List of Famous people born on June 16th

Manuel de los Santos Pastor, also known as El Agujetas or el El Agujeta, was a Flamenco singer. He was born in Rota, Spain.

Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat was a Thai general who staged a coup in 1957, replacing Plaek Phibunsongkhram as Thailand's prime minister until Sarit died in 1963. He was born in Bangkok, but grew up in his mother's home town in Lao-speaking northeastern Thailand and considered himself from Isan. His father, Major Luang Ruangdetanan, was a career army officer best known for his translations into Thai of Cambodian literature. He had partial Chinese ancestry.

Cristian Daniel Campestrini is an Argentine football goalkeeper, currently playing for Celaya.

Manfredi Nicoletti was an Italian architect.

Fabian "Boller" Boll is a retired German football midfielder and current football manager. He is currently in charge of SC Victoria Hamburg.

Mahmud Ahmad Taymur was a fiction writer.

Yuichi Maruyama is a Japanese football player.

Adrienne McQueen (1983) is a German-American actress.

Raymond Ramazani Baya was a Congolese politician. He served as the foreign minister of that country under the transitional government following his appointment to that post on July 23, 2004, by vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba, who was allowed to appoint the foreign minister.

Joan Van Ark is an American actress. She is best-known for her role as Valene Ewing on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. A life member of The Actors Studio, she made her Broadway debut in 1966 in Barefoot in the Park. In 1971, she received a Theatre World Award and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the revival of The School for Wives.