List of Famous people born on September 16th

Charles Addington Hanbury was an English brewer from the Hanbury brewing family and a master of the Brewers' Company in 1857.

Maryam Yusuf Jamal is a Bahraini middle-distance runner. She is the first Bahraini athlete to win an Olympic medal, a gold in the 1500m women's race, in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. This was also the first Olympic medal won by a woman representing a Gulf state. Born in Ethiopia, 2005 was her first full season. She gained the national record and ran the fastest 3000 m of the year, with a time of 8:28.87 at a race in Oslo. Jamal is a two-time world champion in the 1500 m, having won at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships in Athletics.

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG, was an English nobleman and general. From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantations of Ireland, most notably the Rathlin Island massacre. He was the father of Elizabeth I's favourite of her later years, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi was a Spanish politician. She was among the first women to rise to political prominence in Spain during the early years of reconstituted democracy. She was a minister in the Spanish government from 1996 to 1998, and a member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004.

Hubertus, Hereditary Prince Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Hereditary Duke of Saxony, is a German nobleman who is the heir apparent to the head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha since 1998.

Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, was a duke of Saxe-Altenburg. He was the first son of Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Marie Luise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In 1853 he succeeded his father as Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. He was of a retiring disposition and he took little active part in running the country. After a reign that lasted fifty five years, he died without a living direct male heir; because of this, he was succeeded by his nephew, Ernst.

Heinrich Bach was a German organist, composer and a member of the Bach family.

Julia Drusilla was a member of the Roman imperial family, the second daughter and fifth child of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder to survive infancy. She was the sister of Emperor Caligula. She also had two other brothers, Nero Julius Caesar, and Drusus, and two sisters, Julia Livilla and the Empress Agrippina the Younger. She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, grand-niece of the Emperor Tiberius, niece of the Emperor Claudius, and aunt of the Emperor Nero.

Mardik Martin was an American screenwriter of Armenian descent. He was born in Iran and raised in Iraq.