On this day: 16 November
Events, births and deaths on 16 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Paige Greco
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Jay Wright Forrester
- Deaths · Melvin Laird
- Deaths · Daniel Prodan
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1922 · Births · José Saramago
- 1930 · Births · Chinua Achebe
- 1920 · Events · Qantas Airways
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1093 · Deaths · Saint Margaret of Scotland
- 1005 · Deaths · Ælfric of Abingdon
Events · 20
- 1161Battle of Tangdao — 1161 battle during the Jin-Song wars
- 1532Battle of Cajamarca — 1532 battle
- 1632Battle of Lützen — battle during the Thirty Years' War, 1632
- 1776Battle of Fort Washington — 1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1805Battle of Schöngrabern — 1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
- 1828
- 1863Battle of Campbell's Station — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1907Oklahoma — state of the United States of America
- 1914Battle of Kolubara — 1914 battle during World War I
- 1920Qantas Airways — the flag carrier airline of Australia
- 1944Jussi Awards — Finnish film industry award
- 1944Operation Queen — conflict
- 1945UNESCO — specialised agency of the United Nations for education, sciences, and culture
- 1959Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959) — aviation accident
- 1959National Airlines Flight 967 — commercial aircraft flight that had exploded en route to it's destination
- 1967Aeroflot Flight 2230 — aviation accident
- 19891989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador — 1989 massacre of civilians by Salvadoran soldiers
- 1991FIFA Women's World Cup — football competitions
- 20022002–2004 SARS outbreak — outbreak originated in Foshan, China
- 2018redefinition of SI base units — revised definitions of the SI base units, adopted at the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), that came into force on 20 May 2019
Births · 60
- 42 BCE(Julian date)Tiberius — second Roman Emperor from 14 to 37 AD
- 1436(Julian date)Leonardo Loredan — 75th Doge of Venice (1436-1521), 1501-1521
- 1457(Julian date)Beatrice of Naples — Queen Consort of Hungary and Bohemia
- 1540(Julian date)Princess Cecilia of Sweden — Margravine consort of Baden-Rodemachern (1540-1627)
- 1643Jean Chardin — French jeweler, traveler and author
- 1717Jean Le Rond d'Alembert — French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
- 1807Jónas Hallgrímsson — Icelandic writer (1807–1845)
- 1836Kalākaua — last reigning king of the Kingdom of Hawaii (1836–1891)
- 1873W. C. Handy — American blues composer and musician (1873–1958)
- 1890Elpidio Quirino — President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953 (1890–1956)
- 1892Guo Moruo — Chinese writer (1892-1978)
- 1892
- 1894Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi — Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher
- 1895Paul Hindemith — German composer (1895–1963)
- 1896Oswald Mosley — British aristocrat and fascist politician (1896–1980)
- 1897Chuhdary Rahmat Ali — Pakistani politician (1897–1951)
- 1904Nnamdi Azikiwe — first President of Nigeria (1904-1996)
- 1907Burgess Meredith — American actor (1907–1997)
- 1922José Saramago — Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)
- 1922Gene Amdahl — American physicist (1922-2015)
- 1924Mel Patton — American athletics competitor (1924-2014)
- 1930Chinua Achebe — Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)
- 1930Salvatore Riina — Sicilian mafia boss (1930–2017)
- 1935Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah — Lebanese cleric (1935–2010)
- 1938Robert Nozick — American political philosopher (1938–2002)
Deaths · 60
- 1093(Julian date)Saint Margaret of Scotland — Queen of Scotland from 1070 to 1093
- 1131(Julian date)Eupraxia Mstislavna — a Rus' princess
- 1240(Julian date)Ibn Arabi — Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)
- 1264Emperor Lizong of Song — Chinese emperor from 1224 to 1264 (1205–1264)
- 1272(Julian date)Henry III of England — King of England from 1216 to 1272
- 1322(Julian date)Nasr of Granada — ruler of the Emirate of Granada from 1309 to 1314
- 1328(Julian date)Hisaaki-shinnō — 8th shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan
- 1464(Julian date)John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach — Margrave of Brandenburg
- 1580(Julian date)Marie of Baden-Sponheim — Margravine of Baden by birth and by marriage Duchess of Bavaria
- 1603Pierre Charron — French theologian and philosopher
- 1625Sofonisba Anguissola — Italian painter (c.1532-1625)
- 1632Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden — Swedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632)
- 1695Pierre Nicole — French Jansenists
- 1724Jack Sheppard — English thief and prison escapee
- 1745James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde — Irish politician and soldier (1665-1745)
- 1779Pehr Kalm — Swedish scientist and priest (1716-1779)
- 1797Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia — King of Prussia from 1786 to 1797 (1744–1797)
- 1831Carl von Clausewitz — German-Prussian general and military theorist (1780–1831)
- 1836Christiaan Hendrik Persoon — German mycologist (1761-1836)
- 1878Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine — German princess (1874-1878)
- 1885Louis Riel — Métis leader in Canada (1844–1885)
- 1902Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach — British military officer of German parents (1823-1902)
- 1903Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine — (1895–1903); daughter of Ernst Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- 1907Robert I, Duke of Parma — Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1854 to 1859
- 1911Lawrence Feuerbach — American shot putter (1879-1911)
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