On This Day — December 16
3819 noted people were born and 2000 died on December 16 in our archive, including Daya Ram Sahni, Ernst von Bergmann and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 16
Daya Ram Sahni
1879 – 1939
Ernst von Bergmann
1836 – 1907
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1805 – 1861
Lei Jun
b. 1969
Adam Riess
b. 1969
Albert Tavkhelidze
1930 – 2010
Alexander Lebedev
b. 1959
Alexey Kondratenko
b. 1969
Alyaksiey Yahoraw
b. 1969
Andrzej Wielowieyski
1927 – 2026
Anna Nehrebecka
b. 1947
Anthony Joseph Scirica
b. 1940
Bruce N. Ames
1928 – 2024
Cornelis Tiele
1830 – 1902
David Skegg
b. 1947
Edward Emerson Barnard
1857 – 1923
George Alexander Knox
1919 – 2008
George Ignatieff
1913 – 1989
Grace Alele-Williams
1932 – 2022
Gyula Kőnig
1849 – 1913
Hansjoachim Walther
1939 – 2005
Jennifer A. Golbeck
b. 1976
Jesús Sancho Rof
b. 1940
Jim Forbes
1923 – 2019
Johann Radon
1887 – 1956
Joël Batteux
1943 – 2021
Kensaku Morita
b. 1949
Kichisaburō Nomura
1877 – 1964
Lilia Gumerova
b. 1972
Martyn Poliakoff
b. 1947
Michael Birkeland
1830 – 1896
Nadrian C. Seeman
1945 – 2021
Peter R. Orszag
b. 1968
Robert Henry Meade
1835 – 1898
Rodolfo Llinás
b. 1934
Roman Anin
b. 1986
Saint-René Taillandier
1817 – 1879
Tokuichiro Tamazawa
b. 1937
V. S. Pritchett
1900 – 1997
Walther Meissner
1882 – 1974
William Gowland
1842 – 1922
Yukio Hattori
1945 – 2024
Zbigniew Religa
1938 – 2009
Zdzisława Janowska
b. 1940
Zoltán Kodály
1882 – 1967
A. N. R. Robinson
1926 – 2014
Abbott Lawrence
1792 – 1855
Abdolkarim Soroush
b. 1945
Adams Abdul Salam
b. 1985
Adone Zoli
1887 – 1960
Adriano Mari
1813 – 1887
Adèle Van Reeth
b. 1982
Alexander Bereznyak
1912 – 1974
Alexander I of Yugoslavia
1888 – 1934
Alexander Protopopov
1866 – 1918
Alfred Koerppen
1926 – 2022
Allen Kurzweil
b. 1960
Alphonse Juin
1888 – 1967
Anatole Bailly
1833 – 1911
Andrés Carrascosa Coso
b. 1955
Anita Krohn
b. 1971
Annette Nijs
b. 1961
Anton Denikin
1872 – 1947
Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
1924 – 2018
Arlo Bates
1850 – 1918
Armand Vetulani
1909 – 1994
August Meitzen
1822 – 1910
Aykut Barka
1951 – 2002
Bernard Pyne Grenfell
1869 – 1926
Bertha Lamme
1869 – 1943
Bill Young
1930 – 2013
Bärbel Schäfer
b. 1963
Carlo Taormina
b. 1940
Carsten Spohr
b. 1966
Chiang Pin-kung
1932 – 2018
Claudia Țapardel
b. 1983
Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa
1875 – 1953
Cyril Fox
1882 – 1967
Dan Hooper
b. 1976
Daniil Kazakevich
1902 – 1988
Danylo Zabolotny
1866 – 1929
Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov
b. 1972
Dominique Folloroux-Ouattara
b. 1953
Ed Ruscha
b. 1937
Edgar Andrews
b. 1932
Eduard Feireisl
b. 1957
Elizabeth R. Varon
b. 1963
Erhard Weigel
1625 – 1699
Erik Benzelius the Elder
1632 – 1709
Erik Molnár
1894 – 1966
Ernst Florian Winter
1923 – 2014
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
1847 – 1923
Fernando Nobre
b. 1951
François Joseph Heim
1787 – 1865
Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek
b. 1961
Gabrielle Upton
b. 1964
Geir Hallgrímsson
1925 – 1990
Hans Ernst August Buchner
1850 – 1902
Heather Hallett
b. 1949
Henri Dentz
1881 – 1945
Henry Pollock
1864 – 1953
Howard Graham Buffett
b. 1954
Héctor Timerman
1953 – 2018
Ieremia Tabai
b. 1949
Isaac Musumba
b. 1961
Ivan Grishin
1901 – 1951
Ivan Konev
1897 – 1973
J. D. Rees
1854 – 1922
James G. Roche
1939 – 2026
Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans
1827 – 1906
Jim Gibbons
b. 1944
Johann Wilhelm Ritter
1776 – 1810
John Frederick Hartranft
1830 – 1889
Josephine Chu
b. 1950
José Maria da Silva Paranhos
1819 – 1880
Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte
b. 1960
Julia Klöckner
b. 1972
Kadyrzhan Damitov
b. 1959
Kazimierz Choma
b. 1957
Kenneth Gilbert
1931 – 2020
Kurt Gscheidle
1924 – 2003
Károly Kós
1883 – 1977
Lawrence D. Brown
1940 – 2018
Leonid Kolotilo
b. 1958
Lesley Stahl
b. 1941
Liv Ullmann
b. 1938
Louis-Barthélémy Pradher
1782 – 1843
Luís de Almeida Sampaio
b. 1957
Manuel Fernández Silvestre
1871 – 1921
Margaret Mead
1901 – 1978
Marie Popelin
1846 – 1913
Menahem Pressler
1923 – 2023
Michael Moss
b. 1955
Michel Etcheverry
1919 – 1999
Mira Murati
b. 1988
Miriam Tey de Salvador
b. 1960
Mirosław Bałka
b. 1958
Mitalip Mamytovich Mamytov
b. 1939
N. Katherine Hayles
b. 1943
Nataša Kandić
b. 1946
Nicholas Christofilos
1916 – 1972
Nikolay Moiseyev
1902 – 1955
Nobuyuki Aihara
1934 – 2013
Norman D. Dicks
b. 1940
Noël Coward
1899 – 1973
Pierre Carron
1932 – 2022
Pierre Delanoë
1918 – 2006
Pieter Philip van Bosse
1809 – 1879
Prem Nazir
1929 – 1989
Prince Lorenz, Archduke of Austria-Este
b. 1955
Rafael Alberti
1902 – 1999
Raynor Arthur
1905 – 1973
Richard Cytowic
b. 1952
Richard Hongisto
1936 – 2004
Rihards Kols
b. 1984
Robert Castelli
1949 – 2024
Robert Keeton
1919 – 2007
Robert Rothschild
1911 – 1998
Rodion Shchedrin
1932 – 2025
Rodney Hide
b. 1956
Roeland J. M. Nolte
1944 – 2024
Ruth Johnson Colvin
1916 – 2024
Ryan Aument
b. 1976
Sadasue Senda
1892 – 1945
Stanley Kutcher
b. 1951
Stepan Aghajanian
1863 – 1940
Tadao Takahashi
1950 – 2022
Tadas Ivanauskas
1882 – 1970
Tasuku Emoto
b. 1986
Trevor Pinnock
b. 1946
Ulrike Scharf
b. 1967
Valentín Alsina
1802 – 1869
Valérie Berthé
b. 1968
Vasile Tarnavschi
1859 – 1945
Victor Chauvin
1844 – 1913
Victor Henri Rutgers
1877 – 1945
Viktor Bunyakovsky
1804 – 1889
Vladimir Zorich
1937 – 2023
Vyacheslav Malyshev
1902 – 1957
Vygaudas Ušackas
b. 1964
Wallace Notestein
1878 – 1969
Wilhelm Julius Foerster
1832 – 1921
William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven
1868 – 1921
William Matthews
1770 – 1854
Xavier Buff
b. 1971
Xu Guanhua
b. 1941
Yog Raj Sharma
b. 1950
Yuriy Zaytsev
b. 1970
Yury Gogotsi
b. 1961
Zainal Arifin Paliwang
b. 1962
Ada Mello
1953 – 2023
Adam Guettel
b. 1964
Adriaan van Dis
b. 1946
Adriana Calvo
1947 – 2010
Ailsa Maxwell
1922 – 2020
Albert Pollard
1869 – 1948
Aleksander Zawadzki
1899 – 1964
Aleksandr Pal
b. 1988
Alexander Pechtold
b. 1965
Alexander Ross Clarke
1828 – 1914
… and 3,619 more
Died on December 16
Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy
1755 – 1809
Frederick G. Donnan
1870 – 1956
Augustinas Voldemaras
1883 – 1942
Christian Adolph Diriks
1775 – 1837
Egor Gajdar
1956 – 2009
Gustaf Aulén
1879 – 1977
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
1911 – 2000
Karl Julius Schröer
1825 – 1900
Laurier LaPierre
1929 – 2012
Mahmoud Messadi
1911 – 2004
Manuel Sanchis i Guarner
1911 – 1981
Richard Hunt
1935 – 2023
Steponas Kairys
1878 – 1964
Tim Cochran
1955 – 2014
Yngve Larsson
1881 – 1977
İhsan Ketin
1914 – 1995
Alfred Ollivant
1798 – 1882
Andrew Radford
1945 – 2024
Andrzej Stanisław Załuski
1695 – 1758
Antonio Negri
1933 – 2023
Bernardino López de Carvajal
1456 – 1523
Boris Orlovsky
1792 – 1837
Boris Yakovlevich Zel'dovich
1944 – 2018
Charles Dodds
1899 – 1973
Charles P. Mountford
1890 – 1976
Charles Van Hulthem
1764 – 1832
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
1934 – 2025
Claro Abánades López
1879 – 1974
David L. McDonald
1906 – 1997
Edward Laurens Mark
1847 – 1946
Edward Pleydell-Bouverie
1818 – 1889
Edwin W. Kemmerer
1875 – 1945
Elliott H. Levitas
1930 – 2022
Elwood V. Jensen
1920 – 2012
Eugène Dubois
1858 – 1940
Frances Munds
1866 – 1948
Franghiz Ahmadova
1928 – 2011
François Gény
1861 – 1959
Friedrich Pollock
1894 – 1970
Fumimaro Konoe
1891 – 1945
Gabriel Narutowicz
1865 – 1922
George B. Davis
1847 – 1914
George Gekas
1930 – 2021
George Nuttall
1862 – 1937
George Robert Milne Murray
1858 – 1911
Gil Gerard
1943 – 2025
Gustav de Vries
1866 – 1934
Hans Kornberg
1928 – 2019
Hans Rebane
1882 – 1961
Hans-Rudolf Rösing
1905 – 2004
Harlan D. Logan
1904 – 1994
Harland Sanders
1890 – 1980
Hilary Saint George Saunders
1898 – 1951
Huzihiro Araki
1932 – 2022
J. D. Morgan
1919 – 1980
Jacques Alexandre Bixio
1808 – 1865
Jan Bernd Bicker
1746 – 1812
Jocelyn Crane
1909 – 1998
Johan Harald Kylin
1879 – 1949
John L. Magee
1914 – 2005
Kakuei Tanaka
1918 – 1993
Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer
1829 – 1902
Karl-August von Reisach
1800 – 1869
Kiichi Inoue
1932 – 2010
Kostas Varnalis
1884 – 1974
Louis d'Aurelle de Paladines
1804 – 1877
Ludwig Friedländer
1824 – 1909
Luo Ronghuan
1902 – 1963
Michele Lega
1860 – 1935
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
1937 – 2023
Norman Podhoretz
1930 – 2025
Nuno Loureiro
1977 – 2025
Okada Saburosuke
1869 – 1939
Oscar Lewis
1914 – 1970
Paul Rivière
1912 – 1998
René Saorgin
1928 – 2015
Richard Bright
1789 – 1858
Richard FitzRalph
1295 – 1360
Rikard Long
1889 – 1977
Robert H. Cumming
1943 – 2021
Robert Page Morris
1853 – 1924
Roger Long
1680 – 1770
Ross J. S. Hoffman
1902 – 1979
Roy E. Disney
1930 – 2009
Sailakshmi Balijepally
1975 – 2023
Stefan Heym
1913 – 2001
Sterling Lyon
1927 – 2010
Thomas Leigh Gatch
1891 – 1953
Trevor Pinch
1952 – 2021
Voldemar Ilja
1922 – 2010
Wacław Szybalski
1921 – 2020
Walter Johann Christian Adelbert Eduard Herwig
1838 – 1912
Wei Yuk Boshan
1849 – 1921
Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale
1890 – 1956
Wilhelm Grimm
1786 – 1859
Wilhelm Roser
1817 – 1888
William Gaddis
1922 – 1998
William H. Meyer
1914 – 1983
William Havelock Ramsden
1888 – 1969
William Petty
1623 – 1687
William Somerset Maugham
1874 – 1965
Yehudit Naot
1944 – 2004
Aagot Nissen
1882 – 1978
Abdallah Wafy
1955 – 2020
Abdelhadi Boutaleb
1923 – 2009
Abdulmari Imao
1936 – 2014
Agnes Martin
1912 – 2004
Alain Gerbault
1893 – 1941
Albert Spear Hitchcock
1865 – 1935
Alexander Tille
1866 – 1912
Alexander Trachtenberg
1885 – 1966
Alfred Terry
1827 – 1890
Ali Qushji
1403 – 1474
Allan Guy
1890 – 1979
Alyeh Hulak
1967 – 2022
Anatoly Sergeyev
1940 – 2025
Andreas von Tuhr
1864 – 1925
Angela Kokkola
1932 – 2017
Anita Bryant
1940 – 2024
Anton Koolhaas
1912 – 1992
Antonio Riberi
1897 – 1967
Antonín Bajaja
1942 – 2022
Arun Khetarpal
1950 – 1971
Asai Chū
1856 – 1907
Axel Aubert
1873 – 1943
Aziz Ahmad
1914 – 1978
Bernd Siebert
1949 – 2023
Beryl F. Carroll
1860 – 1939
Bethwel Henry
1934 – 2020
Birgit Cold
1936 – 2022
Camille Saint-Saëns
1835 – 1921
Carl W. S. Aurivillius
1854 – 1899
Carwood Lipton
1920 – 2001
Cesare Sodero
1886 – 1947
Charles Arden-Clarke
1898 – 1962
Charles Buxton
1875 – 1942
Charles James McDonald
1793 – 1860
Charles Manning Reed
1803 – 1871
Charles Michael Walker
1916 – 2001
Charles Moss
1763 – 1811
Clark Wallace Thompson
1896 – 1981
Colin Chapman
1928 – 1982
Courtenay Crocker
1881 – 1944
Diana McIntosh
1937 – 2022
Dick Hanley
1894 – 1970
Dick Van Arsdale
1943 – 2024
Dorothy Dix
1861 – 1951
Doyle Conner
1928 – 2012
Dudley C. Haskell
1842 – 1883
Earle C. Hayes
1885 – 1943
Edmond Guibord
1894 – 1971
Edward C. Harwood
1900 – 1980
Edward Courtney Boyle
1883 – 1967
Edward M. Rowe
1902 – 1971
Edward W. Saunders
1860 – 1921
Edwin L. Sibert
1897 – 1977
Elbertus Leoninus
1519 – 1598
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
1858 – 1922
Emil R. Unanue
1934 – 2022
Emilio Attard Alonso
1915 – 1997
Ercüment Ekrem Talû
1886 – 1956
Ernie Terrell
1939 – 2014
Faina Melnyk
1945 – 2016
Flavio Cotti
1939 – 2020
Francis Coster
1532 – 1619
Francis de Winton
1835 – 1901
Frank A. Montgomery
1830 – 1903
Frank Gotch
1878 – 1917
George D. Webster (USMC)
1919 – 1992
George Edward Massee
1845 – 1917
George L. Yaple
1851 – 1939
George M. Jones
1911 – 1996
George Mayo
1807 – 1894
George R. Merrell
1898 – 1962
Georgy Sudeykin
1850 – 1883
Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr
1869 – 1915
Giuseppe Sermonti
1925 – 2018
Gloria Heath
1922 – 2017
Godlove Stein Orth
1817 – 1882
Grigori Aleksandrov
1903 – 1983
Haakon IV of Norway
1204 – 1263
Hans Carl Knudtzon
1751 – 1823
Hayao Tada
1882 – 1948
Heinrich Hoffmann
1885 – 1957
Hellmuth Walter
1900 – 1980
Helmut H. Schaefer
1925 – 2005
Hennadiy Kernes
1959 – 2020
Henry A. Edmundson
1814 – 1890
Henry Frederick Stephenson
1842 – 1919
Henry Helstoski
1925 – 1999
Henry Peyto-Verney, 16th Baron Willoughby de Broke
1773 – 1852
Hippolyte Fierens Gevaert
1870 – 1926
Hiram Rafael Cancio
1920 – 2008
Irwin Abrams
1914 – 2010
Ivan Tsonchev
1859 – 1910
Ivan Zajc
1832 – 1914
Jacques Triger
1801 – 1867
Jake Adam York
1972 – 2012
James C. Healey
1909 – 1981
James E. Malone Jr.
1957 – 2024
… and 1,800 more