People born on November 16

Guillermo Lasso

47th president of Ecuador

José Saramago

Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

Sanna Marin

Prime Minister of Finland from 2019 to 2023

Jami

Persian poet (1414–1492)

Paul Scholes

English association football player (born 1974)

Alexander Kolchak

Russian admiral and military leader of the White movement (1874-1920)

Maggie Gyllenhaal

American actress and filmmaker (born 1977)

Mikhail Bakhtin

Russian intellectual and philosopher

Burgess Meredith

American actor (1907–1997)

Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi

Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese video game designer and producer

Robert Nozick

American political philosopher (1938–2002)

Sooronbay Jeenbekov

President of Kyrgyzstan from 2017 to 2020