July 16 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including historical figures, authors, actors and scientists, and 3 of them are billionaires.
John Joseph Ricketts is an American businessman. He is the founder, former CEO and former chair of TD Ameritrade, an online stockbroker. He has an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion as of 2024, according to Forbes.
Stef Wertheimer was an Israeli billionaire industrialist, investor, philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Knesset, and was known for founding industrial parks in Israel and neighboring countries. In 2013, the Wertheimers were described as Israel's richest family.
David Azagury / U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sudono Salim, also known as Om (Uncle) Liem was an Indonesian banker and businessman. He was the richest individual in Indonesia. He was the founder and chairman of the conglomerate Salim Group before handing over its management to his youngest son Anthoni Salim in 1992.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (14 people)
Actors21% (10 people)
Scientists21% (10 people)
Athletes17% (8 people)
Entrepreneurs17% (8 people)
Musicians15% (7 people)
Artists13% (6 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Australia2 (2 people)
Belgium2 (2 people)
France2 (2 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Japan2 (2 people)
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John William Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for his leading man roles in comedy films and for his work as a television producer.
Adam Chitayat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Gareth Frank Bale is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a right winger, most notably for Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid, and the Wales national team. He is widely regarded as one of the best players of his generation and the greatest Welsh player of all time.
Katrina Kaif is a British actress and businesswoman who works in Hindi-language films. One of India's highest-paid actresses, her accolades include four Screen Awards and four Zee Cine Awards, alongside three Filmfare Awards nominations.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.
Photograph by Avi Blizovsky, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Phoebe Belle Cates Kline is an American businesswoman and retired actress and model. She appeared in the films Paradise (1982), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Gremlins (1984), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Drop Dead Fred (1991) and Princess Caraboo (1994).
Greg in Hollywood (Greg Hernandez), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Singer Bricklin is an American businessman and engineer who is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix, which he left in 2004.
Luca Lucarini, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz was a German merchant and the founder of German South West Africa, Imperial Germany's first colony. The coastal town of Lüderitz, located in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia, is named after him.
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Ernst Beyeler was a Swiss art dealer and collector, who became "Europe’s pre-eminent dealer in modern art", according to The New York Times, and "the greatest art dealer since the war", according to The Daily Telegraph.
Michael Jaharis was an American lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of Kos Pharmaceuticals and Vatera Healthcare Partners LLC, and co-founder of Arisaph Pharmaceuticals.
Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress and dancer. A stage, film, and television star, during her 60-year professional career she was known for her strong, realistic screen presence and versatility. She was a favorite of directors, including Cecil B.
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sergio Busquets Burgos is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder and spent most of his career at La Liga club Barcelona. He is currently the assistant manager of Segunda Federación club Barcelona B.
Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940), and performed during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire.
Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Rosa Salazar is an American actress. She had roles in the NBC series Parenthood (2011–2012) and the FX anthology series American Horror Story: Murder House (2011).
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jesse Jane was an American pornographic film actress. She became one of the few adult film performers of the 2000s to make the transition into mainstream film and television roles.
Margaret Court, also known as Margaret Smith Court, is an Australian former world number 1 tennis player. Her 24 women's singles major titles and total of 64 major titles are the most in women's tennis history.
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jamia Suzette "Jayma" Mays is an American actress. She is known for playing Emma Pillsbury in the Fox musical series Glee (2009–2015) and for her starring roles in the films Red Eye (2005), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and The Smurfs (2011).
Mel from Huntington Beach, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar was the fourth Shah of Qajar Iran from 5 September 1848 to 1 May 1896 when he was assassinated. Initially seeking to modernise Iran, his style of governance became more dictatorial over the course of his reign.
Nadar / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known professionally as Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. Born in the Ojuelegba suburb of Surulere, Lagos, Wizkid is a voice in the emerging Afrobeats movement.
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Mary Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Luke Robert Hemmings is an Australian singer and musician, best known for being the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and a founding member of the pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer.
Sahra Wagenknecht is a German politician. She was a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2025, where she represented The Left until 2023. From 2015 to 2019, she served as that party's parliamentary co-chair.
Trygve Halvdan Lie was a Norwegian politician, labour leader, government official and author. He served as Norwegian foreign minister during the critical years of the Norwegian government in exile in London from 1940 to 1945.
atelier Benkow, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maher Zain is a Lebanese-Swedish Islamic Nasheeds and R&B singer, songwriter and music producer. He released his debut album Thank You Allah, an internationally successful album produced by Awakening Records, in 2009.
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Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded the 1984 Booker–McConnell Prize for her novel Hotel du Lac.
Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana.
Costanzo Angelini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville or Sieur d'Iberville was a French military officer, explorer, colonial administrator and merchant. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French colonists.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language.
Laurberg & Gad, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
John Kay was an English inventor whose most important creation was the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution. He is often confused with his namesake, who built the first "spinning frame".
Unidentified painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Julius Plücker was a German mathematician and physicist. He made fundamental contributions to the field of analytical geometry and was a pioneer in the investigations of cathode rays that led eventually to the discovery of the electron.
Rudolph Hoffmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov was a Russian diplomat and statesman from the Gorchakov princely family. He has an enduring reputation as one of the most influential and respected diplomats of the mid-19th century.
Hermitage Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 48 people born on July 16, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 4 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of March 2025. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on July 16. Read the full methodology.
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