16 September: today's birthdays

• Lauren Bacall - American actress, born Betty Joan Perske. She won an Honorary Oscar in 2010
• Robert Barr - British novelist
  
• Elgin Baylor - Former American basketball player
• Alexis Bledel - American actress
• Gottfried Boehm - German art historian and philosopher
• Julián Castro - American politician of Mexican descent. He is a member of the Democratic Party
• Palaniappan Chidambaram - Indian politician
• David Copperfield - Pseudonym of American illusionist David Seth Kotkin
• Peter Falk - American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the homonymous TV series
• Félicien Marceau - Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. He wrote L'Œuf and Les Élans du cœur 
• Pierre Moscovici - French politician
• Amy Poehler - American actress
  
• Gino Sarfatti - Italian designer
• Frans Eemil Sillanpää - Finnish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939. He wrote The Maid Silja/Fallen Asleep While Young
• Oliver Skipp - English professional footballer, born Oliver William Skipp  
• Yuan Shikai - Chinese general and politician