List of Famous people born on August 16th
Airi Hatakeyama
Airi Hatakeyama is a former group rhythmic gymnast and current television reporter in Japan.
Théoneste Bagosora
Théoneste Bagosora is a former Rwandan military officer. He is chiefly known for his key role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, for which he has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In 2011, the sentence was reduced to 35 years' imprisonment on appeal. He will be imprisoned until age 89. According to René Lemarchand, Bagusura was "the chief organizer of the killings".
Wu Jinyan
Wu Jinyan is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in television series Beauties at the Crossfire (2013), Story of Yanxi Palace (2018) and The Legend of Haolan (2019).
Tecia Torres
Tecia Lyn Torres Moncaio is an American mixed martial artist who is currently competing in the strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of December 14, she is #9 in the UFC women's strawweight rankings.
Taylor Goldsmith
Taylor Zachary Goldsmith is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He serves as the lead singer, guitarist, and chief songwriter of American folk rock band Dawes.
Jason Everman
Jason Mark Everman is an American musician and soldier who played guitar with Nirvana and Mind Funk, and bass in Soundgarden and OLD. He later served tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan with the U.S. Army as an Army Ranger and Green Beret. As of May of 2017, Everman plays the guitar in a military veteran band called Silence and Light.
Andy Wilman
Andrew Neville Wilman is an English television producer who is best known as the former executive producer of the Top Gear show, from 2002 to 2015, as well as being the executive producer of The Grand Tour. He was responsible for much of the show's style and humour, along with Jeremy Clarkson. He has also presented segments of the original Top Gear. He is primarily responsible for the creation of The Stig. Wilman and Clarkson both attended Repton School along with Formula One designer Adrian Newey.
Carol Corrigan
Carol Ann Corrigan is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court.
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer
Dietrich Hollinderbäumer is a German-Swedish actor. He is known for his role in Downfall as Robert Ritter von Greim and for playing Adam in the German Netflix series Dark.
Sumit Nagal
Sumit Nagal is an Indian tennis player. He won the 2015 Wimbledon boys' doubles title, thus becoming the sixth Indian player to win a junior Grand Slam title. He is currently the second highest-ranked Indian singles tennis player and since 2018, he has been a regular member of India's national Davis Cup squad.