On this day: 16 June
Events, births and deaths on 16 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Jo Cox
- Events · murder of Jo Cox
100 years ago1926
- Births · Efraín Ríos Montt
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 956 · Deaths · Hugh the Great
Events · 24
- 1487Battle of Stoke Field — 1487 battle
- 1746Battle of Piacenza — 1746 battle
- 1755Battle of Fort Beauséjour — 1755 battle of the French and Indian War
- 1795Cornwallis's Retreat — 1795 naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars
- 1815Battle of Ligny — 1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
- 1858Lincoln's House Divided Speech — speech by Abraham Lincoln
- 1883Victoria Hall disaster — stampede that occurred in Sunderland, England
- 1903Ford Motor Company — American multinational automotive company
- 1904assassination of Nikolay Bobrikov — 1904 murder in Helsinki, Finland
- 1911IBM — American multinational technology company
- 1924National Revolutionary Army — Nationalist Army of the Republic of China
- 1925Artek — Crimean international children center
- 1936Havørn Accident — 1936 plane crash in Norway with no survivors
- 1948Malayan Emergency — 1948–1960 conflict in British Malaya
- 1949Guangming Daily — Chinese Communist Party daily newspaper
- 1955Bombing of Plaza de Mayo — 1955 failed military coup and attack of a pro-Perón rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1976Soweto uprising — series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa
- 1977Oracle Corporation — American multinational computer corporation
- 1995Astronomy Picture of the Day — website featuring daily astonomy images, provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University
- 1997Daïat Labguer massacre — massacre in M'Sila Province, Algeria
- 2015Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign — 2016 United States presidential campaign of Donald Trump
- 2016murder of Jo Cox — 2016 killing of a UK member of parliament
- 2019
- 2020Inter-Korean Liaison Office bombing — North Korea's destructive action towards office
Births · 60
- 1139(Julian date)Emperor Konoe — Emperor of Japan (1139–1155)
- 1583Axel Oxenstierna — Swedish statesman (1583-1654)
- 1644Henrietta of England — English princess, duchesse of Orléans (1644-1670)
- 1754Salawat Yulayev — Russian Bashkir rebel during Pugachev's Rebellion (1773-1775)
- 1801Julius Plücker — German mathematician and physicist (1801-1868)
- 1829Gerónimo — leader of the Bedonkohe Apache (1829-1909)
- 1858Gustaf V of Sweden — King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950
- 1863Francisco León de la Barra — President of Mexico (1863-1939)
- 1874Arthur Meighen — 9th Prime Minister of Canada (1874-1960)
- 1882Mohammad Mosaddegh — former Prime Minister of Iran (1882–1967)
- 1888Alexander Friedmann — Russian mathematician (1888-1925)
- 1890Stan Laurel — English actor (1890–1965)
- 1896Murray Leinster — novelist, short story writer (1896–1975)
- 1897Georg Wittig — German chemist (1979 Nobel Prize)
- 1902Barbara McClintock — American scientist and cytogeneticist
- 1902Gaylord Simpson — American paleontologist (1902–1984)
- 1907Jack Albertson — American actor (1907–1981)
- 1908Sarit Thanarat — Prime Minister of Thailand (1908-1963)
- 1910Juan Velasco Alvarado — 50th President of Peru (1910-1977)
- 1912Enoch Powell — British politician (1912–1998)
- 1915John Tukey — American mathematician (1915-2000)
- 1917Katharine Graham — American publisher, editor and author
- 1917Irving Penn — American photographer and photojournalist (1917–2009)
- 1920José López Portillo — 58th President of Mexico
- 1925Jean d'Ormesson — French novelist (1925–2017)
Deaths · 60
- 956(Julian date)Hugh the Great — Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris (c. 898–956)
- 1185Richeza of Poland, Queen of Castile — Queen consort of Galicia, León and Castile, Countess consort of Provence and Countess consort of Everstein
- 1361Johannes Tauler — mystic, author
- 1487John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln — English noble
- 1626Christian the Younger of Brunswick — German Protestant military leader during the Thirty Years' War (1599-1626)
- 1722(Julian date)John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough — English soldier and statesman (1650-1722)
- 1743Louise Françoise de Bourbon — Duchess of Bourbon then Princess of Condé
- 1752(Julian date)Joseph Butler — English bishop and philosopher (1692–1752)
- 1777Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset — French poet (1709-1777)
- 1804Johann Adam Hiller — German composer and conductor (1728–1804)
- 1824Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance — French nobleman, lawyer and statesman (1739–1824)
- 1858John Snow — English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858)
- 1869Charles Sturt — Australian explorer (1795-1869)
- 1878Crawford Williamson Long — American physician (1815–1878)
- 1878Kikuchi Yōsai — Japanese painter (1788–1878)
- 1885Wilhelm Camphausen — German artist (1818-1885)
- 1902Ernst Schröder — German mathematician (1841-1902)
- 1925Chittaranjan Das — Bengali lawyer, politician, author and leader of the Bengali Swaraj Party (1870-1925)
- 1929Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas — British mammalogist (1858–1929)
- 1930Elmer Ambrose Sperry — American mechanical engineer (1860–1930)
- 1939Chick Webb — American musician (1905–1939)
- 1940DuBose Heyward — American novelist, playwright, poet (1885-1940)
- 1944
- 1944George Stinney — Black American wrongfully convicted of murder (1929–1944)
- 1945Aris Velouchiotis — Greek resistance fighter (1905-1945)
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