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Dolittle 2, Pratt became the main character in the spin-off series of the franchise which included Dr.
Famous Birthdays on September 16
1986 — Kyla Pratt
American actress and singer
September 16 has 292 recorded notable births across history, from 16 to 2003. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 2021 Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center. Source
- 1863 Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. Source
- 1955 A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile. Source
- 1955 The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight. Source
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After gaining recognition for the costume drama My Fair Princess (1998–1999), Fan's breakthrough came with Feng Xiaogang's film Cell Phone (2003), which won her the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress.
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1 draft pick in 1958, NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959, 11-time NBA All-Star, and a 10-time member of the All-NBA first team, Baylor is regarded as one of the game's greatest ever players.
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Jackie Young was drafted first overall by the Las Vegas Aces in the 2019 WNBA draft.
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Dame Julia Catherine Donaldson is a British writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate.
More major people born on September 16
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1981
Fan Bingbing
Chinese actress, singer, and producer
Fan Bingbing is a Chinese actress. After gaining recognition for the costume drama My Fair Princess (1998–1999), Fan's breakthrough came with Feng Xiaogang's film Cell Phone (2003), which won her the Hundred Flowers…
1934
Elgin Baylor
American basketball player and coach (died 2021)
Elgin Gay Baylor was an American professional basketball player, coach, and executive. He played 14 seasons as a forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers.
1997
Jackie Young
American basketball player
Jacquelyn Young is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Laces of Unrivaled.
1948
Julia Donaldson
English author and playwright
Dame Julia Catherine Donaldson is a British writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate.
1745
Mikhail Kutuzov
Russian field marshal (died 1813)
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky was a field marshal of the Russian Empire.
1973
Alexander Vinokourov
Kazakh cyclist and manager
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokourov is a Kazakhstani former professional road bicycle racer and the current general manager of UCI WorldTeam XDS Astana Team.
1921
Ursula Franklin
German-Canadian metallurgist (died 2016)
Ursula Martius Franklin was a Canadian metallurgist, activist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years.
1921
Korla Pandit
American pianist and composer (died 1998)
Korla Pandit, was an American exotica musician, composer, pianist, and organist. Redd was an African-American man from Missouri who moved to California in the 1940s.
1678
Henry St John
1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1751)
Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke was a British Tory politician and philosopher.
1978
Brian Sims
American lawyer, politician, and LGBT activist
Brian Kendall Sims is an American politician, activist and attorney. A Democrat, he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 182nd district from 2013 until 2022.
1932
Micky Stewart
English cricketer and coach
Michael James Stewart is an English former cricketer, coach and administrator.
1926
Robert H. Schuller
American pastor and author (died 2015)
Robert Harold Schuller was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author. Over five decades, Schuller pastored his church in Garden Grove, California starting in 1955.
1386
Henry V of England (died 1422)
Henry V, also called Henry of Monmouth, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1413 until his death in 1422.
1838
James J. Hill
Canadian-American railroad executive (died 1916)
James Jerome Hill was an American railway entrepreneur. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway, which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern…
508
Yuan Di
emperor of the Liang dynasty (died 555)
Emperor Yuan of Liang, personal name Xiao Yi (蕭繹), courtesy name Shicheng (世誠), childhood name Qifu (七符), was an emperor of the Chinese Liang dynasty.
1782
Daoguang Emperor of China (died 1850)
The Daoguang Emperor, also known by his temple name Emperor Xuanzong of Qing, personal name Minning, was the seventh emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the sixth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.
1916
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Haitian writer (died 1973)
Marie Vieux-Chauvet was a Haitian novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Her novels are considered by translator Myriam J. A. Chancy to be "by far the best-known works by a Haitian woman novelist".
1921
Jon Hendricks
American singer-songwriter (died 2017)
John Carl Hendricks, known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer.
1987
Travis Wall
American dancer and choreographer
Travis Michael Wall is an American dancer, instructor, and choreographer specializing in contemporary and jazz dance styles.