October 16 - Births

Births

• 1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)
• 1430 – King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
• 1483 – Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)
• 1535 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)
• 1663 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)
• 1710 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790)
• 1714 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795)
• 1726 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801)
• 1751 – Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805)
• 1752 – Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827)
• 1754 – Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804–07) (d. 1844)
• 1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
• 1762 – Paul Hamilton, American politician (d. 1816)
• 1789 – William Burton, American politician (d. 1866)
• 1795 – William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876)
• 1802 – Isaac Murphy, American politician (d. 1882)
• 1804 – Benjamin Russell, American artist (d. 1885)
• 1806 – William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1864–65) (d. 1869)
• 1815 – Francis Lubbock, American politician (d. 1905)
• 1819 – Austin F. Pike, American politician (d. 1886)
• 1840 – Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician (d. 1900)
• 1841 – Hirobumi Ito, Japanese politician (d. 1909)
• 1854 – Karl Kautsky, Czech-born German theoretician (d. 1938)
• 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
• 1855 – Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931)
• 1861 – J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927)
• 1863 – Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937)
• 1876 – Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer, rugby union and soccer player (d. 1913)
• 1878 – Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959)
• 1883 – Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973)
• 1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
• 1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman (d. 1973)
• 1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1888 – Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Michael Collins, Irish politician (d. 1922)
• 1890 – Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
• 1890 – Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975)
• 1897 – Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008)
• 1898 – William O. Douglas, American jurist (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-born British writer and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971)
• 1903 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003)
• 1906 – León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Clifford Hansen, American politician (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007)
• 1916 – George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1918 – Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990)
• 1919 – Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003)
• 1921 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
• 1922 – Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter
• 1922 – Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965)
• 1923 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980)
• 1923 – Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (d. 2010)
• 1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-born actress
• 1927 – Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1928 – Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress
• 1929 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 – Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1931 – Charles Colson, American Watergate figure
• 1931 – Valery Klimov, Russian violinist
• 1931 – Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian
• 1932 – John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
• 1932 – Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Peter Ashdown, British racing driver
• 1936 – Peter Bowles, English actor
• 1936 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
• 1936 – Akira Machida, Japanese judge
• 1938 – Carl Gunter Jr, American state legislator (d. 1999)
• 1938 – Nico, German musician, fashion model and actress (d. 1988)
• 1940 – Barry Corbin, American actor
• 1940 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003)
• 1940 – Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
• 1941 – Tim McCarver, American baseball player and commentator
• 1943 – Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
• 1946 – Suzanne Somers, American actress
• 1947 – Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player
• 1947 – Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead)
• 1947 – David Zucker, American film director
• 1948 – Hema Malini, Indian Actress
• 1948 – Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach
• 1952 – Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk)
• 1952 – Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1953 – Tony Carey, American musician (Rainbow, Planet P Project)
• 1953 – Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer
• 1953 – Al Sobotka, American sports facility operations manager
• 1954 – Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
• 1954 – Stephen Mellor, American actor
• 1956 – John Chavis, American football coach
• 1958 – Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer
• 1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer
• 1959 – Brian Harper, American baseball player
• 1959 – Gary Kemp, British musician and actor
• 1959 – Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer
• 1960 – Bob Mould, American musician
• 1961 – Marc Levy, French novelist
• 1961 – Randy Vasquez, American actor
• 1962 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (d. 2010)
• 1962 – Ken Chinn, American musician (SNFU)
• 1962 – Flea, Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
• 1962 – Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
• 1962 – Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
• 1963 – Brendan Kibble, Australian musician
• 1965 – Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey
• 1965 – Tom Tolbert, American basketball player
• 1968 – Randall Batinkoff, American actor
• 1968 – Mark Lee, Singaporean actor & comedian
• 1968 – Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
• 1969 – Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter
• 1969 – Takao Ōmori, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1969 – Terri J. Vaughn, American actress
• 1969 – Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips)
• 1970 – Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter
• 1970 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• 1971 – Chad Gray, American singer
• 1972 – Darius Kasparaitis, Russian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates)
• 1972 – Kordell Stewart, American football player
• 1973 – María Eugenia Larraín, Chilean model, engineer and socialite
• 1973 – Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler
• 1973 – David Unsworth, English professional footballer
• 1974 – Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
• 1975 – Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1975 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
• 1975 – Kellie Martin, American actress
• 1976 – Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian footballer and media personality
• 1977 – John Mayer, American musician
• 1978 – Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K)
• 1979 – Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician
• 1980 – Sue Bird, American basketball player
• 1980 – Jeremy Jackson, American actor
• 1980 – Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
• 1981 – Martin Halle, Danish footballer
• 1981 – Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
• 1981 – Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress
• 1982 – Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
• 1982 – Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
• 1982 – Pippa Black, Australian actress
• 1983 – Jennifer Hurt, American model
• 1983 – Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
• 1984 – Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress
• 1984 – Shayne Ward, British singer
• 1985 – Verena Sailer, German sprinter
• 1985 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Nicky Adams, Welsh footballer
• 1986 – Craig Pickering, British sprinter
• 1988 – Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 – Yohanna, Icelandic singer
• 1991 – John and Edward Grimes, Irish twin entertainers
• 1992 – Bryce Harper, American baseball player
• 2003 – Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of Crown Prince Paras