List of Famous people born on September 16th

Sir John Stirling, KT, MBE, TD was a Scottish soldier and politician.

Hildegard Carola Puwak was a Romanian politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party, who served as the Minister for European Integration from 2000 until October 2003. Puwak was of German ethnicity (Swabian) and represented Timiș County in the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 2004.

Rafael Alkorta Martínez is a Spanish former footballer who played mainly as a central defender. He is the current sporting director of Athletic Bilbao.

Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia, all done voluntarily. In the generations after the Encyclopédie's, mainly due to his aristocratic background, his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but by the mid-20th century more scholarly attention was being paid to him.