16 April: today's birthdays

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Former American basketball player
• Kingsley Amis - English writer, poet, and literary critic. He is the father of English author Martin Amis 
• Ellen Barkin - American actress
• Joseph Black - Scottish chemist and physicist
• Antonino Cannavacciuolo - 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
• Charlie Chaplin - English actor, film director and musician. He won two Honorary Oscars and one for Best Original Score
• Merce Cunningham - American dancer and choreographer
• Noah Fleiss - American actor
• Claire Foy - English actress
• Anatole France - Pseudonym of François-Anatole Thibault, French poet and novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1921
• Julius Kaerst - German historian
  
• Ian MacKaye - American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer, born Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye. He has been the singer of Minor Threat, Embrace, and Fugazi bands 
• Mirai Nagasu - American figure skater of Japanese descent, born Mirai Aileen Nagasu
• Leo Nucci - Italian operatic baritone
• Joseph Ratzinger - Former German pope.
• Jay O. Sanders - American actor
• Sture Sivertsen - Former Norwegian cross-country skier
• Antonio Starrabba di Rudinì - Italian politician
• John Millington Synge - Irish poet and dramatist
• Adolphe Thiers - French politician, historian, journaliste and writer
• Tristan Tzara - Pseudonym of French-born Romanian writer and poet Sami Rosenstock