List of Famous people who born in 1916

Ramón J. Velásquez was a Venezuelan political figure. He served as President of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994. Velásquez was also a historian, journalist, and lawyer.

Trento Longaretti was an Italian painter. He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists, including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini. He stated that painting is an "elixir for long life", and continued to paint and exhibit as a centenarian.

David Douglas Duncan was an American photojournalist, known for his dramatic combat photographs, as well as for his extensive domestic photography of Pablo Picasso and his wife Jacqueline.

Sudono Salim, also known as Liem Sioe Liong, was a Chinese-born Indonesian businessman of Fuqing origin. He was the richest individual in Indonesia. He was the founder and chairman of the conglomerate Salim Group before turning over its management to his youngest son Anthoni Salim in 1992.

Christel Peters was a German actress.

Matilde Pérez Cerda was a Chilean visual artist who specialised in kinetic art. She was a pioneer of modern and kinetic art in Chile. Her best known public pieces include Túnel Cinético in 1970, and el Friso, which was originally constructed at the Centro Comercial Apumanque in 1982, but is now located at the University of Talca.

Victor Starffin, nicknamed "the blue-eyed Japanese" , was an ethnic Russian baseball player in Japan and the first professional pitcher in Japan to win 300 games. With 83 career shutouts, he ranks number one all-time in Japanese professional baseball.

Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War.

Jean Erdman was an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director.

Kantoku Teruya is a member of the Social Democratic Party from Okinawa, serving in the House of Representatives. Teruya is part of the All-Okinawa coalition, which opposes the relocation of a US Marine base to Nago.