List of Famous people born on September 16th

Jerome Irving Wald was an American screenwriter and a producer of films and radio programs.

Seth Henry Neddermeyer was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the Implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

Sir John Fielding was a notable English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century. He was also the younger half-brother of novelist, playwright and chief magistrate Henry Fielding. Despite being blinded in a naval accident at the age of 19, John set up his own business and, in his spare time, studied law with Henry.

Éric Jalton is a French politician from Guadeloupe who is the current mayor of Les Abymes. He previously was a member of the National Assembly of France, from 2002 to 2017 where he represented the island of Guadeloupe, and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche.

Christopher Rich Wilson is an American actor, best known for his roles on Murphy Brown, Reba, and Boston Legal.

Jon Peter May is an American mathematician working in the fields of algebraic topology, category theory, homotopy theory, and the foundational aspects of spectra. He is known, in particular, for the May spectral sequence and for coining the term operad.