List of Famous people born on September 16th

Mercedes Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his first wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born in Vienna. She is best known for her father having Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft's line of Mercedes cars named after her, beginning with the Mercedes 35 HP model of 1901. In addition, her father hung a large picture of her at the 1902 Paris Automobile exhibition. He even legally changed his name to Jellinek-Mercedes in 1903 after Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft registered Mercedes as a trademark in 1902. Her name is a Spanish Christian name meaning mercy.

Jasmine Flury is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of Downhill and Super-G.

Yaakov Neeman was an Israeli lawyer who also served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Finance.

James Alan McPherson was an American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship. At the time of his death, McPherson was a professor emeritus of fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Kenneth Thomas Jones is an English drummer best known for his work in the groups Small Faces, Faces, and the Who. Jones was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Small Faces/Faces.

Keisuke Tsuboi is a former Japanese football player.

Alan Leslie Barton was a British singer and member of the hit-making duo Black Lace. Their hits included "Agadoo", "Superman" and their United Kingdom Eurovision Song Contest 1979 seventh-place finisher "Mary Ann" in Jerusalem.

Josef "Seppo" Eichkorn is a German former footballer who became a coach.

Rolando Hernán Cristante Mandarino, known as Hernán Cristante, is an Argentine professional football manager for Liga MX club Deportivo Toluca and a former player, who played as a goalkeeper.

Kim Sung-eun is a South Korean actress.