List of Famous people born on April 16th

Birger Verstraete is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Belgian First Division A side Antwerp, on loan from 1. FC Köln. In 2018–19, he helped Gent reach the final of the 2018–19 Belgian Cup, where they took the lead against Mechelen, before losing 2–1.

Jérôme Bonnissel is a French former professional footballer who played as a left-back.

Hendrik Willem Lenstra Jr. is a Dutch mathematician.

Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. Active since 1979, he is best known as the co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label and the frontman of hardcore punk band Minor Threat and post-hardcore band Fugazi. MacKaye was also the frontman for the short-lived bands The Teen Idles, Embrace and Pailhead, a collaboration with the band Ministry. MacKaye is a member of The Evens, a two-piece indie rock group he formed with his wife Amy Farina in 2001 and in 2018 formed the band Coriky with Farina and his Fugazi band mate Joe Lally.

Daniel Mendelsohn, an American memoirist, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator, the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College, and the Editor at Large of the New York Review of Books. He is also the Director of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting writers of nonfiction.