Historical Birthdays

🎂 Famous Historical Birthdays - March 16, 2026

1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare & tenament rights for urban women

1896 Conrad Nagel, Keokuk Iowa, actor (Celebrity Time)

1910 Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)

1966 Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)

1951 Ritchie Teeter, rocker

1903 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, Revel Estonia, composer (Variaioni Concertanto)

1893 Isobel Elsom, actress (My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger)

1949 Elliott Murphy, US singer/songwriter

1922 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer

1974 Lamont Burns, guard (NY Jets)

1973 Bert Zuurman, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)

1962 Marcel Brands, soccer player (RKC)

1901 Walter E Sch„fer, German playwright

1928 Christa Ludwig, Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)

1919 Erno Kiraly, composer

1878 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran

1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan & Valerie Bertinelli

1774 Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer (coast Australia)

1937 David Del Tredici, Cloverdale California, composer (1980 Pulitzer)

1903 Morgan Conway, actor (Dick Tracy)

1928 Ramon Barce, composer

1739 George Clymer, US merchant (signed Decl of Ind, Constitution)

1873 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)

1839 Ren‚ F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)

1751 James Madison, Port Conway Va, (D-R), 4th US president (1809-17)

1965 Cindy Brown, US, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1988)

1948 Michael Bruce, rocker/actor (Rudy-Rainbow Drive)

1876 Charles Halton, Wash DC, actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again)

1729 Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic)

1910 Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)

1903 Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip

1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince

1892 Harrison Ford, actor (Vanity Fair, Love In High Gear)

1969 Pat Harlow, NFL tackle (NE Patriots, Oakland Raiders)

1930 Minoru Miky, composer

1920 Leo McKern, Sydney Aust, actor (Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared)

1757 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea, Yttersa Domen)

1926 Jerry Lewis, [Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA), loved in France

1929 Edwin London, composer

1961 Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)

1908 Robert Rossen director/writer (Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo)

1823 William Henry Monk, composer

1969 Steve Israel, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers, New England Patriots)

1878 Henry B Walthall, Shelby City AL, actor (Birth of a Nation, Klondike)

1609 Michael Franck, composer

1969 Ottis Gibson, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995)

1940 Jan P Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA)

1836 Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)

1970 Kelli James, Medford NJ, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)

1927 Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)

1931 Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)

1949 Victor Garber, Montr‚al Qu‚bec, actor (Days & Nights of Molly Dodd)

1932 Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Creston Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)

1966 Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback (Phila Eagles)

1923 George Bean, cricketer (92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng v Aust)

1963 Phung Vuong, Saigon Vietnam, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

1971 Brett Carolan, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)

1955 Isabelle Huppert, Paris France, actress (Cactus, Heaven's Gate)

1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger

1966 David Nascimento, soccer player (Roda JC/FC Utrecht)

1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)

1884 Harrison Ford, Kansas City MO, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires)

1959 Stan Thorn, Kenosha Wisc, singer (Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)

1937 Constanca Capdeville, composer

1918 Howard Boatwright, composer

1920 John Addison, Surrey England, composer (Tom Jones-Acad Award)

1902 Lucie Rie, potter

1951 Ray Benson, Phila Pa, country singer (House of Blue Lights)

1663 Nicholas Siret, composer

1814 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer

1970 Tammi Terrell, rocker (Ain't No Mountain High Enough)

1933 Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)

1957 Pearl Moore, WBL guard (NY Stars)

1959 Michael J Bloomfield, Flint Mich, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)

1906 Francisco Ayala, writer

1920 Percy Mansell, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for S Afr)

1821 Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau)

1868 Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) [3/28 NS]

1946 Erik Estrada, NYC, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)

1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY, 1977- )

1585 Gerbrant A Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright (Klucht van de Koe)

1956 Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end (Cleve Browns)

1974 Heath Streak, cricketer (Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-)

1776 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs

1954 Dav Whatmore, cricketer (Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-)

1906 Henny Youngman, London England, comedian (Take my wife please)

1885 Sydney Chaplin, S Afr, actor (Limelight)

1954 Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)

1966 Brad Bergen, PA Sask, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)

1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1869

1918 Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect (City Hall)

1940 Jan Schaefer, Dutch asst secretary of state (PvdA)

1931 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist

1951 Kate Nelligan, London Ontario, actress (Bethune, Eye of the Needle)

1967 John Mangum, NFL safety (Chic Bears)

1892 C‚sar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)

1971 Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker (Pitts Steelers)

1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (Last Tango in Paris)

1967 Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions)

1912 Patricia Nixon, [Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (1968-74)

1802 George Archibald McCall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868

1936 Thelma Hopkins, England, high jumper (Oly-silver-1956)

1904 Clive Morton, London England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)

1940 Chuck Woolery, Ky, TV game show host (Love Connection)

1916 Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)

1878 Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi

1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)

1927 Olga San Juan, NYC, actress (Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus)

1634 Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist

1927 Karlheinz Boehm, Germany, actor (Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural)

1976 Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas (1996)

1922 Harding Lemay, North Bangor NY, headwriter (Another World)

1910 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer

1745 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer

1822 John Pope, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892

1954 Jimmy Nail, singer/actor (Evita, Spender, Howling II)

1968 Jason van Blerk, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)

1945 B”rries von MЃnchhausen, writer, dies

1910 Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)

1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer

1925 Cornell Borchers, Germany, actress (Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul)

1910 Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)

1651 Zaccaria Tevo, composer

1954 Hollis Stacy, Savannah Ga, LPGA golfer (US Open 1977, 78)

1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, composer

1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)

1822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter (Buffalo Bill)

1806 Norbert Rillieux, inventor (sugar refiner)

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