Famous birthdays
Famous people born on January 16
Short answer
Well-known people born on January 16 include Susan Sontag (1933), Fulgencio Batista (1901), Dian Fossey (1932) and Jennie (1996). Our list below has 92 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives January 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1630 (Guru Har Rai) and the most recent is 1998 (Odsonne Édouard). The most common fields on this date: football, singer, actor.
Who was born on January 16?
- Susan Sontag 1933 American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
- Fulgencio Batista 1901 President of Cuba, 1940–1944; dictator, 1952-1959
- Dian Fossey 1932 American zoologist, gorilla researcher
- Jennie 1996 South Korean singer-songwriter and rapper
- Johannes Rau 1931 German politician (SPD), 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004
- Aaliyah 1979 American R&B singer
- Takumi Minamino 1995 Japanese association football player
- Sade Adu 1959 British singer
- Nicklas Bendtner 1988 Danish association football player
- John Carpenter 1948 American filmmaker, composer and actor
- Ethel Merman 1908 American actress and singer
- Stephan Lichtsteiner 1984 Swiss footballer
- John C. Breckinridge 1821 Vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861
- Pablo Zabaleta 1985 Argentine footballer
- Seydou Keita 1980 Malian footballer
- Franz Brentano 1838 German philosopher and psychologist as well as refounder of the theory of intentionality
- Daiki Niwa 1986 Japanese association football player
- Daisuke Sakata 1983 Japanese association football player
- Sidharth Malhotra 1986 Indian Actor
- Ismail Kemal 1844 Prime Minister of Albania
- Morten P. Meldal 1954 Danish chemist
- Lin-Manuel Miranda 1980 American songwriter and composer
- Eduardo Frei Montalva 1911 President of Chile
- Kabir Bedi 1946 Indian actor
- Katy Jurado 1924 Mexican actress
- Roy Jones Jr. 1969 American boxer, rapper and actor
- Fuad II of Egypt 1952 Last king of Egypt , who ruled as an infant
- Saadeddine Othmani 1956 Moroccan politician
- Pau Torres 1997 Spanish association football player
- Simon Johnson 1963 British-American economist
- Nozomi Yamagō 1975 Japanese association football player
- Francis II of the Two Sicilies 1836 King of the Two Sicilies and Servant of God
- Radivoje Manić 1972 Serbian association football player
- Gregor Gysi 1948 German lawyer and left-wing politician
- FKA twigs 1988 English singer and dancer
- Eleanor Marx 1855 English writer, translator, activist, and daughter of Karl Marx
- Udo Lattek 1935 German football player and coach
- Franz Müntefering 1940 German politician and industrial manager
- Sergi Bruguera 1971 Spanish tennis player
- Alexander Knox 1907 Canadian actor and author of adventure novels
- James May 1963 English television presenter and journalist
- Kálmán Mikszáth 1847 Hungarian writer and politician
- Matt Doherty 1992 Irish association football player
- Yuki Tsuchihashi 1980 Japanese association football player
- Edith Frank-Holländer 1900 Mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank
- Debbie Allen 1950 American actress, choreographer, television director, television producer, singer, and…
- Paula Pareto 1986 Argentinian judoka and physician
- Martin Jol 1956 Dutch association football player and manager
- Aija Andrejeva 1986 Latvian singer
- Vicente Iborra 1988 Spanish association football player
- Reto Ziegler 1986 Swiss footballer
- Tuncay Şanlı 1982 Turkish association football player and manager
- Clement Greenberg 1909 American essayist and visual art critic
- Emanuel Pogatetz 1983 Austrian association football player
- Justin Ahomadégbé-Tomêtin 1917 Beninise politician
- Niccolò Piccinni 1728 Italian composer
- Vasily Lanovoy 1934 Soviet and Russian actor
- Tony Pulis 1958 Welsh footballer and manager
- Bobby Zamora 1981 English association football player
- Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon 1675 French writer
- Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro 1948 Italo-Albanian Catholic archbishop
- Park Joo-ho 1987 South Korean association football player
- Per "Dead" Ohlin 1969 Swedish vocalist
- Harry Carey 1878 American actor
- Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie 1976 Bahamian athletics competitor
- Inger Christensen 1935 Danish poet, novelist, essayist, editor
- Diana Wynyard 1906 English actress
- Odsonne Édouard 1998 French footballer
- Günther Prien 1908 German U-boat commander during World War II
- Jules Supervielle 1884 French writer
- Marilyn Horne 1934 American mezzo-soprano opera singer
- Ricardo Darín 1957 Argentine actor
- Thomas Christopher Collins 1947 Catholic cardinal
- Albert Pujols 1980 Dominican-American baseball player
- Eric Liddell 1902 Scottish athlete, sprinter, Olympian, Protestant missionary
- Guru Har Rai 1630 The seventh guru of Sikhism
- Henry Halleck 1815 Union Army general
- Jill Tarter 1944 American astronomer
- Francis George 1937 Catholic cardinal
- Milan Škoda 1986 Czech association football player
- Caroline Munro 1949 English actress and model
- Andrii Rusol 1983 Ukrainian footballer
- Li Xiaoxia 1988 Chinese table tennis player
- Carlo Maria Viganò 1941 Italian Roman Catholic excommunicated archbishop and nuncio
- Ewa Demarczyk 1941 Polish singer, actress
- José Manuel Ochotorena 1961 Spanish footballer
- Mattias Jonson 1974 Swedish footballer
- Edward Gordon Craig 1872 Modernist stage designer and theatre director
- Piotr Żyła 1987 Polish ski jumper
- Andrei Ursu 1993 Romanian singer and songwriter
- Maja Keuc 1992 Slovenian singer
- Marwan Kenzari 1983 Tunisian-Dutch actor
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on January 16 share the 16th of January as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.