Famous people born on 16 April

21 of the people we track were born on 16 April, best known first, with each one’s age at death, or today. Dates from Wikidata, linked from each person’s page.

1. Charlie Chaplin 1889English actordied aged 88
2. Pope Benedict XVI 1927Latin Catholic priest who served as Popedied aged 95
3. Anatole France 1844French writerdied aged 80
4. Selena 1971American singerdied aged 23
5. Margrethe II 1940Monarch of Denmarkliving, 86
6. Peter Ustinov 1921British actor who served as Chancellor of Durham Universitydied aged 82
7. Akon 1973Senegalese singer and songwriterliving, 53
8. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1947American basketball playerliving, 79
9. Antony Blinken 1962American lawyer and diplomatliving, 64
10. TTTristan Tzara 1896Romanian poetdied aged 67
11. Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1955Monarch of Luxembourgliving, 71
12. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun 1755French painterdied aged 86
13. Martin Lawrence 1965American actor and comedianliving, 61
14. Shinji Okazaki 1986Japanese footballerliving, 40
15. Ernst Thälmann 1886German politician and party leaderdied aged 58
16. Freddie Ljungberg 1977Swedish footballerliving, 49
17. Lara Dutta 1978Indian actorliving, 48
18. Anya Taylor-Joy 1996American actor and modelliving, 30
19. Joseph Black 1728British physicist and chemistdied aged 71
20. Rafael Benítez 1960Spanish footballerliving, 66
21. Sadie Sink 2002American actorliving, 24