List of Famous people born on February 16th

Edward Lloyd was a London publisher. His early output of serialised fiction brought Sweeney Todd, a gentleman vampire, and many romantic heroes to a new public – those without reading material that they could both afford to buy and enjoy reading. His hugely popular penny dreadful serials earned him the means to move into newspapers.

Bert Kalmar was an American lyricist, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Cyril Percy Callister was an Australian chemist and food technologist who developed the Vegemite yeast spread.

Makoto Oishi is a Japanese professional wrestler currently working for Dramatic Dream Team (DDT). Oishi started his career in Kaientai Dojo, where he became a Strongest-K Tag Team, Independent World Junior Heavyweight and UWA World Middleweight Champion, at one time holding all three titles simultaneously. In 2010, Oishi left Kaientai Dojo to become a freelancer, before making DDT his new home promotion in September 2011.

Andy Taylor, co-manager of the British band Iron Maiden and co-founder in 1979 of Sanctuary Records, which described itself, as of January 2007, as the UK's largest independent record company, one of the world's leading developers of music intellectual property rights (IPR) and the world's largest independent owner of music IPR. The company was named after the Iron Maiden song "Sanctuary". His business partner is Rod Smallwood, whom he met when students at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Johannes Conrad Schauer was a botanist interested in spermatophytes. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and attended the gymnasium of Mainz from 1825 to 1837. For the next three years he worked at the Hofgarten of Würzburg. Schauer then gained a position as assistant at the botanical garden at Bonn where he worked until 1832 when he was placed in charge of the botanic garden in Breslau, with C.G. Nees. He gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1835 and was appointed professor of botany at the University of Greifswald from 1843 until his death in 1848.

Giovanni Battista Carlone (1603–1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.