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b. 1994Ava Max
American pop singer known for the global hit Sweet but Psycho
Did you know? Her unique haircut, with one side short and the other long, was created by accident while she was baking cookies.
Photo: Justin Higuchi · CC BY 2.0
b. 1994Federico Bernardeschi
Italian international winger who helped his country win Euro 2020
Did you know? He was nicknamed Brunelleschi by fans because his technique reminded them of the famous Renaissance architect.
Photo: Kirill Venediktov · CC BY-SA 3.0
b. 1990The Weeknd
Toronto singer whose moody R&B and synth-pop hit Blinding Lights made him one of the most streamed artists on the planet
Did you know? He first posted songs online without revealing his face or real name.
Photo: Brian Ziff · CC BY-SA 4.0
b. 1990Nia Sanchez
Photo: Toglenn · CC BY-SA 3.0
b. 1989Elizabeth Olsen
American actress known for playing Scarlet Witch in Marvel films
Did you know? She is the younger sister of the famous child stars Mary-Kate and Ashley, but established her own acting career independently.
Photo: JoshPopov · CC BY 4.0
b. 1989Mū Kanazaki
Japanese professional footballer who played as a forward
Did you know? He spent part of his career playing in Europe, joining the German club Fortuna Düsseldorf before returning to the Japanese league.
Photo: Franconia · CC BY-SA 3.0
b. 1988Kim Soo-hyun
South Korean actor and winner of multiple Baeksang Arts Awards
Did you know? An avid sportsman, he once applied to become a professional ten-pin bowler while taking a break from his television career.
Photo: K-POPIT 케이팝잇 · CC BY 3.0
b. 1986Diego Godín
Uruguayan defender and former captain of Atlético Madrid
Did you know? He started his professional career as a striker before being moved back to the defence, eventually becoming one of the best centre-backs in the world.
Photo: Анна Нэсси · CC BY-SA 3.0
b. 1979Valentino Rossi
Multiple Grand Prix motorcycle racing world champion
Did you know? He is the only rider to have won world championships in four different engine capacity classes during his career.
Photo: RaúlBlancoRueda · CC BY-SA 4.0
b. 1977Sergei Udaltsov
Photo: Vitaly Ragulin · CC BY-SA 3.0
b. 1974Mahershala Ali
Dual Academy Award-winning actor known for Moonlight and Green Book
Did you know? He was the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar and initially pursued a career in basketball, playing for Saint Mary's College.
Photo: Gordon Correll · CC BY-SA 2.0
b. 1973Cathy Freeman
Australian runner and Olympic champion in the 400 metres
Did you know? She became the first Aboriginal Australian to win an individual Olympic gold medal when she triumphed in the 400 metres.
Photo: Jason Pini/AusAID · CC BY 2.0
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b. 1964Bebeto
Prolific Brazilian striker and 1994 World Cup winner
Did you know? He popularised the "baby cradle" celebration after scoring against the Netherlands to celebrate the birth of his third child.
Photo: Sergio Savarese from Sao Paulo City / Ipiranga, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0
b. 1961Maritza Sayalero
Photo: Associated Press · Public domain
b. 1959John McEnroe
American tennis champion known for his skill and fiery temperament
Did you know? He was born in West Germany, where his father was stationed with the United States Air Force at the time.
Photo: Nrbelex · CC BY-SA 2.5
b. 1956Rina Mor
Photo: Gabriel Baharlia · CC BY-SA 3.0
1954–2013Iain Banks
Scottish author known for both literary fiction and science fiction
Did you know? He used his middle initial only for his science fiction novels to help readers distinguish between his different genres.
Photo: Pasi Välkkynen · CC BY-SA 2.0
b. 1952Ivo Papazov
Photo: Ardinolu · CC BY-SA 3.0
b. 1948Eckhart Tolle
German-born spiritual teacher and author of The Power of Now
Did you know? After a period of intense depression, he spent several years living as a drifter on park benches in London while experiencing inner peace.
Photo: Kyle Hoobin (twitter.com/kylehoobin) · CC BY-SA 3.0
1941–2011Kim Jong-il
Son of Kim Il Sung who ruled North Korea from 1994 to 2011, overseeing famine and the first nuclear weapons tests
Did you know? A dedicated film enthusiast, he reportedly owned a collection of over 20,000 films and once ordered the kidnapping of a South Korean director.
Photo: Presidential Press and Information Office · CC BY 4.0
1921–2008Hua Guofeng
Successor to Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist Party
Did you know? He was famously known for his "Two Whatevers" policy, which advocated following any decision or instruction made by Mao.
Photo: Bibliothèque de l'Hôtel de Ville - Bibliothèques spécialisées de la Ville de Paris · Public domain
1904–2005100 ClubGeorge F. Kennan
American diplomat who shaped the Cold War policy of containment
Did you know? He was the namesake and distant relative of a famous nineteenth-century explorer who documented the Russian exile system.
Photo: Harris & Ewing · Public domain
1852–1916Charles Taze Russell
American minister and founder of the Bible Student movement
Did you know? His teachings and publications eventually led to the formation of the religious group now known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Photo: Mitchell · Public domain
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Notable deaths on February 165
🇫🇷MolièreFrench playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world…1673Died
🇫🇷Octave MirbeauFrench novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe…1917Died
🇷🇺Alexei NavalnyRussian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner2024Died
🇮🇹Giosuè CarducciItalian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher1907Died
🇪🇬Boutros Boutros-GhaliEgyptian politician and diplomat who served as the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1992 to 19962016Died
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At a glance
February 16: birthdays, history and star sign
32 famous people were born on February 16, including Octave Mirbeau, Kim Jong-il and Ernst Haeckel. Anyone born on February 16 is a Aquarius, an air sign ruled by Uranus. Notable events on February 16 include Act of Independence of Lithuania (1918) and Iran–Israel proxy conflict (1985).
Famous people born on February 16
- 1994Ava Max · American singer and songwriter
- 1990The Weeknd · Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor
- 1989Elizabeth Olsen · American actress
- 1986Diego Godín · Uruguayan former professional footballer who played as a centre-back
- 1979Valentino Rossi · Italian racing driver, former professional motorcycle road racer, and nine-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing World…
- 1974Mahershala Ali · American actor
- 1964Bebeto · Brazilian former professional football player who played as a forward
- 1959John McEnroe · John Patrick McEnroe Jr
- 1954Iain Banks · Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks
- 1948Eckhart Tolle · German “spiritual teacher” and self-help author
- 1941Kim Jong-il · North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim…
- 1921Hua Guofeng · Chinese politician who served as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the premier of China
- 1904George F. Kennan · American diplomat and historian
- 1848Octave Mirbeau · French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe…
- 1848Hugo de Vries · Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists
- 1838Henry Adams · American historian, journalist, author, intellectual, and prominent figure in high society in London and Washington…
- 1834Ernst Haeckel · German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist
- 1822Francis Galton · English polymath and the originator of eugenics during the Victorian era; his ideas later became the basis of…
- 1812Henry Wilson · 18th vice president of the United States, serving from 1873 until his death in 1875, and a senator from Massachusetts…
- 1497Philipp Melanchthon · German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant…
On February 16 in history
- 1918Act of Independence of Lithuania · The Act of Independence of Lithuania or the Act of February 16th, also the Lithuanian Resolution on Independence, was signed by the Council of Lithuania on…
- 1985Iran–Israel proxy conflict · Iran and Israel have been engaged in a proxy conflict since 1985. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably…
- 201467th British Academy Film Awards · The 67th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 16 February 2014 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best…
- 1940Altmark Incident · The Altmark incident was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker Altmark, which happened on 16–17 February 1940. It…
- 2024Death and funeral of Alexei Navalny · On 16 February 2024, at 14:19 Moscow time, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced that Russian opposition…
Zodiac sign
Aquarius · Air · ruled by Uranus · Inventive, Independent, Humanitarian, Unconventional
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1564–1642Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and physicist who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons, championed a Sun-centred universe and was tried by the Inquisition
Did you know? He spent the final years of his life under house arrest for supporting the theory that the Earth orbits the Sun.
Photo: Justus Sustermans · Public domain
b. 1963Michael Jordan
American basketball player who won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and is widely seen as the greatest ever
Did you know? He briefly retired from professional basketball in the mid-1990s to pursue a career in minor league baseball.
Photo: DOD photo by D. Myles Cullen · Public domain
b. 1981Paris Hilton
American hotel heiress and star of The Simple Life who turned celebrity into a business and campaigns against abusive youth facilities
Did you know? She is a great-granddaughter of the founder of the Hilton hotel chain and was once a childhood friend of Kim Kardashian.
Photo: Bryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0
1748–1832Jeremy Bentham
English philosopher and legal reformer who founded utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number
Did you know? His preserved skeleton was dressed in his own clothes and placed in a display cabinet at University College London.
Photo: Henry William Pickersgill · Public domain
1710–1774Louis XV of France
King of France from the age of five, known as the Beloved, whose long reign saw France lose Canada in the Seven Years' War
Did you know? He ascended to the throne at the age of just five, succeeding his great-grandfather who had ruled the country for over seven decades.
Photo: Manner of Louis-Michel van Loo · Public domain
b. 1955Mo Yan
Chinese novelist of Red Sorghum and Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
Did you know? His pen name translates to 'don't speak', a nickname he adopted as a reminder to avoid causing trouble in his home country.
Photo: Johannes Kolfhaus, Gymn. Marienthal · CC BY-SA 3.0
1861–1947Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher who co-authored Principia Mathematica
Did you know? He moved to the United States in his sixties to begin a second career as a philosophy professor at Harvard University.
Photo: unknown · Public domain
b. 1991Ed Sheeran
English singer-songwriter known for global hits like Shape of You
Did you know? Before finding fame, he worked as a guitar technician for the band Nizlopi and was once an extra in a TV drama.
Photo: Harald Krichel · CC BY-SA 3.0
Questions people ask
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- Who was born on February 16?
- Famous people born on February 16 include Octave Mirbeau (1848), Kim Jong-il (1941), Ernst Haeckel (1834), Philipp Melanchthon (1497) and Diego Godín (1986). In total, 32 famous people in our archive were born on February 16.
- Which celebrities share a February 16 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a February 16 birthday include Diego Godín, Elizabeth Olsen, John McEnroe and The Weeknd.
- What star sign is someone born on February 16?
- People born on February 16 are Aquarius, an air sign ruled by Uranus. Aquarius runs from January 20 to February 18.
- What happened on February 16 in history?
- Notable events on February 16 include Act of Independence of Lithuania (1918), Iran–Israel proxy conflict (1985) and 67th British Academy Film Awards (2014).
Keep exploring your birthday
- February 16 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on February 16, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous twin: Octave MirbeauOf the 32 famous people who share your birthday, Octave Mirbeau is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Aquarius zodiac signAs a Aquarius you're known for being inventive, independent and humanitarian, just like Octave Mirbeau. Meet your star-sign twins.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in FebruarySee the best-known people born on every day of February, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
- The 100 ClubWill you make it to 100? Meet the famous people who celebrated their 100th birthday, and the stars who are next in line.Centenarians
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