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March 16 Birthdays in History - March 16 Deaths - March 16 Events
March 16, 1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, son of Eddie Van Halan and Valerie Bertinelli
March 16, 1978 Brooke Burns, American Actress
March 16, 1976 Michelle Rae Collie, Miss Universe-Bahamas, 1996
March 16, 1974 Heath Streak, cricketer, Zimbabwean pace bowler 1993-
March 16, 1974 Lamont Burns, guard for the New York Jets
March 16, 1973 Bert Zuurman, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen
March 16, 1971 Brett Carolan, NFL tight end for the San Francisco 49ers
March 16, 1971 Eric Ravotti, NFL linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers
March 16, 1970 Kelli James, born in Medford, New Jersey, field hockey forward 1996 Olympics
March 16, 1970 Tammi Terrell, rocker, Ain't No Mountain High Enough
March 16, 1969 Ottis Gibson, cricketer, Barbados fast bowler, WI 1995
March 16, 1969 Pat Harlow, NFL tackle for the New England Patriots, Oakland Raiders
March 16, 1969 Steve Israel, NFL cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots
March 16, 1968 Jason van Blerk, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles
March 16, 1967 Dan Owens, NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions
March 16, 1967 John Mangum, NFL safety for the Chicago Bears
March 16, 1967 Lauren Graham, American Actress
March 16, 1966 Brad Bergen, Pennsylvania Sask, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998
March 16, 1966 Catarina Pollini, WNBA forward for the Houston Comets
March 16, 1966 David Nascimento, soccer player, Roda JC/FC Utrecht
March 16, 1966 Rodney Peete, NFL quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles
March 16, 1965 Cindy Brown, U.S., basketball player 1988 Olympics gold
March 16, 1963 Phung Vuong, born in Saigon, Vietnam, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List
March 16, 1963 Ron Kind, American Politician
March 16, 1962 Marcel Brands, soccer player, RKC
March 16, 1961 Mel Gray, NFL wide receiver/kick returner, Houston/Tennessee Oilers
March 16, 1961 Todd McFarlane, Canadian Artist
March 16, 1960 Jenny Eclair, Malaysian Comedian
March 16, 1959 Michael J. Bloomfield, born in Flint, Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut, STS 86
March 16, 1959 Stan Thorn, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, singer, Shenandoah-Sunday in the South
March 16, 1959 Flavor Flav, American Musician
March 16, 1957 Pearl Moore, WBL guard, New York Stars
March 16, 1956 Ozzie Newsome, NFL tight end for the Cleveland Browns
March 16, 1955 Isabelle Huppert, born in Paris, France, actress, Cactus, Heaven's Gate
March 16, 1954 Dav Whatmore, cricketer, Colombo Aust bat 1979, Sri Lanka coach 1995-
March 16, 1954 Hollis Stacy, born in Savannah, Georgia, LPGA golfer, U.S. Open 1977, 78
March 16, 1954 Jimmy Nail, singer and actor, Evita, Spender, Howling II
March 16, 1954 Nancy Wilson, rock guitarist, Heart-Never, What about Love
March 16, 1953 Richard Stallman, Scientist
March 16, 1952 Alice Hoffman, American Author
March 16, 1951 Kate Nelligan, born in London, Ontario, actress, Bethune, Eye of the Needle
March 16, 1951 Ray Benson, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, country singer, House of Blue Lights
March 16, 1951 Ritchie Teeter, rocker
March 16, 1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women
March 16, 1949 Elliott Murphy, U.S. singer and songwriter
March 16, 1949 Victor Garber, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
March 16, 1948 Margaret [Edith] Weis, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning
March 16, 1948 Michael Bruce, rocker and actor, Rudy-Rainbow Drive
March 16, 1948 Margaret Weis, American Writer
March 16, 1948 Michael Owen Bruce, American Musician
March 16, 1946 Erik Estrada, born in New York City, actor, CHiPs, Cross and Switchblade, Lightblast
March 16, 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma, Italy, director, Last Tango in Paris
March 16, 1940 Chuck Woolery, born in Kentucky, TV game show host, Love Connection
March 16, 1940 Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician, PvdA
March 16, 1940 Jan Schaefer, Dutch Assistant Secretary of state, PvdA
March 16, 1937 Constanca Capdeville, composer
March 16, 1937 David Del Tredici, born in Cloverdale, California, composer, 1980 Pulitzer
March 16, 1936 Thelma Hopkins, born in England, high jumper, 1956 Olympics silver
March 16, 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice, U.S. Supreme Court
March 16, 1933 Sanford I. Weill, American Businessman
March 16, 1932 Ronnie Walter Cunningham, born in Creston, Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut, Apollo 7
March 16, 1931 Betty Johnson, born in Guilford County, North Carolina, singer, Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed
March 16, 1931 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
March 16, 1930 Minoru Miky, composer
March 16, 1929 Edwin London, composer
March 16, 1928 Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera
March 16, 1928 Ramon Barce, composer
March 16, 1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to UN/, Sen-D-NY, 1977-
March 16, 1927 Karlheinz Boehm, born in Germany, actor, Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural
March 16, 1927 Olga San Juan, born in New York City, actress, Variety Girl, 1 Touch of Venus
March 16, 1927 Vladimir M. Komarov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Voshkod I Soyuz 1
March 16, 1927 Daniel P. Moynihan, American Politician
March 16, 1926 Jerry Lewis, comedian and fund raiser, MDA, loved in France
March 16, 1925 Cornell Borchers, born in Germany, actress, Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul
March 16, 1923 George Bean, cricketer, 92 runs in 3 Tests for Eng vs. Aust
March 16, 1922 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
March 16, 1922 Harding Lemay, born in North Bangor, New York, headwriter, Another World
March 16, 1920 John Addison, born in Surrey, England, composer, Tom Jones-Acad Award
March 16, 1920 Leo McKern, born in Sydney, Australia, actor, Blue Lagoon, Help, Mouse that Roared
March 16, 1920 Percy Mansell, cricketer, leg-spin all-rounder in 13 Tests for South Africa
March 16, 1919 Erno Kiraly, composer
March 16, 1918 Aldo E van Eyck, Dutch architect, City Hall
March 16, 1918 Howard Boatwright, composer
March 16, 1918 Frederick Reines, American Physicist
March 16, 1916 Lloyd McBride, union president, United Steelworkers
March 16, 1912 Pat Nixon, 1st lady, 1968-74
March 16, 1910 Aladar Gerevich, born in Hungary, sabres, 1948 Olympics gold
March 16, 1910 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
March 16, 1910 Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer, Nawab of Pataudi, England and India
March 16, 1910 Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter, WW II
March 16, 1910 Norman Wooland, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, actor, Hamlet
March 16, 1908 Robert Rossen director and writer, Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo
March 16, 1906 Francisco Ayala, writer
March 16, 1906 Henny Youngman, born in London, England, comedian, Take my wife please
March 16, 1906 Henry Youngman, American Comedian
March 16, 1904 Clive Morton, born in London, England, actor, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Moonraker
March 16, 1903 Mike Mansfield, Sen-D-Mont
March 16, 1903 Morgan Conway, actor, Dick Tracy
March 16, 1903 Nikolai Lopatnikoff, born in Revel Estonia, composer, Variaioni Concertanto
March 16, 1902 Lucie Rie, potter
March 16, 1901 Walter E. Schafer, German playwright
March 16, 1896 Conrad Nagel, born in Keokuk Iowa, actor, Celebrity Time
March 16, 1896 Harry Banks, English Soldier
March 16, 1893 Isobel Elsom, actress, My Fair Lady, Love From a Stranger
March 16, 1892 Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet, Los Heraldos Negros
March 16, 1889 Elsie Janis, American Musician
March 16, 1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, composer
March 16, 1885 Sydney Chaplin, born in South Africa, actor, Limelight
March 16, 1878 Clemens A Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-nazi
March 16, 1878 Henry B. Walthall, born in Shelby City, Alabama, actor, Birth of a Nation, Klondike
March 16, 1878 Reza Sjah Pahlawi, [Reza Chan], shah of Iran
March 16, 1876 Charles Halton, born in Washington D.C., actor, Dr. Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again
March 16, 1873 Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter, Sereniteit
March 16, 1868 Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist
March 16, 1856 E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
March 16, 1849 James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
March 16, 1839 Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901
March 16, 1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor, cable car
March 16, 1832 Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General Union volunteers
March 16, 1823 William Henry Monk, composer
March 16, 1822 John Pope, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1892
March 16, 1822 Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter, Buffalo Bill
March 16, 1821 Ernest Feydeau, French author, Georges Feydeau
March 16, 1814 Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer
March 16, 1812 Henry Dwight Terry, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1869
March 16, 1806 Norbert Rillieux, inventor, sugar refiner
March 16, 1802 George Archibald McCall, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1868
March 16, 1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law
March 16, 1776 Johan G Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
March 16, 1774 Matthew Flinders, English navigator/cartographer, coast Australia
March 16, 1757 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet, Medea, Yttersa Domen
March 16, 1751 James Madison, born in Port Conway, Virginia, D-R, 4th U.S. president, 1809-17
March 16, 1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
March 16, 1745 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
March 16, 1739 George Clymer, U.S. merchant, signed Decl of, Indiana, Constitution
March 16, 1729 Georg W. "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, Annales typographic
March 16, 1663 Nicholas Siret, composer
March 16, 1651 Zaccaria Tevo, composer
March 16, 1634 Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist
March 16, 1609 Michael Franck, composer
March 16, 1585 Gerbrant A. Bredero, Holland, poet/playwright, Klucht van de Koe



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