- Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. She is known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television appearances, and film roles
- Laura Pausini, (born 16 May 1974) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and record producer.
- She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian Musica e Dischi singles chart, as well as on the Dutch Top 40 and on the Flemish Ultratop 50.
- Her eponymous debut album was released in Italy on 23 April 1993 and later became an international success, selling two million copies worldwide.
- William Emanuel "Billy" Cobham (born May 16, 1944, in Panama) is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who permanently relocated to Switzerland during the late 1970s.
- Coming to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham according to Allmusic's reviewer is "generally acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer with an influential style that combines explosive power and exacting precision
- Krist Anthony Novoselic II (born May 16, 1965) is an American rock musician, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana. After Nirvana ended, Novoselic formed Sweet 75 and then Eyes Adrift, releasing one album with each band.
- From 2006 to 2009 he played in the punk band Flipper, with which he played on the studio album Love and the live album Fight, and in 2011 contributed bass and accordion to the song "I Should Have Known", on the Foo Fighters' studio album Wasting Light.
- Emanuela Trane (born 16 May 1977),[1] better known by her stage name Dolcenera, is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress.
- She rose to fame in 2003, after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival, but she achieved commercial success in Italy only in 2005, when she won the music-based reality show Music Farm and she released her second album, Un mondo perfetto.