Today's Birthdays, 16 April

Former American basketball player

English writer, poet, and literary critic. He is the father of English author Martin Amis 

American actress

Scottish chemist and physicist

Italian chef and television personality: he is one of the 4 presenters of Masterchef in Italy, with chefs Carlo Cracco,Joe Bastianich, and Bruno Barbieri

English actor, film director and musician. He won two Honorary Oscars and one for Best Original Score

American dancer and choreographer

American actor

English actress

Pseudonym of François-Anatole Thibault, French poet and novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1921

German historian

American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer, born Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye. He has been the singer of Minor Threat, Embrace, and Fugazi bands 

American figure skater of Japanese descent, born Mirai Aileen Nagasu

Italian operatic baritone

Former German pope.

American actor

Former Norwegian cross-country skier

Italian politician

Irish poet and dramatist

French politician, historian, journaliste and writer

Pseudonym of French-born Romanian writer and poet Sami Rosenstock