What happened on July 16 ?

1194 - Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)

1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)

1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland

1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)

1722 - Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803)

1723 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)

1731 - Samuel Huntington, Continental Congress president (d. 1796)

1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)

1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)

1858 - Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist (d. 1931)

1862 - Ida B. Wells, American journalist (d. 1931)

1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)

1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)

1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)

1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)

1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)

1889 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)

1889 - Larry Semon, comedian (d. 1928)

1896 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)

1896 - Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932)

1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)

1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)

1903 - Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)

1906 - Vincent Sherman, American director

1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)

1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)

1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)

1911 - Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)

1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea

1924 - Bess Myerson, American beauty queen

1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)

1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist,Nobel laureate

1932 - Richard Thornburgh, American politician

1936 - Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)

1939 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)

1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)

1942 - Margaret Smith Court, Australian tennis player

1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)

1945 - Victor Sloan, Irish visual artist

1946 - Ron Yary, American football player

1947 - Assata Shakur, American activist

1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian actor

1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist

1952 - Stewart Copeland, American musician

1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright

1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer

1958 - Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist

1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player

1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress

1963 - Sre?ko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach

1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musician

1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player

1964 - Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist

1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian

1967 - Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist

1968 - Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player

1968 - Robert J. Sherman, American film producer

1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player

1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia

1970 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director

1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor

1973 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist

1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player