List of Famous people born on June 16th

Armin Emrich is a former German team handball player, and former head coach for the German women's national handball team. As coach he led the German team to bronze medal in the 2007 World Women's Handball Championship.

Meshech Weare was an American farmer, lawyer, and revolutionary statesman from Seabrook and Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He served as the “first” Governor of New Hampshire. Before 1784 the position of governor was referred to as “president of New Hampshire.” He is also called “The father of New Hampshire.” The “first president of New Hampshire” was John Cutt.

Arigo Padovan is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer, who won stages in both the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia.

Robert Burnham Jr. was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook. He is the discoverer of numerous asteroids including the Mars crossing asteroid 3397 Leyla, as well as six comets.

Friedrich (Fritz) Bronsart von Schellendorf was a German officer and politician. He was the chief of Staff of the Ottoman Army and was one of the many German military advisors assigned to the Ottoman Empire. He replaced Otto Liman von Sanders who was assigned to the Aegean region following disagreements with Enver Pasha. He was instrumental drafting initial war plans for the Ottoman Army. Some historians consider Bronsart von Schellendorf to have been complicit in the Armenian genocide. He was an ardent supporter of Hitler during 1930s also.