| 43837 | April 16 | Birth | 1915 – Robert Speck, Canadian politician, 1st Mayor of Mississauga (d. 1972) |
| 43838 | April 16 | Birth | 1916 – Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet, and translator (d. 1979) |
| 43839 | April 16 | Birth | 1917 – Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (d. 2013) |
| 43840 | April 16 | Birth | 1917 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 43841 | April 16 | Birth | 1918 – Dick Gibson, English race car driver (d. 2010) |
| 43842 | April 16 | Birth | 1918 – Hsuan Hua, Chinese-American monk and author (d. 1995) |
| 43843 | April 16 | Birth | 1918 – Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014) |
| 43844 | April 16 | Birth | 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish actor, singer, screenwriter, and author (d. 2002) |
| 43845 | April 16 | Birth | 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009) |
| 43846 | April 16 | Birth | 1919 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (d. 2011) |
| 43847 | April 16 | Birth | 1919 – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (d. 2013) |
| 43848 | April 16 | Birth | 1919 – Thomas Willmore, English geometer and academic (d. 2005) |
| 43849 | April 16 | Birth | 1920 – Ananda Dassanayake, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2012) |
| 43850 | April 16 | Birth | 1921 – Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (d. 2014) |
| 43851 | April 16 | Birth | 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004) |
| 43852 | April 16 | Birth | 1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author, poet, and critic (d. 1995) |
| 43853 | April 16 | Birth | 1922 – John Christopher, English science fiction author (d. 2012) |
| 43854 | April 16 | Birth | 1922 – Lawrence N. Guarino, American colonel (d. 2014) |
| 43855 | April 16 | Birth | 1922 – Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014) |
| 43856 | April 16 | Birth | 1923 – Warren Barker, American composer (d. 2006) |
| 43857 | April 16 | Birth | 1923 – Arch A. Moore, Jr., American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2015) |
| 43858 | April 16 | Birth | 1924 – John Harvey-Jones, English academic and businessman (d. 2008) |
| 43859 | April 16 | Birth | 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (d. 1994) |
| 43860 | April 16 | Birth | 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976) |
| 43831 | April 16 | Birth | 1908 – Ray Ventura, French-Spanish pianist and bandleader (d. 1979) |
| 43832 | April 16 | Birth | 1910 – Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (d. 1994) |
| 43833 | April 16 | Birth | 1911 – Guy Burgess, English-Russian spy (d. 1963) |
| 43834 | April 16 | Birth | 1912 – Gordon Dunn, American discus thrower (d. 1964) |
| 43835 | April 16 | Birth | 1912 – David Langton, Scottish-English actor (d. 1994) |
| 43836 | April 16 | Birth | 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, English-Irish actor and playwright (d. 1997) |