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Famous people born on December 16

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Well-known people born on December 16 include Jane Austen (1775), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Margaret Mead (1901) and Philip K. Dick (1928). Our list below has 85 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1584 (John Selden) and the most recent is 1996 (Wilfred Ndidi). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.

Who was born on December 16?

  1. Jane Austen 1775 English novelist
  2. Arthur C. Clarke 1917 British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist
  3. Margaret Mead 1901 American anthropologist
  4. Philip K. Dick 1928 American science fiction author
  5. George Santayana 1863 Spanish-American philosopher
  6. Leopold I of Belgium 1790 German prince who became the first King of the Belgians
  7. Mats Hummels 1988 German footballer
  8. Liv Ullmann 1938 Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
  9. Adam Riess 1969 American astrophysicist
  10. Benny Andersson 1946 Swedish musician and composer
  11. Anton Denikin 1872 Russian military and political leader
  12. Alexander I of Yugoslavia 1888 Prince regent of Kingdom of Serbia and later King of Yugoslavia 1921–34
  13. Edward Emerson Barnard 1857 American astronomer and astronomical photographer
  14. Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher 1742 Prussian field marshal
  15. Noël Coward 1899 English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer
  16. Mitsuo Kamata 1937 Japanese association football player
  17. Viorica Dăncilă 1963 67th Prime Minister of Romania
  18. Léon Walras 1834 French mathematical economist (*1834 – †1910)
  19. James Mangold 1963 American film director, screenwriter
  20. Anna Popplewell 1988 English actress
  21. Misao Tamai 1903 Japanese association football player
  22. Rafael Alberti 1902 Spanish poet
  23. Krysten Ritter 1981 American actress
  24. Bill Hicks 1961 American comedian
  25. Miranda Otto 1967 Australian actress
  26. Theo James 1984 British actor and musician
  27. Benjamin Bratt 1963 American actor
  28. Paul van Dyk 1971 German DJ and trance music producer
  29. Kazuki Nagasawa 1991 Japanese association football player
  30. Piet Hein 1905 20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet
  31. Jyoti Amge 1993 Indian actress notable for being the world's smallest living woman
  32. Mariza 1973 Portuguese fado singer(born 16 December 1973)
  33. Mame Biram Diouf 1987 Senegalese association football player
  34. Park Seo-joon 1988 South Korean actor
  35. Sergio Reguilón 1996 Spanish association football player
  36. Aziz Behich 1990 Australian soccer player
  37. Wilfred Ndidi 1996 Nigerian association football player
  38. Rodion Shchedrin 1932 Soviet and Russian composer and pianist
  39. Lieke Martens 1992 Dutch female association football player
  40. Donovan Bailey 1967 Canadian athlete, Olympic medalist
  41. Francesco Graziani 1952 Italian footballer
  42. Georgy Sviridov 1915 Soviet and Russian composer (1915—1998)
  43. Shane Black 1961 American actor, screenwriter and film director
  44. Johann Wilhelm Ritter 1776 German chemist, physicist and philosopher
  45. Mai Nakachi 1980 Japanese association football player
  46. Lei Jun 1969 Chinese businessman, cofounder and CEO of Xiaomi
  47. Heike Drechsler 1964 East German long jumper
  48. Mira Murati 1988 Albanian-American business executive
  49. Zeljko Kalac 1972 Australian association football player
  50. Alexey Shved 1988 Russian basketball player
  51. Stanislav Šesták 1982 Slovak footballer
  52. Julia Klöckner 1972 German politician
  53. Taisuke Muramatsu 1989 Japanese association football player
  54. Sekiji Sasano 1914 Japanese association football player
  55. Rodolphe Seeldrayers 1876 President of FIFA
  56. Ed Ruscha 1937 American painter and photographer
  57. Ben Cross 1947 British actor
  58. Nǃxau 1944 Bush farmer, actor
  59. George Whitefield 1714 English minister and preacher
  60. Craig Goodwin 1991 Australian association footballer
  61. Tom Rogic 1992 Australian association football player
  62. Thiago Braz da Silva 1993 Brazilian pole vaulter
  63. Sylvain Distin 1977 French footballer
  64. Billy Gibbons 1949 American musician
  65. Adone Zoli 1887 Italian politician
  66. A. N. R. Robinson 1926 President and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
  67. Quentin Blake 1932 English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer
  68. Daniel Narcisse 1979 French handball player
  69. Mei Finegold 1982 Israeli singer
  70. Anna Sedokova 1982 Ukrainian singer
  71. Steven Bochco 1943 American television writer and producer
  72. Prince Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este 1955 Austro-Modenese and Belgian Imperial and Royal
  73. Dennis Wise 1966 English football player and manager
  74. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1805 French zoologist
  75. Rudolf Diels 1900 German lawyer and civil servant, first Gestapo chief and protege of Gestapo founder…
  76. Roberto Ferruzzi 1853 Italian painter
  77. Alexander Lebedev 1959 Russian businessman
  78. Maruschka Detmers 1962 Dutch actress
  79. John Selden 1584 English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
  80. Giovanni Battista Donati 1826 Italian astronomer
  81. Brodie Lee 1979 American professional wrestler
  82. Stanislav Manolev 1985 Bulgarian association football manager
  83. Walther Meissner 1882 German physicist
  84. Pat Quinn 1948 Governor of Illinois from 2009 to 2015
  85. Nataša Kandić 1946 Serbian human rights activist

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

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