16 June: today's birthdays

• 2pac - Pseudonym adopetd by American singer Lesane Parish Crooks
• Ercole Barovier - Italian entrepreneur and artistic director of the Vetreria artistica Barovier & C.
• Daniel Brühl - Spanish-born German actor. He starred in Inglourious Basterds directed by Quentin Tarantino
• Joël Dicker - French-speaking writer born in Switzerland. He wrote The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
• Jim Dine - American pop artist
• Aleksandr Fridman (Alexander Friedmann) - Russian mathematician and cosmologist
• Andrea Ghez - American astronomer, born Andrea Mia Ghez. She was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for physics along with Reinhard Genzel and Roger Penrose.
• Jürgen Klopp - German football coach and former professional player, born Jürgen Norbert Klopp
• Stan Laurel - English actor and comedian, born Arthur Stanley Jefferson. His comedy partner was Oliver Hardy
• Aimé Nicolas Morot - French painter and sculptor
• Joyce Carol Oates - American writer. She wrote Black Water, Blonde, and The Wheel of Love and Other Stories
• Irving Penn - American fashion photographer famous for his portraits and still lifes
• Raymond Rubicam - American advertising executive
  
• Erich Segal - American author and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Love Story which became a hit as a film
• Jenny Shimizu - American model and actress. She starred in the film Itty Bitty Titty Committee 
• Adam Smith - Scottish philosopher and economist. He wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments 
• Vilmos Zsigmond - Hungarian-born American cinematographer.