On This Day — January 16
4149 noted people were born and 2173 died on January 16 in our archive, including Jakub Karol Parnas, Adelaide Sinclair and Andrea Riccardi.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on January 16
Jakub Karol Parnas
1884 – 1949
Adelaide Sinclair
1900 – 1982
Andrea Riccardi
b. 1950
André Michelin
1853 – 1931
Eberhardt Rechtin
1926 – 2006
Edward Knollys
1895 – 1966
Erich Kähler
1906 – 2000
Fergus Cochrane-Dyet
b. 1965
Germund Dahlquist
1925 – 2005
Harald Pedersen
1888 – 1945
Herbert Ritchie Spencer
1860 – 1941
Jakob Stoustrup
b. 1963
James C. Browne
1935 – 2018
Jill Tarter
b. 1944
Joshua King
1798 – 1857
Marcelo González Martín
1918 – 2004
Marilyn Horne
b. 1934
Martin Roth
1955 – 2017
Michel Bouvard
b. 1958
Mònica Terribas
b. 1968
Mónica García Gómez
b. 1974
Paul Nitze
1907 – 2004
Pierre-Henri Simon
1903 – 1972
Renata Kallosh
b. 1943
Ryōtarō Azuma
1893 – 1983
Shiina Etsusaburo
1898 – 1979
Simon Johnson
b. 1963
Thomas Gilovich
b. 1954
Viktor Pashutin
1845 – 1901
William Boone
1920 – 1983
Wojciech Malajkat
b. 1963
Abena Osei Asare
b. 1979
Alexander Acosta
b. 1969
Allard K. Lowenstein
1929 – 1980
Américo Ferreira dos Santos Silva
1829 – 1899
Anders Gustaf Ekeberg
1767 – 1813
Andrey Zubov
b. 1952
Anil Sinha
b. 1956
Anne Berner
b. 1964
Anouar Benmalek
b. 1956
Anthony Hecht
1923 – 2004
Antonio José Cavanilles
1745 – 1804
Ants Laaneots
b. 1948
Antti Häkkänen
b. 1985
Armin Otto Leuschner
1868 – 1953
Ayşenur İslam
b. 1958
Bas Kast
b. 1973
Boyd Alexander
1873 – 1910
Carl Abraham Pihl
1825 – 1897
Carl Christian Rafn
1795 – 1864
Carl Jesper Benzelius
1714 – 1793
Carl W. Ackerman
1890 – 1970
Carlos Pellicer
1899 – 1977
Cassey Ho
b. 1987
Cherif Rahmani
b. 1945
Choijinzhab
1931 – 2022
Chris Ritchie
b. 1949
Ciro Gálvez
b. 1949
Clem Jones
1918 – 2007
Dana Spiotta
b. 1966
Daniel Fasquelle
b. 1963
Danny Dorling
b. 1968
David Catania
b. 1968
Debbie Allen
b. 1950
Dian Fossey
1932 – 1985
Dipankar Raychaudhuri
b. 1955
Eduard Vieta
b. 1963
Eduardo Frei Montalva
1911 – 1982
Ekaterina Fleischitz
1888 – 1968
Elwood Mead
1858 – 1936
Francis George
1937 – 2015
Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki
1778 – 1846
Frederick H. Schultz
1929 – 2009
Friedrich Julius Stahl
1802 – 1861
Fuad II of Egypt
b. 1952
Félix Le Dantec
1869 – 1917
Félix Lecomte
1737 – 1817
Gemma Lienas
b. 1951
George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham
1886 – 1948
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
1921 – 2008
Georgette Mosbacher
b. 1947
Gregor Gysi
b. 1948
Günther Prien
1908 – 1941
Harukazu Nagaoka
1877 – 1949
Helga Hernes
b. 1938
Henning Hamilton
1814 – 1886
Henri Büsser
1872 – 1973
Henry Fielding Dickens
1849 – 1933
Homer Burton Adkins
1892 – 1949
Iacob Lahovary
1846 – 1907
Ian Hamilton
1853 – 1947
Ichirō Kamoshita
b. 1949
Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria
1938 – 2015
Inoue Kaoru
1836 – 1915
Isaac Joseph
b. 1952
Ismail Kemal
1844 – 1919
Ivan Buravlyov
1942 – 2024
Ivar Heikel
1861 – 1952
Jaipal Reddy
1942 – 2019
James May
b. 1963
Jean Van Hamme
b. 1939
Jerrold Meinwald
1927 – 2018
Jerry M. Linenger
b. 1955
Joachim Grubich
1935 – 2025
Johan Furstner
1887 – 1970
Johann Dzierzon
1811 – 1906
John Perry
b. 1943
John T. Riedl
1962 – 2013
Joseph J. Himmel
1855 – 1924
Joseph Victor von Scheffel
1826 – 1886
Jüri Jaakson
1870 – 1942
Kalle Könkkölä
1950 – 2018
Karel van der Hucht
b. 1946
Karl August Krebs
1804 – 1880
Karl Freund
1890 – 1969
Keith Holyoak
b. 1950
Koji Yamazaki
b. 1961
Krzysztof Globisz
b. 1957
Lawrence Ho
b. 1977
Leonid Moiseyev
b. 1948
Leonor Michaelis
1875 – 1949
Liu Xiaoming
b. 1956
Lucien Cannon
1887 – 1950
Luis de Guindos
b. 1960
Manon Fokke
b. 1976
Mariano Jesús Cuenco
1888 – 1964
Marit Maij
b. 1972
Mark Burton
b. 1956
Mary Elise Sarotte
b. 1968
Mary Karr
b. 1955
Massimo Pigliucci
b. 1964
Max Petterson
b. 1994
Maximilian Joseph von Chelius
1794 – 1876
Michael Coats
b. 1946
Michael R. Gottfredson
b. 1951
Michael Scammell
b. 1935
Michael Weitzman
b. 1948
Michel Plancherel
1885 – 1967
Michel Wachenheim
b. 1951
Michele Gortani
1883 – 1966
Morten P. Meldal
b. 1954
Muhammad Mansur Ali
1919 – 1975
Mária Pozsonec
1940 – 2017
Mélanie Joly
b. 1979
Nicole Dubilier
b. 1957
Norman Gash
1912 – 2009
Norman Podhoretz
1930 – 2025
Paul Fletcher
b. 1965
Pierre Bernard-Reymond
b. 1944
Ramon Amigó i Anglès
1925 – 2011
Reinhard Bösch
b. 1957
Reza Malekzadeh
b. 1952
Riitta Hari
b. 1948
Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington
1796 – 1868
Robert L. Park
1931 – 2020
Robert Lipsyte
b. 1938
Robert Trappl
b. 1939
Roberto Bachi
1909 – 1995
Roger Wagner
1914 – 1992
Sander Greenland
b. 1951
Scott J. Bolton
b. 1958
Scott L. Klug
b. 1953
Sharada Srinivasan
b. 1966
Shmuel Toledano
1921 – 2022
Sofia Fuoco
1830 – 1916
Stephan Burián von Rajecz
1851 – 1922
Sukumar Sen
1900 – 1992
Susan Sontag
1933 – 2004
Sylvia Walton
1941 – 2024
Tao Zhu
1908 – 1969
Thad Allen
b. 1949
Thomas Antisell
1817 – 1893
Thomas W. Hyde
1841 – 1899
Todd E. Edelman
b. 1968
Tokitoshi Taketomi
1856 – 1938
Tom Burns
1913 – 2001
Tsuyoshi Takagi
b. 1956
Ugo Monneret de Villard
1881 – 1954
Vahram Papazyan
1888 – 1968
Valeria Ciavatta
b. 1959
Vasily Klyuchevsky
1841 – 1911
Vasily Lanovoy
1934 – 2021
Volodymyr Vasylenko
1937 – 2023
Waded Cruzado
b. 1960
Wei Wei
1920 – 2008
Wilhelm Normann
1870 – 1939
Willem Aantjes
1923 – 2015
William Kennedy
b. 1928
William Marion Jardine
1879 – 1955
William Vollie Alexander, Jr.
b. 1934
A. J. Foyt
b. 1935
Aaliyah
1979 – 2001
Abdoulaye Baldé
b. 1964
Abraham Serfaty
1926 – 2010
Albert Bessis
1885 – 1972
Albert Pujols
b. 1980
Aleksandar Tišma
1924 – 2003
Alex J. van der Eb
b. 1934
Alexander Knox
1907 – 1995
Alexandre Tsutsunava
1881 – 1955
… and 3,949 more
Died on January 16
Alexander Cartellieri
1867 – 1955
Cecil Arnold Beevers
1908 – 2001
Charles Henry Thompson
1895 – 1980
Erik Laxman
1737 – 1796
Frederick R. Cohen
1945 – 2022
Göran Liljestrand
1886 – 1968
Henri Brocard
1845 – 1922
James Wordie
1889 – 1962
Joseph Hutchinson
1902 – 1988
Jovan Cvijić
1865 – 1927
Lakshmi Kant Jha
1913 – 1988
Leon Marchlewski
1869 – 1946
Leonard Woodcock
1911 – 2001
Louis Félix Henneguy
1850 – 1928
Mahadev Govind Ranade
1842 – 1901
Paul Delouvrier
1914 – 1995
Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen
1827 – 1892
Robert Hanbury Brown
1916 – 2002
Robert J. Van de Graaff
1901 – 1967
Robert de Saint-Jean
1901 – 1987
Ryuzaburo Umehara
1888 – 1986
Sir John Woodroffe
1865 – 1936
T. Wayland Vaughan
1870 – 1952
Thaddeus William Harris
1795 – 1856
Werner Söderhjelm
1859 – 1931
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
1874 – 1957
Alexander J. Dallas
1759 – 1817
Alexander Sipiagin
1875 – 1941
Alexander von Middendorff
1815 – 1894
Alexei Kuropatkin
1848 – 1925
Ali Moustafa Mosharafa
1898 – 1950
Amilcare Ponchielli
1834 – 1886
Anatoly Glushenkov
1942 – 2018
Andrew Benson
1917 – 2015
Antoine-François Marmontel
1816 – 1898
Anton Palvadre
1886 – 1942
Arnold Böcklin
1827 – 1901
Arturo Toscanini
1867 – 1957
August Weberbauer
1871 – 1948
Barry Tuckwell
1931 – 2020
Benjamin Butterworth
1837 – 1898
Bill Bain
1937 – 2018
Boaz Moav
1938 – 2002
Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter
1795 – 1867
Carl Hansen Ostenfeld
1873 – 1931
Carl Huns
1831 – 1877
Charles Pelham Villiers
1802 – 1898
Chen Da
1892 – 1975
Chinda Sutemi
1857 – 1929
Colette Inez
1931 – 2018
D. C. Williams
1899 – 1983
David Lynch
1946 – 2025
Edmond François Valentin About
1828 – 1885
Edward Wigglesworth
1693 – 1765
Emil Rostrup
1831 – 1907
Ethel Sargant
1863 – 1918
Eugene Cernan
1934 – 2017
Fred A. Seaton
1909 – 1974
George Edward Paget
1809 – 1892
George Stephen
1812 – 1894
Gleb Baklanov
1910 – 1976
Glen P. Robinson
1923 – 2013
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
1870 – 1950
Gustav Leonhardt
1928 – 2012
Hans Christensen
1924 – 1983
Heinrich Mücke
1806 – 1891
Herman H. B. Meyer
1864 – 1937
Homer A. Holt
1898 – 1975
Humphry Knipe
1941 – 2023
Hélène Solomon-Langevin
1909 – 1995
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
1945 – 2022
Ivan Meštrović
1883 – 1962
James W. Plummer
1920 – 2013
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
1769 – 1834
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin
1783 – 1855
Jim Molan
1950 – 2023
Joannis Avramidis
1922 – 2016
John C. Bogle
1929 – 2019
John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
1748 – 1830
John Long Severance
1863 – 1936
John Moore
1761 – 1809
José María Calatrava y Peinado
1781 – 1847
Juan Landázuri Ricketts
1913 – 1997
Jules Anglès
1778 – 1828
Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith
1916 – 2011
Kalevi Sorsa
1930 – 2004
Karoly Hokky
1883 – 1971
Laurent-Désiré Kabila
1939 – 2001
Lev Steinberg
1870 – 1945
Lindsay Heathcote Briggs
1905 – 1975
Luísa Diogo
1958 – 2026
Léo Delibes
1836 – 1891
Magnus Olsen
1878 – 1963
Mahmoed Joenoes
1899 – 1982
Manuel Cabero i Vernedas
1926 – 2022
Mary Hamilton Swindler
1884 – 1967
Matthew Hutton
1529 – 1606
Matti Kuusi
1914 – 1998
Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet
1874 – 1953
Mischa Cotlar
1913 – 2007
Narcisse Girard
1797 – 1860
Nathaniel B. Smithers
1818 – 1896
Nicolas Rashevsky
1899 – 1972
Nikolai Bernstein
1896 – 1966
Nils Oker-Blom
1919 – 1995
Otto Pettersson
1848 – 1941
Panagiotis Poulitsas
1881 – 1968
Paul Myners
1948 – 2022
Peer Bork
1963 – 2026
Petras Klimas
1891 – 1969
Pierre Ducimetière
1942 – 2026
Prem Nazir
1929 – 1989
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
1850 – 1942
Pål Spilling
1934 – 2018
R. H. Tawney
1880 – 1962
René Lorin
1877 – 1933
Rinaldo Del Bo
1916 – 1991
Robert R. Wilson
1914 – 2000
Rocco Commisso
1949 – 2026
Rod Driver
1932 – 2022
Ross Bagdasarian Sr.
1919 – 1972
Rudolf Dittrich
1861 – 1919
Russell David Johnson
1924 – 2014
Shizuo Satō
1931 – 2022
Stuart Loory
1932 – 2015
Tachat Sahakyan
1916 – 1999
Tamako Kataoka
1905 – 2008
Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael
1859 – 1926
Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham
1748 – 1818
Tomás Garicano Goñi
1910 – 1988
Vaino Väljas
1931 – 2024
Vasily Degtyaryov
1879 – 1949
Vladimir Bakarić
1912 – 1983
Voldemārs Zāmuēls
1872 – 1948
Walter Bartel
1904 – 1992
Yu Min
1926 – 2019
Yury Emelyanov
1937 – 2026
Émilien de Nieuwerkerke
1811 – 1892
Adelaide Casely-Hayford
1868 – 1960
Alan John Lance Scott
1884 – 1922
Albert William Herre
1868 – 1962
Alekos Fassianos
1935 – 2022
Aleksandr Shabalin
1914 – 1982
Alfred Gaulier
1829 – 1898
Ambrosius Moibanus
1494 – 1554
Ananda Ranga Pillai
1709 – 1761
Andrei Fajt
1903 – 1976
Andrija Artuković
1899 – 1988
Antoinette de Pons
1560 – 1632
Anton Schindler
1795 – 1864
Antonio López y López
1817 – 1883
Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria
1783 – 1853
Archibald Motley
1891 – 1981
Archie E. O'Neil
1905 – 1986
Arnold Drakenborch
1683 – 1748
Arthur Ravenel, Jr.
1927 – 2023
Arthur Tobin
1930 – 2026
Artur Ivens Ferraz
1870 – 1933
Artur Śliwiński
1877 – 1953
Auberon Waugh
1939 – 2001
August Heissmeyer
1897 – 1979
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
1680 – 1747
Bas Edixhoven
1962 – 2022
Bekir Sami Kunduh
1865 – 1933
Bernard Charles Beale
1830 – 1910
Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
1851 – 1928
Bob Uecker
1934 – 2025
Bradford Dillman
1930 – 2018
Burhan Doğançay
1929 – 2013
Carole Lombard
1908 – 1942
Catherine S. Lutz
1955 – 2014
Charles McGee
1919 – 2022
Charles Theodore Russell
1815 – 1896
Charlotte Cornwell
1949 – 2021
Chittaranjan Das
1923 – 2011
Christian Beyel
1854 – 1941
Claire Fagin
1926 – 2024
Courtney Hodges
1887 – 1966
D. G. Hessayon
1928 – 2025
Daniel V. Gallery
1901 – 1977
Dudley North, 3rd Baron North
1581 – 1666
Edmund Knox
1847 – 1937
Eduardo Braun-Menéndez
1903 – 1959
Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln
1512 – 1585
Edward Every
1862 – 1941
Edward Gibbon
1737 – 1794
Edward Green Bradford
1819 – 1884
Edwin Le Roy Antony
1852 – 1913
Eugène Revillout
1843 – 1913
Eve Balfour
1898 – 1990
Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin
1796 – 1864
Fernand Dorais
1928 – 2003
Francesco Melzi d'Eril
1753 – 1816
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
1848 – 1919
Franklin S. Billings
1862 – 1935
František Tkadlík
1786 – 1840
François Arthur Marcotte
1866 – 1931
François Chéron
1764 – 1829
Frederick Scherger
1904 – 1984
Friedrich August Körnicke
1828 – 1908
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