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Famous people born on October 16

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Well-known people born on October 16 include Günter Grass (1927), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Eugene O'Neill (1888) and Naomi Osaka (1997). Our list below has 78 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives October 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1620 (Pierre Puget) and the most recent is 2001 (Nathan Patterson). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, writer.

Who was born on October 16?

  1. Günter Grass 1927 German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor
  2. David Ben-Gurion 1886 Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) -…
  3. Eugene O'Neill 1888 American playwright
  4. Naomi Osaka 1997 Japanese tennis player
  5. Loreen 1983 Swedish singer
  6. Louis Althusser 1918 French Marxist philosopher
  7. Angela Lansbury 1925 British actress
  8. Itō Hirobumi 1841 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan
  9. Michael Collins 1890 Irish revolutionary and politician
  10. Tim Robbins 1958 American actor
  11. Hema Malini 1948 Indian actress, dancer, and politician
  12. Austen Chamberlain 1863 British politician
  13. John Mayer 1977 American musician
  14. Dino Buzzati 1906 Italian writer
  15. Flea 1962 Australian musician
  16. Inna 1986 Romanian singer and songwriter
  17. Fernanda Montenegro 1929 Brazilian actress and writer
  18. Arnold Böcklin 1827 Swiss painter, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor
  19. Noah Webster 1758 American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer,…
  20. Nico 1938 German singer and actress
  21. Paulo Roberto Falcão 1953 Brazilian association football player and manager
  22. Jóhanna Guðrún Jónsdóttir 1990 Icelandic-Danish singer
  23. Mehmet Scholl 1970 German association football player and manager
  24. Yahiro Kazama 1961 Japanese association football player and manager
  25. Franco Armani 1986 Argentine soccer player
  26. Maria Goretti 1890 Italian saint
  27. Dmitry Khvorostovsky 1962 Russian operatic baritone
  28. Casey Stoner 1985 Australian former motorcycle racer
  29. Albrecht von Haller 1708 Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet
  30. Linda Darnell 1923 American actress
  31. Mary Daly 1928 American feminist philosopher and theologian
  32. Josip Jelačić 1801 Austrian general
  33. Marc Levy 1961 French writer
  34. Robert Stephenson 1803 British railway engineer and locomotive designer
  35. Amancio Amaro 1939 Spanish footballer
  36. Suzanne Somers 1946 American actress
  37. Caroline Garcia 1993 French tennis player
  38. Stefan Reuter 1966 German football executive and player
  39. Willian Pacho 2001 Ecuadorian association football player
  40. Elizabeth Loftus 1944 American cognitive psychologist
  41. Sue Bird 1980 American basketball player
  42. Paul Strand 1890 American photographer
  43. Chiaki Minamiyama 1985 Japanese association football player
  44. Kana Osafune 1989 Japanese association football player
  45. Jiří Rusnok 1960 Czech politician and economist (* 1960)
  46. Philipp Kohlschreiber 1983 German tennis player
  47. Manute Bol 1962 Sudanese-American basketball player
  48. Adolph Freiherr Knigge 1752 German writer and leading Illuminati member
  49. Wilmar Barrios 1993 Colombian association football player
  50. Andrzej Munk 1921 Film director
  51. Kostas Fortounis 1992 Greek association football player
  52. Cristian Riveros 1982 Paraguayan footballer
  53. Maria Pia of Savoy 1847 Queen of Portugal from 1862 to 1889
  54. Caterina Scorsone 1981 Canadian actress
  55. Pierre Puget 1620 French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer
  56. Corinna Harfouch 1954 German actress
  57. Otto Mueller 1874 German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement
  58. Franz Reichelt 1878 Austro-Hungarian-born French parachuting pioneer
  59. Jan Dismas Zelenka 1679 Czech baroque composer
  60. Nathan Patterson 2001 Scottish association football player
  61. Aurela Gaçe 1974 Albanian singer
  62. Kenneth Lonergan 1962 American film director, playwright, and screenwriter
  63. John Bagnell Bury 1861 Anglo-Irish historian and classical scholar
  64. Marin Alsop 1956 American conductor and violinist
  65. Alice Oseman 1994 English author of young adult fiction
  66. Roberto Hilbert 1984 German footballer
  67. John Polkinghorne 1930 Physicist, theologian and anglican priest
  68. Peter M. Christian 1947 President of the Federated States of Micronesia
  69. Fábio de Jesus 1976 Brazilian association football player
  70. Melissa Vargas 1999 Cuban-born Turkish volleyball player
  71. Thomas Myhre 1973 Norwegian association football player
  72. William O. Douglas 1898 US Supreme Court justice from 1939 to 1975
  73. Maxie Long 1878 American sprinter
  74. Franz Ritter von Epp 1868 German general and politician
  75. Armin T. Wegner 1886 German pacifist, writer and poet
  76. Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt 1751 Queen consort of Prussia
  77. Michael von der Heide 1971 Swiss singer
  78. Terry Griffiths 1947 Welsh snooker player

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

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