On This Day — February 16
4309 noted people were born and 2047 died on February 16 in our archive, including Abel Idowu Olayinka, Cisca Wijmenga and Claude Pouillet.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 16
Abel Idowu Olayinka
b. 1958
Cisca Wijmenga
b. 1964
Claude Pouillet
1791 – 1868
Ernst Haeckel
1834 – 1919
Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen
1826 – 1909
Alexander Razborov
b. 1963
Beniamino Segre
1903 – 1977
Bradford Parkinson
b. 1935
Brian Berry
1934 – 2025
Christian Meier
b. 1929
Dominique Jamet
b. 1936
Elias Sanbar
b. 1947
Franz Böhm
1895 – 1977
G. M. Trevelyan
1876 – 1962
George F. Kennan
1904 – 2005
Gioacchino Volpe
1876 – 1971
Guo Guangchang
b. 1967
Hans F. K. Günther
1891 – 1968
Hryhorіy Yakhymovych
1792 – 1863
Hugo de Vries
1848 – 1935
James Thomson
1822 – 1892
Jaroslav Kubera
1947 – 2020
Jean Langlois
1824 – 1886
Koshirō Oikawa
1883 – 1958
Mykhailo Podolyak
b. 1972
Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai
b. 1960
Nicolás Joseph Jacquin
1727 – 1817
Nikolai Kondratenko
1940 – 2013
Oliver Franks, Baron Franks
1905 – 1992
Ryszard Bender
1932 – 2016
Sergey Kazantsev
b. 1955
Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet
1805 – 1868
Susanne Baer
b. 1964
Toomas Kivimägi
b. 1963
Valérie Trierweiler
b. 1965
Victor Novozhilov
b. 1965
Viktor Leonidovich Sheinis
1931 – 2023
Wilhelm Schmidt
1868 – 1954
Wilhelm Sponneck
1815 – 1888
Yuri Manin
1937 – 2023
Achille Grassi
1456 – 1523
Adam Strohm
1870 – 1951
Adina-Ioana Vălean
b. 1968
Aharon Appelfeld
1932 – 2018
Alain Rousset
b. 1951
Alec Reed
1934 – 2025
Alexander Pietrov
1838 – 1915
Alexandre Beaudoin
b. 1978
Alfred Kolleritsch
1931 – 2020
Amy Acton
b. 1966
András Csókay
b. 1956
Angus Cunninghame Graham
1893 – 1981
Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro
1944 – 2016
Aqmaral Älnazarova
b. 1971
Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
1871 – 1946
Arthur van Hoff
b. 1963
Artur Vader
1920 – 1978
Ashot Melkonyan
b. 1961
Asle Toje
b. 1974
Axel Möller
1830 – 1896
Barbara Kappel
b. 1965
Beatriz Barbuy
b. 1950
Bodo Ramelow
b. 1956
Bruce Beetham
1936 – 1997
Carla Barnett
b. 1958
Carlo Alfonso Nallino
1872 – 1938
Charles J. Hughes Jr.
1853 – 1911
Charles Read
1958 – 2015
Charles du Paty de Clam
1895 – 1948
Christopher Ashley Ford
b. 1967
Christopher John Boyce
b. 1953
Claire Wyart
b. 1977
Cowasji Jehangir
1879 – 1962
David Pollock, 3rd Viscount Hanworth
b. 1946
David Rouzer
b. 1972
Doug Chiang
b. 1962
Duong Van Minh
1916 – 2001
Ed Emshwiller
1925 – 1990
Edmund Broughton Barnard
1856 – 1930
Edward McTiernan
1892 – 1990
Edzard Reuter
1928 – 2024
Elaine Howard Ecklund
b. 1973
Eliahu Inbal
b. 1936
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
1932 – 2024
Ellen Gracie
b. 1948
Elías Yanes Álvarez
1928 – 2018
Erkki Ruoslahti
b. 1940
Evgeny Golubev
1910 – 1988
Fernando Solanas
1936 – 2020
Fernando Zavala
b. 1971
Foo Ping-sheung
1896 – 1965
Francis Galton
1822 – 1911
Francišak Kušal
1895 – 1969
Franz-Josef Bode
b. 1951
François-Xavier Ortoli
1925 – 2007
Georg Joachim Rheticus
1514 – 1574
George Andreasen
1934 – 1989
George Decker
1902 – 1980
Georges-Henri Lévesque
1903 – 2000
Geraint Evans
1922 – 1992
Gianni Canova
b. 1954
Hagit Attiya
b. 1962
Hailey Kilgore
b. 1999
Heinrich Barth
1821 – 1865
Henricus Bracq
1804 – 1888
Henry Adams
1838 – 1918
Horacio Guzmán
1913 – 1992
Ilijas Farah
b. 1966
Izydor Szaraniewicz
1829 – 1901
J. Hartwell Harrison
1909 – 1984
Jan Cybis
1897 – 1972
Jean-Marie Hullot
1954 – 2019
Jeffrey Lynn
1909 – 1995
Jerzy Rubach
b. 1948
Jesse B. Oldendorf
1887 – 1974
John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton
1778 – 1863
John Corigliano
b. 1938
John Galbraith Graham
1921 – 2013
John McEnroe
b. 1959
John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick
1770 – 1859
John S. Richards
1892 – 1979
Jules Janin
1804 – 1874
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
1757 – 1841
Julius Tandler
1869 – 1936
June Brown
1927 – 2022
Kari Enqvist
b. 1954
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
1804 – 1885
Katia Canciani
b. 1971
Kazimierz Kutz
1929 – 2018
Keith Ingram
1929 – 2007
Kim Jin-ai
b. 1953
Kim Jong-il
1941 – 2011
Kimberley Kitching
1970 – 2022
Kristine Stiles
b. 1947
Laura Nader
b. 1930
Linda Lear
b. 1940
Lucie Žáčková
b. 1978
Luigi Meneghello
1922 – 2007
Makoto Ōoka
1931 – 2017
Martin Read
b. 1950
Martiros Saryan
1880 – 1972
Matthew Bryza
b. 1964
Michel Eddé
1928 – 2019
Michelle Craske
b. 1959
Mishael Cheshin
1936 – 2015
Mohammad Hossein Adeli
b. 1953
Natalia Zhdanova
b. 1964
Natallia Eismant
b. 1984
Nelli Kalikova
b. 1949
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier
1664 – 1753
Nikolai Sevryugin
1939 – 2002
Nikolay Kashirin
1888 – 1938
Norman Talbot
1914 – 1979
Onésimo Redondo
1905 – 1936
Orlando Ribeiro
1911 – 1997
Pamfil Yurkevich
1826 – 1874
Paola Picotti
b. 1977
Park Sang-hak
b. 1968
Park Seung
b. 1936
Pascal Bérubé
b. 1975
Patama Leeswadtrakul
b. 1965
Paul Gilroy
b. 1956
Paul Wandel
1905 – 1995
Pavel Novgorodtsev
1866 – 1924
Peter Porter
1929 – 2010
Philip Ewell
b. 1966
Raúl Sáez
1913 – 1992
Richard Ford
b. 1944
Richard Jaeger
1913 – 1998
Robert Ryder
1908 – 1986
Roberto Torretti
1930 – 2022
Sam Rubin
1960 – 2024
Samuel Charles Whitbread
1796 – 1879
Selim Palmgren
1878 – 1951
Sheldon Pollock
b. 1948
Sigiswald Kuijken
b. 1944
Sonia Gardner
b. 1962
Stephen Moore
b. 1960
Steve McCarter
b. 1947
Sviatoslav Yurash
b. 1996
Takeyuki Sō
1908 – 1985
Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas
1741 – 1820
Tiberiu Popoviciu
1906 – 1975
Tomasz Kucharski
b. 1974
Torsten Nothin
1884 – 1972
Toshiyuki Kato
b. 1949
Valery Rubakov
1955 – 2022
Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov
1911 – 1992
Warren MacKenzie
1924 – 2018
Wiesław Żelazko
1933 – 2025
William Gurney Benham
1859 – 1944
William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton
1840 – 1917
Yasui Kono
1880 – 1971
Yevgeny Nazdratenko
b. 1949
Yoshishige Yoshida
1933 – 2022
Yukihiko Yasuda
1884 – 1978
Yurii Malashko
b. 1975
Zhang Yuzhe
1902 – 1986
Édouard Bocher
1811 – 1900
Élisabeth Lévy
b. 1964
… and 4,109 more
Died on February 16
Erich Hückel
1896 – 1980
Angela Carter
1940 – 1992
Bernard Henry Bourdillon
1883 – 1948
Bernard Lown
1921 – 2021
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
1922 – 2016
Chien-Shiung Wu
1912 – 1997
Ezio Vanoni
1903 – 1956
Ferdinand Buisson
1841 – 1932
Frank Porter Graham
1886 – 1972
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
1509 – 1579
Gudmund Sundby
1878 – 1973
Gustavo Noboa
1937 – 2021
Harry Hinsley
1918 – 1998
Heinrich von Srbik
1878 – 1951
Helene Ahrweiler
1926 – 2026
Henk Hofstra
1904 – 1999
Henry Walter Bates
1825 – 1892
Herman Wold
1908 – 1992
Jan Sokol
1936 – 2021
Jonas Basanavičius
1851 – 1927
José Luis Salcedo Bastardo
1926 – 2005
Louis Pierre Gratiolet
1815 – 1865
Meghnad Saha
1893 – 1956
Paul-Joseph Bodin
1847 – 1926
Pedro Beltrán
1897 – 1979
Pyotr Abrassimov
1912 – 2009
R. A. Wrede
1851 – 1938
Richard N. Gardner
1927 – 2019
Stuart Jack
1949 – 2022
Thomas Archer Hirst
1830 – 1892
Thomas Parran, Jr.
1892 – 1968
Wiktor Dega
1896 – 1995
William E. Gordon
1918 – 2010
Adam Fastnacht
1913 – 1987
Alexandre Varenne
1870 – 1947
Andrzej Potocki
1964 – 2025
Anthony Shadid
1968 – 2012
Aoki Shūzō
1844 – 1914
August Friedrich Wilhelm Forchhammer
1797 – 1870
B. B. Warfield
1851 – 1921
Boris Balmont
1927 – 2022
Cardinal de Rohan
1734 – 1803
Carlos Chagas Filho
1910 – 2000
Carlos Pellicer
1899 – 1977
Charles D. Ferris
1933 – 2024
Charles FitzRoy
1796 – 1858
Charles Laurent
1856 – 1939
Charles Mungoshi
1947 – 2019
Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1857 – 1920
Easmaeil Jabbarzadeh
1960 – 2022
Eric Ericson
1918 – 2013
Erik af Edholm
1878 – 1954
Ernst August Hagen
1797 – 1880
Fernando Abril Martorell
1936 – 1998
François Joseph Gossec
1734 – 1829
Frederick Wiseman
1930 – 2026
Frederik Schmidt
1771 – 1840
Fredrik August Dahlgren
1816 – 1895
Gail Roberta Martin
1944 – 2026
Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus
1776 – 1837
Grigory Pomerants
1918 – 2013
Han Lih-wu
1903 – 1991
Hans Larsson
1862 – 1944
Hans Leussink
1912 – 2008
Hans von Kaltenborn-Stachau
1836 – 1898
Heinrich Windelen
1921 – 2015
Hendrik Willem Tilanus
1884 – 1966
Ivan Moskvin
1874 – 1946
Jens Andreas Friis
1821 – 1896
Joan Margarit i Consarnau
1938 – 2021
John Davies
1938 – 2015
John Iliffe
1931 – 2020
John Sealy Townsend
1868 – 1957
John W. Gardner
1912 – 2002
Joseph Uchard
1809 – 1891
Jânio Quadros
1917 – 1992
Kazimierz Mikołaj Michalkiewicz
1865 – 1940
King Liu
1934 – 2026
Károly Khuen-Héderváry
1849 – 1918
László Lajtha
1892 – 1963
M. A. G. Osmani
1918 – 1984
Mark Sykes
1879 – 1919
Martin Kneser
1928 – 2004
Michel Deguy
1930 – 2022
Mildred Harnack
1902 – 1943
Minita Chico-Nazario
1939 – 2022
Nathan Witt
1903 – 1982
Neal Amundson
1916 – 2011
Ora Elmer Hunt
1866 – 1957
Pat Brown
1905 – 1996
Paul Chalfin
1874 – 1959
Paul Kempf
1856 – 1920
Paulette Nardal
1896 – 1985
Peter Voulkos
1924 – 2002
R. R. Patil
1957 – 2015
Richard Mead
1673 – 1754
Richard Ottinger
1929 – 2026
Richard Pankhurst
1927 – 2017
Robert B. Jordan
1932 – 2020
Roy Dikeman Chapin Sr.
1880 – 1936
Rózsa Péter
1905 – 1977
Samuel Wells Williams
1812 – 1884
Senda Berenson Abbott
1868 – 1954
Sergey Tyulpanov
1901 – 1984
Thomas Kelly Cheyne
1841 – 1915
Vasili Yakovlevich Zinger
1836 – 1907
Volodymyr Scherbytsky
1918 – 1990
Walter E. Dellinger III
1941 – 2022
William Everett
1839 – 1910
Yannis Kounellis
1936 – 2017
Abbas al-Musawi
1952 – 1992
Abraham Herr Smith
1815 – 1894
Adriano Hernández
1870 – 1925
Ahmed Boukhari
1938 – 2025
Aleksandar Tišma
1924 – 2003
Alessandro Asinari di San Marzano
1830 – 1906
Allen T. Treadway
1867 – 1947
Amos Sawyer
1945 – 2022
Anatoliy Brandukov
1859 – 1930
Anton Hilbert
1898 – 1986
Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton
1740 – 1819
August Rauber
1841 – 1917
Auguste Raffet
1804 – 1860
Avel Gordly
1947 – 2026
B. S. Kesavan
1909 – 2000
Bailey Olter
1932 – 1999
Bernard Paget
1887 – 1961
Bertel Långhjelm
1903 – 1987
Bo Lamar
1951 – 2026
Bob C. Riley
1924 – 1994
Bruno Ganz
1941 – 2019
Bärbel Inhelder
1913 – 1997
Carl August Ehrensvärd
1858 – 1944
Carl Gunderson
1864 – 1933
Carl Theodore Vogelgesang
1869 – 1927
Carl von Opel
1869 – 1927
Carolina Benedicks-Bruce
1856 – 1935
Cesare Dell'Acqua
1821 – 1905
Charles Ferguson Hoey
1914 – 1944
Charles Pearce Coady
1868 – 1934
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria
1724 – 1799
Charles-Marie Philippes de Kerhallet
1809 – 1863
Charlie Kraak
1932 – 2014
Chennaveera Kanavi
1928 – 2022
Christopher William Puller
1807 – 1864
Cicely Mary Barker
1895 – 1973
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
1824 – 1904
Claus Pavels
1769 – 1822
Cyril J. O'Donnell
1900 – 1976
Dick Bruna
1927 – 2017
Dimitris Mytaras
1934 – 2017
Donald William Nicholson
1888 – 1968
Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga
1771 – 1848
E. Roland Harriman
1895 – 1978
Edward Copson
1901 – 1980
Edward Swift Isham
1836 – 1902
Eleanor Winsor Leach
1937 – 2018
Elisha Kent Kane
1820 – 1857
Elizabeth Nyström
1942 – 2016
Elmelindo Smith
1935 – 1967
Emmanuel Henri Victurnien de Noailles
1830 – 1909
Ernest Brown
1881 – 1962
Ernest Cady
1842 – 1908
Ernst Weber
1901 – 1996
Ethel Stark
1910 – 2012
Eugenio Carmi
1920 – 2016
Evan Walker
1935 – 2015
Florence Hall
1888 – 1983
Floris Arntzenius
1864 – 1925
Francis E. Low
1921 – 2007
Francis Hodur
1866 – 1953
Francis Peyton Rous
1879 – 1970
Frank McIntyre
1865 – 1944
François Frédéric Campana
1771 – 1807
Fred V. Cherry
1928 – 2016
Friedrich Dessauer
1881 – 1963
Friedrich Reinitzer
1857 – 1927
Fritz von Wille
1860 – 1941
Félix Faure
1841 – 1899
Gail Halvorsen
1920 – 2022
Gary Carter
1954 – 2012
Gene Snyder
1928 – 2007
Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte
1851 – 1948
Geoffrey B. Waywell
1944 – 2016
Georg Carl von Döbeln
1758 – 1820
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz
1904 – 1973
Georg Nöbeling
1907 – 2008
George Beatson
1848 – 1933
George E. Bryant
1832 – 1907
George Murray
1784 – 1860
George P. Codd
1869 – 1927
George Steele
1937 – 2017
Georges Perrier
1872 – 1946
Gilbert Génébrard
1535 – 1597
Giorgio Ruffolo
1926 – 2023
Giovanni Di Guglielmo
1886 – 1962
Giuseppe Palumbo
1840 – 1913
Glenn E. Summers
1925 – 2020
Godfrey G. Goodwin
1873 – 1933
Grete Groh-Kummerlöw
1909 – 1980
… and 1,847 more