List of Famous people who born in 1916

Vice Admiral Ismael Huerta Díaz, was a Chilean admiral, several times Minister, who participated in the 1973 Chilean coup d'état that ousted President Salvador Allende.

Friedrich Schoenfelder was a German actor and voice artist.

Wan Li was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Secretariat and its Politburo.

Yvonne Marie Louise Simon was a French racing driver who participated in rallying, circuit races and endurance racing.

Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time.

Jean Rouverol was an American author, actress and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.

John Godfrey Morris was an American picture editor, author and journalist, and an important figure in the history of photojournalism.

Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem was a Soviet and Russian jazz composer and conductor of the Oleg Lundstrem Orchestra, one of the earliest officially recognized jazz bands in the Soviet Union.

Fredrik Meyer was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics, and an officer in the Royal Norwegian Air Force.

George Rosenkranz was a pioneering Mexican scientist in the field of steroid chemistry, who used native Mexican plant sources as raw materials. He was born in Hungary, studied in Switzerland and emigrated to the Americas to escape the Nazis, eventually settling in Mexico.