Birthdays In History 1916

1916 Betty Furness American actress and television journalist (d. 1994)

1916 Fred Haas American golfer (d. 2004)

1916 Lionel Newman American pianist and composer (d. 1989)

1916 Robert Parrish American actor and director (d. 1995)

1916 Park Mok-wol influential Korean poet and academic (d. 1978)

1916 W. L. Jeyasingham Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989)

1916 Babe Pratt Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)

1916 Sune Bergström Swedish biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1916 Eldzier Cortor American painter (d. 2015)

1916 Don Metz Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)

1916 Bernard Blier Argentinian-French actor (d. 1989)

1916 Ruth R. Benerito American chemist and inventor (d. 2013)

1916 Mary Wilson Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx British poet and Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2018)

1916 Philip Lucock English-Australian minister and politician (d. 1996)

1916 Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. American lieutenant and politician (d. 2011)

1916 Pietro Rava Italian footballer (d. 2006)

1916 Zypora Spaisman Polish midwife; American and Yiddish-language actress; producer of the Yiddish stage (d. 2002)

1916 Bill Durnan Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1972)

1916 Henri Dutilleux French pianist composer and educator (d. 2013)

1916 Harilal Upadhyay Indian author poet and astrologist (d. 1994)

1916 David Douglas Duncan American photographer and journalist (d. 2018)

1916 Airey Neave English colonel lawyer and politician Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (d. 1979)

1916 Rafael Caldera Venezuelan lawyer and politician 65th President of Venezuela (d. 2009)

1916 Gene Mako Hungarian-American tennis player and actor (d. 2013)

1916 Pop Ivy American football player and coach (d. 2003)

1916 Roy Markham British plant virologist (d. 1979)

1916 Frank Parker American tennis player (d. 1997)

1916 Xuân Diệu Vietnamese poet and author (d. 1985)

1916 Frank Hyde Australian rugby league player coach and sportscaster (d. 2007)

1916 Tex Hughson American baseball player (d. 1993)

1916 Dorothy Bliss American invertebrate zoologist (d. 1987)

1916 Marcel Bigeard French general (d. 2010)

1916 Masaki Kobayashi Japanese director and producer (d. 1996)

1916 Edward Platt American actor (d. 1974)

1916 Mary Jane Croft American actress (d. 1999)

1916 Bill Doggett African-American pianist and composer (d. 1996)

1916 Alexander Obolensky Russian rugby player and pilot (d. 1940)

1916 Don Tallon Australian cricketer (d. 1984)

1916 Raf Vallone Italian footballer and actor (d. 2002)

1916 Jean Erdman American dancer and choreographer (d. 2020)

1916 James B. Donovan American lawyer (d. 1970)

1916 Leonard Shoen founder of U-Haul Corp. (d. 1999)

1916 Paul Halmos Hungarian-American mathematician (d. 2006)

1916 William Alland American actor director and producer (d. 1997)

1916 Giorgio Bassani Italian author and poet (d. 2000)

1916 Hans Eysenck German-English psychologist and theorist (d. 1997)

1916 Ernest Titterton British Australian nuclear physicist (d. 1990)

1916 Lindy Boggs American educator and politician 5th United States Ambassador to the Holy See (d. 2013)

1916 Jacque Fresco American engineer and academic (d. 2017)

1916 Horton Foote American author playwright and screenwriter (d. 2009)

1916 Frank Coghlan Jr. American actor and pilot (d. 2009)

1916 Fadil Hoxha Kosovar commander and politician President of Kosovo (d. 2001)

1916 Harry James American trumpet player bandleader and actor (d. 1983)

1916 Mercedes McCambridge American actress (d. 2004)

1916 Tsutomu Yamaguchi Japanese engineer and businessman (d. 2010)

1916 Ray Ellington English drummer and bandleader (d. 1985)

1916 Eric Christmas English-Canadian actor (d. 2000)

1916 Irving Wallace American journalist author and screenwriter (d. 1990)

1916 Pierre Messmer French lieutenant and politician Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)

1916 Bismillah Khan Indian shehnai player (d. 2006)

1916 Ken Wharton English race car driver (d. 1957)

1916 S. M. Pandit Indian painter and educator (d. 1993)

1916 Christian B. Anfinsen American biochemist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

1916 Bill Edrich English cricketer and footballer (d. 1986)

1916 Sterling Hayden American actor and author (d. 1986)

1916 Peter Geach English philosopher and academic (d. 2013)

1916 Lucille Bliss American voice actress (d. 2012)

1916 Tommy Bolt American golfer (d. 2008)

1916 John H. Wood Jr. American lawyer and judge (d. 1979)

1916 Sheila May Edmonds British mathematician (d. 2002)

1916 Herb Caen American journalist and author (d. 1997)

1916 Cliff Gladwin English cricketer (d. 1988)

1916 Louis Guglielmi Catalan composer (d. 1991)

1916 Nikola Ljubičić Serbian general and politician 10th President of Serbia (d. 2005)

1916 Mickey Owen American baseball player and coach (d. 2005)

1916 David White American actor (d. 1990)

1916 Phil Leeds American actor (d. 1998)

1916 Vincent Ellis McKelvey American geologist and author (d. 1987)

1916 Anthony Caruso American actor (d. 2003)

1916 Julian Dash American swing music jazz tenor saxophonist (d. 1974)

1916 Heinz Meyer German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) during World War II (d. 1987)

1916 Bill Leonard American journalist (d. 1994)

1916 Alberto Ginastera Argentinian pianist and composer (d. 1983)

1916 Howard W. Koch American director and producer (d. 2001)

1916 Beverly Cleary American author (d. 2021)

1916 Russell Garcia American-New Zealander composer and conductor (d. 2011)

1916 Benjamin Libet American neuropsychologist and academic (d. 2007)

1916 Phyllis Fraser Welsh-American actress journalist and publisher co-founded Beginner Books (d. 2006)

1916 Behçet Necatigil Turkish author poet and translator (d. 1979)

1916 Carl Burgos American illustrator (d. 1984)

1916 Estella B. Diggs American businesswoman and politician (d. 2013)

1916 Hanfried Lenz German mathematician and academic (d. 2013)

1916 Yehudi Menuhin American-Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 1999)

1916 Yiannis Moralis Greek painter and educator (d. 2009)

1916 Sinah Estelle Kelley American chemist (d. 1982)

1916 Jerry Barber American golfer (d. 1994)

1916 Eyvind Earle American artist author and illustrator (d. 2000)

1916 Ken Wallis English commander engineer and pilot (d. 2013)

1916 Morris West Australian author and playwright (d. 1999)

1916 Robert Hugh McWilliams Jr. American sergeant lawyer and judge (d. 2013)

1916 Ferruccio Lamborghini Italian businessman created Lamborghini (d. 1993)

1916 Paul Kuusberg Estonian journalist and author (d. 2003)

1916 Robert Shaw American conductor (d. 1999)

1916 Antoni Bazaniak Polish sprint canoeist (d. 1979)

1916 Glenn Ford Canadian-American actor and producer (d. 2006)

1916 Léopold Simoneau Canadian tenor and actor (d. 2006)

1916 Jane Jacobs American-Canadian journalist author and activist (d. 2006)

1916 Richard Proenneke American soldier carpenter and meteorologist (d. 2003)

1916 Zail Singh Indian politician 7th President of India (d. 1994)

1916 Robert H. Dicke American physicist and astronomer (d. 1997)

1916 Huw Wheldon Welsh-English broadcaster (d. 1986)

1916 W. B. Young Scottish rugby player and physician (d. 2013)

1916 João Havelange Brazilian water polo player lawyer and businessman (d. 2016)

1916 Chinmayananda Saraswati Indian spiritual leader and educator (d. 1993)

1916 Ramananda Sengupta Indian cinematographer (d. 2017)

1916 Milton Babbitt American composer and educator (d. 2011)

1916 Camilo José Cela Spanish author and politician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

1916 Albert Murray American author and critic (d. 2013)

1916 Sachidananda Routray Indian Oriya-language poet (d. 2004)

1916 Robert F. Christy Canadian-American physicist and astronomer (d. 2012)

1916 Lance Dossor English-Australian pianist and educator (d. 2005)

1916 Marco Zanuso Italian architect and designer (d. 2001)

1916 Vera Gebuhr Danish actress (d. 2014)

1916 Ephraim Katzir Israeli biophysicist and politician 4th President of Israel (d. 2009)

1916 Owen Chadwick English rugby player historian and academic (d. 2015)

1916 Alexey Maresyev Russian soldier and pilot (d. 2001)

1916 Ondina Valla Italian sprinter and hurdler (d. 2006)

1916 Dennis Day American singer and actor (d. 1988)

1916 Tinus Osendarp Dutch sprinter and police officer (d. 2002)

1916 Roden Cutler Australian lieutenant and politician 32nd Governor of New South Wales (d. 2002)

1916 Brian Dickson Canadian captain lawyer and politician 15th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1998)

1916 Giuseppe Tosi Italian discus thrower (d. 1981)

1916 Henriette Roosenburg Dutch journalist and author (d. 1972)

1916 Walker Percy American novelist and essayist (d. 1990)

1916 Justin Catayée French soldier and politician (d. 1962)

1916 Mort Meskin American illustrator (d. 1995)

1916 Bert Haanstra Dutch director producer and screenwriter (d. 1997)

1916 Robert F. Furchgott American biochemist and pharmacologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)

1916 Fernand Leduc Canadian painter (d. 2014)

1916 Sid Barnes Australian cricketer (d. 1973)

1916 Eddie Joost American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)

1916 Hamani Diori Nigerien academic and politician 1st President of Niger (d. 1989)

1916 Luigi Comencini Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2007)

1916 Richard Pousette-Dart American painter and educator (d. 1992)

1916 Jurij Brězan German soldier and author (d. 2006)

1916 Siegfried Graetschus German SS officer (d. 1943)

1916 Robert McNamara American businessman and politician 8th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2009)

1916 Peride Celal Turkish author (d. 2013)

1916 William Rosenberg American entrepreneur founded Dunkin' Donuts (d. 2002)

1916 Irwin Allen American director and producer (d. 1991)

1916 Raúl Héctor Castro Mexican-American politician and diplomat 14th Governor of Arizona (d. 2015)

1916 Wu Zhengyi Chinese botanist and academic (d. 2013)

1916 Dorothy McGuire American actress (d. 2001)

1916 Olga Erteszek Polish-American fashion designer (d. 1989)

1916 Horacio Salgán Argentinian pianist composer and conductor (d. 2016)

1916 Terry Gilkyson American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)

1916 Julio César Turbay Ayala Colombian lawyer and politician 25th President of Colombia (d. 2005)

1916 Jean-Jacques Bertrand Canadian lawyer and politician 21st Premier of Quebec (d. 1973)

1916 T. Texas Tyler American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1972)

1916 Joseph Cyril Bamford English businessman founded J. C. Bamford (d. 2001)

1916 Tchan Fou-li Chinese photographer (d. 2018)

1916 Herbert Friedman American physicist and astronomer (d. 2000)

1916 Buddy O'Connor Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)

1916 Johnny Jacobs American television announcer (d. 1982)

1916 Richard Eastham American actor (d. 2005)

1916 Emil Fackenheim German Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi (d. 2003)

1916 Len Hutton English cricketer and soldier (d. 1990)

1916 Irene Worth American actress (d. 2002)

1916 Al G. Wright American bandleader and conductor (d. 2020)

1916 William B. Saxbe American soldier lawyer and politician 70th United States Attorney General (d. 2010)

1916 Saloua Raouda Choucair Lebanese painter and sculptor (d. 2017)

1916 Virginia Satir American psychotherapist and author (d. 1988)

1916 Giuseppe Taddei Italian actor and singer (d. 2010)

1916 Robert Normann Norwegian guitarist (d. 1998)

1916 Ruth Warrick American actress and activist (d. 2005)

1916 Iosif Shklovsky Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985)

1916 George C. Stoney American director and producer (d. 2012)

1916 Ken Curtis American actor and singer (d. 1991)

1916 Hans-Ulrich Rudel German colonel and pilot (d. 1982)

1916 Reino Kangasmäki Finnish wrestler (d. 2010)

1916 Zélia Gattai Brazilian author and photographer (d. 2008)

1916 John Kundla American basketball player and coach (d. 2017)

1916 Iva Toguri D'Aquino American typist and broadcaster (d. 2006)

1916 Lívia Rév Hungarian classical pianist (d. 2018)

1916 Ivor Powell Welsh footballer (d. 2012)

1916 Harold Norse American poet and author (d. 2009)

1916 Don R. Christensen American animator cartoonist illustrator writer and inventor (d. 2006)

1916 Jean Rouverol American author actress and screenwriter (d. 2017)

1916 Dean Goffin New Zealand composer (d. 1984)

1916 Judith Jasmin Canadian journalist (d. 1972)

1916 Mortimer Caplin American tax attorney educator and IRS Commissioner (d. 2019)

1916 Hans Maier Dutch water polo player (d. 2018)

1916 Alexander Prokhorov Australian-Russian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)

1916 Reg Varney English actor and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1916 Gough Whitlam Australian lieutenant lawyer and politician 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014)

1916 Sumner Gerard American politician and diplomat (d. 2005)

1916 Eleanor Hadley American economist and policymaker (d. 2007)

1916 Charles Kittel American physicist (d. 2019)

1916 Phil Cavarretta American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)

1916 Gino Bianco Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)

1916 Marcel Cerdan French boxer (d. 1949)

1916 Laurel Martyn Australian ballerina and choreographer (d. 2013)

1916 John D. MacDonald American colonel and author (d. 1986)

1916 Lucien Saulnier Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)

1916 Dean Brooks American physician and actor (d. 2013)

1916 Jaime Luiz Coelho Brazilian archbishop (d. 2013)

1916 Elizabeth Hardwick American literary critic novelist and short story writer (d. 2007)

1916 Skippy Williams American saxophonist and arranger (d. 1994)

1916 Keenan Wynn American actor (d. 1986)

1916 David Brown American journalist and producer (d. 2010)

1916 Budd Boetticher American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2001)

1916 Charlie Christian American guitarist (d. 1942)

1916 Rupert Hamer Australian politician 39th Premier of Victoria (d. 2004)

1916 Sibte Hassan Pakistani journalist scholar and activist (d. 1986)

1916 Billy Hitchcock American baseball player coach and manager (d. 2006)

1916 Bill Todman American screenwriter and producer (d. 1979)

1916 Fiorenzo Angelini Italian cardinal (d. 2014)

1916 Anne Hébert Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)

1916 Alfonso A. Ossorio Filipino-American painter and sculptor (d. 1990)

1916 Shakeel Badayuni Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1970)

1916 José Manuel Moreno Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1978)

1916 Peter Viereck American poet and academic (d. 2006)

1916 Richard Hofstadter American historian and academic (d. 1970)

1916 Dom Mintoff Maltese journalist and politician 8th Prime Minister of Malta (d. 2012)

1916 Kermit Love American actor puppeteer and costume designer (d. 2008)

1916 Johnny Claes English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player (d. 1956)

1916 Ioan Dicezare Romanian general and pilot (d. 2012)

1916 Edward Pinkowski American writer journalist and Polonia historian (d. 2020)

1916 Frank and John Craighead American naturalists (twins Frank d. 2001 John d. 2016)

1916 Wellington Mara American businessman (d. 2005)

1916 Aleks Çaçi Albanian journalist and author (d. 1989)

1916 Iggy Katona American race car driver (d. 2003)

1916 Moses Majekodunmi Nigerian physician and politician (d. 2012)

1916 Neagu Djuvara Romanian historian journalist and diplomat (d. 2018)

1916 Moura Lympany English pianist (d. 2005)

1916 Dennis Poore English racing driver and businessman (d. 1987)

1916 Paul Felix Schmidt Estonian–German chess player and chemist (d. 1984)

1916 Bill Lee American actor and singer (d. 1980)

1916 Consuelo Velázquez Mexican pianist and songwriter (d. 2005)

1916 Van Johnson American actor (d. 2008)

1916 Frederick Chapman Robbins American pediatrician and virologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)

1916 Saburō Sakai Japanese lieutenant and pilot (d. 2000)

1916 Gordon Bashford English engineer co-designed the Range Rover (d. 1991)

1916 Tony Harris South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1993)

1916 Martha Raye American actress and comedian (d. 1994)

1916 Hélène Baillargeon Canadian singer and actress (d. 1997)

1916 C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (d. 1962)

1916 Jack Vance American author (d. 2013)

1916 Luther Davis American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1916 Shailendra Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)

1916 Danny Litwhiler American baseball player and coach (d. 2011)

1916 Daniel Schorr American journalist and author (d. 2010)

1916 John S. Wold American geologist and politician (d. 2017)

1916 Dorothy Cheney American tennis player (d. 2014)

1916 Ömer Lütfi Akad Turkish director and screenwriter (d. 2011)

1916 Eddie Stanky American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1999)

1916 Frank Shuster Canadian comedian actor and screenwriter (d. 2002)

1916 Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)

1916 Tony Bettenhausen American race car driver (d. 1961)

1916 Eric Bentley English-American singer playwright and critic (d. 2020)

1916 John Heyer Australian director and producer (d. 2001)

1916 Margaret Lockwood Pakistani-English actress (d. 1990)

1916 Frederick C. Weyand American general (d. 2010)

1916 Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw Caribbean politician 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)

1916 Frank Farrell Australian rugby league player and policeman (d. 1985)

1916 M. S. Subbulakshmi Indian Carnatic vocalist (d. 2004)

1916 Frank Leslie Walcott Barbadian cricketer umpire and politician (d. 1999)

1916 Marie Vieux-Chauvet Haitian writer (d. 1973)

1916 Raosaheb Gogte Indian industrialist (d. 2000)

1916 Mary Stewart British author and poet (d. 2014)

1916 Rossano Brazzi Italian actor (d. 1994)

1916 John Jacob Rhodes American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)

1916 Françoise Giroud Swiss-French journalist and politician French Minister of Culture (d. 2003)

1916 Ruth Leach Amonette American businesswoman and author (d. 2004)

1916 Jessica Anderson Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)

1916 Deendayal Upadhyaya Indian economist sociologist and journalist (d. 1968)

1916 S. Yizhar Israeli academic and politician (d. 2006)

1916 Olga Lepeshinskaya Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)

1916 Carl Giles English cartoonist (d. 1995)

1916 Josef Traxel German operatic tenor (d. 1975)

1916 Vitaly Ginzburg Russian physicist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)

1916 Jan Murray American comedian actor and game show host (d. 2006)

1916 George Sidney American director and producer (d. 2002)

1916 Ken Wood inventor of the Kenwood Chef food mixer (d. 1997)

1916 Stetson Kennedy American author and activist (d. 2011)

1916 Chiang Wei-kuo Japanese-Chinese general (d. 1997)

1916 Nanaji Deshmukh Indian educator and activist (d. 2010)

1916 Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur Attar Saudi Arabian writer and journalist (d. 1991)

1916 Alice Childress American actress and playwright (d. 1994)

1916 Lock Martin American actor (d. 1959)

1916 C. Everett Koop American admiral and surgeon 13th United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)

1916 Al Killian American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1950)

1916 George Turner Australian author and critic (d. 1997)

1916 José López Rega Argentinean politician (d. 1989)

1916 Jean Dausset French-Spanish immunologist and academic Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)

1916 Emil Gilels Ukrainian-Russian pianist (d. 1985)

1916 Minoru Yasui American soldier lawyer and activist (d. 1986)

1916 Anne Sharp Scottish soprano and actress (d. 2011)

1916 Boyd Wagner American colonel and pilot (d. 1942)

1916 Pearl Hackney English actress (d. 2009)

1916 Leon Day American baseball player (d. 1995)

1916 Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg (d. 2012)

1916 John Basilone American sergeant Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)

1916 Ruth Handler American businesswoman created Barbie (d. 2002)

1916 Martha Settle Putney American lieutenant historian and educator (d. 2008)

1916 Louis le Brocquy Irish painter and illustrator (d. 2012)

1916 Billy May American trumpet player and composer (d. 2004)

1916 Robert Carr English engineer and politician Lord President of the Council (d. 2012)

1916 Paul Emery English racing driver (d. 1993)

1916 Jean Papineau-Couture Canadian composer and academic (d. 2000)

1916 Roger Apéry Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1994)

1916 Sherwood Schwartz American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)

1916 Nita Barrow Barbadian nurse and politician 7th Governor-General of Barbados (d. 1995)

1916 Bill Melendez Mexican-American voice actor animator director and producer (d. 2008)

1916 Harold Baigent New Zealand actor and director (d. 1996)

1916 Daws Butler American voice actor and singer (d. 1988)

1916 Al Lucas Canadian-American bassist (d. 1983)

1916 Shelby Foote American historian and author (d. 2005)

1916 Charles E. Osgood American psychologist (d. 1991)

1916 Michael J. Ingelido American general (d. 2015)

1916 Evelyn Keyes American actress (d. 2008)

1916 Donald T. Campbell American social scientist (d. 1996)

1916 Sid Luckman American football player and soldier (d. 1998)

1916 Michael Gough Malaysian-English actor (d. 2011)

1916 P. K. Page English-Canadian author and poet (d. 2010)

1916 Forrest J Ackerman American soldier and author (d. 2008)

1916 Peg Lynch American actress and screenwriter (d. 2015)

1916 Chick Hearn American sportscaster and actor (d. 2002)

1916 Lilian Princess of Réthy (d. 2002)

1916 Ramón José Velásquez Venezuelan journalist lawyer and politician President of Venezuela (d. 2014)

1916 Fran Ryan American actress and comedian (d. 2000)

1916 Dena Epstein American musicologist and author (d. 2013)

1916 Michael Gwynn English actor (d. 1976)

1916 Wan Li Chinese educator and politician 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2015)

1916 Howard Finster American minister and painter (d. 2001)

1916 Ely Jacques Kahn Jr. American journalist and author (d. 1994)

1916 Hilary Koprowski Polish-American virologist and immunologist created the world's first effective live polio vaccine (d. 2013)

1916 Walt McPherson American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)

1916 Yekaterina Budanova Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943)

1916 Kristján Eldjárn Icelandic educator and politician 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)

1916 Hugo Peretti American songwriter and producer (d. 1986)

1916 Richard Fleischer American director producer and screenwriter (d. 2006)

1916 Jerome Beatty Jr. American soldier journalist and author (d. 2002)

1916 Colin McCool Australian cricketer (d. 1986)

1916 Walt Arfons American race car driver (d. 2013)

1916 Pérez Prado Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter pianist and bandleader (d. 1989)

1916 Elena Garro Mexican author and playwright (d. 1998)

1916 Leonard Weisgard American author and illustrator (d. 2000)

1916 Miguel Arraes Brazilian lawyer and politician Governor of Pernambuco (d. 2005)

1916 Buddy Cole American pianist and conductor (d. 1964)

1916 Maurice Wilkins New Zealand-English physicist and biologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)

1916 Ruth Johnson Colvin American author and educator founded ProLiteracy Worldwide

1916 Penelope Fitzgerald English author and poet (d. 2000)

1916 Douglas Fraser Scottish-American trade union leader and academic (d. 2008)

1916 Roy Ward Baker English director and producer (d. 2010)

1916 Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann German political scientist journalist and academic (d. 2010)

1916 Michel Chartrand Canadian trade union leader and activist (d. 2010)

1916 Dino Risi Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2008)

1916 Ahmed Ben Bella Algerian soldier and politician 1st President of Algeria (d. 2012)

1916 Werner Baumbach German pilot (d. 1953)

1916 Cathy Lewis American actress (d. 1968)

1916 William Garnett American landscape photographer (d. 2006)

1916 John Crank English mathematician and physicist (d. 2006)

1916 Joseph Alioto American lawyer and politician 36th Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)

1916 Donald Hamilton Swedish-American soldier and author (d. 2006)

1916 Harry B. Whittington English palaeontologist and academic (d. 2010)

1916 Lee Jung-seob Korean painter (d. 1956)

1916 William Pène du Bois American author and illustrator (d. 1993)

1916 Nasiba Zeynalova Azerbaijani actress (d. 2004)

1916 Alfred S. Bloomingdale American businessman (d. 1982)

1916 Helene Hanff American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)

1916 Don Willesee Australian telegraphist and politician 29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)

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