Famous people born on 16 March

• James MadisonPresident of the United States from 1809 to 1817 · 1751–1836
  85 yrs
• Sully PrudhommeFrench poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901 · 1839–1907
  68 yrs
• Georg Simon OhmGerman physicist and mathematician · 1789–1854
  65 yrs
• Francisco PizarroSpanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire · 1478–1541
  63 yrs
• Bernardo BertolucciItalian film director and screenwriter · 1941–2018
  77 yrs
• Jerry LewisAmerican comedian, actor and film director · 1926–2017
  91 yrs
• HumayunSecond Mughal emperor from 1530 to 1540 and 1555 to 1556 · 1508–1556
  47 yrs
• Josef MengeleNazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz · 1911–1979
  67 yrs
• Caroline HerschelGerman-British astronomer · 1750–1848
  97 yrs
• Frederick ReinesAmerican physicist · 1918–1998
  80 yrs
• César Vallejo ↗Peruvian writer · 1892–1938
  46 yrs
• Vladimir Komarov ↗Soviet cosmonaut · 1927–1967
  40 yrs
• Pat Nixon ↗First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974 · 1912–1993
  81 yrs
• Aleksandr Popov ↗Russian physicist · 1859–1906
  46 yrs
• Hans Eysenck ↗British psychologist · 1916–1997
  81 yrs
• Alexander McQueen ↗British fashion designer · 1969–2010
  40 yrs
• Matthew Flinders ↗English navigator and cartographer · 1774–1814
  40 yrs
• Mercedes McCambridge ↗American actress · 1916–2004
  87 yrs
• Rosa Bonheur ↗French artist · 1822–1899
  77 yrs
• Alexander Belyayev ↗Soviet writer · 1884–1942
  57 yrs
• Traudl Junge ↗Secretary to Adolf Hitler · 1920–2002
  81 yrs
• Anna Atkins ↗English botanist and photographer · 1799–1871
  72 yrs
• Emperor Ninkō ↗Emperor of Japan · 1800–1846
  45 yrs
• Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck ↗Dutch microbiologist · 1851–1931
  79 yrs
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi ↗Japanese marine engineer · 1916–2010
  93 yrs
• Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ↗Prussian royal consort of Frederick William I · 1687–1757
  70 yrs
• Antoine-Jean Gros ↗French painter of historical subjects · 1771–1835
  64 yrs
• Xuande Emperor ↗Emperor of the Ming Dynasty · 1399–1435
  35 yrs
• Baldassare Peruzzi ↗Italian painter · 1481–1536
  54 yrs
• Napoléon, Prince Imperial ↗French prince · 1856–1879
  23 yrs
• Aladár Gerevich ↗Hungarian fencer · 1910–1991
  81 yrs
• Clemens August von Galen ↗German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism · 1878–1946
  68 yrs
• Francisco Ayala ↗Spanish novelist · 1906–2009
  103 yrs
• Kunihiko Kodaira ↗Japanese mathematician · 1915–1997
  82 yrs
• Walter Cunningham ↗American astronaut · 1932–2023
  90 yrs
• Irwin Keyes ↗American character actor · 1952–2015
  63 yrs
• Nikolai Kondratiev ↗Soviet economist · 1892–1938
  46 yrs
• Gösta Mittag-Leffler ↗Swedish mathematician · 1846–1927
  81 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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