Accadde oggi — 16 ottobre

Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (died 1542)

Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (died 1585)

Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (died 1657)

Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (died 1677)

Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (died 1694)

Anna Waser, Swiss painter (died 1714)

Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (died 1745)

András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (died 1790)

Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (died 1795)

Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator (died 1801)

Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (died 1768)

Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (died 1827)

Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (died 1844)

Noah Webster, American lexicographer (died 1843)

Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1816)

William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (died 1866)

William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (died 1876)

Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (died 1882)

Robert Stephenson, English railway and civil engineer (died 1859)

Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator (died 1885)

William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1869)

Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (died 1905)

William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (died 1882)

Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (died 1886)

Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter (died 1901)

Lucy Stanton, American activist (died 1910)

Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (died 1896)

Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (died 1900)

Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (died 1909)

Maria Pia of Savoy, Queen Consort of Luis I of Portugal (died 1911)

Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (died 1913)

Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (died 1938)

Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (died 1900)

Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (died 1931)

J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (died 1927)

Richard Sears, American tennis player (died 1943)

Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)

Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (died 1963)

Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (died 1930)

Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (died 1942)

Juho Kekkonen, Finnish forestry manager and tenant farmer (died 1928)

Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (died 1913)

William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1955)

Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (died 1916)

David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (died 1973)

Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)

Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (died 1979)

Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance (died 1922)

Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (died 1902)

Paul Strand, American photographer and director (died 1975)

Louis de Cazenave, French soldier (died 2008)

William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (died 1980)

Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (died 1979)

Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (died 1988)

Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (died 1971)

Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (died 2003)

Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1982)

Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (died 1968)

Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (died 1990)

León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1996)

Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (died 1973)

Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (died 2006)

Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (died 1985)

Otto von Bülow, German commander (died 2006)

Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (died 2009)

Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (died 1990)

Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (died 2013)

Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (died 2008)

Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author (died 2003)

Paddy Finucane, Irish fighter pilot and flying ace (died 1942)

Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)

Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (died 2003)

MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (died 2010)

Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer (died 2012)

Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (died 2001)

Linda Darnell, American actress (died 1965)

Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (died 1980)

Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (died 2010)

Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (died 2014)

Daniel J. Evans, American politician, 16th Governor of Washington (died 2024)

Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer (died 2022)

Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO (died 2024)

Ed Valigursky, American illustrator (died 2009)

Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)

Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress

Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (died 2010)

Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (died 2016)

Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress

John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest (died 2021)

Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress (died 2023)

Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (died 2012)

Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (died 2022)

P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (died 2013)

John Grant, English journalist and politician (died 2000)

Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (died 1996)

Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (died 2013)

Nobuyo Ōyama, Japanese voice actress (died 2024)

Peter Ashdown, English race car driver

Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter (died 2022)

Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (died 1994)

Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (died 1997)

Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan (died 2015)

Emile Ford, Saint Lucia-born British singer and first Black British musician to sell over one million copies of a single (died 2016)

Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (died 1999)

Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (died 1988)

Barry Corbin, American actor and producer

Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (died 2003)

Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (died 2009)

Mel Counts, American basketball player

Tim McCarver, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2023)

Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician

Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player

Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager

Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist

Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host

Roger Hawkins, American session drummer (died 2021)

Paul Monette, American author and poet (died 1995)

Geoff Barnett, English footballer (died 2021)

Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer (died 2023)

Nicholas Day, English actor

Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach (died 2024)

Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2026)

David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer

Bruce Fleisher, American golfer (died 2021)

Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician

Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach

Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (died 2017)

Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (died 2015)

Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician

Cordell Mosson, American bass player (died 2013)

Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright (died 2019)

Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician

Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer

Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager

K. S. Kugathasan, Sri Lankan politician

Brinsley Forde, British singer and actor

Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger

Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player

Corinna Harfouch, German actress

Kieran Doherty, Irish Republican and politician, died on hunger strike (died 1981)

Ellen Dolan, American actress

Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor

John Chavis, American football player and coach

Meg Rosoff, American-English author

Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (died 1992)

Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator

Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager

Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician

Brian Harper, American baseball player

Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

Philip Maini, Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford

Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician

Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster

Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer

John Whittingdale, English politician

Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (died 2015)

Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Chris Doleman, American football player (died 2020)

Marc Levy, French author

Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (died 1998)

Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer

Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (died 2010)

Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer (died 2017)

Nico Lazaridis, German footballer

Tamara McKinney, American skier

Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic

Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2012)

James Thompson, American-Finnish author (died 2014)

Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator

German Titov, Russian ice hockey player and coach

Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster

Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director

Michael Laffy, Australian footballer

Davina McCall, English television host and actress

Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer

Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and singer

Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor

Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer

Elsa Zylberstein, French actress

Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer (died 2018)

Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler

Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer

Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter

Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist

Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager

Frank Cuesta, Spanish television presenter

Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Paul Sparks, American actor

Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author

Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-American ice hockey player and coach

Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host

Justin Credible, American wrestler

David Unsworth, English footballer and manager

Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer

Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player

Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer

Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer

Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer

Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer

John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Björn Yttling, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, producer and member of Peter, Bjorn and John

Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player

Jeremy Jackson, American actor and singer

Caterina Scorsone, Canadian-American actress

Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player

Brea Grant, American actress and writer

Martin Halle, Danish footballer

Boyd Melson, American boxer

Anthony Reyes, American baseball player

Alan Anderson, American basketball player

Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player

Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer

Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer

Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player

Loreen, Swedish singer

Kenny Omega, Canadian wrestler

François Pervis, French track cyclist

Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress

Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player

Alexis Hornbuckle, American basketball player

Verena Sailer, German sprinter

Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer

Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player

Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer

Franco Armani, Argentine footballer

Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer

Inna, Romanian singer

Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer

Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player

Jonathan Schoop, Curaçaoan baseball player

Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer

Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer

Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player

Bryce Harper, American baseball player

Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (died 2022)

Caroline Garcia, French tennis player

Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player

Halimah Nakaayi, Ugandan middle-distance runner

Toprak Razgatlıoğlu, Turkish motorcycle racer

Andrea Locatelli, Italian motorcycle racer

Aliou Dieng, Malian footballer

Charles Leclerc, Monégasque racing driver

Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player

Aaron Nesmith, American basketball player

Nicolò Bulega, Italian motorcycle racer

Willian Pacho, Ecuadorian footballer

Scott Ogden, British motorcycle racer

Ruby Rose Turner, American actress