Hema Malini, Indian actress
• 1948 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach
• 1952 – Christopher Cox, American politician
• 1952 – Cordell Mosson, American bass player (Parliament and Funkadelic)
• 1952 – Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1953 – Tony Carey, American keyboard player (Rainbow, Planet P Project, and Over the Rainbow)
• 1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1953 – Fred Ridgeway, Irish actor (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Al Sobotka, American sports manager
• 1954 – Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
• 1954 – Corinna Harfouch, German actress
• 1954 – Stephen Mellor, American actor
• 1955 – Ellen Dolan, American actress
• 1956 – John Chavis, American football player and coach
• 1956 – Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet (d. 1992)
• 1958 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Marc Collins-Rector, American businessman, founded Digital Entertainment Network
• 1959 – Brian Harper, American baseball player
• 1959 – Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Spandau Ballet)
• 1959 – Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
• 1960 – Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Hüsker Dü and Sugar)
• 1961 – Marc Levy, French author
• 1961 – Randy Vasquez, American actor
• 1962 – Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor (Red Hot Chili Peppers, What Is This?, Atoms for Peace, and Fear)
• 1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (d. 2010)
• 1962 – Ken Chinn, Canadian singer-songwriter (SNFU and Slaveco.)
• 1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer
• 1962 – Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
• 1963 – Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bam Balams, Navahodads, and Vampire Lovers)
• 1965 – Steve Lamacq, English radio host
• 1965 – Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean author
• 1965 – Tom Tolbert, American basketball player
• 1967 – Davina McCall, English television host
• 1968 – Randall Batinkoff, American actor
• 1968 – Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and director
• 1968 – Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1969 – Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player
• 1969 – Danny Hesp, Dutch footballer
• 1969 – Takao Ōmori, Japanese wrestler
• 1969 – Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
• 1969 – Wendy Wilson, American singer (Wilson Phillips)
• 1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1971 – Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mudvayne and Hellyeah)
• 1972 – Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author
• 1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, Russian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Tomas Lindberg, Swedish singer-songwriter (At the Gates, Lock Up, Disfear, The Great Deceiver, Grotesque, The Crown, Skitsystem, and Liers in Wait)
• 1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player
• 1973 – Justin Credible, American wrestler
• 1973 – María Eugenia Larraín, Chilean model
• 1973 – David Unsworth, English footballer
• 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
• 1976 – Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian footballer
• 1977 – John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (John Mayer Trio)
• 1978 – Ethan Luck, American guitarist and drummer (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, and Relient K)
• 1979 – Erin Brown, American actress
• 1980 – Sue Bird, American basketball player
• 1980 – Jeremy Jackson, American actor and singer
• 1980 – Timana Tahu, Australian rugby player
• 1981 – Ali B, Dutch rapper
• 1981 – Martin Halle, Danish footballer
• 1981 – Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
• 1981 – Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Gregory Sedoc, Dutch hurdler
• 1982 – Pippa Black, Australian actress
• 1982 – Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1982 – Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
• 1982 – Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
• 1982 – Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor
• 1983 – Loreen, Swedish singer
• 1983 – Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
• 1984 – Melissa Lauren, French porn actress
• 1984 – Rachel Reilly, American reality constant on Big Brother
• 1984 – Shayne Ward, English singer
• 1985 – Verena Sailer, German sprinter
• 1985 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Inna, Romanian singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1986 – Nicky Adams, Welsh footballer
• 1986 – Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Craig Pickering, English sprinter
• 1988 – Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 – Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir, Icelandic singer
• 1990 – Amina Satō, Japanese singer (AKB48)
• 1991 – Edward Grimes, Irish singer (Jedward)
• 1991 – John Grimes, Irish singer (Jedward)
• 1992 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player
• 2003 – Princess Kritika of Nepal