Who Was Alive

Famous people born on 16 September

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

Fan Bingbing and Alexis Bledel were born on the very same day, 16 September 1981.

  1. Lee Kuan Yew 1923Singaporean statesperson who served as Prime Minister of Singaporedied aged 91
  2. Lauren Bacall 1924American actordied aged 89
  3. B. B. King 1925American guitarist and singerdied aged 89
  4. Karl Dönitz 1891German admiraldied aged 89
  5. Henry V of England 1386Monarch of Englanddied aged 35
  6. Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1888Finnish writerdied aged 75
  7. Albert Szent-Györgyi 1893Hungarian biochemistdied aged 93
  8. David Copperfield 1956American illusionistliving, 70
  9. Nick Jonas 1992American singer and actorliving, 34
  10. Nikolai Ostrovsky 1904Writerdied aged 32
  11. Mickey Rourke 1952American actorliving, 74
  12. Bonar Law 1858British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdomdied aged 65
  13. Amy Poehler 1971American actorliving, 55
  14. Albrecht Kossel 1853German biochemistdied aged 73
  15. Fan Bingbing 1981Chinese actorliving, 45
  16. Peter Falk 1927American actordied aged 83
  17. Alexis Bledel 1981American actorliving, 45
  18. Kirsty Coventry 1983Zimbabwean swimmer and politicianliving, 43
  19. Yuan Shikai 1859Emperor of Chinadied aged 56
  20. Jean Arp 1886Sculptor and painterdied aged 79
  21. Karen Horney 1885American psychoanalystdied aged 67