October 16 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including authors, politicians, creators and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Tatyana Vladimirovna Kim, formerly known as Tatyana Vladimirovna Bakalchuk, is a Russian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Wildberries, the largest Russian online retailer, and the country's first self-made woman billionaire.
Pierre Karl Péladeau, also known by his initials PKP, is a Canadian businessman, billionaire and former politician. He was also the MNA for Saint-Jérôme. Péladeau is the president and CEO of Quebecor Inc.
Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors29% (14 people)
Politicians27% (13 people)
Actors24% (12 people)
Creators24% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (11 people)
Musicians18% (9 people)
Artists12% (6 people)
Countries
21 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States15 (15 people)
France4 (4 people)
Japan4 (4 people)
Germany3 (3 people)
Brazil2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
Israel2 (2 people)
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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s.
Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Naomi Osaka is a Japanese professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the WTA for 25 weeks starting in January 2019, the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles.
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury was a British-American-Irish actress and singer. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted international attention.
Hema Malini Dharmendra Deol is an Indian actress, director, producer, and politician who is currently serving as a member of the Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), representing Mathura constituency since 2014.
https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Michael Peter Balzary, known professionally as Flea, is an Australian and American musician and actor. He is a founding member and bassist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Flea is the only continuous member of the band alongside vocalist Anthony Kiedis.
Stefan Brending (2eight), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education".
James Herring, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Suzanne Marie Somers was an American actress, author, and businesswoman. She played the television roles of Chrissy Snow on Three's Company (1977–1981) and Carol Foster Lambert on Step by Step (1991–1998).
The Heart Truth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hisashige Tanaka was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan. In 1875, he founded what became the Toshiba Corporation.
Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Major Anthony Peter Roylance Rolt, MC & Bar, was a British racing driver, soldier and engineer. A war hero, Rolt maintained a long connection with the sport, albeit behind the scenes.
John Clayton Mayer is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, but he left for Atlanta in 1997 with fellow guitarist Clay Cook, with whom he formed the short-lived rock duo Lo-Fi Masters.
Thatcommonkid, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Sr. was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
Nobel Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lorine Zineb Nora Talhaoui, known professionally as Loreen, is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Representing Sweden, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012 and 2023 with the songs "Euphoria" and "Tattoo" respectively.
Jonatan Svensson Glad, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Prince Itō Hirobumi was a Japanese statesman who served as the first prime minister of Japan from 1885 to 1888. Itō held office again as prime minister three times between 1892 and 1901.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness.
Arturo Espinosa from barcelona, Cataluña (España), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu, known professionally as Inna, is a Romanian singer and songwriter. Born in Mangalia and raised in Neptun, she studied political science at Ovidius University before meeting the Romanian trio Play & Win and pursuing a music career.
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Blaues Sofa from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kenneth Lonergan is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director, and actor. He is known for his works which explore complex emotional and interpersonal dynamics.
Manfred Werner (Tsui), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Franz Reichelt, also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt, was an Austro-Hungarian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Matteo Ricci was an Italian Jesuit who served in the court of Ming dynasty China and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions. He created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, a 1602 world map written in Chinese characters.
Chinese brother Emmanuel Pereira (born Yu Wen-hui 游文辉), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
Georges Chevalier, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Arlette Pinheiro Monteiro Torres, known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro, is a Brazilian actress. Considered by many as the greatest Brazilian actress of all time, she is often referred to as the grande dame of Brazilian theater, cinema, and performing arts.
Caroline Garcia is a French former professional tennis player and current podcaster and YouTuber. She had a career-high singles ranking of world No. 4 by the WTA, achieved on 10 September 2018 and a best doubles ranking of No. 2, reached on 24 October 2016.
Dino Buzzati-Traverso was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel The Tartar Steppe, although he is also known for his well-received collections of short stories.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mary Daly was an American radical feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at the Jesuit-run Boston College for 33 years. Once a practicing Roman Catholic, she had disavowed Christianity by the early 1970s.
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo was a Colombian-American billionaire businessman and diplomat. He is primarily known for his investments in Bavaria Brewery and for heading the Santo Domingo Family, one of the wealthiest and most influential families in Colombia.
Albrecht von Haller was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave and Jacob Winslow, he is sometimes referred to as "the father of modern physiology."
Johann Rudolf Huber, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Pamela Cecile Rasmussen is an American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University.
Yahiro Kazama is a Japanese manager and former footballer. He currently manager of Nankatsu SC. He played for the Japan national team until 1983. He is the first Japanese player to score in the J1 League. His two sons Koki Kazama and Koya Kazama are also footballers.
This page lists 49 people born on October 16, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 July 2026. 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 October 16. Read the full methodology.
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