Famous people born on 16 January

• Susan SontagAmerican writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist · 1933–2004
  71 yrs
• Fulgencio BatistaPresident of Cuba, 1940–1944; dictator, 1952-1959 · 1901–1973
  72 yrs
• Callixtus IIIPope of the Catholic Church from 1455 to 1458 from the Borgia family · 1379–1458
  79 yrs
• Dian FosseyAmerican zoologist, gorilla researcher · 1932–1985
  53 yrs
• Johannes RauGerman politician (SPD), 8th president of Germany from 1999 until 2004 · 1931–2006
  75 yrs
• AaliyahAmerican R&B singer · 1979–2001
  22 yrs
• Vittorio Alfieri ↗Italian noble, dramatist and poet · 1749–1803
  54 yrs
• Ethel Merman ↗American actress and singer · 1908–1984
  76 yrs
• John C. Breckinridge ↗Vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 · 1821–1875
  54 yrs
• Franz Brentano ↗German philosopher and psychologist as well as refounder of the theory of intentionality · 1838–1917
  79 yrs
• Ismail Kemal ↗Prime Minister of Albania · 1844–1919
  75 yrs
• Eduardo Frei Montalva ↗President of Chile · 1911–1982
  71 yrs
• Katy Jurado ↗Mexican actress · 1924–2002
  78 yrs
• Francis II of the Two Sicilies ↗King of the Two Sicilies (1836-1894) and Servant of God · 1836–1894
  58 yrs
• Eleanor Marx ↗English writer, translator, activist, and daughter of Karl Marx · 1855–1898
  43 yrs
• Udo Lattek ↗German football player and coach · 1935–2015
  80 yrs
• Walter Schellenberg ↗German police and SS general, head of the military secret services and convicted war criminal · 1910–1952
  42 yrs
• Alexander Knox ↗Canadian actor and author of adventure novels · 1907–1995
  88 yrs
• Edith Frank-Holländer ↗Mother of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank · 1900–1945
  44 yrs
• Kálmán Mikszáth ↗Hungarian writer and politician · 1847–1910
  63 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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