On this day: 16 April
Events, births and deaths on 16 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Aaron Boupendza
- Deaths · Nora Aunor
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Ecuador earthquake
100 years ago1926
- Births · Pierre Fabre
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1113 · Deaths · Sviatopolk II of Kiev
- 1118 · Deaths · Adelaide del Vasto
- 1090 · Deaths · Sikelgaita
Events · 22
- 1457 BCE(Julian date)Battle of Megiddo — Battle between Egyptian Empire and an alliance of Asiatic rebels against Egyptian rule in 1457 BC
- 1346(Julian date)Serbian Empire — 1346–1371 empire in the Balkan Peninsula
- 1520(Julian date)Revolt of the Comuneros — rebellion
- 1582(Julian date)Salta — city located in the Lerma Valley, Argentina
- 1780University of Münster — German university
- 1799Battle of Mount Tabor — 1799 battle during the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria
- 1908Natural Bridges National Monument — national monument in San Juan County, Utah, United States
- 1917Second Battle of the Aisne — 1917 battle on the Western Front of World War I
- 1922Treaty of Rapallo — 1922 treaty between Germany and Russia
- 1925St Nedelya Church assault — April 1925 terrorist incident in Sofia, Bulgaria
- 1941Battle of the Tarigo Convoy — naval battle of World War II, part of the Battle of the Mediterranean
- 1945Battle of Berlin — 1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
- 1947Texas City disaster — 1947 explosion
- 1948Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — intergovernmental economic organization
- 1963Letter from Birmingham Jail — open letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr
- 20012001 Indian-Bangladesh border conflict — conflict in April 2001 along the Indian-Bangladesh border
- 2003Treaty of Accession 2003 — treaty
- 2007Virginia Tech shooting — shooting on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
- 20132013 Sistan and Baluchestan earthquake — earthquake in Saravan City, Iran
- 2013Baga massacre — occurred in 2013 in which 35–200+ people were killed
- 2014sinking of the MV Sewol — 2014 ferry disaster in South Korea
- 20162016 Ecuador earthquake — earthquake which occurred on 16 April 2016
Births · 60
- 778(Julian date)Louis the Pious — King of the Franks
- 1495(Julian date)Petrus Apianus — German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (1495-1552)
- 1646Jules Hardouin-Mansart — French Baroque architect (1646–1708)
- 1660Hans Sloane — Irish botanist, doctor, and collector (1660-1753)
- 1728Joseph Black — Scottish physicist and chemist (1728–1799)
- 1755Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun — French portrait painter (1755–1842)
- 1786John Franklin — British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)
- 1821Ford Madox Brown — British painter (1821–1893)
- 1823Gotthold Eisenstein — German mathematician (1823–1852)
- 1839Antonio Starabba di Rudinì — Prime Minister of Italy (1839-1908)
- 1844Anatole France — French writer (1844–1924)
- 1871John Millington Synge — Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore (1871-1909)
- 1886Ernst Thälmann — German communist politician, leader of Communist Party of Germany (1886–1944)
- 1889Charlie Chaplin — English actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
- 1918Spike Milligan — British actor (1918-2002)
- 1919Merce Cunningham — American dancer and choreographer (1919–2009)
- 1921Peter Ustinov — British actor, writer and director (1921–2004)
- 1922Kingsley Amis — English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)
- 1922Leo Tindemans — Belgian politician (1922–2014)
- 1924Henry Mancini — American film composer (1924–1994)
- 1927Benedict XVI — 265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013)
- 1927Edie Adams — American actress, comedian, singer, and businesswoman (1927–2008)
- 1935Bobby Vinton — American singer (born 1935)
- 1935Sarah Kirsch — German poet (1935–2013)
- 1939Dusty Springfield — British singer (1939–1999)
Deaths · 60
- 69(Julian date)Otho — seventh Roman Emperor (69)
- 1090Sikelgaita — Lombard princess
- 1113(Julian date)Sviatopolk II of Kiev — grand prince of Kiev from 1093 to 1113
- 1118(Julian date)Adelaide del Vasto — Countess of Sicily (1089–1101) and Queen of Jerusalem (1112–1117)
- 1198Frederick I, Duke of Austria — Austrian duke
- 1496Charles II, Duke of Savoy — Italian noble
- 1687George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham — English statesman and poet (1628-1687)
- 1689Aphra Behn — British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
- 1783Christian Mayer — Czech-German astronomer
- 1825Henry Fuseli — Swiss born British painter, draughtsman and writer on art (1741–1825)
- 1828Francisco Goya — Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
- 1846Domenico Dragonetti — Italian musician (1763-1846)
- 1850Marie Tussaud — French artist (1761–1850)
- 1859Alexis de Tocqueville — French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
- 1879Bernadette Soubirous — French saint (1844–1879)
- 1888Zygmunt Wróblewski — Polish scientist (1845-1888)
- 1904Samuel Smiles — Scottish writer and journalist (1812-1904)
- 1914
- 1915Nelson W. Aldrich — American politician (1841-1915)
- 1930José Carlos Mariátegui — Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)
- 1935Panait Istrati — Romanian writer (1884–1935)
- 1938Steve Bloomer — English footballer and manager (1874-1938)
- 1942Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha — fourth child and third daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1878–1942)
- 1947Rudolf Höss — German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
- 1958Rosalind Franklin — British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
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