List of Famous people born on August 16th
Michaël Cuisance
Michaël Bruno Dominique Cuisance is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Olympique de Marseille, on loan from Bayern Munich. He has also represented France up to France U20's level.
Joleon Lescott
Joleon Patrick Lescott is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Spanish club Racing Murcia. He plays as a centre back, though he has occasionally played in various other positions across the defensive line, including left back. He currently works as a loanee player liaison agent for Manchester City, for whom he also played for five seasons.
Karen Chen
Karen Chen is an American figure skater. She is a two-time CS U.S. Classic bronze medalist, the 2015 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist, the 2017 U.S. national champion, and a three-time U.S. national bronze medalist. Chen competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics, placing 11th. She has also competed at six ISU Championships, achieving her best result, fourth, at the 2017 World Championships.
Julian Pollersbeck
Julian Pollersbeck is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for French Ligue 1 club Lyon.
Fred Ridley
Fred Scobie Ridley is an American amateur golfer and golf administrator who won the U.S. Amateur in 1975 and became chairman of Augusta National Golf Club in 2017.
Christina Hammer
Christina Hammer is a German professional boxer. She is a multiple-time world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO female middleweight title from 2010 to 2019, becoming the youngest boxer in history to win a WBO title. Previously she held the WBC female middleweight title between 2016 and 2018, and the WBO female super-middleweight title in 2013. She also challenged once for the WBO female light-middleweight title in 2014 and once for the undisputed female middleweight championship against Claressa Shields in 2019.
Shay
Vanessa Lesnicki, known by her stage name Shay, is a Belgian francophone rapper. After a collaboration with Booba in 2011, she had many releases, notably a hit with "XCII" on the label 92i. She gained great fame with her release "PMW". Her debut album Jolie Garce was released 2 December 2016 and was certified gold. The follow-up album Antidote was released on 10 May 2019. Her style is a combination of hip-hop, rap, trap, urban pop and R&B. She is signed to Capitol Music France (a sublabel.
Trevor McDonald
Sir Trevor McDonald is a Trinidadian-British newsreader and journalist, best known for his career as a news presenter with ITN.
Trey Flowers
Robert Lee "Trey" Flowers III is an American football defensive end for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas.
Slaviša Jokanović
Slaviša Jokanović is a Serbian former footballer, and the current manager of Qatari club Al-Gharafa.