Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered the earliest known African-American novels and has published extensively on the recognition of African-American literature as part of the Western canon.

16 September 1950

Born on the same birth date (16 September 1950): Loyd Grossman • The Bellamy Brothers

Born on the same birth day (16 September): Bernie Calvert • Bill Daley (American football) • Braden Holtby • Claudia Marx • Cornelius Sim • Edward Marshall Hall • Fiete Sykora • Frank Leslie Walcott • Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar • John Boland (Irish nationalist politician) • Loona (singer) • Walt Becker

Born in the same month (September 1950): Barry Sheene • Doug Pinnick • Doyle Alexander • Frank White (baseball) • Ian Davidson (Scottish politician) • Joan Lunden • Joe Perry (musician) • John McFee • Julie Kavner • Loyd Grossman • Merle Collins • Mike Nifong • Mike Simpson • Mikhail Fradkov • Mirza Masroor Ahmad • Pat Holland • Paul Kossoff • Rosie Cooper • Vishnuvardhan (actor) • Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz