On this day: 16 October
Events, births and deaths on 16 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Tomonobu Itagaki
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Charles Dolan
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 976 · Deaths · Al-Hakam II
- 1027 · Deaths · Fujiwara no Kenshi
- 955 · Events · Battle on the Raxa
Events · 29
- 955(Julian date)Battle on the Raxa — 955 battle
- 1311(Julian date)Council of Vienne — the 15th Catholic ecumenical council (1311–1312), held in Vienne, France
- 1555(Julian date)Battle of Miyajima — 1555 battle
- 1793Battle of Wattignies — 1793 battle during the War of the First Coalition
- 1805Battle of Ulm — 1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
- 1813Battle of Leipzig — major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
- 1834Burning of Parliament — destruction by fire in 1834 of the Houses of Parliament in London, England
- 1836Battle of Vegkop — 1836 battle between Voortrekkers and the Matebele
- 1841Queen's University — university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- 1859John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry — 1859 effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in Southern states
- 1869Girton College — college of the University of Cambridge
- 1923The Walt Disney Company — American multinational mass media company
- 1925Locarno Treaties — multilateral treaties negotiated in Locarno, Switzerland during October 1925
- 1934Long March — 1934–1935 military campaign undertaken by the Chinese Red Army
- 1943Raid of the Ghetto of Rome — 1943 Event in the Holocaust
- 1945Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — international organization with the objective of ending hunger
- 1950The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis
- 1951East China Normal University — university in Shanghai, China
- 1953History Will Absolve Me — 1953 speech by Fidel Castro
- 1964Project 596 — 1964 nuclear test in China
- 19681968 Olympics Black Power salute — protest during 1968 Olympic Games
- 19731973 oil crisis — 1973 petroleum shortage
- 1991Luby's massacre — mass shooting that took place on October 16, 1991, at a restaurant in Killeen, Texas
- 1995Skye Bridge — bridge in Highland, Scotland, UK, carries the A87 road across Loch Alsh
- 1995Million Man March — large gathering of African-American men in Washington, D.C. during 1995
- 19991999 Hector Mine earthquake — magnitude 7.1 earthquake in California, US
- 2002Bibliotheca Alexandrina — major library and cultural center in Alexandria, Egypt
- 2013Lao Airlines Flight 301 — flight from Vientiane to Pakse, Laos
- 2020murder of Samuel Paty — terrorist attack in October 2020 in France
Births · 60
- 1351Gian Galeazzo Visconti — first Duke of Milan (1351-1402)
- 1430(Julian date)James II of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1437 to 1460
- 1620Pierre Puget — French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (1620–1694)
- 1679Jan Dismas Zelenka — Czech baroque composer
- 1752Adolph Freiherr Knigge — German writer and leading Illuminati member (1752–1796)
- 1758Noah Webster — American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
- 1803Robert Stephenson — British railway engineer and locomotive designer (1803-1859)
- 1827Arnold Böcklin — Swiss painter, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor (1827–1901)
- 1841Itō Hirobumi — 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th Prime Minister of Japan (1841–1909)
- 1847Maria Pia of Savoy — Queen of Portugal from 1862 to 1889
- 1854Oscar Wilde — Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)
- 1854Karl Kautsky — Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
- 1861John Bagnell Bury — Anglo-Irish historian and classical scholar (1861–1927)
- 1863Austen Chamberlain — British politician (1863-1937)
- 1886David Ben-Gurion — Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)
- 1888Eugene O'Neill — American playwright (1888–1953)
- 1890Michael Collins — Irish revolutionary and politician (1890–1922)
- 1890Maria Goretti — Italian saint
- 1890Paul Strand — American photographer (1890–1976)
- 1908Enver Hoxha — former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania
- 1918Louis Althusser — French Marxist philosopher (1918–1990)
- 1923Linda Darnell — American actress (1923–1965)
- 1925Angela Lansbury — British-American-Irish actress and singer (1925–2022)
- 1927Günter Grass — German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)
- 1928Mary Daly — American feminist philosopher and theologian (1928–2010)
Deaths · 60
- 976Al-Hakam II — Caliph of Córdoba from 961 to 976
- 1323(Julian date)Amadeus V — Count of Savoy (1285–1323)
- 1333(Julian date)Nicholas V — antipope in Rome 1328-1330 during Avignon papcy (1258-1333)
- 1523(Julian date)Luca Signorelli — Italian Renaissance painter (c.1450-1523)
- 1553(Julian date)Lucas Cranach the Elder — German painter and printmaker (1472–1553)
- 1555(Julian date)Hugh Latimer — English bishop (circa 1485-1555)
- 1591Gregory XIV — Pope from 1590 to 1591 (1535–1591)
- 1621Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck — Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue in the Renaissance-Baroque eras
- 1628François de Malherbe — French poet, critic, and translator (1555–1628)
- 1680Raimondo, Prince Montecuccoli — politician and military commander of the Holy Roman Empire (1609-1680)
- 1730Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac — French explorer
- 1750Sylvius Leopold Weiss — German composer and lutenist
- 1793Marie Antoinette — last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution (1755–1793)
- 1793John Hunter — Scottish surgeon (1728-1793)
- 1796Vittorio Amadeo III of Sardinia — King of Sardinia (1773-1796)
- 1810Nachman of Breslov — Hasidic rabbi (1772–1810)
- 1909Jakub Bart-Ćišinski — Sorbian-language poet, writer and playwright (1856–1909)
- 1913Ralph Waldo Rose — American track and field athlete (1885-1913)
- 1937William Sealy Gosset — British statistician (1876–1937)
- 1946Joachim von Ribbentrop — German Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany (1893–1946)
- 1946Wilhelm Keitel — German field marshal (1882–1946)
- 1946Alfred Rosenberg — Baltic German architect, Nazi politician and ideologue (1893-1946)
- 1946Alfred Jodl — German general and convicted war criminal (1890–1946)
- 1946Hans Frank — German lawyer, Nazi politician, General Governor of Nazi occupied Poland and convicted war criminal (1900–1946)
- 1946Arthur Seyss-Inquart — Austrian Nazi politician, and Nazi ruler of occupied Netherlands, convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death (1892–1946)
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