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Famous people born on February 16

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Well-known people born on February 16 include Octave Mirbeau (1848), Ernst Haeckel (1834), Elizabeth Olsen (1989) and John McEnroe (1959). Our list below has 101 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives February 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1620 (Frederick William of Brandenburg) and the most recent is 2005 (Eliesse Ben Seghir). The most common fields on this date: football, writer, actor.

Who was born on February 16?

  1. Octave Mirbeau 1848 French writer, art critic and journalist
  2. Ernst Haeckel 1834 German zoologist
  3. Elizabeth Olsen 1989 American actress
  4. John McEnroe 1959 American former tennis player
  5. Diego Godín 1986 Uruguayan association football player
  6. Francis Galton 1822 British eugenist, polymath, and behavioural geneticist
  7. Hua Guofeng 1921 2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China
  8. Valentino Rossi 1979 Italian motorcycle racer
  9. Mahershala Ali 1974 American actor
  10. Bebeto 1964 Brazilian association football player
  11. Henry Adams 1838 American journalist, historian, academic, novelist
  12. George F. Kennan 1904 American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
  13. Ava Max 1994 American singer and songwriter
  14. Eckhart Tolle 1948 German spiritual teacher and author
  15. Nikolai Leskov 1831 Russian writer
  16. Hugo de Vries 1848 Dutch botanist
  17. Iain Banks 1954 Scottish writer
  18. Henry Wilson 1812 Vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875
  19. Mū Kanazaki 1989 Japanese association football player
  20. Federico Bernardeschi 1994 Italian association football player
  21. Kim Soo-hyun 1988 South Korean actor
  22. Cathy Freeman 1973 Australian short-distance runner
  23. Frederick William of Brandenburg 1620 Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia
  24. Charles Taze Russell 1852 Founder of the Bible Student movement
  25. William Katt 1951 American actor and musician
  26. Ice-T 1958 American rapper and actor
  27. Nobutoshi Kaneda 1958 Japanese association football player
  28. Luís Montenegro 1973 Portuguese politician, the 199th prime minister of Portugal
  29. Sergio Canales Madrazo 1991 Spanish footballer
  30. John Schlesinger 1926 English film and stage director
  31. LeVar Burton 1957 American actor, director, and television host
  32. Christopher Eccleston 1964 English actor
  33. Angelo Peruzzi 1970 Italian association football player
  34. Ron Vlaar 1985 Dutch association football player
  35. Rickie Lambert 1982 English footballer
  36. Yuta Nakayama 1997 Japanese association football player
  37. Robert J. Flaherty 1884 American documentary filmmaker
  38. Sonny Bono 1935 American entertainer, musician and politician
  39. Denílson Pereira Neves 1988 Brazilian footballer
  40. Heinrich Barth 1821 German explorer
  41. Nicolás Joseph Jacquin 1727 Chemist, physician and botanist from the Netherlands
  42. Pierre Bouguer 1698 French astronomer and mathematician
  43. Valérie Trierweiler 1965 French journalist
  44. Jon Ossoff 1987 American politician and filmmaker
  45. Armand Guillaumin 1841 French painter
  46. Ahmed Tejan Kabbah 1932 Sierra Leonean President
  47. Amine Gouiri 2000 Algerian and French footballer
  48. Andrea Ranocchia 1988 Italian association football player
  49. Richard Ford 1944 American novelist and short story writer
  50. Loïs Openda 2000 Belgian association football player
  51. Amanda Holden 1971 English actress
  52. Annika Beck 1994 German tennis player
  53. Mykhailo Podolyak 1972 Ukrainian presidential advisor
  54. Margot Frank 1926 Older sister of Anne Frank
  55. Duong Van Minh 1916 South Vietnamese commander
  56. Tia Hellebaut 1978 Belgian high jumper
  57. Martin Baturina 2003 Croatian footballer
  58. Isidora Sekulić 1877 Serbian writer
  59. Sarah Clarke 1972 American actress
  60. Oscar Schmidt 1958 Brazilian basketball player
  61. Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro 1944 Cape Verdean politician and former president of Cape Verde
  62. Bodo Ramelow 1956 German politician
  63. Shunichi Ikenoue 1967 Japanese association football player
  64. Zhang Jike 1988 Chinese table tennis player who was the 4th player to achieve a grand slam title
  65. Dave Lombardo 1965 Cuban-American drummer
  66. Wilhelm Schmidt 1868 German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion
  67. Vera-Ellen 1921 Actress, singer, dancer
  68. Lucas Silva 1993 Brazilian footballer
  69. girl in red 1999 Norwegian musician
  70. Marcello Bacciarelli 1731 Polish-Italian painter
  71. Chester Morris 1901 American actor
  72. Fernando Solanas 1936 Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician
  73. Nicolai Boilesen 1992 Danish footballer
  74. Jean-Charles Pichegru 1761 French general
  75. Diego Capel 1988 Spanish footballer
  76. Armand Van Helden 1970 American musician, DJ, record producer and composer
  77. James Ingram 1952 American singer-songwriter and record producer
  78. Roberta Williams 1953 American video game designer (b. 1953)
  79. Gerhard Hanappi 1929 Austrian footballer
  80. G. M. Trevelyan 1876 British historian
  81. François-Xavier Ortoli 1925 French politician
  82. Nur Hassan Hussein 1938 Somali politician
  83. Carles Pérez 1998 Spanish association football player
  84. Sofia Arvidsson 1984 Swedish tennis player
  85. Fabian Rieder 2002 Swiss association football player
  86. Simon Francis 1985 English footballer
  87. Joel Chima Fujita 2002 Japanese association football player
  88. Fermín Cacho 1969 Spanish athletics competitor
  89. Edgar Bergen 1903 American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist
  90. Denzel Curry 1995 American rapper from Florida
  91. Pamela Colman Smith 1878 British occultist, artist and illustrator
  92. Agyness Deyn 1983 English model
  93. Carlos Yulo 2000 Filipino artistic gymnast
  94. Aharon Appelfeld 1932 Israeli writer
  95. Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg 1991 Luxembourg princess
  96. Eliesse Ben Seghir 2005 Moroccan-French association football player
  97. Czesław Niemen 1939 Polish rock musician
  98. Susanna Kallur 1981 Swedish hurdler
  99. Hasheem Thabeet 1987 Tanzanian basketball player
  100. Oussama Mellouli 1984 Tunisian swimmer
  101. Serhiy Nazarenko 1980 Ukrainian footballer

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

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