On this day: 16 March
Events, births and deaths on 16 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Émilie Dequenne
- Events · Kočani nightclub fire
- Deaths · Jesse Colin Young
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Frank Sinatra Jr.
- Deaths · Alexander Esenin-Volpin
- Events · 2016 Maiduguri suicide bombings
100 years ago1926
- Births · Jerry Lewis
- Births · Charles Goodell
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1072 · Deaths · Adalbert of Hamburg
- 1021 · Deaths · Heribert of Cologne
- 933 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Events · 22
- 597 BCE(Julian date)Babylonian captivity — period in Jewish history during which a number of people from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were captives in Babylon
- 1322(Julian date)Battle of Boroughbridge — 1322 battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence
- 1689Royal Welch Fusiliers — former military unit of the British Army
- 1782Battle of Roatán — 1782 battle in the American Revolutionary War
- 1802United States Military Academy — federal service academy in West Point, New York, United States
- 18721872 FA Cup Final — Football match
- 1918Battle of Länkipohja — 16 March 1918 battle of the Finnish Civil War
- 19251925 Dali earthquake — earthquake struck Yunnan Province, China on March 16, 1925
- 1939Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia — autonomous administrative unit of Nazi Germany in the occupied Czech lands (1939–1945)
- 1962Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 — 1962 aircraft disappearance
- 1968My Lai Massacre — 1968 U.S. war crime during the Vietnam War
- 1969Viasa Flight 742 — 1969 aviation accident
- 1978kidnapping of Aldo Moro — 1978 murder of Italian statesman
- 19781978 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 crash — aviation accident
- 1988Halabja massacre — massacre against the Kurdish people that took place in Halabja, Iraq on March 16, 1988
- 1988Milltown Cemetery attack — Attack in the Troubles
- 20142014 Crimean status referendum — referendum on status within Ukraine
- 20162016 Maiduguri suicide bombings — 2016 terrorist attack at a mosque in Maiduguri, Nigeria
- 20212021 Atlanta spa shootings — string of shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- 2022Mariupol theatre airstrike — strike during the battle of Mariupol, part of the russian full scale invasion of Ukraine
- 20222022 Fukushima earthquake — Earthquake in Japan on March 16, 2022
- 2025Kočani nightclub fire — 2025 fire in North Macedonia
Births · 60
- 1399Xuande Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1399-1435)
- 1687Sophia Dorothea of Hanover — Prussian royal consort of Frederick William I
- 1750Caroline Herschel — German-British astronomer (1750-1848)
- 1751James Madison — President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
- 1771Antoine-Jean Gros — French painter of historical subjects (1771–1835)
- 1774Matthew Flinders — English navigator and cartographer (1774-1814)
- 1789Georg Simon Ohm — German physicist and mathematician
- 1799Anna Atkins — English botanist and photographer (1799-1871)
- 1800Emperor Ninkō — emperor of Japan (1800-1846)
- 1822Rosa Bonheur — French artist (1822-1899)
- 1839Sully Prudhomme — French poet, Nobel prize for literature winner 1901 (1839–1907)
- 1846Gösta Mittag-Leffler — Swedish mathematician (1846–1927)
- 1851Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck — Dutch microbiologist (1851–1931)
- 1856Napoléon, Prince Imperial — French prince (1856–1879)
- 1878Clemens August von Galen — German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism (1878–1946)
- 1892César Vallejo — Peruvian writer
- 1906Francisco Ayala — Spanish novelist
- 1908Robert Rossen — American screenwriter, film director, and producer (1908-1966)
- 1910Aladár Gerevich — Hungarian fencer (1910-1991)
- 1911Josef Mengele — Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
- 1912Pat Nixon — First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974
- 1915Kunihiko Kodaira — Japanese mathematician (1915–1997)
- 1916Mercedes McCambridge — American actress (1916-2004)
- 1916Tsutomu Yamaguchi — Japanese marine engineer (1916–2010)
- 1918Frederick Reines — American physicist (1918–1998)
Deaths · 60
- 37(Julian date)Tiberius — second Roman Emperor from 14 to 37 AD
- 455(Julian date)Valentinian III — emperor of the Western Roman Empire (419-455)
- 1021(Julian date)Heribert of Cologne — Archbishop of Cologne
- 1072(Julian date)Adalbert of Hamburg — Archbishop of Bremen from 1043 to 1072
- 1181(Julian date)Henry I, Count of Champagne — Count of Champagne from 1152 to 1181
- 1279(Julian date)Joan, Countess of Ponthieu — Spanish queen consort (1220-1279)
- 1405(Julian date)Margaret III, Countess of Flanders — Countess suo jure of Flanders (1350-1405)
- 1410(Julian date)John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset — Earl of Somerset
- 1457Ladislaus Hunyadi — Ban of Croatia (1431–1457)
- 1485(Julian date)Anne Neville — Queen of England from 1483 to 1485
- 1608Seonjo of Joseon — 14th King of Joseon Dynasty in Korean history
- 1649Jean de Brébeuf — Jesuit missionary and martyr (1593-1649)
- 1698Leonora Christina Ulfeldt — Danish countess
- 1736Giovanni Battista Pergolesi — Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)
- 1738George Bähr — German architect
- 1747Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst — German general (1690-1747)
- 1804Henrik Gabriel Porthan — Finnish professor and rector (1739–1804)
- 1838Nathaniel Bowditch — American astronomer and mathematician who founded modern navigation (1773-1838)
- 1841Félix Savart — French physicist (1791–1841)
- 1868David Wilmot — American politician (1814–1868)
- 1888Hippolyte Carnot — French statesman (1801-1888)
- 1898Aubrey Beardsley — British illustrator and author (1872–1898)
- 1903Roy Bean — American judge (1825–1903)
- 1914Charles Albert Gobat — Swiss politician and lawyer (1843-1914)
- 1914John Murray — Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist (1841-1914)
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