Famous People Born on August 16
Famous people born on August 16 include Madonna (1958), James Cameron (1954) and Charles Bukowski (1920).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
James Cameron
Canadian-New Zealand filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
Charles Bukowski
American writer (1920–1994)
Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983
Gabriel Lippmann
French physicist (1845–1921)
T. E. Lawrence
British Army officer, diplomat and writer (1888–1935)
Wilhelm Wundt
German founder of psychology (1832–1920)
John Bosco
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator, and writer
Jean de La Bruyère
French philosopher and moralist (1645–1696)
Steve Carell
American actor and comedian (born 1962)
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010
Jannik Sinner
Italian tennis player (born 2001)
Angela Bassett
American actress (born 1958)
Wendell Meredith Stanley
American biochemist, virologist, and Nobel laureate (1904–1971)
Anne L'Huillier
French-Swedish Nobel laureate physicist (born 1958)
Timothy Hutton
American actor and director (born 1960)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Babe Ruth
Baseball's Sultan of Swat
Elvis Presley
The King of Rock and Roll
Aretha Franklin
Queen of Soul, Respect
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Idi Amin
President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979
Margaret Mitchell
American novelist and journalist (1900–1949)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India (1996; 1998–99, 1999–2004)
Robert Bunsen
German chemist (1811–1899)
Jacob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1655–1705)
Irving Langmuir
American chemist and physicist (1881–1957)
Peter Fonda
American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)
Selman Waksman
American biochemist and microbiologist (1888–1973)
Hayden Panettiere
American actress and singer (1989–2026)
Alfredo Stroessner
Dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
Sources
- August 16 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Madonna — Wikipedia
- Babe Ruth — Wikipedia
- Elvis Presley — Wikipedia
- Aretha Franklin — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths