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Born in 1916

851 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Leo Freisinger

    speed skater

    1916–1985 · aged 69

    February 7 · 1916

    Source: SpeedSkatingStats

  2. Jean Papineau-Couture

    musicologist, composer

    1916–2000 · aged 83

    November 12 · 1916

    Source: Musicalics

  3. Wawrzyniec Żuławski

    mountaineer, music critic

    1916–1957 · aged 41

    February 14 · 1916

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  4. Ferdinand Cattini*

    ice hockey player

    Date disputed

    September 27 · 1916

    Source: Hockey Archives

  5. Charles Currey

    skipper

    1916–2010

    February 26 · 1916

    No external source identified

  6. Paul Kuusberg

    writer, critic

    1916–2003 · aged 86

    April 30 · 1916

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  7. Damián Iguacén Borau

    Catholic bishop, Catholic priest

    1916–2020 · aged 104

    February 12 · 1916

    No external source identified

  8. Sarah Carneson

    activist, political activist

    1916–2015 · aged 99

    June 17 · 1916

    Source: sahistory.org.za

  9. Bruce Cork

    nuclear physicist, physicist

    1916–1994

    1916

    Source: www-personal.umich.edu

  10. Óscar Cristi

    police officer, equestrian

    1916–1965 · aged 48

    June 29 · 1916

    No external source identified

  11. Henri Alain Liogier

    scientific collector, botanist

    1916–2009 · aged 93

    January 31 · 1916

    Source: birth certificate

  12. Nikolai Morozov

    association football coach, association football player

    1916–1981 · aged 65

    September 7 · 1916

    No external source identified

  13. Luigi Scarabello

    association football player, actor

    1916–2007 · aged 91

    June 17 · 1916

    Source: Transfermarkt

  14. Doug Peden

    sport cyclist, basketball player

    1916–2005 · aged 88

    April 18 · 1916

    Source: FIBA database

  15. Ying Yin

    actor

    1916–1942 · aged 25

    March 28 · 1916

    No external source identified

  16. Chien Lung

    film director, film actor

    1916–1975

    1916

    Source: IMDb

  17. George Fant

    actor, director

    1916–1998 · aged 81

    July 11 · 1916

    Source: SNAC

  18. Charles Vanden Wouwer

    association football player

    1916–1989 · aged 72

    September 7 · 1916

    Source: FBref

  19. Ettore Maria Fizzarotti

    film director, screenwriter

    1916–1985 · aged 69

    January 3 · 1916

    Source: BnF authorities

  20. Pak Tu-jin

    poet

    1916–1998 · aged 82

    March 10 · 1916

    No external source identified

  21. Robert Young

    athletics competitor

    1916–2011 · aged 95

    January 15 · 1916

    No external source identified

  22. Delos Thurber

    athletics competitor

    1916–1987 · aged 70

    November 23 · 1916

    No external source identified

  23. Erik Heiberg

    skipper, businessperson

    1916–1996 · aged 80

    January 24 · 1916

    Source: Cemeteries in Norway

  24. Dorothy Bliss

    botanical collector, invertebrate zoologist

    1916–1987 · aged 71

    February 13 · 1916

    No external source identified

  25. Arne Linderholm

    association football player

    1916–1986 · aged 70

    February 22 · 1916

    Source: FBref

  26. Lev Vainshtein

    sport shooter

    1916–2004 · aged 88

    March 12 · 1916

    No external source identified

  27. Rosette Batarda Fernandes*

    curator, scientific collector

    Date disputed

    January 10 · 1916

    Source: uc.pt

  28. Gerrit Schulte

    track cyclist, sport cyclist

    1916–1992 · aged 76

    January 7 · 1916

    Source: Biografisch Portaal

  29. Svein Blindheim

    military personnel, historian

    1916–2013 · aged 96

    August 29 · 1916

    No external source identified

  30. Saide Arifova

    1916–2007 · aged 91

    February 13 · 1916

    No external source identified

  31. Karen Lachmann

    fencer

    1916–1962 · aged 46

    May 30 · 1916

    No external source identified

  32. Erik Ågren

    boxer

    1916–1985 · aged 69

    January 3 · 1916

    No external source identified

  33. Ruth Halbsguth

    swimmer

    1916–2003 · aged 86

    December 9 · 1916

    No external source identified

  34. Franz Mandl

    association football player

    1916–1988 · aged 71

    August 4 · 1916

    No external source identified

  35. Günther Ortmann

    handball player

    1916–2002 · aged 85

    November 30 · 1916

    No external source identified

  36. Saleh Soliman

    weightlifter

    110 years old

    June 24 · 1916

    No external source identified

  37. Viktor Golubev

    aircraft pilot

    1916–1945 · aged 29

    January 17 · 1916

    No external source identified

  38. Ruy de Freitas

    basketball coach, basketball player

    1916–2012 · aged 95

    August 24 · 1916

    No external source identified

  39. Khalil Mammadov

    politician, military officer

    1916–1989 · aged 72

    May 5 · 1916

    No external source identified

  40. Finn Lied

    politician, economist

    1916–2014 · aged 98

    April 12 · 1916

    Source: Hvem er Hvem? (1973)

  41. Ignacio Trelles

    association football player, association football coach

    1916–2020 · aged 103

    July 31 · 1916

    Source: archive.wikiwix.com

  42. Kurt Pettersén

    amateur wrestler

    1916–1957 · aged 41

    June 21 · 1916

    No external source identified

  43. Alfons Bērziņš*

    speed skater

    Date disputed

    November 7 · 1916

    Source: olimpiade.lv

  44. Moha Oulhoussein Achiban

    dancer, singer

    1916–2016

    1916

    No external source identified

  45. Olimpio Bizzi

    sport cyclist

    1916–1976 · aged 60

    August 1 · 1916

    No external source identified

  46. Liu Baiyu

    writer, politician

    1916–2005 · aged 88

    September 2 · 1916

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  47. Arpenik Nalbandyan

    lecturer, painter

    1916–1964 · aged 47

    December 23 · 1916

    Source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8

  48. Eila Pennanen

    translator, playwright

    1916–1994 · aged 77

    February 8 · 1916

    Source: Biografiskt lexikon för Finland

  49. Hripsime Simonyan

    sculptor, ceramicist

    1916–1998

    January 15 · 1916

    Source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 10

  50. Saúl Ongaro

    association football coach, association football player

    1916–2004 · aged 87

    August 24 · 1916

    No external source identified

  51. Karl Schiske

    music educator, music teacher

    1916–1969 · aged 53

    February 12 · 1916

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Fredrik Horn

    association football player, alpine skier

    1916–1997 · aged 81

    June 8 · 1916

    No external source identified

  53. Albert Mongita

    playwright, painter

    1916–1985 · aged 69

    March 8 · 1916

    No external source identified

  54. Fritz Stöckli

    bobsledder, amateur wrestler

    1916–1968

    May 15 · 1916

    No external source identified

  55. Lucien Storme

    sport cyclist

    1916–1945 · aged 28

    July 18 · 1916

    No external source identified

  56. Edna Hughes

    swimmer

    1916–1990 · aged 74

    August 1 · 1916

    No external source identified

  57. Enar Josefsson

    cross-country skier

    1916–1989 · aged 73

    September 6 · 1916

    No external source identified

  58. Marcelle Lagesse

    historian, journalist

    1916–2011 · aged 95

    February 7 · 1916

    Source: BnF authorities

  59. Thomas Byberg

    speed skater

    1916–1998 · aged 82

    September 18 · 1916

    Source: historical register of persons

  60. Reino Kangasmäki

    amateur wrestler

    1916–2010 · aged 94

    July 2 · 1916

    No external source identified

  61. Robert Van Eenaeme

    sport cyclist

    1916–1959 · aged 42

    August 27 · 1916

    No external source identified

  62. Giacomo Neri

    association football coach, association football player

    1916–2010 · aged 94

    January 1 · 1916

    No external source identified

  63. Harry Snell

    sport cyclist

    1916–1985 · aged 68

    October 7 · 1916

    No external source identified

  64. Claes Egnell

    sport shooter, alpine skier

    1916–2012 · aged 95

    January 29 · 1916

    No external source identified

  65. P.D. Orton

    botanist, mycologist

    1916–2005 · aged 89

    January 28 · 1916

    No external source identified

  66. Edgar Buchwalder

    sport cyclist

    1916–2009 · aged 92

    August 2 · 1916

    No external source identified

  67. Antero Ojala

    speed skater

    1916–1982 · aged 65

    December 10 · 1916

    Source: SpeedSkatingStats

  68. Luz Machado

    poet, writer

    1916–1999 · aged 83

    February 3 · 1916

    No external source identified

  69. Abdulvahab Salamzadeh

    architect

    1916–1983 · aged 67

    February 16 · 1916

    No external source identified

  70. Gerrit Fischer

    association football player

    1916–1984 · aged 68

    August 28 · 1916

    No external source identified

  71. Lauri Silvennoinen

    cross-country skier, middle-distance runner

    1916–2004 · aged 88

    November 7 · 1916

    No external source identified

  72. Roger-Jean Le Nizerhy

    sport cyclist

    1916–1999 · aged 82

    December 3 · 1916

    Source: GeneaStar

  73. Ann Mari Falk

    novelist, translator

    1916–1988 · aged 71

    December 19 · 1916

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  74. Ivan Golubets

    sailor

    1916–1942 · aged 25

    May 8 · 1916

    No external source identified

  75. Ines Vercesi

    artistic gymnast

    1916–1997 · aged 81

    January 5 · 1916

    No external source identified

  76. Lennart Klingström

    canoeist, kayaker

    1916–1994 · aged 78

    April 18 · 1916

    No external source identified

  77. Carmen Pujals

    scientific collector, botanist

    1916–2003 · aged 87

    January 13 · 1916

    No external source identified

  78. Josef Wagner

    sport cyclist

    1916–2003 · aged 87

    April 23 · 1916

    No external source identified

  79. Ralph Purchase

    coxswain

    1916–2000 · aged 83

    July 11 · 1916

    Source: World Rowing athlete database

  80. Pasquale Buonocore

    water polo player

    1916–2003 · aged 87

    May 17 · 1916

    No external source identified

  81. Wim van der Kroft

    kayaker

    1916–2001 · aged 84

    August 16 · 1916

    No external source identified

  82. Ahsan Muhammad Khan

    field hockey player

    110 years old

    April 7 · 1916

    No external source identified

  83. Erich Cuntz

    field hockey player

    1916–1975 · aged 58

    December 23 · 1916

    No external source identified

  84. Giulio Oggioni

    Catholic bishop, theologian

    1916–1993 · aged 76

    June 15 · 1916

    Source: BeWeB

  85. Alfred Gerdes

    field hockey player

    1916–2006 · aged 89

    October 24 · 1916

    No external source identified

  86. Orlando Mendes

    botanist, biologist

    1916–1990

    August 4 · 1916

    Source: IdRef

  87. Yevheniya Marynchenko

    architect

    1916–1999 · aged 83

    March 12 · 1916

    No external source identified

  88. Primo Volpi

    sport cyclist

    1916–2006 · aged 90

    April 26 · 1916

    No external source identified

  89. Hendrik Ooms

    sport cyclist, track cyclist

    1916–1993 · aged 77

    March 18 · 1916

    No external source identified

  90. Henry Larsen

    rower

    1916–2002 · aged 86

    July 21 · 1916

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  91. Halyna Burkatska

    writer, politician

    1916–2006 · aged 90

    February 17 · 1916

    No external source identified

  92. Eugène Moke Motsüri

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1916–2015 · aged 99

    March 25 · 1916

    No external source identified

  93. Helge Larsson

    canoeist

    1916–1971 · aged 55

    October 25 · 1916

    No external source identified

  94. Eivind Skabo

    canoeist

    1916–2006 · aged 89

    August 17 · 1916

    No external source identified

  95. William Lindsay

    field hockey player

    1916–1971 · aged 55

    March 3 · 1916

    No external source identified

  96. Helge Halkjær

    rower

    1916–1996 · aged 79

    December 20 · 1916

    Source: Sports-Reference.com

  97. Rolf Fäs

    handball player

    1916–1983 · aged 67

    October 18 · 1916

    No external source identified

  98. Armand Putzeys

    sport cyclist

    1916–2003 · aged 86

    November 30 · 1916

    No external source identified

  99. Julius Juzeliūnas

    university teacher, composer

    1916–2001 · aged 85

    February 20 · 1916

    Source: Musicalics

  100. Gabriel Egiazarov*

    screenwriter, film director

    Date disputed

    May 2 · 1916

    Source: IMDb

  101. Anatoly Kalinin

    war correspondent, poet

    1916–2008 · aged 91

    August 22 · 1916

    No external source identified

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