On this day: 16 July
Events, births and deaths on 16 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Connie Francis
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Irwin Rose
- Births · Ivica Horvat
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 997 · Events · Battle of Spercheios
- 947 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Tadabumi
Events · 28
- 997(Julian date)Battle of Spercheios — 997 battle of the Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- 1212(Julian date)Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa — 1212 battle between Iberian Christian armies and an Almohad Muslim army
- 1683Battle of Penghu — Qing conquest of Taiwan in 1683
- 1769Mission San Diego de Alcalá — Spanish mission in San Diego, California
- 1779Battle of Stony Point — 1779 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1790Washington, D.C. — capital city of the United States of America
- 1849Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary — Catholic religious congregation for men
- 1877Battle of Nikopol — 1877 battle of the Russo-Turkish War
- 19222nd National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party — 1922 congress of the Chinese Communist Party
- 1942Vel' d'Hiv Roundup — Nazi-directed raid and mass arrest of Jews in Paris by the French police, on 16 and 17 July 1942
- 1945Trinity — 1945 first detonation of a nuclear weapon
- 1945Atomic Age — period of history (1945–)
- 1948Miss Macao — aircraft hijacking
- 1950Uruguay v Brazil 1950 — 1950 FIFA World Cup Match
- 1950Tunam massacre — War crime during the Korean War
- 1953Dongshan Island Campaign — 1953 battle between PRC and ROC
- 1957KLM Flight 844 — 1957 aviation accident
- 19901990 Luzon earthquake — earthquake on Luzon Island in the Philippines that occurred on July 16, 1990
- 1993
- 1999John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash — 1999 aircraft crash that resulted in the death of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- 20012001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship — 2001 treaty between the PR China and Russia
- 20032003 São Tomé and Príncipe coup d'état attempt — military coup in Central Africa
- 2004Millennium Park — public park in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 20052005 Equatorial Express crash — plane crash in Equatorial Guinea
- 20072007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake — earthquake struck Niigata prefecture, Japan on 16 July 2007
- 2013Rojava–Islamist conflict (2013–present) — theater in the Syrian Civil War
- 2013Bihar school meal poisoning incident — organophosphate pesticide poisoning case in Bihar, India
- 20152015 Chattanooga shootings — 2015 terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Births · 60
- 1194(Julian date)Clare of Assisi — Italian saint (1194–1253)
- 1486(Julian date)Andrea del Sarto — Italian painter (1486-1530)
- 1611Cecilia Renata of Austria — Queen Consort of Poland (lived 1611-1644)
- 1723Joshua Reynolds — English painter (1723–1792)
- 1746Giuseppe Piazzi — Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)
- 1796Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot — French landscape and portrait painter and printmaker in etching (1796-1875)
- 1821Mary Baker Eddy — American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)
- 1858Eugène Ysaÿe — Belgian violinist, composer and conductor
- 1862Ida B. Wells — American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)
- 1872Roald Amundsen — Norwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole (1872–1928)
- 1888Frits Zernike — Dutch physicist (1888–1966)
- 1896Trygve Lie — 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (1896–1968)
- 1902Alexander Luria — Soviet psychologist (1902–1977)
- 1907Barbara Stanwyck — American actress (1907–1990)
- 1911Ginger Rogers — American actress and dancer (1911–1995)
- 1919Choi Kyu-hah — 4th President of South Korea (1919–2006)
- 1926Irwin Rose — American biologist (1926-2015)
- 1928Robert Sheckley — American writer (1928–2005)
- 1928Anita Brookner — English novelist and art historian (1928–2016)
- 1936Yasuo Fukuda — Prime Minister of Japan from 2007 to 2008
- 1939Ruth Perry — president of Liberia (1939–2017)
- 1941Dag Solstad — Norwegian writer (1941–2025)
- 1941Desmond Dekker — Jamaican ska singer-songwriter (1941–2006)
- 1942Margaret Court — Australian tennis player
- 1943Reinaldo Arenas — Cuban poet/novelist/playwright (1943–1990)
Deaths · 60
- 1216(Julian date)Innocent III — Head of the Catholic Church from 1198 to 1216
- 1324(Julian date)Go-Uda — Emperor of Japan
- 1342(Julian date)Charles I of Hungary — King of Hungary
- 1344(Julian date)Shihab ad-Din Ahmad — Mamluk Sultan of Egypt 1342
- 1546(Julian date)Anne Askew — English Protestant martyr
- 1557(Julian date)Anne of Cleves — Queen consort of England (1515–1557)
- 1576(Julian date)Isabella de' Medici — daughter of Cosimo I. de’ Medici and Eleonora of Toledo (1542-1576)
- 1647Masaniello — Italian (Neapolitan) fisherman and rebel of the 17th century
- 1664Andreas Gryphius — German poet and dramatist (1616–1664)
- 1691François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois — Secretary of State for War under Louis XIV (1641-1691)
- 1729Johann David Heinichen — German composer and music theorist
- 1747Giuseppe Maria Crespi — Italian painter (1665–1747)
- 1882Mary Todd Lincoln — First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- 1896Edmond de Goncourt — French writer and critic (1822–1896)
- 1915Ellen G. White — American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1827–1915)
- 1916Élie Metchnikoff — Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
- 1919Itagaki Taisuke — Japanese politician (1837–1919)
- 1949Vyacheslav Ivanov — Russian poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)
- 1953Hilaire Belloc — French-English writer (1870–1953)
- 1954Herms Niel — German composer (1888–1954)
- 1960Albert Kesselring — German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II (1885–1960)
- 1960John P. Marquand — American writer (1893–1960)
- 1964Rauf Orbay — Prime Minister of Turkey (1881–1964)
- 1981Harry Chapin — American singer-songwriter (1942–1981)
- 1982Charles Robberts Swart — South African politician (1894–1982)
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