Ard Schenk (79)
September 16th, 1944

Dutch Olympic speed skater – Ard Schenk was born in Anna Paulowna (Town in North Holland, the Netherlands) on September 16th, 1944 and is 79 years old today.

Other personalities born on September 16

54

Justine Frischmann

English musician

*September 16th, 1969, Kensington

80

Oskar Lafontaine

German politician

*September 16th, 1943, Saarlouis

76

Dieter Riedel

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1947, Gröditz

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

48

Candra Wijaya

Badminton player

*September 16th, 1975, Cirebon City

22

Cris MJ

Chilean singer

*September 16th, 2001, La Serena

81

Linda Miller

American film and television actress

*September 16th, 1942, New York City

80

Anne Francis

American actress

*September 16th, 1930, Ossining †January 2nd, 2011, Santa Barbara

93

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

*September 16th, 1893, Budapest †October 22nd, 1986, Woods Hole

65

Jennifer Tilly

American actress

*September 16th, 1958, Harbor City

31

Nick Jonas

American singer, actor and musician

*September 16th, 1992, Dallas

89

B. B. King

American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)

*September 16th, 1925, Berclair †May 14th, 2015, Las Vegas

67

Beverly Aadland

American film actress (1942-2010)

*September 16th, 1942, Hollywood †January 5th, 2010, Lancaster

91

Lee Kuan Yew

1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1923–2015)

*September 16th, 1923, Singapore †March 23rd, 2015, Singapore General Hospital

59

Britta Altenkamp

German politician

*September 16th, 1964, Essen

76

Ilona Gusenbauer

Austrian high jumper

*September 16th, 1947, Gummersbach

51

Reinhard Lauck

German footballer (1946–1997)

*September 16th, 1946, Sielow †October 22nd, 1997, Berlin

71

Mickey Rourke

American actor and former boxer

*September 16th, 1952, Schenectady

54

Armin Medosch

Austrian journalist, researcher and curator

*September 16th, 1962, Graz †February 23rd, 2017, Vienna

52

Amy Poehler

American actress

*September 16th, 1971, Newton

74

Sven-Erik Bäck

Swedish composer

*September 16th, 1919, Kungsholm parish †January 10th, 1994, Oscar Parish

94

Artur Doppelmayr

Austrian engineer (1922-2017)

*September 16th, 1922, Dornbirn †May 12th, 2017

69

Franz Thönnes

German politician

*September 16th, 1954, Essen

72

René van de Kerkhof

Dutch association football player

*September 16th, 1951, Helmond

60

Richard Marx

American singer and songwriter

*September 16th, 1963, Chicago

42

Fan Bingbing

Chinese actress, model and singer

*September 16th, 1981, Yantai

75

Julia Donaldson

English children's writer

*September 16th, 1948, Greater London

72

Camilo Sesto

Spanish singer 1946

*September 16th, 1946, Alcoy †September 8th, 2019, Madrid

90

Steve Shirley

British businesswoman and philanthropist

*September 16th, 1933, Dortmund

83

Peter Falk

American actor (1927–2011)

*September 16th, 1927, Manhattan †June 23rd, 2011, Beverly Hills

Also born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

79

Mary Robinson

Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

*May 21st, 1944, Ballina

79

Chris Hillman

American musician

*December 4th, 1944, Los Angeles

79

Arne Lindtner Næss

Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter

*December 19th, 1944, Bergen

79

George Lucas

American filmmaker (born 1944)

*May 14th, 1944, Modesto

80

Françoise Hardy

French singer and songwriter

*January 17th, 1944, 9th arrondissement of Paris

76

Alan Parker

English film producer and director (1944-2020)

*February 14th, 1944, Islington †July 31st, 2020, London

80

Rakel Surlien

Norwegian judge and politician

*February 10th, 1944, Svelvik

73

Wolfgang Bochow

Badminton player

*May 26th, 1944, Brunswick †September 14th, 2017, Siegburg

72

László Csendes

Hungarian actor (1944-2017)

*September 21st, 1944, Rimavská Sobota †March 24th, 2017

72

Sibylle Tönnies

German opinion journalist, sociologist and jurist

*November 24th, 1944, Potsdam †March 25th, 2017

Ard Schenk