Famous birthdays

Famous people born on April 16

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives April 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1646 (Jules Hardouin-Mansart) and the most recent is 2008 (Princess Éléonore of Belgium). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.

Who was born on April 16?

1. Charlie Chaplin 1889 English actor and filmmaker
2. Benedict XVI 1927 265 th pope of the Catholic Church
3. Anatole France 1844 French writer
4. Margrethe II of Denmark 1940 Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024
5. Peter Ustinov 1921 British actor, writer and director
6. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1947 American basketball player
7. Antony Blinken 1962 American lawyer and diplomat and former United States Secretary of State
8. Henri I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1955 Grand Duke (head of state) of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
9. Martin Lawrence 1965 American actor and comedian
10. Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun 1755 French portrait painter
11. Shinji Okazaki 1986 Japanese association football player
12. Ernst Thälmann 1886 German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany
13. Anya Taylor-Joy 1996 American actress and model
14. Lara Dutta 1978 Indian actress
15. Freddie Ljungberg 1977 Swedish association football player and manager
16. Joseph Black 1728 Scottish physicist and chemist
17. Rafa Benítez 1960 Spanish association football manager and former player
18. Kingsley Amis 1922 English novelist, poet, critic and teacher
19. Henry Mancini 1924 American film composer
20. John Millington Synge 1871 Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore
21. Claire Foy 1984 British actress
22. Pierre Littbarski 1960 German footballer and manager
23. Aaron Lennon 1987 English association football player
24. Ellen Barkin 1954 American actress
25. Dusty Springfield 1939 British singer
26. Luis Muriel 1991 Colombian association football player
27. Igor Tudor 1978 Croatian association football player and manager
28. Yoshikazu Nagai 1952 Japanese association football player and manager
29. John Franklin 1786 British naval officer and explorer
30. Andreas Granqvist 1985 Swedish association football player
31. Alexey Pajitnov 1955 Russian video game designer
32. Dani Parejo 1989 Spanish association football player
33. Conchita Martínez 1972 Spanish tennis player
34. Shu Qi 1976 Taiwanese actress
35. Gina Carano 1982 American actress and former mixed martial artist
36. Taye Taiwo 1985 Nigerian footballer
37. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax 1881 British politician
38. Kento Misao 1996 Japanese association football player
39. Michael Baur 1969 Austrian association football player
40. Gerry Rafferty 1947 Scottish singer-songwriter
41. Ford Madox Brown 1821 British painter
42. Gotthold Eisenstein 1823 German mathematician
43. Luol Deng 1985 South Sudanese-British basketball player
44. Natasha Zvereva 1971 Belarusian tennis player
45. Ernest Solvay 1838 Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist
46. Leo Tindemans 1922 Belgian politician
47. Jules Hardouin-Mansart 1646 French Baroque architect
48. Émile Friant 1863 French painter
49. Jon Cryer 1965 American actor
50. David M. Brown 1956 American astronaut
51. Spike Milligan 1918 Irish actor
52. Ramy Bensebaini 1995 Algerian footballer
53. Frank Williams 1942 Founder of Williams Grand Prix Engineering
54. Robert Luther 1822 German astronomer
55. Paul di Resta 1986 British racing driver
56. Vikram 1967 Indian actor and playback singer
57. Christijan Albers 1979 Dutch racecar driver
58. Boris Diaw 1982 French basketball executive and former player
59. Chance the Rapper 1993 American rapper, singer and record producer
60. Bobby Vinton 1935 American singer
61. Ivan Urgant 1978 Russian television host
62. Martin Dahlin 1968 Swedish footballer
63. Nate Diaz 1985 American mixed martial artist
64. Hubert Minnis 1954 Bahamian physician and politician
65. Michel Blanc 1952 French actor, film director and screenwriter
66. Sarah Kirsch 1935 German poet
67. Antonio Starabba di Rudinì 1839 Prime Minister of Italy
68. Alek Wek 1977 South Sudanese-British model and designer
69. Taylor Townsend 1996 US female tennis player
70. Germán Burgos 1969 Argentine footballer and coach
71. Barry Nelson 1917 American actor
72. Edie Adams 1927 American actress, comedian, singer, and businesswoman
73. Michael Barratt 1959 American astronaut
74. Merce Cunningham 1919 American dancer and choreographer
75. Doris Dragović 1961 Croatian singer
76. Catherine Colonna 1956 French diplomat and politician
77. Sven Fischer 1971 German biathlete
78. Margaret Woodrow Wilson 1886 Acting First Lady of the United States
79. Lukas Haas 1976 American actor
80. David Graf 1950 American actor
81. Epke Zonderland 1986 Dutch gymnast
82. Jerzy Neyman 1894 Polish statistician
83. Princess Éléonore of Belgium 2008 Youngest child of King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium
84. Guy Burgess 1911 British-born radio producer, intelligence and Foreign Office officer and double agent
85. Filip Jörgensen 2002 Danish association football player
86. Dominique Venner 1935 French journalist and essayist
87. Peteris Vasks 1946 Latvian composer
88. Markus Suttner 1987 Association football player
89. John Bagot Glubb 1897 British military officer, scholar and author
90. Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup 1825 Danish Council President
91. Inji Aflatoun 1924 Egyptian painter
92. Samuel Youd 1922 English writer
93. Kerron Stewart 1984 Jamaican athletics competitor
94. Teruki Tabata 1979 Japanese association football player
95. Diego Alonso 1975 Uruguayan association football player and manager

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on April 16 share the 16th of April as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

Other months

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December