Anniversaries 16 April
Birth
founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
1162–1227
English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569
1569–1626
Maharajah of Travencore
1813–1846
German mathematician
1823–1852
Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist
1838–1922
American astronomer
1857–1939
20th-century novelist
1865–1947
American aviation pioneer
1867–1912
Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folk…
1871–1909
British politician
1881–1959
leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much …
1886–1944
British comic actor and filmmaker
1889–1977
Polish statistician
1894–1981
Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performa…
1896–1963
British botanist
1911–2001
American economist
1914–1997
British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright,…
1918–2002
American dancer
1919–2009
English actor, writer, and dramatist
1921–2004
English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
1922–1995
265th Pope of the Catholic Church
1927
English singer and record producer
1939–1999
Italian actor, musician, singer and theatrical author
1946
author, Neopagan, and National Public Radio reporter
1946–2014
American basketball player
1947
Scottish singer and songwriter
1947–2011
Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter
1952
American football coach
1952
Grand Duke (head of state) of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
1955
Spanish association football player and manager
1960
American government official and 71th U.S. Secretary of Sta…
1962
American singer and record label owner
1962
American actor and director
1965
Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion d…
1971–1995
American mixed martial artist
1985
American figure skater
1993
Entrepreneur, Writer, Researcher & Film Producer
1997
Death
Persian Sufi mystic
804–846
English statesman and poet
1628–1687
British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
1640–1689
French natural historian
1707–1788
Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
1746–1828
French political thinker and historian
1805–1859
Scottish author
1812–1904
Novelist, playwright
1885–1968
Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner
1899–1972
German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration …
1901–1947
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer
1914–1994
Japanese business theorist
1915–1989
American mathematician and meteorologist
1917–2008
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
1920–1958
Indian academic
1941–2010