The 16t o November is the 320t day o the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 45 days bidin.
- 42 BC - Tiberius, Roman Emperor (d. 37)
- 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French scientist (d. 1783)
- 1836 - Kalakaua, King o Hawaii (d. 1891)
- 1895 - Paul Hindemith, German componer (d. 1963)
- 1907 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1922 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer (d. 2010)
- 1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
- 1938 - Robert Nozick, American poleetical philosopher (d. 2002)
- 1942 - Willie Carson, Scots jockey
- 1946 - Peter McCloy, Scots fitbawer
- 1948 - Norbert Lammert, German politeecian
- 1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video gemme designer
- 1953 - Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh actor, comedian an writer
- 1954 - Donald Runnicles, Scots conductor
- 1958 - Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Preses o Kyrgyzstan
- 1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
- 1974 - Paul Scholes, Inglis fitbawer
- 1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
- 1978 - Gary Naysmith, Scots fitbawer
- 1983 - Britta Steffen, German soummer
- 1985 - Sanna Marin, Finnish politeecian, Prime meenister o Finland
- 1989 - Vicki Adams, Scots curler
- 1998 - Anthony Ralston, Scots fitbawer