16 May: today's birthdays

• Mukhtar Ablyazov - Kazakh businessman and politician
• David Boreanaz - American actor, best-known for his role as the vampire Angel on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Pierce Brosnan - Irish actor. He starred James Bond in four films
• Ernest Watson Burgess - Canadian sociologist
• Pafnutij L'vovič Čebyšëv (Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev) - Russian mathematician and statistician
• Tamara de Lempicka - Pseudonym of the Polish painter Tamara Rosalie Gurwik-Górska, an exponent of the artistic movement Art Déco. The popstar Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone is one of the main Tamara de Lempicka artworks collectors in the world and she often lends her paintings to museum and events worldwide
• Andrzej Duda - Polish lawyer and politician, born Andrzej Sebastian Duda.
• Henry Fonda - American actor. He won an Honorary Oscar in 1981 and one for Best Actor in 1982
• Olga Korbut - Russian-born American gymnastics coach and gymnast
• Laura Pausini - Italian singer-songwriter
• Osgood Perkins - American actor
• Adrienne Rich - American poet, essayist and feminist
  
• Juan Rulfo - Mexican writer. He wrote the novel Pedro Páramo
• Jim Sturgess - English actor and musician
• Philippe Zivkovic - French entrepreneur