People born on August 16

Madonna

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)

Charles Bukowski

German-American writer (1920–1994)

Menachem Begin

Israeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913-1992)

Gabriel Lippmann

Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)

T. E. Lawrence

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)

Wilhelm Wundt

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832-1920)

Jean de La Bruyère

17th-century French writer and philosopher (1645–1696)

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

President of Nigeria (1951-2010)

Steve Carell

American actor and comedian (born 1962)

Wendell Meredith Stanley

American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)

Angela Bassett

American actress

Saif Ali Khan

Indian film actor and producer

Arthur Cayley

English mathematician (1821-1896)

Moussa Sissoko

French footballer (born 1989)

Kakuichi Mimura

Japanese association football player