ON THIS DAY
Born in 1916
851 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Roald Dahl
fighter pilot, writer
- Kirk Douglas
filmmaker, philanthropist
- Gregory Peck
television actor, producer
- Harold Wilson
Esperantist, politician
- Olivia de Havilland
television actor, film actor
- Edward Heath
politician, conductor
- Jackie Gleason
television actor, bandleader
- François Mitterrand
lawyer, journalist
- Glenn Ford
actor, military officer
- Claude Shannon
engineer, inventor
- Robert McNamara
economist, writer
- Walter Cronkite
news presenter, journalist
- Dinah Shore
actor, singer
- Sterling Hayden
television actor, author
- Betty Grable
model, stage actor
- Francis Crick
university teacher, biologist
- Ruth Handler
screenwriter, entrepreneur
- Lyudmila Pavlichenko
sniper, historian
- Ferruccio Lamborghini
engineer, entrepreneur
- Peter Finch
stage actor, actor
- Shirley Jackson
children's writer, journalist
- John Basilone
boxer, military personnel
- Gough Whitlam
politician, barrister
- James Herriot
writer, autobiographer
- Aldo Moro
politician, professor
- João Havelange
politician, water polo player
- M. S. Subbulakshmi
singer, film actor
- Keenan Wynn
actor, voice actor
- Michael Gough
television actor, actor
- Ken Curtis
film actor, television actor
- Van Johnson
actor, film actor
- P. W. Botha
politician, minister
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi
computer scientist, engineer
- Hans-Ulrich Rudel
escape helper, writer
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike
politician, diplomat
- Eugene McCarthy
teacher, Military Intelligence Division
- Richard Proenneke
naturalist
- Elena Ceaușescu
politician, conducător
- Mercedes McCambridge
film actor, stage actor
- Dorothy McGuire
actor, film actor
- Shelby Foote
historian, university teacher
- Zail Singh
politician, freedom fighter
- Movita Castaneda
actor, singer
- Herbert Simon
computer scientist, political scientist
- Yehudi Menuhin
violinist, politician
- Evelyn Keyes
film actor, actor
- Hal Smith
actor, dub actor
- Virginia Hill
drug trafficker, courier
- Ahmad ibn Billah
association football player, politician
- Rafael Caldera
university teacher, politician
- Adriana Caselotti
voice actor, opera singer
- Duong Van Minh
politician
- Martha Raye
singer, comedian
- Jane Jacobs
economist, activist
- George Montgomery
film director, actor
- Beverly Cleary
novelist, children's writer
- Bismillah Khan
musician
- David White
film actor, actor
- Rossano Brazzi
singer, actor
- Lou Thesz
professional wrestler
- Deendayal Upadhyaya
journalist, sociologist
- Margaret Lockwood
stage actor, television actor
- Maurice Wilkins
crystallographer, researcher
- Edward Platt
television actor, stage actor
- Daws Butler
voice actor, screenwriter
- Amha Selassie
sovereign
- Biju Patnaik
politician, aircraft pilot
- Jack Vance
electrician, writer
- John D. MacDonald
science fiction writer, novelist
- Harry James
music arranger, trumpeter
- Richard Fleischer
director, film director
- James B. Donovan
jurist, writer
- Airey Neave
soldier, politician
- Harold Robbins
screenwriter, writer
- Shobhna Samarth
actor, film actor
- Vittorio Mussolini
aircraft pilot, racing automobile driver
- Masaki Kobayashi
film director, writer
- Elliot Handler
inventor, entrepreneur
- Walker Percy
philosopher, physician
- Lalita Pawar
actor, television actor
- Natalia Ginzburg
politician, preface author
- C. Wright Mills
university teacher, sociologist
- Bernard Lewis
Islamicist, historian
- Moondog
poet, street artist
- Virginia Gregg
voice actor, television actor
- Reg Varney
stage actor, pianist
- Edward Binns
stage actor, television actor
- Iva Toguri D'Aquino
radio personality, announcer
- Abdul Rahman Arif
president, military officer
- Naseem Banu
actor
- Maria Altmann
art collector
- Bill Melendez
animator, screenwriter
- Betty Field
stage actor, television actor
- Marcel Cerdan
boxer
- C. Everett Koop
pediatrician, physician
- Ray Conniff
conductor, composer
- Raf Vallone
actor, stage actor
- Chiang Wei-kuo
politician
- Hans Eysenck
scientist, university teacher
- Irwin Allen
producer, television director
- Anton Diffring
actor, television actor
- Horton Foote
actor, screenwriter
- Penelope Fitzgerald
biographer, novelist
- Leonard Siffleet
military officer
- Vladimir Demikhov
anatomist, surgeon
- Anthony Dawson
screenwriter, film actor
- Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
head of government, politician
- Nanaji Deshmukh
politician
- Charlie Christian
composer, jazz guitarist
- Saburō Sakai
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Dennis Day
military personnel, radio personality
- Sherwood Schwartz
screenwriter, television producer
- Perez Prado
conductor, actor
- Ruth Warrick
autobiographer, stage actor
- Sandra Gould
television actor, film actor
- Jagjit Singh Aurora
politician
- Richard Hofstadter
university teacher, historian
- Phil Leeds
film actor, television actor
- Camilo José Cela
journalist, film actor
- Jacque Fresco
inventor, designer
- Walt Whitman Rostow
economist, university teacher
- Ephraim Katzir
university teacher, biophysicist
- Prince Carl Johan Bernadotte
aristocrat
- Pamela Mason
actor, screenwriter
- Rupert Davies
stage actor, actor
- Geoffrey Keen
television actor, stage actor
- Julio César Turbay
lawyer, diplomat
- Andrée De Jongh
development worker, nurse
- Paul Keres
sportsperson, non-fiction writer
- Lale Sokolov
author, tattoo artist
- Gaylord Nelson
environmentalist, governor
- Mary Stewart
primary school teacher, gymnastics teacher
- Chiang Fang-liang
politician
- Yevgeny Khaldei
photographer, war correspondent
- Dom Mintoff
architect, civil engineer
- Judy Campbell
writer, actor
- Peter Whitney
television actor, actor
- Virginia Satir
social and health care assistant, family therapist
- Hassan Gouled Aptidon
politician, freedom fighter
- Budd Boetticher
director, film director
- Lilian, Princess of Réthy
aristocrat
- Anthony Caruso
actor, television actor
- Morrie Schwartz
sociologist, university teacher
- Emil Kapaun
military personnel, Catholic priest
- Giorgio Bassani
screenwriter, opinion journalist
- Vitaly Ginzburg
astrophysicist, university teacher
- Richard Ney
actor, television actor
- Ernst Wilimowski
association football player
