Famous people born on 16 August

• Charles BukowskiGerman-American writer · 1920–1994
  73 yrs
• Menachem BeginIsraeli politician and former Prime Minister · 1913–1992
  78 yrs
• Gabriel LippmannLuxembourgish physicist nationalized French · 1845–1921
  75 yrs
• T. E. LawrenceBritish archaeologist, army officer and diplomat · 1888–1935
  46 yrs
• Wilhelm WundtGerman physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor · 1832–1920
  88 yrs
• John BoscoItalian Roman Catholic priest, educator, writer · 1815–1888
  72 yrs
• Jean de La Bruyère17th-century French writer and philosopher · 1645–1696
  50 yrs
• Umaru Musa Yar'AduaPresident of Nigeria · 1951–2010
  58 yrs
• Wendell Meredith Stanley ↗American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry · 1904–1971
  66 yrs
• Arthur Cayley ↗English mathematician · 1821–1895
  73 yrs
• Albert II of Germany ↗King of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia · 1397–1439
  42 yrs
• Bill Evans ↗American jazz pianist · 1929–1980
  51 yrs
• Diana Wynne Jones ↗English children's fantasy writer · 1934–2011
  76 yrs
• Kakuichi Mimura ↗Japanese association football player · 1931–2022
  90 yrs
• Daishirō Yoshimura ↗Japanese association football player · 1947–2003
  56 yrs
• Helmut Rahn ↗German association football player · 1929–2003
  73 yrs
• Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy ↗French duke · 1682–1712
  29 yrs
• Hugo Gernsback ↗American inventor, writer, editor and publisher · 1884–1967
  83 yrs
• Ivan Bilibin ↗Celebrated Russian illustrator · 1876–1942
  65 yrs
• Pierre Méchain ↗French mathematician and astronomer · 1744–1804
  60 yrs
• Marian Rejewski ↗Polish mathematician and cryptologist · 1905–1980
  74 yrs
• Hongxi Emperor ↗Emperor of the Ming Dynasty from 1424 to 1425 · 1378–1425
  46 yrs
• Albert Cohen ↗Swiss writer · 1895–1981
  86 yrs
• Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein ↗Prince of Liechtenstein · 1906–1989
  83 yrs
• Jules Laforgue ↗Franco-Uruguayan poet · 1860–1887
  27 yrs
• E. F. Schumacher ↗British economist · 1911–1977
  66 yrs
• Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland ↗Queen consort of Poland and Sweden · 1573–1598
  24 yrs
• Georgette Heyer ↗British historical romance and detective fiction novelist · 1902–1974
  71 yrs

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