List of Famous people born on September 16th

Rosemary "Rosie" Casals is a former American professional tennis player.

Robert Hichens was a British sailor who was part of the deck crew on board the RMS Titanic when she sank on her maiden voyage on 15 April 1912. He was one of six quartermasters on board the vessel and was at the ship's wheel when the Titanic struck the iceberg. He was in charge of Lifeboat #6, where he refused to return to rescue people from the water according to several accounts of those on the boat, including Margaret Brown, who argued with him throughout the early morning. In 1906, he married Florence Mortimore in Devon, England; when he registered for duty aboard the Titanic, his listed address was in Southampton, where he lived with his wife and two children.

Domenico Menotti Garibaldi was an Italian politician, general, and the first son of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Garibaldi. Garibaldi organized the Garibaldi Legion, a unit of Italian volunteers who fought for Polish independence during the January Uprising of 1863. It was led by General Francesco Nullo.

José Desmarets was a Belgian politician in the Christian Social Party who served as a minister in the government of Wilfried Martens (1979–1981). In 1982 Yad Vashem recognised Desmarets and his father as Righteous Among the Nations for having risked their lives to help a Jewish fugitive during the Second World War, when he was still a student.

John Nicholas Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant was a British neuroscientist, academic, and life peer who sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

Ken Mizorogi is a Japanese actor.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild was a German Jewish banker, businessman and financier. Born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, he was the third of the five sons of Gutle (Schnapper) and Mayer Amschel Rothschild, and was of the second generation of the Rothschild banking dynasty. Like his four brothers, he was from 1822, the Nathan Mayer, Freiherr von Rothschild, an Austrian Baron; however, he never used the title. Once the wealthiest man on earth, he was the richest among the Rothschilds.

Ai Fujinuma is a Japanese table tennis player. She was born in Utsunomiya. She competed in women's doubles at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and in women's singles and women's doubles at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Yolanda Rosa Monge Betancourt, known professionally as Yolandita Monge, is an international singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality from Puerto Rico. She has been active in the music business since her teen years and has recorded 27 studio albums and two live albums, as well as several greatest hits compilations and special appearance recordings.

Mildred ‘Mili’ Elizabeth Fish-Harnack was an American-German literary historian, philologist and translator. After meeting Arvid Harnack and getting married, the couple moved to Germany. Harnack became a resistance fighter as a member of a Berlin anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. She was arrested in 1942 and executed in 1943.