Famous people born on 16 July

• Roald AmundsenNorwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole · 1872–1928
  55 yrs
• Barbara StanwyckAmerican actress · 1907–1990
  82 yrs
• Ginger RogersAmerican actress and dancer · 1911–1995
  83 yrs
• Trygve Lie1st Secretary-General of the United Nations · 1896–1968
  72 yrs
• Frits ZernikeDutch physicist · 1888–1966
  77 yrs
• Giuseppe PiazziItalian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer · 1746–1826
  80 yrs
• Jean-Baptiste Camille CorotFrench landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching · 1796–1875
  78 yrs
• Joshua ReynoldsEnglish painter · 1723–1792
  68 yrs
• Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ↗Shah of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896 · 1831–1896
  64 yrs
• Irwin Rose ↗American biologist · 1926–2015
  88 yrs
• Otto Jespersen ↗Danish linguist · 1860–1943
  82 yrs
• Mary Baker Eddy ↗American founder of Christian Science · 1821–1910
  89 yrs
• Ida B. Wells ↗American journalist and civil rights activist · 1862–1931
  68 yrs
• Choi Kyu-hah ↗4th President of South Korea · 1919–2006
  87 yrs
• Jesse Jane ↗American pornographic actress · 1980–2024
  43 yrs
• Robert Sheckley ↗American writer · 1928–2005
  77 yrs
• Anita Brookner ↗English novelist and art historian · 1928–2016
  87 yrs
• Julius Plücker ↗German mathematician and physicist · 1801–1868
  66 yrs
• Georges Rodenbach ↗Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist · 1855–1898
  43 yrs
• Alexander Gorchakov ↗Russian diplomat, minister, chancellor · 1798–1883
  84 yrs
• Alexander Luria ↗Soviet psychologist · 1902–1977
  75 yrs
• Aruna Asaf Ali ↗Indian independence activist · 1909–1996
  87 yrs
• Reinaldo Arenas ↗Cuban poet/novelist/playwright · 1943–1990
  47 yrs
• Eugène Ysaÿe ↗Belgian violinist, composer and conductor · 1858–1931
  72 yrs
• Dag Solstad ↗Norwegian writer · 1941–2025
  83 yrs
• Włodzimierz Smolarek ↗Polish footballer · 1957–2012
  54 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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