Birthday twins
November 16 is the birthday of 41 notable people we've found so far, including authors, creators, politicians and actors, and 2 of them are billionaires.
What the data says
Greek businessman
1948–2021 · Greece
$2.4Bolder estimate, as of 2015 · Bloomberg
John Anthony Angelicoussis was a Greek shipowner.
Reported estimate as of 2015: $2.4B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every November birthday · battle November 16 against another date · all rankings
The November 16 wealth profile
Ranked by the low end of each reported estimate; bars use a log scale.
Entrepreneur
1980 · Poland
$1.6Bolder estimate, as of August 2024 · Forbes
Sebastian Tomasz Kulczyk is a Polish billionaire businessman, and the son of Jan Kulczyk, who was the richest man in Poland, and Grażyna Kulczyk. He is president of Kulczyk Investments and specializes in the new technology sector.
Piotr Porebski, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Who shares November 16
Share of the 41 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1977 · United States
Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal Sarsgaard is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards.
Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Creator
1922–2010 · Portugal
José de Sousa Saramago was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1967 · United States
Lilakoi Moon is an American actress.
Actor
1996 · Japan
Mackenyu Maeda, known professionally as Mackenyu Arata or simply Mackenyu, is a Japanese-American actor.
Japanese Station, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1974 · United Kingdom
Paul Scholes is an English former football pundit, coach, and player.
James Adams, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1997 · Spain
Bruno Guimarães Rodriguez Moura is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Arsenal and the Brazil national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur
1753–1816 · United States
James McHenry was an Scots-Irish American military surgeon, statesman, and a Founding Father of the United States. McHenry was a signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland, initiated the recommendation for Congress to form the Navy, and was the eponym of Fort McHenry.
By H. Pollock,, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1922–2015 · United States
Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation.
Perry Kivolowitz (Pkivolowitz at en.wikipedia), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1982 · Spain
Pere Aragonès i Garcia is a Catalan lawyer and former politician who served as President of the Government of Catalonia from 2021 to 2024.
Entrepreneur
1886–1961 · United States
Chester Irving Barnard was an American business executive, public administrator, and the author of pioneering work in management theory and organizational studies.
Entrepreneur
1965 · Russia
Konstantin Ivanovich Grigorishin is a Russian-Ukrainian businessman and billionaire. Business assets of Grigorishin, including energy, shipping and industrial machine-building companies, are mainly located in Ukraine.
November 16 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Creator
1952 · Japan
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japanese video game designer, producer, game director and filmmaker at Nintendo, where he has served as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002.
Minister's Secretariat Personnel Division, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1907–1997 · United States
Oliver Burgess Meredith was an American actor and filmmaker whose career encompassed radio, theater, film, and television.
Harris & Ewing, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1982 · United States
Amar'e Carsares Stoudemire, also known as Yehoshophat ben Avraham, is an American-Israeli professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as a player development assistant for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Keith Allison from Baltimore, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1930–2013 · Nigeria
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature.
Carlo Bavagnoli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1958 · United States
Mary Margaret "Marg" Helgenberger is an American actress. She began her career in the early 1980s and first came to attention for playing the role of Siobhan Ryan on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope from 1982 to 1986.
Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1964 · Canada
Diana Jean Krall is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the U.S.
Chris Govias, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1946–2000 · United States
Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants and mushrooms.
Entropath, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1993 · Portugal
Nélson Cabral Semedo is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right-back or right wing-back for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Portugal national team.
Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1874–1920 · Russian Empire
Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak was a Russian navy officer and polar explorer who led the White movement in the Russian Civil War.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1894–1972 · Austria
Richard Nikolaus Eijiro, Count of Coudenhove-Kalergi, was a politician, philosopher, and count of Coudenhove-Kalergi. A pioneer of European integration, he served as the founding president of the Paneuropean Union for 49 years.
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1992 · Croatia
Marcelo Brozović is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.
Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Creator
1906–1973 · France
Henri Charrière was a French writer who was convicted of murder in 1931 by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. He wrote the 1969 novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1836–1891 · Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
Kalākaua, was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death in 1891. Succeeding Lunalilo, he was elected to the vacant throne of Hawaiʻi against Queen Emma.
Bain News Service; photographer unknown. This version edited by User:Greg L and User:Jbarta., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1938–2002 · United States
Robert Nozick was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association.
Libertarian Review, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1964 · Italy
Valeria Carla Federica Bruni Tedeschi, also written Bruni-Tedeschi, is an Italian and French actress, screenwriter and film director. Her 2013 film, A Castle in Italy, was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Elena Ternovaja, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1890–1956 · Philippines
Elpidio Rivera Quirino was the sixth president of the Philippines, serving from 1948 to 1953. As the second vice president from 1946 to 1948, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Manuel Roxas in 1948.
Philippine Presidential Museum and Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1895–1975 · Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1995 · Cameroon
André-Frank Zambo Anguissa, commonly known as Frank Anguissa, is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Serie A club Napoli and the Cameroon national team.
Дмитрий Садовник, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1955 · Ecuador
Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza is an Ecuadorian businessman, banker and politician who served as the 47th president of Ecuador from 2021 to 2023.
Presidencia de la República del Ecuador, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1895–1963 · United States
Paul Hindemith was a German and American composer, music theorist, teacher, violist, and conductor. He founded the Amar Quartet in 1921, touring extensively in Europe.
Foto vom Hindemith-Institut als Rechteinhaber unter GFDL zur Verfügung gestellt Hochgeladen nach de.wikipedia von de:Ben, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1829–1894 · Russian Empire
Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein was a Russian pianist, composer and conductor who founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein, who founded the Moscow Conservatory.
J Ganz, Brussels, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1414–1492 · Timurid Empire
Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī, also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a Sunni poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature.
Herat artist, 1494-1495, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1717–1783 · Kingdom of France
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie.
After Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1964 · Italy
Luciano Floridi is an Italian and British philosopher. He is John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science and Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University.
Bigum12, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1892–1978 · People's Republic of China
Guo Moruo, courtesy name Dingtang, was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official. A prominent Chinese writer in the May Fourth Movement and later in the Mao era, he was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Executive
1937–2016 · Germany
Lothar Späth was a German politician of the CDU.
American banker
1931–2019 · United States
Herbert Sandler was a co-CEO of Golden West Financial Corporation and World Savings Bank. He died on June 4, 2019, at the age of 87.
Politician
1869–1933 · Sweden
Swedish politician (1869–1933)
Unknown, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 41 people born on November 16, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 2 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 August 2024. 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 November 16. Read the full methodology.
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