Famous people born in 1916
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite was one of America’s most trusted broadcast journalists, best known for anchoring the ‘CBS Evening News.’ Explore more about his childhood, family, personal life, etc.
Robert McNamara
Robert McNamara was an American business executive and politician
Aleksandr Prokhorov
Aleksandr Prokhorov was a Soviet physicist who earned the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on laser-maser principle
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland is a British-American former actress counted amongst the leading movie stars of the golden age of Classical Hollywood
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire was an American actress who became famous for her role in many movies especially in ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ and ‘Swiss Family Robinson’
Christian Anfinsen
Christian Boehmer Anfinsen was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1972
Peter Finch
Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor, who became the first person to win an Academy Award posthumously
Sune Bergström
Sune Bergström was a Swedish biochemist who was one of the co-recipients of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jean Dausset
Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist who won the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine