People born on September 16

Lee Kuan Yew

1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1923–2015)

B. B. King

American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)

Lauren Bacall

American actress and model (1924–2014)

Karl Dönitz

German admiral, supreme commander of the Navy, head of state and convicted war criminal (1891-1980)

Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Finnish writer

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

Mikhail Kutuzov

Field Marshal of the Russian Empire

David Copperfield

American illusionist

Nick Jonas

American singer, actor and musician

Mickey Rourke

American actor and former boxer

Bonar Law

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1858-1923)

Fan Bingbing

Chinese actress, model and singer

Albrecht Kossel

German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics

Amy Poehler

American actress

Yuan Shikai

Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)