Famous People Born on April 16

Pope Benedict XVI (d. 2022)
1927
Jarbom Gamlin
1961
Indian lawyer and politician, seventh Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (d. 2014)
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Tabinshwehti
1516
Burmese king (d. 1550)
Joseph-Armand Bombardier
1907
Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964)
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
1755
French painter (d. 1842)
Wilbur Wright
1867
American inventor (d. 1912)
Natasha Zvereva
1971
Belarusian tennis player
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Lars Börgeling
1979
German pole vaulter
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Dora Richter
1892
German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery (d. 1966)
John Hodiak
1914
American actor (d. 1955)
Ernst Thälmann
1886
German politician (d. 1944)
Sarah Kirsch
1935
German poet and author (d. 2013)
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