On this day: 16 September
Events, births and deaths on 16 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Robert Redford
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Deaths · Edward Albee
- Deaths · Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro
100 years ago1926
- Births · Robert H. Schuller
- Births · John Knowles
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1087 · Deaths · Victor III
- 1100 · Deaths · Bernold of Constance
- 1122 · Deaths · Vitalis of Savigny
Events · 28
- 1776Battle of Harlem Heights — 1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1779Siege of Savannah — 1779 siege of the American Revolutionary War
- 1810Grito de Dolores — call to arms triggering the Mexican War of Independence
- 1844Violin Concerto in E minor — composition by Felix Mendelssohn
- 1893Land Run of 1893 — opening part of the Oklahoma Territory to settlers
- 1908General Motors — American multinational automotive company
- 1914Siege of Przemyśl — 1914, 2nd siege
- 1920Wall Street bombing — 1920 bombing in New York City
- 1932Pingdingshan massacre — 1932 massacre in China by Japan
- 1948Battle of Jinan — 1948 battle
- 1955Libertadora Revolution — coup d'état that ended the second presidential term of Juan Perón in Argentina, on 16 September 1955
- 1961Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission — Pakistan's space exploration agency
- 1963Malaysia — country in Southeast Asia
- 1963Sarawak — state of Malaysia
- 1963Sabah — state of Malaysia
- 1971Tōhō Crossroads Incident — riot killing 3 policemen by the New Left in Japan
- 1976Night of the Pencils — kidnappings and forced disappearances
- 19781978 Tabas earthquake — earthquake in Tabas County, Iran
- 1979East German balloon escape — 1979 event
- 1982Sabra and Shatila massacre — the killing of between 460 and 3,500 Christians, mostly Arab Palestinians in Beirut, Lebanon; during the1982 Lebanon War
- 1987Montreal Protocol — environmental protocol designed to protect the ozone layer
- 1992Black Wednesday — financial crisis in 1992
- 2007One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 — 2007 aviation accident in Thailand
- 2007Nisour Square massacre — 2007 mass shooting in Iraq
- 2013Washington Navy Yard shooting — 2013 incident in Southeast Washington, D.C.
- 20152015 Illapel earthquake — 8.3 magnitude quake in Chile
- 20212021 Luxian County Earthquake — earthquake in China
- 2022death of Jina Mahsa Amini — death of Iranian Kurdish woman who was arrested and potentially abused by the Guidance Patrol of Iran
Births · 60
- 1386(Julian date)Henry V of England — King of England from 1413 to 1422
- 1462(Julian date)Pietro Pomponazzi — Italian philosopher (1462 – 1525)
- 1507(Julian date)Jiajing Emperor of Ming — Emperor of the Ming dynasty from 1521 to 1567
- 1651Engelbert Kaempfer — German botanist (1651–1716)
- 1678Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke — English politician and Viscount (1678-1751)
- 1782Daoguang Emperor — Qing-dynasty Chinese emperor (1782–1850)
- 1837Pedro V of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1853 to 1861
- 1853Albrecht Kossel — German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics
- 1858Bonar Law — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1922 to 1923
- 1859Yuan Shikai — Chinese military and government official (1859–1916)
- 1870John Pius Boland — Irish politician (1870-1958)
- 1886Jean Arp — Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)
- 1887Nadia Boulanger — French musician, conductor, and teacher (1887-1979)
- 1888Frans Eemil Sillanpää — Finnish writer (1888–1964)
- 1891Karl Dönitz — German admiral and former president of Nazi Germany in 1945 (born 1891-1980)
- 1893Albert Szent-Györgyi — Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)
- 1893Alexander Korda — British film director (1893–1956)
- 1916M. S. Subbulakshmi — Indian Carnatic classical vocalist (1916–2004)
- 1919Laurence J. Peter — Canadian educator (1919–1990)
- 1921Ursula Franklin — Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator (1921–2016)
- 1922Guy Hamilton — English film director (1922-2016)
- 1923Kuan Yew Lee — 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore (1923–2015)
- 1924Lauren Bacall — American actress (1924–2014)
- 1925
- 1925Charles Haughey — 7th Taoiseach from 1979 to 1981; 1982; 1987 to 1992
Deaths · 60
- 1087(Julian date)Victor III — head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1086 to 1087
- 1343Philip III of Navarre — King of Navarra, 1328-1343
- 1380(Julian date)Charles V of France — King of France from 1364 to 1380 (1338–1380)
- 1394(Julian date)Clement VII — antipope from 1378 to 1394
- 1498(Julian date)Tomás de Torquemada — Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420-1498)
- 1573(Julian date)Asakura Yoshikage — daimyo of the sengoku period; 11th head of Asakura clan (1533-1573)
- 1583Catherine Jagellon — Queen of Sweden (1526-1583)
- 1589Michael Baius — Belgian theologian
- 1672Anne Bradstreet — Anglo-American poet (1612–1672)
- 1736Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
- 1792Quang Trung — Vietnamese emperor
- 1803Nicolas Baudin — French explorer (1754-1803)
- 1819John Jeffries — Boston physician, scientist, and military surgeon
- 1824Louis XVIII of France — King of France and Navarre from 1814 to 1815 and from 1815 to 1824 (1755-1824)
- 1865Christian Julius de Meza — Danish general
- 1896Antônio Carlos Gomes — Brazilian composer (1836–1896)
- 1898Ramón Emeterio Betances — Puerto Rican nationalist (1827–1898)
- 1911Edward Whymper — British mountaineer
- 1919Maria Nikiforova — Ukrainian anarchist (1885–1919)
- 1925Alexander Friedmann — Russian mathematician (1888-1925)
- 1925Leo Fall — Austrian composer (1873–1925)
- 1931Omar al-Mukhtar — Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation (1858–1931)
- 1932Ronald Ross — British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857–1932)
- 1932Peg Entwistle — British actress (1908-1932)
- 1936Jean-Baptiste Charcot — French scientist (1867-1936)
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