Anniversaries 16 July

Birth

Ennius23

Roman writer -239–-169 BC

Giovanni Boccaccio27

Italian author and poet 1313–1375

Lancelot Andrewes1

English divine 1555–1626

Joshua Reynolds22

English painter, specialising in portraits 1723–1792

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot17

French landscape painter and printmaker in etching 1796–1875

Mary Baker Eddy19

religious leader 1821–1910

Ida B. Wells-Barnett2

African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, … 1862–1931

Roald Amundsen19

Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the … 1872–1928

Kathleen Norris11

American writer 1880–1966

Joe Jackson14

American baseball player 1887–1951

Frits Zernike1

Dutch physicist 1888–1966

Arnold Tustin18

British engineer 1899–1994

Barbara Stanwyck4

American actress 1907–1990

David Lack2

British ornithologist and biologist 1910–1973

Ginger Rogers7

American actress and dancer 1911–1995

Anatole Broyard5

American literary critic 1920–1990

Chris Argyris9

American business theorist/Professor Emeritus/Harvard Busin… 1923–2013

Shirley Hughes1

English children's writer and illustrator 1927

Anita Brookner9

British novelist and art historian. 1928–2016

Robert Sheckley114

American writer 1928–2005

Sheri S. Tepper150

American fiction writer 1929–2016

Тревор Уэнтворт1

1933

George M. Fredrickson2

American professor and historian 1934–2008

Frank Baude1

Swedish politician 1936

William Irwin Thompson3

American writer 1938

Reinaldo Arenas5

Cuban poet/novelist/playwright 1943–1990

Patricia Churchland1

philosopher 1943

Jack Kornfield19

American writer 1945

Gregory Balestrero6

American industrial engineer 1947

Assata Shakur35

American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Par… 1947

Rubén Blades4

Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and… 1948

Maryanne Ellison Simmons1

American printmaker 1949

Esther M. Friesner7

American writer 1951

Stewart Copeland2

American musician; drummer of The Police 1952

Dean Ornish5

American physician 1953

Tony Kushner15

American playwright and screenwriter 1956

Joanna MacGregor38

British musician 1959

Don Willett3

American judge 1966

Scott Derrickson2

American screenwriter and film director 1966

Will Ferrell2

American actor, writer, and comedian 1967

Larry Sanger9

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder… 1968

Kamal Sagar1

Architect 1969

Corey Feldman5

American actor 1971

Chris Pontius27

American actor 1974

Douglas Murray18

British political commentator and far-right activist 1979

Death

Thomas Kyd11

English dramatist 1558–1594

Thomas Yalden2

English poet 1670–1736

Elijah Fenton5

British poet 1683–1730

Jean-Louis de Lolme1

Genevan and English political theorist and writer on consti… 1740–1806

Pierre-Jean de Béranger9

French poet and chansonnier 1780–1857

Edmond de Goncourt3

French writer 1822–1896

Ellen G. White48

American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adven… 1827–1915

C. T. Studd1

British cricketer and missionary 1860–1931

Hilaire Belloc91

writer 1870–1953

Хилари Беллок1

1870–1953

Albert Kesselring9

German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II 1885–1960

Meindert DeJong18

American children's writer 1906–1991

Herbert von Karajan3

Austrian conductor 1908–1989

Stephen Spender76

English poet and man of letters 1909–1995

May Sarton26

American poet, novelist, and memoirist 1912–1995

Мэй Сартон1

1912–1995

William Foote Whyte17

American sociologist 1914–2000

Robert Motherwell42

American artist 1915–1991

John Henrik Clarke2

American historian and writer 1915–1998

Heinrich Böll6

German author, novelist, and short story writer 1917–1985

Julian Schwinger3

American theoretical physicist 1918–1994

Jack Goody1

British anthropologist 1919–2015

John Paul Stevens10

Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United… 1920–2019

Celia Cruz4

Cuban singer (1925-2003) 1925–2003

Stephen R. Covey125

American educator, author, businessman and motivational spe… 1932–2012

Carol Shields7

American author 1935–2003

George A. Romero3

American-Canadian film director, film producer, screenwrite… 1940–2017

Harry Chapin90

American musician 1942–1981

Kevin Mitnick1

American computer security consultant, author, convicted cr… 1963–2023