Famous birthdays
Famous people born on September 16
Short answer
Well-known people born on September 16 include Kuan Yew Lee (1923), Lauren Bacall (1924), Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888) and Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893). Our list below has 91 people for this date, most widely covered first.
This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives September 16 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1651 (Engelbert Kaempfer) and the most recent is 2003 (Claude). The most common fields on this date: football, actress, politician.
Who was born on September 16?
- Kuan Yew Lee 1923 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore
- Lauren Bacall 1924 American actress
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1888 Finnish writer
- Albert Szent-Györgyi 1893 Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937
- David Copperfield 1956 American illusionist
- Nick Jonas 1992 American singer, actor and musician
- Amy Poehler 1971 American actress
- Bonar Law 1858 Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
- Fan Bingbing 1981 Chinese actress
- Albrecht Kossel 1853 German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics
- Peter Falk 1927 American actor
- Alexis Bledel 1981 American actress
- Kirsty Coventry 1983 Zimbabwean swimmer, politician, and sports administrator
- Yuan Shikai 1859 Chinese military and government official
- Aleksandar Mitrovic 1994 Serbian association football player
- Marc Anthony 1968 American singer
- Nadia Boulanger 1887 French musician, conductor, and teacher
- Katie Melua 1984 English-Georgian singer and songwriter
- Keisuke Tsuboi 1979 Japanese association football player
- Salomón Rondón 1989 Venezuelan association football player
- Pedro V of Portugal 1837 King of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
- Jennifer Tilly 1958 American actress
- Fábio Santos 1985 Brazilian association football player
- Daoguang Emperor 1782 Qing-dynasty Chinese emperor
- Yuriy Nikiforov 1970 Russian/Ukrainian association football player
- Fatos Nano 1952 Albanian politician
- Mario Haas 1974 Austrian footballer
- Manuel Pellegrini 1953 Chilean association football player and manager
- Elgin Baylor 1934 American basketball player, coach, and executive
- Bruno Petković 1994 Croatian footballer
- Oskar Lafontaine 1943 German politician
- Alexander Rutskoy 1947 Russian politician, Former Vice President of Russia
- Emilia Pardo Bazán 1851 Spanish author, editor
- Richard Marx 1963 American singer and songwriter
- Guy Hamilton 1922 English film director
- Willy van de Kerkhof 1951 Dutch association football player
- Taneti Maamau 1960 Kiribati politician
- Luc Frieden 1963 Prime Minister of Luxembourg since 2023
- Alexander Korda 1893 British film director
- René van de Kerkhof 1951 Dutch association football player
- Karl-Heinz Riedle 1965 German association football player and manager
- M. S. Subbulakshmi 1916 Indian Carnatic classical vocalist
- Alexander Vinokourov 1973 Kazakh road bicycle racer, born 1973
- Breyten Breytenbach 1939 South African writer and painter
- Molly Shannon 1964 American actress and comedian
- Elīna Garanča 1976 Latvian opera singer
- Kyle Lafferty 1987 Northern Irish association footballer
- Anne Francis 1930 American actress
- Carl Andre 1935 American artist
- Beverly Aadland 1942 American film actress
- Madeline Zima 1985 American actress, writer, and director
- Engelbert Kaempfer 1651 German botanist
- György Sárosi 1912 Hungarian footballer
- Ian Harding 1986 American actor
- John Pius Boland 1870 Irish politician
- Charles Haughey 1925 7th Taoiseach from 1979 to 1981; 1982; 1987 to 1992
- Aaron Gordon 1995 American basketball player (born. 1995)
- Laurence J. Peter 1919 Canadian educator
- Ursula Franklin 1921 Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator
- Jonas Knudsen 1992 Danish association football player
- Oliver Skipp 2000 English association football player
- Alessandro Fortis 1841 Italian politician
- Radoslav Zabavník 1980 Slovak footballer
- Ed Begley, Jr. 1949 American actor
- Kevin Young 1966 American athlete, hurdler
- Aleksandr Medved 1937 Belarusian Soviet wrestler (1937—2024)
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 1678 English politician and Viscount
- Mohammed Sinwar 1975 Hamas military leader
- E. C. George Sudarshan 1931 Indian physicist
- István Kovács 1984 Romanian association football referee
- Rossy de Palma 1964 Spanish actress
- Julián Castro 1974 16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 181st Mayor of San Antonio
- Maryam Yusuf Jamal 1984 Bahraini track and field athlete
- Max Minghella 1985 British actor
- Nancy Huston 1953 Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French
- Claude 2003 Congolese-born Dutch singer
- Pierre Moscovici 1957 French politician
- Rafael Alkorta 1968 Spanish footballer
- Sadako Ogata 1927 Japanese diplomat, political scientist and university teacher
- Janis Paige 1922 American actress
- Esther Vilar 1935 Argentine writer
- Leon Britton 1982 English association football player
- Karim Boudiaf 1990 Qatari footballer
- Neville Southall 1958 Welsh association football manager and former player
- Sabrina Bryan 1984 American singer
- Fiona Graham 1961 Australian anthropologist, geisha
- Mladen Ivanić 1958 Bosnian Serb politician
- Ard Schenk 1944 Dutch Olympic speed skater
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild 1777 German-born British financier
- P. Chidambaram 1945 Indian politician
- Jamshid bin Abdullah Al Busaidi 1929 Sultan of Zanzibar
Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on September 16 share the 16th of September as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.