Famous People Born on April 16

♈ Aries

• Behçet Necatigil (1916) — Turkish translator (1916-1979)
• Paul Waner (1903) — American baseball player (1903–1965)
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947) — American basketball player (born 1947)
• Bill Belichick (1952) — American football coach (born 1952)
• R. Carlos Nakai (1946) — American flutist (born 1946)
• Wolfgang Leonhard (1921) — German political author and historian
• John Franklin (1786) — British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)
• Nolan Arenado (1991) — American baseball player (born 1991)
• Kingsley Amis (1922) — English author, critic and teacher (1922–1995)
• Wright brothers (1867) — American aviation pioneers, inventors of the airplane
• George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1800) — British Army officer
• Julian Carroll (1931) — American politician (1931–2023)
• Saleem Malik (1963) — Pakistani cricketer
• Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661) — British politician and poet (1661–1715)
• Kandukuri Veeresalingam (1848) — Indian social reformer (1848–1919)
• Dusty Springfield (1939) — British singer (1939–1999)
• Conchita Martínez (1972) — Spanish tennis player (born 1972)
• Petrus Apianus (1495) — German astronomer, mathematician, and cartographer (1495–1552)
• Vince Hill (1934) — English singer (1934–2023)
• Henry Clinton (British Army officer, born 1730) (1730) — British Army officer and politician (1730–1795)
• Martin Lawrence (1965) — American comedian and actor (born 1965)
• Gina Carano (1982) — American actress and mixed martial artist (born 1982)
• Anya Taylor-Joy (1996) — Actress (born 1996)
• Merce Cunningham (1919) — American dancer and choreographer (1919–2009)
• Arch A. Moore Jr. (1923) — American politician (1923–2015)
• Selena (1971) — American singer-songwriter (1971–1995)
• Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990) (1990) — American basketball player (born 1990)
• Peter Ustinov (1921) — British actor and humanitarian (1921–2004)
• Kerron Stewart (1984) — Jamaican sprinter
• Akon (1973) — Senegalese-American singer (born 1973)