Anniversaries 16 September

Birth

John Dennis2

British dramatist 1658–1734

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke10

English politician and Viscount 1678–1751

James Francis Stephens1

British ornithologist and entomologist 1792–1852

William Augustus Muhlenberg4

United States Anglican Episcopal clergyman 1796–1877

Francis Parkman28

American historian 1823–1893

Anna Kingsford3

English physician, activist and feminist 1846–1888

Robert Barr (writer)3

Scottish-Canadian novelist 1849–1912

Bonar Law7

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1858–1923

Herwarth Walden1

German artist 1878–1941

Alfred Noyes59

English poet 1880–1958

T. E. Hulme17

English Imagist poet and critic 1883–1917

Karen Horney9

American-German psychoanalyst 1885–1952

Hans Arp42

Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist 1886–1966

Karl Dönitz22

President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarin… 1891–1980

Albert Szent-Györgyi8

Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology … 1893–1986

Halvard Lange1

Norwegian politician 1902–1970

Gwen Bristow1

American author and journalist 1903–1980

August Heckscher II2

American writer 1913–1997

M. S. Subbulakshmi7

singer,Carnatic vocalist 1916–2004

Laurence J. Peter26

Canadian eductor 1919–1990

J. J. C. Smart1

Australian philosopher and academic 1920–2012

J. J. C. Smart3

Australian philosopher and academic 1920–2012

Janis Paige1

actress 1922

Lee Kuan Yew72

First Prime Minister of Singapore 1923–2015

Lauren Bacall26

American actress, model 1924–2014

Charles Haughey8

Irish politician 1925–2006

Robert H. Schuller1

American television evangelist 1926–2015

John Knowles11

American novelist 1926–2001

E. C. George Sudarshan2

Indian physicist 1931–2018

George Chakiris2

American dancer, singer and actor 1934

Ronnie Drew3

Irish musician 1934–2008

Carl Andre32

American artist 1935

Jules Bass1

American composer and filmmaker 1935–2022

Richard Perle11

American government official 1941

Stormie Omartian4

American writer 1942

P. Chidambaram5

Indian politician 1945

Julia Donaldson1

British children's writer 1948

Henry Louis Gates Jr.1

American professor 1950

Fatos Nano2

Albanian politician 1952

Michael Nava38

American writer 1954

Ralph Abraham (politician)1

American physician and congressman 1954

William McKeen29

American academic 1954

Ashrita Furman5

American world record holder 1954

David Copperfield2

American illusionist 1956

Taneti Maamau1

Kiribati politician 1960

Mike Mignola3

Comic creator 1960

Andrey Illarionov6

Russian politician 1961

Molly Shannon4

American actress 1964

Richard Wiseman1

British psychologist 1966

Justine Frischmann5

English musician 1969

Amy Poehler17

American actress 1971

Brian Sims1

American politician 1978

Alexis Bledel2

American actress 1981

Kirsty Coventry1

Zimbabwean swimmer 1983

Katie Melua27

British singer-songwriter 1984

Nick Jonas3

American singer 1992

Death

Anne Bradstreet14

Anglo-American poet 1612–1672

James II of England2

King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1633–1701

Nguyễn Du12

Vietnamese poet 1765–1820

Antoine-Vincent Arnault4

French dramatist 1766–1834

Edward Bouverie Pusey5

British saint 1800–1882

Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician)2

Irish writer and activist 1814–1845

Grace Aguilar4

Novelist, writer 1816–1847

Henry Benjamin Whipple3

Bishop of Minnesota 1822–1901

Omar Mukhtar7

Libyan resistance leader 1858–1931

James Jeans54

British mathematician and astronomer 1877–1946

Paul Lewis Anderson1

American photographer and writer 1880–1956

Jean Piaget66

Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & acad… 1896–1980

Bryce Crawford1

American chemist (1914-2011) 1914–2011

Oodgeroo Noonuccal2

Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner… 1920–1993

Maria Callas11

American-born Greek operatic soprano 1923–1977

Gabriele Amorth4

Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist 1925–2016

Edward Albee32

American playwright 1928–2016

Víctor Jara2

Pro teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and… 1932–1973

Ronald DeWolf17

American critic of Scientology 1934–1991

Ralph Compton1

American writer 1934–1998

Winston Groom7

American writer 1943–2020

Robert Jordan305

American writer 1948–2007

Nabeel Qureshi (author)3

Christian missionary, speaker and author who was a convert … 1983–2017