On this day: 16 August
Events, births and deaths on 16 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · João Havelange
- Deaths · John McLaughlin
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1920 · Births · Charles Bukowski
- 1921 · Deaths · Peter I of Serbia
- 1929 · Births · Bill Evans
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1027 · Deaths · George I of Georgia
- 942 · Events · Battle of al-Mada'in
Events · 30
- 942(Julian date)Battle of al-Mada'in — battle for control of Baghdad in 942
- 1513(Julian date)Battle of Guinegate — 1513 battle
- 1570(Julian date)Principality of Transylvania — semi-independent principality in Eastern Europe between 1570 and 1711
- 1685Battle of Gran — Ottoman-Holy Roman Empire battle in 1685
- 1777Battle of Bennington — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1780Battle of Camden — 1780 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1819Peterloo Massacre — event on 16 August 1819 in Manchester, England, when cavalry charged into a crowd of ca. 60 000 people demanding parliamentary representation reform, killing 18 and injuring hundreds
- 1863Dominican Restoration War — 1863–1865 war between the Dominican Republic and Spain
- 1869Victoria de paraguay — 1869 Ganadores
- 1870Battle of Mars-la-Tour — 1870 battle
- 19061906 Valparaíso earthquake — earthquake struck Valparaiso Region, Chile on August 16, 1906
- 1918Battle of Lake Baikal — 1918 battle of the Russian Civil War
- 1927Dole Air Race — disastrous 1927 air race from California to Hawaii
- 1933Christie Pits riot — 1933 race riot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 1943Massacre of Kommeno — Nazi war crime committed in Greece
- 1945August Revolution — 1945 uprising led by Viet Minh
- 1946Direct Action Day — day of widespread communal rioting between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta
- 1954Sports Illustrated — American sports magazine
- 1960Cyprus — country in the Mediterranean Sea
- 1960President of Cyprus — head of state and head of government of the Republic of Cyprus
- 19721972 Moroccan coup attempt — failed coup d'état against Moroccan king Hassan II
- 1986Typhoon Wayne — Pacific typhoon in 1986
- 1987Northwest Airlines Flight 255 — 1987 crash of an MD-80 aircraft in Detroit, Michigan, USA
- 1991Indian Airlines Flight 257 — aviation accident
- 2005West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 — plane crash in 2005
- 2010AIRES Flight 8250 — aviation accident
- 2012Marikana miners' strike — 2012 killing of striking miners by police in Wonderkop, North West, South Africa
- 2015Trigana Air Service Flight 267 — Airplane crashed on 16 August 2015
- 20152015 Douma market air strikes — air strikes in Douma, Syria, 2015
- 20152015 Attock Suicide Attack — bombing in Shadikhan, Pakistan in 2015
Births · 60
- 1378Hongxi Emperor — emperor of the Ming Dynasty from 1424 to 1425
- 1557(Julian date)Agostino Carracci — Bolognese painter of the Baroque (1557-1602)
- 1573Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland — Queen consort of Poland and Sweden (1573-1598)
- 1645Jean de La Bruyère — 17th-century French writer and philosopher (1645–1696)
- 1682Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy — French duke (1682-1712)
- 1744Pierre Méchain — French mathematician and astronomer (1744-1804)
- 1815John Bosco — Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator, writer (1815–1888)
- 1821Arthur Cayley — English mathematician (1821-1895)
- 1832Wilhelm Wundt — German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor (1832–1920)
- 1845Gabriel Lippmann — Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)
- 1860Jules Laforgue — Franco-Uruguayan poet (1860–1887)
- 1884Hugo Gernsback — American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967)
- 1888T. E. Lawrence — British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat (1888–1935)
- 1895Albert Cohen — Swiss writer (1895-1981)
- 1902Georgette Heyer — British historical romance and detective fiction novelist (1902–1974)
- 1904Wendell Meredith Stanley — American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)
- 1905Marian Rejewski — Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1905–1980)
- 1906Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein — Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)
- 1911E. F. Schumacher — British economist (1911–1977)
- 1913Menachem Begin — Israeli politician and former Prime Minister (1913–1992)
- 1920Charles Bukowski — German-American writer (1920–1994)
- 1927Ann Blyth — American actress (1927–2026)
- 1929Bill Evans — American jazz pianist (1929–1980)
- 1929Helmut Rahn — German association football player (1929–2003)
- 1930Robert Culp — American actor (1930–2010)
Deaths · 60
- 1027(Julian date)George I of Georgia — King of Georgia
- 1225(Julian date)Hōjō Masako — political leader of Kamakura shogunate
- 1285(Julian date)Philip I, Count of Savoy — Count of Savoy (1207-1285)
- 1297(Julian date)John II of Trebizond — Emperor of Trebizond
- 1327(Julian date)Saint Roch — Christian saint (c.1348 - c.1376)
- 1339(Julian date)Azzone Visconti — Lord of Milan (1302-1339)
- 1419(Julian date)Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia — king of Bohemia and Germany (1361–1419)
- 1443(Julian date)Ashikaga Yoshikatsu — The seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate of Japan (1434-1443)
- 1532(Julian date)John, Elector of Saxony — Elector of Saxony (1468-1532)
- 1661Thomas Fuller — English churchman and historian (1608–1661)
- 1678Andrew Marvell — English poet and politician (1621–1678)
- 1705Jacob Bernoulli — Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)
- 1861Ranavalona I — queen of Imerina (1828-1861)
- 1886Ramakrishna — Indian mystic and religious preacher (1836–1886)
- 1888John Pemberton — American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola (1831-1888)
- 1893Jean-Martin Charcot — French neurologist (1825–1893)
- 1899Robert Bunsen — German chemist (1811-1899)
- 1900José Maria de Eça de Queirós — Portuguese writer and diplomat (1845–1900)
- 1921Peter I of Serbia — Serbian noble (1844–1921); King of Serbia from 1903 to 1918
- 1929Tsuda Umeko — Japanese educator (1864–1929)
- 1938Robert Johnson — American blues singer and guitarist
- 1938Andrej Hlinka — Slovak Roman Catholic priest and politician (1864-1938)
- 1945Takijirō Ōnishi — Imperial Japanese Navy admiral (1891-1945)
- 1948Babe Ruth — American baseball player (1895–1948)
- 1949Margaret Mitchell — American author and journalist (1900–1949)
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