| 141571 | December 16 | Birth | 1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810) |
| 141572 | December 16 | Birth | 1778 – John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (d. 1841) |
| 141573 | December 16 | Birth | 1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English author and playwright (d. 1855) |
| 141574 | December 16 | Birth | 1790 – Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865) |
| 141575 | December 16 | Birth | 1804 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1889) |
| 141576 | December 16 | Birth | 1834 – Léon Walras, French-Swiss economist and theorist (d. 1910) |
| 141577 | December 16 | Birth | 1836 – Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic (d. 1907) |
| 141578 | December 16 | Birth | 1861 – Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator (d. 1917) |
| 141579 | December 16 | Birth | 1863 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and author (d. 1952) |
| 141580 | December 16 | Birth | 1865 – Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet (d. 1918) |
| 141581 | December 16 | Birth | 1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (d. 1944) |
| 141582 | December 16 | Birth | 1867 – Amy Carmichael, Anglo-Irish missionary and humanitarian in India (d. 1951) |
| 141583 | December 16 | Birth | 1869 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1952) |
| 141584 | December 16 | Birth | 1872 – Anton Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947) |
| 141585 | December 16 | Birth | 1882 – Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist (d. 1963) |
| 141586 | December 16 | Birth | 1882 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist (d. 1967) |
| 141587 | December 16 | Birth | 1882 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (d. 1974) |
| 141588 | December 16 | Birth | 1883 – Károly Kós, Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician (d. 1977) |
| 141589 | December 16 | Birth | 1883 – Max Linder, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1925) |
| 141590 | December 16 | Birth | 1884 – Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor (d. 1987) |
| 141591 | December 16 | Birth | 1888 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934) |
| 141592 | December 16 | Birth | 1888 – Alphonse Juin, Algerian-French general (d. 1967) |
| 141593 | December 16 | Birth | 1889 – Kim Chwa-chin, South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930) |
| 141594 | December 16 | Birth | 1892 – Ivar Wester, Swedish sport shooter (d. 1967) |
| 141595 | December 16 | Birth | 1895 – Marie Hall Ets, American author and illustrator (d. 1984) |
| 141596 | December 16 | Birth | 1899 – Noël Coward, English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973) |
| 141597 | December 16 | Birth | 1900 – Horatio Fitch, American sprinter (d. 1985) |
| 141598 | December 16 | Birth | 1900 – V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997) |
| 141599 | December 16 | Birth | 1901 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist and author (d. 1978) |
| 141600 | December 16 | Birth | 1902 – Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1999) |