September 16 is the birthday of 48 notable people we've found so far, including actors, authors, politicians and scientists, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
Kenneth Gerard Langone Sr. KSG is an American billionaire businessman best known for organizing financing for the founders of The Home Depot. He is a major donor to the Republican Party.
Share of the 48 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Actors25% (12 people)
Authors21% (10 people)
Politicians21% (10 people)
Scientists21% (10 people)
Entrepreneurs19% (9 people)
Athletes17% (8 people)
Musicians17% (8 people)
Countries
26 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States16 (16 people)
France4 (4 people)
United Kingdom3 (3 people)
Hungary2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Albania1 (1 people)
Ancient Rome1 (1 people)
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~25Elgin BaylorReceived the NBA Rookie of the Year Award (1959)
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
actor
Nick Jonas
Top tier
Actor
1992 · United States
Nicholas Jerry Jonas is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the pop rock band Jonas Brothers, alongside his brothers Joe and Kevin.
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kimberly Alexis Bledel is an American actress and model. She is best known for her roles as Rory Gilmore on the television series Gilmore Girls and Emily Malek in The Handmaid's Tale.
Lee Kuan Yew, also known as LKY, was a Singaporean politician, barrister and statesman who served as the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990.
Robert D. Ward, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Betty Joan Perske, known professionally as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute and was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. is an American actor and former professional boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
Stephanie Murphy is a Vietnamese-born American politician, businesswoman, former educator, and former national security analyst who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 7th congressional district from 2017 to 2023.
United States House of Representatives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Walter Owen Bentley, was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircraft and automobile engines, Bentley established his own firm in 1919.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Jupally Rameswar Rao is an Indian businessman. He is the founder-chairman of My Home Group, a Hyderabad-based company with a presence in real estate, cement, and power sectors. One of the brands of his company, Maha Cement, has a reported annual revenue of ₹3,000 crore.
Evžen Korec is a Czech scientist, entrepreneur and businessman. He is the owner and CEO of real estate development company EKOSPOL and Tábor Zoo. He is the co-author of 11 patents and more than 20 research papers published in international scientific journals.
Show Jana Krause, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jennifer Tilly is an American actress and professional poker player. Known for her distinctive breathy voice and comedic timing, she began her career with small parts in film and television throughout the mid-late 1980s.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marco Antonio Muñiz, known by the stage name Marc Anthony, is an American singer and actor. He is the top selling salsa artist of all time. A four-time Grammy Award, eight-time Latin Grammy Award and twenty-nine-time Lo Nuestro Awards winner.
Peter Michael Falk was an American actor. He played the title character Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award (1973).
NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
David Seth Kotkin, known professionally as David Copperfield, is an American stage magician and illusionist described by Forbes as the most commercially successful magician in history.
Fan Bingbing is a Chinese actress. After gaining recognition for the costume drama My Fair Princess (1998–1999), Fan's breakthrough came with Feng Xiaogang's film Cell Phone (2003), which won her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Aleksandar Mitrović is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Qatar Stars League club Al Rayyan and captains the Serbia national team.
Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti is a Chilean professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of La Liga club Real Betis. He has managed clubs in Spain, England, Argentina, Chile, China, and Ecuador, winning league titles in four different countries.
--Steindy (talk) 15:57, 29 August 2019 (UTC), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British singer. She was born in Kutaisi, Georgia and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of composer Mike Batt, she was signed to the small Dramatico record label.
Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Elgin Gay Baylor was an American professional basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 14 seasons as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky was a field marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under the reign of three Romanov monarchs: Empress Catherine II, and Emperors Paul I and Alexander I.
R.M. Volkov (1776-1831), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
José Salomón Rondón Giménez is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX club Pachuca and captains the Venezuela national team.
Tamron Hall is an American broadcast journalist, television talk show host and author. In September 2019, Hall debuted her self-titled syndicated daytime talk show, which has earned her two Daytime Emmy Awards.
Library of Congress Life, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman, revolutionist and governor-president of the Hungarian State during the war of independence of 1848–1849.
Southworth & Hawes, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mamdouh Mohammed Hassan Elssbiay, also known as Big Ramy, is an Egyptian retired professional bodybuilder who competed in the men's open bodybuilding division inside the IFBB Pro League. Known for his size and conditioning during competitions. Elssbiay is a two time Mr.
Juliette Nadia Boulanger was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.
Edmond Joaillier (1886-1939), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp, better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
Original uploader was Vincent Steenberg at nl.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoy is a Russian politician and former Soviet military officer who served as the only vice president of Russia from 1991 to 1993.
Emilia Pardo Bazán y de la Rúa-Figueroa, Countess of Pardo Bazán was a Spanish novelist, journalist, literary critic, poet, playwright, translator, editor and professor.
Luis Sellier, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel was a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics.
Kossel,_Albrecht_(1853-1927).jpg: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress) derivative work: Materialscienti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Yuriy Valeryevich Nikiforov is a professional football coach and a former player who played mainly as a central defender. He is an assistant coach with the Russia national team.
Mario Haas is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a forward. Apart from two short foreign engagements in France and Japan, he played most of his career with SK Sturm Graz.
This page lists 48 people born on September 16, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 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 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 September 16. Read the full methodology.
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