Famous people born on 16 November

• José SaramagoPortuguese novelist · 1922–2010
  87 yrs
• Jean Le Rond d'AlembertFrench mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist · 1717–1783
  65 yrs
• Chinua AchebeNigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic · 1930–2013
  82 yrs
• JamiPersian poet · 1414–1492
  78 yrs
• Alexander KolchakRussian admiral and military leader of the White movement · 1874–1920
  45 yrs
• Burgess Meredith ↗American actor · 1907–1997
  89 yrs
• Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi ↗Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher · 1894–1972
  77 yrs
• Robert Nozick ↗American political philosopher · 1938–2002
  63 yrs
• Paul Hindemith ↗German composer · 1895–1963
  68 yrs
• Nnamdi Azikiwe ↗First President of Nigeria · 1904–1996
  91 yrs
• Oswald Mosley ↗British aristocrat and fascist politician · 1896–1980
  84 yrs
• Salvatore Riina ↗Sicilian mafia boss · 1930–2017
  87 yrs
• Elpidio Quirino ↗President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953 · 1890–1956
  65 yrs
• Henri Charrière ↗French convict and author · 1906–1973
  66 yrs
• Kalākaua ↗Last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaii · 1836–1891
  54 yrs
• Guo Moruo ↗Chinese writer · 1892–1978
  85 yrs
• Terence McKenna ↗American ethnobotanist and mystic · 1946–2000
  53 yrs
• France-Albert René ↗President of Seychelles · 1935–2019
  83 yrs
• Alexander Menshikov ↗Russian statesman and general · 1673–1729
  56 yrs
• Karel Hynek Mácha ↗Czech poet, traveller, playwright, lawyer and writer · 1810–1836
  25 yrs
• Eugenio Beltrami ↗Italian mathematician · 1835–1900
  64 yrs
• Gene Amdahl ↗American physicist · 1922–2015
  92 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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