On This Day — March 16
4304 noted people were born and 2068 died on March 16 in our archive, including Eduard Heine, Pyotr Aven and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 16
Eduard Heine
1821 – 1881
Pyotr Aven
b. 1955
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
b. 1944
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
1927 – 2003
David S. Tatel
b. 1942
Ernest Labrousse
1895 – 1988
Francisco Ayala
1906 – 2009
Frederick Reines
1918 – 1998
Georg Simon Ohm
1789 – 1854
Guido Rossi
1931 – 2017
Gösta Mittag-Leffler
1846 – 1927
Heinrich Kayser
1853 – 1940
Hiroaki Kitano
b. 1961
Jan Pronk
b. 1940
Jean Capelle
1909 – 1983
John B. Hearnshaw
b. 1946
John Brooks Slaughter
1934 – 2023
José García Belaúnde
1948 – 2025
Józef Siemiradzki
1858 – 1933
Kunihiko Kodaira
1915 – 1997
Mark Carney
b. 1965
Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck
1851 – 1931
María del Carmen Iglesias Cano
b. 1942
Michael Dixon
b. 1956
Mike Mansfield
1903 – 2001
Pierre Harmel
1911 – 2009
Raymond Hoffenberg
1923 – 2007
Stefano Zacchiroli
b. 1979
Uri Alon
b. 1969
Ursula Wiltshire Goodenough
b. 1943
William Eagle Clarke
1853 – 1938
Alain Gerolami
1926 – 2024
Alberto Cañas Escalante
1920 – 2014
Aldo van Eyck
1918 – 1999
Aleksei Birilev
1844 – 1915
Aleksey Mitrofanov
b. 1962
Aleksey Tsydenov
b. 1976
Alexandre Bouzdine
b. 1954
Alexi Giannoulias
b. 1976
Alfred Stucky
1892 – 1969
Ami Boué
1794 – 1881
Anneliese Dodds
b. 1978
Anthony Kenny
1931 – 2026
Anti Liiv
1946 – 2025
Anton Mailyan
1880 – 1942
Antonio de los Ríos y Rosas
1812 – 1873
Bernardo Bertolucci
1941 – 2018
Bipin Rawat
1958 – 2021
Bob Ley
b. 1955
Bogo Grafenauer
1916 – 1995
Bruce Reed
b. 1960
Carlos Kuschel Silva
b. 1953
Carrol Chandler
b. 1952
Charles Goodell
1926 – 1987
Charles Harding Firth
1857 – 1936
Chris D. Frith
b. 1942
David Heath
b. 1954
David MacMillan
b. 1968
Edward N. Zalta
b. 1952
Edward Nicholson
1849 – 1912
Eiji Aonuma
b. 1963
Elliott Belgrave
b. 1931
Emmett H. Walker, Jr.
1924 – 2007
Erling Lae
b. 1947
Eugene Hackmann
1793 – 1873
Eveline M. Burns
1900 – 1985
Evgeny Kuyvashev
b. 1971
Ferdinand Meldahl
1827 – 1908
Florence Comite
b. 1952
Gaëtan de Rochebouët
1813 – 1899
George Clymer
1739 – 1813
George W. Pepper
1867 – 1961
Gideon Greif
b. 1951
Giuseppe Francesco Italiano
b. 1961
Greg Stein
b. 1967
Gunnar Vada
1927 – 2018
Gyula O. H. Katona
b. 1941
Haakon Sørbye
1920 – 2016
Hamiduzzaman Khan
1946 – 2025
Hannes Heer
b. 1941
Harold Taylor Wood Grant
1899 – 1965
Horace Davis
1831 – 1916
Hubert Joseph Dolez
1808 – 1880
Inger Støjberg
b. 1973
Isabelle Huppert
b. 1953
Ivo Goldstein
b. 1958
Jacqueline Baudrier
1922 – 2009
James C. McConville
b. 1959
James Hector
1834 – 1907
James Madison
1751 – 1836
James Miller
1905 – 1977
James St Clair-Erskine, 5th Earl of Rosslyn
1869 – 1939
Jan Glastra van Loon
1920 – 2001
Jean Davey
1909 – 1980
Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg
1445 – 1510
John Bērziņš
b. 1957
John Milliken Parker, Sr
1863 – 1939
Jos Chabert
1933 – 2014
Josef Maria Eder
1855 – 1944
Josef Mengele
1911 – 1979
Josiah Wedgwood, Baron Wedgwood
1872 – 1943
José de Carvajal y Lancáster
1698 – 1754
Julia Letlow
b. 1981
Józef Wierusz-Kowalski
1866 – 1927
Kabir Suman
b. 1949
Karl Hürthle
1860 – 1945
Kaveh Pahlavan
b. 1951
Keith Devlin
b. 1947
Kenneth Prewitt
1936 – 2026
Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud
b. 1951
Konstantin Syomin
b. 1980
Lahcen Haddad
b. 1960
Lord George Paget
1818 – 1880
Luis E. Miramontes Cárdenas
1925 – 2004
Lupe Cotrim
1933 – 1970
Lyle Denniston
b. 1931
Maria Arnholm
b. 1958
Mark Sykes
1879 – 1919
Mary Jennings Hegar
b. 1976
María Eugenia Manaud
b. 1949
Masaaki Yuasa
b. 1965
Maxim Gorky
1868 – 1936
Merlin Bartz
b. 1961
Mike Hayden
b. 1944
Mykola Burachek
1871 – 1942
Oleg Pavlov
1970 – 2018
Olena Parkhomchuk
b. 1966
Pat Nixon
1912 – 1993
Patrick Dean
1909 – 1994
Pedro de Tapia
1582 – 1657
Philippe Burrin
b. 1952
Pierre-François Veil
1954 – 2026
Ray Hnatyshyn
1934 – 2002
Raymond Vahan Damadian
1936 – 2022
Richard Marais
b. 1964
Richard Rossmanith
b. 1955
Robèrt Lafont
1923 – 2009
Ronald H. Griffith
1936 – 2018
Rotem Sorek
b. 1975
Rudolf Rahn
1900 – 1975
Sebastian Currier
b. 1959
Serafim Saca
1935 – 2011
Sergei Yursky
1935 – 2019
Sergey Chizhov
b. 1964
Shibusawa Eiichi
1840 – 1931
Shuji Kira
b. 1958
Siegfried Flügge
1912 – 1997
Silvio Pellerano
1858 – 1927
Solomon Lozovsky
1878 – 1952
Stuyvesant Wainwright
1921 – 2010
Sully Prudhomme
1839 – 1907
Taguhi Ghazaryan
b. 1991
Thomas Blackburn
1844 – 1912
Thomas Edward Collcutt
1840 – 1924
Tina Beattie
b. 1955
Tito Mboweni
1959 – 2024
Todd McFarlane
b. 1961
Tonino Guerra
1920 – 2012
Valentin Magnan
1835 – 1916
Walter Cunningham
1932 – 2023
Werner Eggerath
1900 – 1977
William Byrd II
1674 – 1744
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
1893 – 1977
William H. Miller
b. 1941
William L. Langer
1896 – 1977
William Serrin
1939 – 2018
Abayomi Ajayi
b. 1961
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
1892 – 1977
Abe Gray
b. 1982
Adriana González Carrillo
b. 1975
Agustín Laje
b. 1989
Aisling Bea
b. 1984
Alan Howard
1929 – 2020
Alan Tudyk
b. 1971
Albert Jacob
b. 1980
Albert Tipton
1917 – 1997
Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
1928 – 1983
Aleksei Musin-Pushkin
1744 – 1817
Alex Compton
b. 1974
Alexander Italianer
b. 1956
Alexander Panzhinskiy
b. 1989
Alexander S. Wiener
1907 – 1976
Alexander Vostokov
1781 – 1864
Alexey Bogolyubov
1824 – 1896
Ali Manikfan
b. 1932
Alice Hoffman
b. 1952
Amos Tversky
1937 – 1996
Anders Martin-Löf
1940 – 2026
Andre Young
b. 1990
Andrew Feinstein
b. 1964
Andrew James Bond
b. 1965
Andrew Smith Hallidie
1836 – 1900
Andriy Klochko
b. 1981
Angela Taylor
b. 1965
Angus Holden, 1st Baron Holden
1833 – 1912
Angus Lapsley
b. 1970
Anna Dengel
1892 – 1980
Anna Grodzka
b. 1954
Anne Smith, Lady Smith
b. 1955
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá
1899 – 1961
… and 4,104 more
Died on March 16
Derek Barton
1918 – 1998
Alan B. Krueger
1960 – 2019
Alexander Pochinok
1958 – 2014
Alfred Merlin
1876 – 1965
Andrew Sledd
1870 – 1939
Antoine Lacroix
1863 – 1948
Charles Eliot
1862 – 1931
Dik Wolfson
1933 – 2025
Donald Crothers
1937 – 2014
Edward S. Holden
1846 – 1914
Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian
1895 – 1971
Henri Cordier
1849 – 1925
Jamal Nazrul Islam
1939 – 2013
Maurice Halbwachs
1877 – 1945
Max Gürke
1854 – 1911
Morris Berthold Abram
1918 – 2000
Peter Serracino Inglott
1936 – 2012
Thomas Little Heath
1861 – 1940
William Beveridge
1879 – 1963
Adolf Joszt
1889 – 1957
Alexander Naumann
1837 – 1922
Alfred J. Noll
1960 – 2026
Alfred Müller-Armack
1901 – 1978
Amos Kloner
1940 – 2019
Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov
1834 – 1896
Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann
1796 – 1864
Andrej Žarnov
1903 – 1982
André Boulloche
1915 – 1978
Anton Reinhard Falck
1777 – 1843
Archibald Lamont
1907 – 1985
Arthur A. Hartman
1926 – 2015
Arthur Marshall
1903 – 2007
Aziz Ab'Sáber
1924 – 2012
Balthasar, Duke of Mecklenburg
1451 – 1507
Barbara Hammer
1939 – 2019
Bernard Victor Aloysius Röling
1906 – 1985
C.S. Venkitaraman
1918 – 1994
Carl Wurzinger
1817 – 1883
Cesare Segre
1928 – 2014
Charles Albert Gobat
1843 – 1914
Charles Henry Hall
1763 – 1827
Charles S. Reifsnider
1875 – 1958
Chen Geng
1903 – 1961
Chris van der Klaauw
1924 – 2005
Curt Wittje
1894 – 1947
Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer
1815 – 1889
Eduard Pflüger
1823 – 1910
Edward Augustus Freeman
1823 – 1892
Edward Ebenezer Kay
1822 – 1897
Edward Shearman Ross
1915 – 2016
Edwin J. Roland
1905 – 1985
Emil Fagure
1873 – 1948
Ernst Heinrich Toelken
1785 – 1869
Frank Kitts
1912 – 1979
François-Xavier Fabre
1766 – 1837
Félix Savart
1791 – 1841
Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro
1832 – 1904
George Bruce Halsted
1853 – 1922
Gladys Kessler
1938 – 2023
Gunnar Ekelöf
1907 – 1968
Harold Turbott
1899 – 1988
Helene Vannari
1948 – 2022
Henrik Gabriel Porthan
1739 – 1804
Henryk Struve
1840 – 1912
Hiram Edmund Deats
1870 – 1963
Ivey Foreman Lewis
1882 – 1964
Jaime Zipper
1926 – 2011
James Wilberforce Longley
1849 – 1922
Jan Herman van Roijen Jr.
1905 – 1991
Janusz Jędrzejewicz
1885 – 1951
Jean Monnet
1888 – 1979
Jean-Baptiste Campenon
1819 – 1891
Jesús María de Leizaola
1896 – 1989
John James Rickard Macleod
1876 – 1935
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
1871 – 1942
John West, 1st Earl De La Warr
1693 – 1766
Juan Gómez Millas
1900 – 1987
Julius Christiaan van Oven
1881 – 1963
K. Leroy Irvis
1919 – 2006
Kamal Jumblatt
1917 – 1977
L.N. Hvidt
1777 – 1856
Lorenz E. Zimmerman
1920 – 2013
Louise Heims Beck
1889 – 1978
Marguerite Durand
1864 – 1936
Marina Solodkin
1952 – 2013
Marjorie Grene
1910 – 2009
Markus Brüderlin
1958 – 2014
Maurits Hansen
1794 – 1842
Mervyn O'Gorman
1871 – 1958
Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly
1943 – 2019
Moudud Ahmed
1940 – 2021
Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli
1944 – 2021
Patrick French
1966 – 2023
Poul Løvenørn
1751 – 1826
Prisdang of Siam
1851 – 1935
Richmond Pearson Hobson
1870 – 1937
Robert Bond
1857 – 1927
Roger Sessions
1896 – 1985
Samuel Kotz
1930 – 2010
Selma Lagerlöf
1858 – 1940
Sergey Maksimenko
1954 – 2026
Sergey Vasilyevich Kravkov
1893 – 1951
Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat
1911 – 1995
Swire Smith
1842 – 1918
Sylvain Augier
1955 – 2024
Takaaki Yoshimoto
1924 – 2012
Trygve Bull
1905 – 1999
Vijay Kumar Kapahi
1944 – 1999
Václav Talich
1883 – 1961
Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton
1832 – 1909
Abdul Hyee
1952 – 2024
Abdurrahman Baswedan
1908 – 1986
Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars
1793 – 1864
Alan Sieroty
1930 – 2024
Albert Hackett
1900 – 1995
Albert Samuel Gatschet
1832 – 1907
Alex Wheatle
1963 – 2025
Alexander Lodygin
1847 – 1923
Alexander von Staël-Holstein
1877 – 1937
Alfred Edersheim
1825 – 1889
Alfréd Haar
1885 – 1933
Alma Söderhjelm
1870 – 1949
Aloysius Schwartz
1930 – 1992
Andrew Beirne
1771 – 1845
Anura Bandaranaike
1949 – 2008
Arthur Godfrey
1903 – 1983
Arthur Lewis Miller
1892 – 1967
Arthur R. M. Spaid
1866 – 1936
Artur Sargsyan
1968 – 2017
August von Wassermann
1866 – 1925
Bebe Daniels
1901 – 1971
Benjamin Baker Moeur
1869 – 1937
Benjamin Wadsworth
1670 – 1737
Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk
1765 – 1842
Bernardino Grimaldi
1839 – 1897
Börries von Münchhausen
1874 – 1945
Camilo Henríquez
1769 – 1825
Carel Boshoff
1927 – 2011
Carmen de Icaza
1899 – 1979
Charles D. Franklin
1931 – 1992
Charles Vaughan-Lee
1867 – 1928
Charles Wolley-Dod
1892 – 1937
Chishū Ryū
1904 – 1993
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
1776 – 1858
Constantin Brâncuși
1876 – 1957
Césaire Phisalix
1852 – 1906
Dave Gunther
1937 – 2024
David Briggs
1917 – 2020
David M. Peterson
1894 – 1919
David Prain
1857 – 1944
David Seidler
1937 – 2024
Denver David Hargis
1921 – 1989
Desmond Brayley, Baron Brayley
1917 – 1977
Dick Radatz
1937 – 2005
Dieter Zechlin
1926 – 2012
Donald E. Hillman
1918 – 2012
Dzintars Jaundžeikars
1956 – 2022
Edmund Burke Delabarre
1863 – 1945
Edward Story
1401 – 1503
Edwin Bingham Copeland
1873 – 1964
Emil Fey
1886 – 1938
Eric Overmyer
1951 – 2026
Ervin Abel
1929 – 1984
Euclides Scalco
1932 – 2021
Fletcher B. Swank
1875 – 1950
Florencio Durán
1893 – 1978
Francis Nicholson
1655 – 1727
Frank Fitzgerald
1885 – 1939
Franklin Brockson
1865 – 1942
François Vatable
1495 – 1547
Fred Rose
1907 – 1983
Frederic William Burton
1816 – 1900
Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre
1688 – 1781
Gaston Calmette
1858 – 1914
Geoffrey Vickers
1894 – 1982
George Mitchell
1877 – 1939
George Thompson Fairchild
1838 – 1901
Georges Giraud
1889 – 1943
Georges-Marie Haardt
1884 – 1932
Gordon H. Brown
1931 – 2025
Gratien Gélinas
1909 – 1999
Gregory Žatkovich
1886 – 1967
Grozdana Olujić-Lešić
1934 – 2019
Guillaume de L'Aubespine
1547 – 1629
Harold T. Johnson
1907 – 1988
Harry Söderman
1902 – 1956
Hashem Bathaie Golpayegani
1941 – 2020
Heinrich Sutermeister
1910 – 1995
Henri Coutard
1876 – 1950
Henri de Guénégaud
1609 – 1676
Henri de Paschal de Rochegude
1741 – 1834
Henrik Siravyan
1928 – 2001
Hermann Ludwig von Balan
1812 – 1874
Hugues Merle
1822 – 1881
Ignacio Silva Ureta
1837 – 1924
Ignazio Gardella
1905 – 1999
Isaac C. Bates
1779 – 1845
Israel F. Fischer
1858 – 1940
Ivan Dixon
1931 – 2008
Ivan Vyhovskyi
1608 – 1664
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