List of Famous people born on August 16th

Dominic Stephan Stricker is a Swiss tennis player.

Kento Hashimoto is a Japanese football player, who plays for Rostov as a defensive midfielder.

Susana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a centre-left politician in Peru, a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima.

Ilya Aleksandrovich Pomazun is a Russian football player who plays as a goalkeeper for Ural Yekaterinburg on loan from PFC CSKA Moscow.

Werner Scharff was a Jewish-German resistance activist against the Nazi regime. He was executed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp because of his activities in the "Community for Peace and Development" (German: "Gemeinschaft für Frieden und Aufbau"), which he founded together with Hans Winkler in Luckenwalde.

Francisco Cabrera is an Argentine engineer, born in the Mendoza Province. He became an engineer in electricity in the University of Mendoza, and headed the minister of economic development of Buenos Aires under Mauricio Macri from 2007 to 2015. Macri was elected president in 2015, and appointed him minister of production.

Sandrine Soubeyrand is a French former footballer and current coach of France women's national under-17 football team. She played as a midfielder for France national team, Félines Saint-Cyr, Caluire and Juvisy.

Corinna Genest is a German film and television actress. She is the daughter of the actress Gudrun Genest and the great niece of Hubert von Meyerinck.

Mauricio Islas is a Mexican actor. He is best known for his work in telenovelas produced by Televisa, TV Azteca, Telemundo, and Venevision. Currently, he lives and works in Miami, U.S..

Claudio Riaño is an Argentine footballer who plays as a Centre forward for Rosario Central in the Argentine Primera División.