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Notable Birthdays for January 16

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Those born on this date include:

- Andre Michelin, the French industrialist who first mass-produced rubber automobile tires, in 1853
- Canadian poet Robert Service in 1874
- former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1901
- inventor Frank Zamboni in 1901
- singer Ethel Merman in 1908
- zoologist Dian Fossey in 1932
- writer Susan Sontag in 1933
- opera singer Marilyn Horne in 1934 (age 84)
- race car driver A.J. Foyt in 1935 (age 83)
- producer/singer Rene Angelil in 1942
- country singer Ronnie Milsap in 1943 (age 75)
- radio talk show host Laura Schlessinger in 1947 (age 71)
- film director John Carpenter in 1948 (age 70)
- choreographer/actor/director Debbie Allen in 1950 (age 68)
- Nigerian singer Sade Adu in 1959 (age 59)
- British television host James May in 1963 (age 55)
- British model Kate Moss in 1974 (age 44)
- singer Aaliyah
- baseball star Albert Pujols in 1980 (age 38)
- actor/playwright/singer Lin-Manuel Miranda in 1980
- actor Birgitte Hjort Sorensen in 1982 (age 36)
- singer FKA Twigs in 1988 (age 30).

 


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