List of Famous people born on February 16th

Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

Liu Jia is a female Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Austria.

Peter Schlickenrieder is a German cross-country skier who competed from 1992 to 2002. He earned a silver in the individual sprint at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Boris Fyodorovich Budnikov is a Soviet sailor. He won the silver medal in Soling in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow along with Alexandr Budnikov and Nikolay Poliakov.

Carl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders von Bismarck-Schönhausen, often known as Calle von Bismarck, is a German politician (CDU). He served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2007, and is a member of the princely House of Bismarck.

Tuomas Sammelvuo is a Finnish volleyball coach and a former professional player. In 2019 Sammelvuo signed a two-years contracts with the Volleyball Federation of Russia to serve as a head coach of the Russian national team until 2020.

Nono Ku, born as Ku Kuan-yun, is a Taiwanese actress and model.

Tōdō Takatora was a Japanese daimyō from the Azuchi–Momoyama to Edo periods.

Peter Neustädter is a Kazakh German football manager and a former Kazakhstan international football defender.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.