December 16th Birthdays
If you were born on December 16th, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
Joyce Bulifant (married Roger Perry)
American TV game show panelist (Match Game 73) & actress of TV (Flo; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Tom, Dick and Mary; Big John, Little John; The Bill Cosby Show; Dr. Kildare) and movies (Airplane!), born December 16, 1937. Ex of James MacArthur, Edward Mallory, William Asher. (Joyce Bulifant 1962 Thriller)
Liv Ullmann (ex-partner of Ingmar Bergman; ex-lover of John Lithgow)
Norwegian film director, actress of movies (Persona; Hour of the Wolf; The Emigrants; Lost Horizon; 40 Carats; Face to Face; Zandy’s Bride; A Bridge Too Far; The Bay Boy; The Rose Garden; The Long Shadow; The Abdication), born December 16, 1938. (Liv Ullmann 1966 Photo: Rigmor Dahl Delphin)
American actor of stage, TV (Sgt. Zeke Anderson on Tour of Duty; Dr. Peter White on St. Elsewhere; All is Forgiven; The Road Home), and films (Forever; The Spy Within; Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice; Tripwire; Bestseller), born December 16, 1946. (Terence Knox 1983 Photo: Universal Pictorial Press)
Benny Andersson (nee Göran Bror Benny Andersson)
Swedish musician, producer, & composer (Mamma Mia!; Chess), singer, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group ABBA co-founder (Waterloo; SOS; Fernando; Dancing Queen – Grammy Hall of Fame; Take a Chance on Me), born December 16, 1946. Ex of Anni-Frid Lyngstad. (Benny Andersson 1975: NCRV)
Billy Gibbons (nee William Frederick Gibbons)
American guitarist, music producer, arranger, songwriter, and lead singer for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band ZZ Top (Gimme All Your Lovin’; Tube Snake Boogie; Legs; Sleeping Bag; Stages; Rough Boy; Velcro Fly), TV actor (Bones), born December 16, 1949. (Billy Gibbons 2016 Photo: Xbenedgex)
Jon Tenney (nee Jonathan Frederick Tenney; ex of Teri Hatcher)
American actor of TV (Fritz Howard on The Closer; Major Crimes, Equal Justice; Brooklyn South; Get Real; Dirty Dozen: The Series; The Division; Brothers & Sisters; Scandal) and movies (Watch It; Beverly Hills Cop III; Lassie; Fools Rush In; Lovelife), born December 16, 1962. (Jon Tenney 2011 Photo: jfer21)
Benjamin Bratt (married Talisa Soto; ex-partner of Julia Roberts)
American actor of TV (Rey Curtis on Law & Order; Private Practice; Star; 24; Modern Family) and movies (Miss Congeniality; The Great Raid; The Next Best Thing; Blood In, Blood Out; Abandon; Demolition Man; One Good Cop), born December 16, 1963. (Benjamin Bratt 2010 Photo: Frank Kovalchek)
Jamaican-Canadian world record-setting sprinter (1996 50 m 5.56 seconds; 1996 100m 9.84 seconds), 2x Olympic gold medalist (1996 100m & 4 x 100m relay), 3-time World Champ (1995 100m, 4 x 100m relay; 1997 4 x 100m relay), born December 16, 1967. (Donovan Bailey 1997 Photo: Electro-man)
(Barbara Kent 1930 | Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1850-1877: Karl Jager)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on December 16th!
Remember These December 16th Famous Birthdays
Ben Cross (nee Harry Bernard Cross)
English actor of TV (The Flame Trees of Thika; The Citadel; The Far Pavilions; Dark Shadows), and movies (Chariots of Fire; First Knight; A Bridge Too Far; Young Blades; Star Trek; The Venice Project; The Assisi Underground; Finding Rin Tin Tin) (born Dec. 16, 1947 – died Aug. 18, 2020; age 72). Ben Cross died of cancer. (Ben Cross 2017 Photo: Peter Vulchev / Courtesy Ben Cross)
Noël Coward (aka Sir Noël Pierce Coward)
Tony-winning British composer, director, actor, screenwriter & playwright (Private Lives; Blithe Spirit; Design for Living; Bitter Sweet; In Which We Serve; Red Peppers; Interlude; Brief Encounter; Our Man in Havana; Bunny Lake is Missing; Fallen Angels; We Were Dancing; Present Laughter) (born Dec. 16, 1899 – died Mar. 26, 1973; age 73). (Noël Coward c. 1940s Photo: kate gabrielle)
Arthur C. Clarke (nee Arthur Charles Clarke)
British futurist, scuba diver & ocean explorer, TV series & documentary host (Mysterious World; World of Strange Powers; Mysterious Universe), Hugo Award-winning science fiction novelist and screenwriter (2001: A Space Odyssey; The Sentinel) (born Dec. 16, 1917 – died Mar. 19, 2008; age 90). Arthur C. Clarke died of respiratory failure. (Arthur C. Clarke 1964 Photo: ITU Pictures)
German classical music pianist, conductor & composer (Symphony No. 3 Eroica, E; Moonlight Sonata; Symphony No. 6 Pastoral, F; Violin Sonata No. 5, Spring, F; Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano, C; String Quartet No. 7 Razumovsky, F; Batagelle No. 25 Für Elise) (born Dec. 17, 1770 – died Mar. 26, 1837; age 56). (Ludwig van Beethoven c 1850-1877: Karl Jager colorized)
English writer and novelist (Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; Lady Susan), whose novels have inspired countless plays, sequels, TV series, and feature films (born Dec. 16, 1775 – died July 18, 1817; age 41). Jane Austen most likely died of Addison’s disease or Hodgkin’s lymphoma. (Jane Austen c. 1810: Cassandra Austen)
Tom Brookshier (nee Thomas Jefferson Brookshier)
American professional football player, NFL 1953-1961 Philadelphia Eagles defensive back (1960 NFL champions), and CBS NFL football analyst, colour commentator, and sports broadcaster (This Week in Pro Football co-host with Pat Summerall) (born Dec. 16, 1931 – died Jan. 29, 2010; age 78). Tom Brookshier died of cancer. (Tom Brookshier 1980 Photo: CBS)
Margaret Mead
American public speaker, cultural anthropologist and author (Coming of Age in Samoa; Growing Up in New Guinea; Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies; Male and Female; Culture and Commitment) (born Dec. 16, 1901 – died Nov. 15, 1978; age 76). Cause of death for Margaret Mead was pancreatic cancer. (Margaret Mead 1948 Smithsonian Institution)
Steven Bochco (ex of Barbara Bosson; brother of Joanna Frank)
Peabody & Emmy Award-winning American TV producer & screenwriter (L. A. Law; The Bold Ones: The New Doctors; NYPD Blue; Hooperman; Bay City Blues; Hill Street Blues; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Cop Rock; Murder One; Murder in the First; Columbo; Delvecchio) (born Dec. 16, 1943 – died Apr. 1, 2018; age 74). Steven Bochco died of leukemia. (Steven Bochco 1994 Photo: Alan Light)
Philip K. Dick (aka Richard Phillipps; aka Jack Dowland)
Hugo Award-winning American science fiction short story writer (Paycheck; The Minority Report; Impostor; Adjustment Team; The Golden Man) and novelist (The Man in the High Castle; Ubik; Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said; A Scanner Darkly) (born Dec. 16, 1928 – died Mar. 2, 1982; age 53). Philip K. Dick died after a stroke. (Philip K Dick 1953 Photo: Imagination / Greenleaf Publishing)
Barbara Kent (nee Barbara Cloutman)
Canadian WAMPAS Baby Star, 1930s & silent movie actress (Old Man Rhythm; Her Forgotten Past; No Man’s Law; Flesh and the Devil; No Living Witness; Oliver Twist; Welcome Danger; Night Ride; Feet First; The Drop Kick; Dumbbells in Ermine; What Men Want; Indiscreet; Modern Mothers; Emma; Vanity Fair) (born Dec. 16, 1907 – died Oct. 13, 2011; age 103). (Barbara Kent 1927)
Max Linder (nee Gabriel Leuvielle)
Pioneering French producer, director, screenwriter, comedian & actor of stage & 230+ silent movies for Pathé Frères, Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, & Max Linder Productions (Max, Victim of Quinine; Max and His Taxi; Seven Years Bad Luck; Be My Life); WWI dispatch driver (born Dec. 16, 1883 – died Nov. 1, 1924; age 41). (Max Linder 1910: Pathe Freres)
Hardie Albright (nee Hardie Hunter Albrecht; ex of Martha Sleeper)
American actor of TV & films (So Big!; Skyline; Hush Money; Young Sinners; The Song of Songs; The Working Man; This Sporting Age; Beggar’s Holiday; The Silver Streak; White Heat; Jewel Robbery; Red Salute; The Cabin in the Cotton; The 9th Guest; A Successful Calamity; The Scarlet Letter; The Silver Streak; Heartbreak) (born Dec. 16, 1903 – died Dec. 7, 1975; age 71). (Hardie Albright 1931)
Australian silent film star (Domestic Troubles; Skirts; The Dude Wrangler; Celebrity; Pay as You Enter; The Docks of New York) & classic movie actor (The Spieler; Jazz Heaven; The Dude Wrangler; A Dangerous Woman; The Taming of the Shrew; The Dawn Patrol; The Secret Witness; The Man From Down Under) (born Dec. 16, 1891 – died Aug. 13, 1984; age 92) (Clyde Cook 1921)
Catherine of Aragon (widow of Arthur, Prince of Wales)
Catholic daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon & Queen Isabella I of Castile; Ambassador to England (1st female ambassador in Europe); Queen of England upon marriage to King Henry VIII (his 1st wife); mother of Queen Mary I of England (born Dec. 16, 1486 – died Jan. 7, 1536; age 50). Catherine of Aragon died of cancer. (Catherine of Aragon c. 1526: Joannes Corvus)
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