Famous People Born on April 16
Famous people born on April 16 include Charlie Chaplin (1889), Pope Benedict XVI (1927) and Anatole France (1844).
BORN ON THIS DAY
Charlie Chaplin
The Tramp, silent film legend
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope from 2005 until his resignation in 2013
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Anatole France
French author and journalist (1844–1924)
Selena
American singer-songwriter (1971–1995)
Akon
Senegalese-American singer (born 1973)
Peter Ustinov
British actor and humanitarian (1921–2004)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American basketball player (born 1947)
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 2000 to 2025
Martin Lawrence
American comedian and actor (born 1965)
Shinji Okazaki
Japanese footballer (born 1986)
Ernst Thälmann
German communist politician (1886–1944)
Anya Taylor-Joy
Actress (born 1996)
Freddie Ljungberg
Swedish footballer and manager (born 1977)
Joseph Black
British physicist and chemist (1728–1799)
Sadie Sink
American actress (born 2002)
Rafael Benítez
Spanish football manager (born 1960)
Kingsley Amis
English author, critic and teacher (1922–1995)
DIED ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
Alexis de Tocqueville
French diplomat, political philosopher and historian (1805–1859)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist (1701–1788)
Otho
Roman emperor in AD 69
Aphra Behn
English playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
Bernadette Soubirous
French Roman Catholic saint (1844–1879)
David Lean
English filmmaker and editor (1908–1991)
Marie Tussaud
French wax museum founder (1761–1850)
Rudolf Höss
Nazi commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
Samuel Smiles
British author (1812–1904)
Sources
- April 16 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Charlie Chaplin — Wikipedia
- Pope Benedict XVI — Wikipedia
- Francisco Goya — Wikipedia
- Rosalind Franklin — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths