On This Day — June 16
4168 noted people were born and 1837 died on June 16 in our archive, including Albert Thomas, Alexander Friedmann and Leonard Susskind.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on June 16
Albert Thomas
1878 – 1932
Alexander Friedmann
1888 – 1925
Leonard Susskind
b. 1940
Robert Kraft
1927 – 2015
Alison Gopnik
b. 1955
Anatoly Chubais
b. 1955
Andrea M. Ghez
b. 1965
Bikash Sinha
1945 – 2023
C. E. Beeby
1902 – 1998
Can Dündar
b. 1961
Chen Yinque
1890 – 1969
Constantin von Ettingshausen
1826 – 1897
Daniel Shek
b. 1955
David Wright
b. 1944
Edith Aitken
1861 – 1940
Eduard Fischer
1861 – 1939
Elan Closs Stephens
b. 1948
Emily Drabinski
b. 1975
Enoch Powell
1912 – 1998
Galina Arapova
b. 1972
Giovanni Galloni
1927 – 2018
Grigoriy Mihaylovich Naginskiy
b. 1958
Ivan Abramov
b. 1978
Jean d'Ormesson
1925 – 2017
Lawrence Kolb
1911 – 2006
Lennart von Post
1884 – 1951
Leon Athanase Gosselin
1815 – 1887
Marylène Patou-Mathis
b. 1955
Matthew Rycroft
b. 1968
Michel Raynaud
1938 – 2018
Neil MacGregor
b. 1946
Paul Vidal
1863 – 1931
Purnomo Yusgiantoro
b. 1951
Raymond Lemieux
1920 – 2000
Volodymyr Kaltsev
b. 1966
William F. Sharpe
b. 1934
Yoshirō Hayashi
1927 – 2017
Aimé Morot
1850 – 1913
Akhmatbek Keldibekov
b. 1966
Aleskej Šapošnikov
b. 1973
Ali-Asghar Hekmat
1892 – 1980
Anatoly Perminov
b. 1945
Andrea Jenkyns
b. 1974
Andriy Ivanchuk
1973 – 2023
Anna Cathcart
b. 2003
Antonina Nezhdanova
1873 – 1950
Anuna De Wever
b. 2001
Ariano Suassuna
1927 – 2014
Artemi Troitski
b. 1955
Auguste Edouard Hirschauer
1857 – 1943
Aureliano Fernández-Guerra
1816 – 1894
Avigdor Kahalani
b. 1944
Awn Alsharif Qasim
1933 – 2006
Badma Bashankayev
b. 1978
Barbara McClintock
1902 – 1992
Bertrand de Speville
1941 – 2020
Bill White
b. 1954
Buky Schwartz
1932 – 2009
Catherine Day
b. 1954
Charles Perkins
1936 – 2000
Charles Speziale
1948 – 1999
Craig Calhoun
b. 1952
Dalton Conley
b. 1969
David Grenfell
1881 – 1968
David Owen Norris
b. 1953
David Popper
1843 – 1913
Dietrich Braess
b. 1938
Digby Cayley Wrangham
1805 – 1863
Donald F. McGahn II
b. 1968
Edmond Duvernoy
1844 – 1927
Edmond-Charles Édouard de Martimprey
1808 – 1883
Efraín Ríos Montt
1926 – 2018
Ellen Bass
b. 1947
Ellen Nisbeth
b. 1987
Erich Segal
1937 – 2010
Federica Mogherini
b. 1973
Femi Osofisan
b. 1946
Françoise Henry
1902 – 1982
Fred Dutton
1923 – 2005
Fredrik Ljungström
1875 – 1964
Gaston Diderich
1884 – 1946
Georg Jellinek
1851 – 1911
Georg Meistermann
1911 – 1990
Ghukas Chubaryan
1923 – 2009
Giorgos Papandreou
b. 1952
Grete Faremo
b. 1955
Gustaf V of Sweden
1858 – 1950
Hans Georg Feichtinger
b. 1951
He Ting Ru
b. 1983
Heiko Braak
b. 1937
Henry M. Crane
1874 – 1956
Holly Rowe
b. 1966
Houda-Imane Faraoun
b. 1979
Ifigenia Martínez y Hernández
1925 – 2024
Imre Trencsényi-Waldapfel
1908 – 1970
Ivo Komšić
b. 1948
Jeffrey Ashby
b. 1954
Jesús Rodríguez
b. 1955
Jodi Rell
1946 – 2024
Johan Henrik Thomander
1798 – 1865
John Cheke
1514 – 1557
Jon Oberlander
1962 – 2017
Jorge Buxadé Villalba
b. 1975
Josep Lobató
b. 1977
Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé
1846 – 1937
Joseph Swain
1857 – 1927
Joyce Carol Oates
b. 1938
João Gomes Cravinho
b. 1964
Juan Velasco Alvarado
1910 – 1977
Julia Reichert
1946 – 2022
Julius Petersen
1839 – 1910
Józef Szujski
1835 – 1883
Jürgen Klopp
b. 1967
Karen Dunnell
b. 1946
Kathleen Vinehout
b. 1958
Kees Posthumus
1902 – 1972
Kim Do-yeon
1894 – 1967
Kishichirō Ōkura
1882 – 1963
Ko Wing Man
b. 1957
Leeona Dorrian, Lady Dorrian
b. 1957
Ljubica Jelušič
b. 1960
Luca Gammaitoni
b. 1961
Luigi Mangiagalli
1849 – 1928
Magoichi Tawara
1869 – 1944
Manfredi Nicoletti
1930 – 2017
Margarita Ivanovna Filanovich
b. 1937
Maria Burmaka
b. 1970
Maria Fernanda Rollo
b. 1965
Marian Irwin Osterhout
1888 – 1973
Mariana Mazzucato
b. 1968
Mariano Rumor
1915 – 1990
Martin T. Barlow
b. 1953
Masatada Yamasaki
1872 – 1950
Maylis de Kerangal
b. 1967
Melania Ursu
1940 – 2016
Michael Cramer
b. 1949
Michael Francis Burbidge
b. 1957
Michael Shellenberger
b. 1971
Mithun Chakraborty
b. 1950
Mohammed Harbi
1933 – 2026
Māris Čaklais
1940 – 2003
Nancy Hopkins
b. 1943
Nerio Nesi
1925 – 2024
Nikolaus von der Nonne
1836 – 1906
Otto von Stülpnagel
1878 – 1948
Paul Yoo
b. 1957
Paweł Anweiler
b. 1950
Peter-André Alt
b. 1960
Phaedon Gizikis
1917 – 1999
Phyllis Sellick
1911 – 2007
Raheel Sharif
b. 1956
Ronen Bergman
b. 1972
Rosa Sensat
1873 – 1961
Rudolph Yanovskiy
1929 – 2010
Sarit Thanarat
1908 – 1963
Sergei Bulgakov
1871 – 1944
Sergey Platonov
1860 – 1933
Shami Chakrabarti
b. 1969
Shyamaprasad Mukherjee
b. 1939
Siarhei Kalyakin
1952 – 2024
Simeon II of Bulgaria
b. 1937
Sjokz
b. 1987
Steve Aiken
b. 1962
Talbot Hamlin
1889 – 1956
Taylor G. Wang
b. 1940
Terry Schofield
b. 1948
The Ultimate Warrior
1959 – 2014
Vasyl Vovkun
b. 1957
Vera Atkins
1908 – 2000
Vicente Rao
1892 – 1978
Victor Halberstadt
1939 – 2024
Vyacheslav Shport
b. 1954
Walter M. W. Splawn
1883 – 1963
Warner Tjardus Koiter
1914 – 1997
William Yeager
b. 1940
Woldemar Kernig
1840 – 1917
Yehuda Elkana
1934 – 2012
Yulia Latynina
b. 1966
Yury Emelyanov
1937 – 2026
Zainab Ahmed
b. 1960
Östen Sjöstrand
1925 – 2006
Aaron Ehasz
b. 1973
Aarya Ambekar
b. 1994
Abul Barkat
1927 – 1952
Adalbert Wirz
1848 – 1925
Adelio Paucara
b. 1965
Adir Miller
b. 1974
Adisu Massala
b. 1961
Aedanus Burke
1743 – 1802
Ahmad Basarah
b. 1968
Al Skinner
b. 1952
Albert Louppe
1856 – 1927
Albrycht Władysław Radziwiłł
1589 – 1636
Alda Levi
1890 – 1950
Alessandro Marchetti
1884 – 1966
Alex Len
b. 1993
Alexander Zaitsev
b. 1952
Alexandre Astier
b. 1974
Alfonso Pérez Sánchez
1935 – 2010
Alfred Salter
1873 – 1945
… and 3,968 more
Died on June 16
Alessandro Faedo
1913 – 2001
Andrew Lawson
1861 – 1952
Christian Cabrol
1925 – 2017
George Rolleston
1829 – 1881
Herman Goldstine
1913 – 2004
Sydney Chapman
1888 – 1970
Benjamin Whisoh Lee
1935 – 1977
Daniel Ellsberg
1931 – 2023
Edward Woyniłłowicz
1847 – 1928
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
1860 – 1930
Eugène Flachat
1802 – 1873
Eugénie Cotton
1881 – 1967
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
1931 – 2018
Georg Henrik von Wright
1916 – 2003
Herman Grimm
1828 – 1901
Jerzy Pniewski
1913 – 1989
Joan Viñas i Salas
1950 – 2026
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
1889 – 1971
John S. Knight
1894 – 1981
Julius Weingarten
1836 – 1910
Ludwig Adamovich
1932 – 2024
Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas
1858 – 1929
Norman Hackerman
1912 – 2007
Pedro Calmon
1902 – 1985
Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton
1870 – 1924
Wernher von Braun
1912 – 1977
William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
1755 – 1843
Albert Bushnell Hart
1854 – 1943
Aleksei Antonov
1896 – 1962
Armand de Mestral
1941 – 2023
Arnold Eucken
1884 – 1950
Bengt Göransson
1932 – 2021
Bruce Bastian
1948 – 2024
Cadambi Sheshachar Venkatachar
1899 – 1999
Camillo Ruini
1931 – 2026
Carl Olof Tallgren
1927 – 2024
Charles E. Saltzman
1903 – 1994
Charles Sturt
1795 – 1869
David Mourão-Ferreira
1927 – 1996
Edgar Rees Jones
1878 – 1962
Eduard Khananov
1942 – 2004
Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
1689 – 1741
Elvin A. Kabat
1914 – 2000
Erlendur Patursson
1913 – 1986
Ernst Schröder
1841 – 1902
Eva Turner
1892 – 1990
Evgeny Feoktistov
1828 – 1898
Franklin David Murphy
1916 – 1994
Frederick Andermann
1930 – 2019
Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden
1868 – 1928
Gabriela Vránová
1939 – 2018
Gennady Kulik
1935 – 2023
George Robert Crotch
1842 – 1874
George Whitecross Paton
1902 – 1985
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
1891 – 1969
Helmut Kohl
1930 – 2017
Howard J. Burnett
1929 – 2019
J. Herbert Burke
1913 – 1993
Jafar Sharif-Emami
1910 – 1998
James Massey
1934 – 2013
Jaroslava Adamová
1925 – 2012
Jean Capart
1877 – 1947
Jean Emile Laboureur
1877 – 1943
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
1650 – 1722
John Scott Lidgett
1854 – 1953
Jule Gregory Charney
1917 – 1981
Karl Mewis
1907 – 1987
Kōjun
1903 – 2000
Lawrence Stone
1919 – 1999
Liao Jingwen
1923 – 2015
Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich
1901 – 1979
Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
1777 – 1848
Ludwig Förster
1797 – 1863
M. Azizur Rahman
1941 – 2018
Marcel Brillouin
1854 – 1948
Marcel Junod
1904 – 1961
Maurice Duruflé
1902 – 1986
Maurice Nadeau
1911 – 2013
Michael Confino
1926 – 2010
Mukul Kundu
1930 – 2010
Nathan Smith Davis
1817 – 1904
Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
1933 – 2012
Nereu Ramos
1888 – 1958
Nils Edén
1871 – 1945
Paul-François Dubois
1793 – 1874
Pearl Young
1895 – 1968
Percy Stafford Allen
1869 – 1933
Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarié
1890 – 1967
Prafulla Chandra Ray
1861 – 1944
Pál Maléter
1917 – 1958
Raymond F. Boyce
1946 – 1974
Robert Thurman
1941 – 2026
Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet
1712 – 1779
Stan Cross
1888 – 1977
Sławomir Petelicki
1946 – 2012
Thanom Kittikachorn
1911 – 2004
Theodor Thjøtta
1885 – 1955
Thierry Roland
1937 – 2012
Torolf Prytz
1858 – 1938
Vernon Louis Parrington
1871 – 1929
Victor Delbos
1862 – 1916
Werner Eggerath
1900 – 1977
Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette
1780 – 1849
William Branwhite Clarke
1798 – 1878
Y. N. Sukthankar
1897 – 1973
Yohanan Bader
1901 – 1994
Yuri Fedotov
1947 – 2022
Abner M. Aust
1921 – 2020
Adam Harasowski
1904 – 1996
Adolphe Ferrière
1879 – 1960
Adrien, Count of Rougé
1782 – 1838
Aldo Pignanelli
1950 – 2019
Alexander Chervyakov
1892 – 1937
Alexander Stuart
1824 – 1886
Alexander Voeykov
1779 – 1839
Alfred Fitzpatrick
1862 – 1936
Alois Mertes
1921 – 1985
Amedeo Guillet
1909 – 2010
Andrew Ewing
1813 – 1864
Andrey Arkhangelsky
1879 – 1940
Anna Whitlock
1852 – 1930
Anne Pierre Adrien, duc de Montmorency-Laval
1768 – 1837
Antonio Montero Moreno
1928 – 2022
Arthur Cole
1780 – 1844
Arthur Raymond Penfold
1890 – 1980
Assaat
1904 – 1976
August zu Eulenburg
1838 – 1921
Ben Helfgott
1929 – 2023
Bettye Washington Greene
1935 – 1995
Bill Berkson
1939 – 2016
Bob Schul
1937 – 2024
Bronisław Huberman
1882 – 1947
Camillo Grossi
1876 – 1941
Charles Correa
1930 – 2015
Charles H. Ruggles
1789 – 1865
Charlie Mariano
1923 – 2009
Chittaranjan Das
1870 – 1925
Christiaan Pieter Gunning
1886 – 1960
Christian the Younger of Brunswick
1599 – 1626
Chrix Dahl
1906 – 1994
Claude Bardos
1940 – 2026
Crawford Williamson Long
1815 – 1878
Curt Hanson
1943 – 2017
Cyd Charisse
1921 – 2008
Daniel Kleppner
1932 – 2025
Dave Scott
1972 – 2025
David Davies, 1st Baron Davies
1880 – 1944
Don Neely
1935 – 2022
Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr.
1935 – 2020
Edward C. Elliott
1874 – 1960
Edward Dickinson
1803 – 1874
Edward Salisbury Dana
1849 – 1935
Edward Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley
1802 – 1869
Edwin C. Burleigh
1843 – 1916
Eleanor Williams
1884 – 1963
Elsa Triolet
1896 – 1970
Emil Molt
1876 – 1936
Emmanuel Laroche
1914 – 1991
Enrique Laguerre
1905 – 2005
Eric C. Bauman
1958 – 2025
Ernest Roberts
1847 – 1912
Estevan Antonio Fuertes
1838 – 1903
Eugen Rozvan
1878 – 1938
Ezra Fitch
1865 – 1930
Federico Corriente Córdoba
1940 – 2020
Ferdinand Adolf Kehrer
1837 – 1914
Fernando Cotoner y Chacón
1817 – 1888
Fortunio Liceti
1577 – 1657
Francine Shapiro
1948 – 2019
Frank Stephens
1859 – 1935
François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan
1607 – 1687
Georg Leibbrandt
1899 – 1982
George E. Waldo
1851 – 1942
George Philip Jr.
1912 – 1945
George Reeves
1914 – 1959
Georges Richard
1863 – 1922
Georgy Blagonravov
1896 – 1938
Gilbert Bachelu
1777 – 1849
Hadrianus Junius
1511 – 1575
Haim Ariav
1895 – 1957
Hanna Zembrzuska
1934 – 2023
Hans Hass
1919 – 2013
Harry Sauthoff
1879 – 1966
Heino Eller
1887 – 1970
Henry M. Hoenigswald
1915 – 2003
Hormusjee Naorojee Mody
1838 – 1911
Hubert Fisher
1877 – 1941
Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue
1753 – 1841
Ibrahim bey Usubov
1872 – 1920
Isaac Ferris
1798 – 1873
Isidoro Tohá
1929 – 2007
Jacob Mountain
1749 – 1825
James Augustine McFaul
1850 – 1917
James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde
1863 – 1944
James D. Tillman
1841 – 1916
James Humphrey
1811 – 1866
James Indus Farley
1871 – 1948
James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn
1802 – 1866
Jan Breytenbach
1933 – 2024
Jane Heap
1883 – 1964
… and 1,637 more