April 16
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April 16 is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 778 – King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
- 1319 – King John II of France (d. 1364)
- 1488 - Jungjong of Joseon of Korea (d. 1544)
- 1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
- 1516 – Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (d. 1550)
- 1619 - Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch ship doctor, salesman and colonial official (d. 1677)
- 1652 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
- 1660 – Hans Sloane, English scientist (d. 1753)
- 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (d. 1715)
- 1682 – John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744)
- 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
- 1728 - Joseph Black, Scottish scientist who discovered carbon gas (d. 1799)
- 1786 – John Franklin, British royal navy officer and Arctic explorer (d. 1847)
- 1799 - John Wesley Davis, American politician (d. 1850)
- 1808 - Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician (d. 1864)
- 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893)
- 1839 – Antonio Starabba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
- 1844 – Anatole France, French writer (d. 1924)
- 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906)
- 1848 - Kandukuri Veerasalingam, Indian social reformer (d. 1919)
- 1863 - Emile Friant, French painter (d. 1932)
- 1866 - Jose de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist (d. 1918)
- 1867 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, air travel pioneer (d. 1912)
- 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
- 1885 – Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and music educator (d. 1960)
- 1886 – Ernst Thaelmann, German politician (d. 1944)
- 1886 - Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1944)
- 1887 – Gudjon Samuelsson, Icelandic architect (d. 1950)
- 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, British actor and film producer (d. 1977)
- 1890 – Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (d. 1957)
- 1890 - Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Russian linguist and ethnologist (d. 1938)
- 1895 - Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer (d. 1988)
- 1896 – Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (d. 1962)
- 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet (d. 1963)
- 1900 – Polly Adler, Russian-born author (d. 1962)
- 1905 – Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
- 1907 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor of the snowmobile (d. 1964)
- 1911 - Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (d. 1963)
- 1912 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
- 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
- 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (d. 2009)
- 1921 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Kingsley Amis, British author (d. 1995)
- 1922 – Samuel Youd, British author (d. 2012)
- 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
- 1924 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)
- 1927 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
- 1927 – Pope Benedict XVI
- 1930 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
- 1933 – Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
- 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German writer
- 1935 - Bobby Vinton, American musician
- 1938 - Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician
- 1939 – Dusty Springfield, British singer (d. 1999)
- 1940 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- 1942 – Frank Williams, Formula One team principal
- 1944 – Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor
- 1945 - Tom Allen, American politician
- 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
- 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (d. 2011)
- 1949 - Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney and former First Lady of Massachusetts
- 1950 - Billy West, American voice actor
- 1951 – Bjorgvin Halldorsson, Icelandic singer
- 1951 – Ari Kristinsson, Icelandic director and screenwriter
- 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1960 – Rafael Benitez, Spanish football manager
- 1960 – Pierre Littbarski, German football player
- 1963 – Jimmy Osmond, American singer
- 1963 - Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
- 1965 - Jon Cryer, American actor, screenwriter, film director and producer
- 1965 - Martin Lawrence, American actor and comedian
- 1965 - Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and singer
- 1968 – Martin Dahlin, Swedish footballer
- 1969 – Patrik Jaerbyn, Swedish ski racer
- 1970 – Gabrielle, English singer
- 1971 – Selena, Mexican-American singer (d. 1995)
- 1971 - Natasha Zvereva, Belarussian tennis player
- 1972 - Conchita Martinez, Spanish tennis player
- 1975 – Sean Maher, American actor
- 1976 - Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and singer
- 1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
- 1977 – Alek Wek, Sudanese model
- 1977 – Akon, American singer
- 1978 - Lara Dutta, Indian actress and model
- 1978 - Igor Tudor, Croatian footballer
- 1978 - Nikki Griffin, American actress
- 1979 - Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
- 1979 – Sean Costello, American blues musician (d. 2008)
- 1982 - Gina Carano, American actress, television personality, model and former mixed martial artist
- 1982 - Boris Diaw, French basketball player
- 1984 – Claire Foy, British actress
- 1985 – Luol Deng, Sudanese-British basketball player
- 1985 – Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player
- 1985 – Taye Taiwo, Nigerian footballer
- 1986 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese footballer
- 1986 – Paul di Resta, Scottish racing driver
- 1987 – Aaron Lennon, English footballer
- 1990 - Lily Loveless, British actress
- 1990 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
- 1992 – Prince Sebastien of Luxembourg
- 1993 – Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
- 1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress
- 2008 – Princess Eleonore of Belgium
Deaths [change]
- 69 – Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
- 744 – al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
- 1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)
- 1198 – Duke Frederick I of Austria
- 1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet (b. 1628)
- 1689 – Aphra Behn, dramatist (b. ca. 1640)
- 1742 - Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (b. 1672)
- 1756 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
- 1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
- 1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (b. 1707)
- 1828 – Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- 1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
- 1850 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of waxworks (Madame Tussaud's) (b. 1761)
- 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
- 1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1844)
- 1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
- 1898 - Robert Milligan McLane, Governor of Maryland (b. 1815)
- 1899 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
- 1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
- 1914 – George William Hill, astronomer (b. 1838)
- 1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
- 1930 - Jose Carlos Mariategui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
- 1934 - John J. Blaine, 24th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1875)
- 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
- 1941 - Hans Driesch, German biologist and philosopher (b. 1867)
- 1942 - Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
- 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and Automobile designer (b. 1884)
- 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
- 1968 - Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
- 1972 – Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese author (b. 1899)
- 1973 - Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
- 1973 - Nino Bravo, Spanish pop singer (b. 1944)
- 1978 – Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
- 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1991 – David Lean, American film director (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Neville Brand, actor (b. 1920)
- 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave (b. 1982)
- 1997 – Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
- 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
- 1998 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
- 2001 – Michael Ritchie, American film director
- 2002 – Ruth Fertel, restaurateur (b. 1927)
- 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
- 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, British horticultural artist, author, and garden designer (b. 1909)
- 2005 – Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
- 2007 – Deaths in the Virginia Tech Massacre:
- Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian French instructor (b. 1958)
- Kevin Granata, American professor of languages (b. 1961)
- Liviu Librescu, Romanian-born engineer and professor (b. 1930)
- Seung-Hui Cho, perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre (b. 1984)
- 2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
- 2008 - Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
- 2010 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and political activist (b. 1921)
- 2010 - Tomas Spidlik, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913)
Events [change]
- 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege.
- 1520 - The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1570 – The revolt of the Comuneros begins against Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the city of Salta, Argentina.
- 1705 - Isaac Newton is knighted, becoming a Sir.
- 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought near Inverness, Scotland, as a Highlander army is defeated by a Lowlander army, lead by the Duke of Cumberland.
- 1780 – The University of Muenster in Germany is founded.
- 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon Bonaparte drives the Ottoman Turks across the river Jordan near Acre, in present-day Israel.
- 1853 – India's first passenger rail opens from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills, Virginia
- 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg
- 1881 – Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle in Dodge City, Kansas.
- 1888 – Germany annexes Nauru.
- 1908 – The Natural Bridges National Monument is created in Utah.
- 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
- 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
- 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing diplomatic relations between Germany and Soviet Russia.
- 1925 - A Communist assault on Saint Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, kills 150 people.
- 1941 – World War II: Italian convoy Duisburg is destroyed by British ships.
- 1941 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only opening day no-hitter in Major League Baseball, defeating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
- 1943 – Albert Hofmann first discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
- 1944 – World War II: The Allied bombing of Belgrade kills around 1,100 people.
- 1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins its final assault on German forces around Berlin.
- 1945 – World War II: German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo, killing around 7,000 people.
- 1947 – Texas City, Texas, is set on fire after an explosion on a freighter, killing around 600 people.
- 1947 – Bernard Baruch first uses the term Cold War.
- 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
- 1962 – Walter Cronkite becomes the lead anchor of CBS Evening News.
- 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. writes the 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' while imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against racial segregation.
- 1964 – The participants of the Great Train Robbery are sentenced to prison.
- 1972 – Apollo 16 is launched.
- 1990 – Jack Kevorkian participates in his first assisted suicide.
- 1992 – The Katina P runs aground off Maputo, Mozambique, spilling around 60,000 tons of crude oil into the Indian Ocean.
- 1996 - Basketball: The Chicago Bulls win a record 70th game in one NBA season. The team's most famous player at the time was Michael Jordan.
- 2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border war.
- 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, allowing 10 new members to join the EU on May 1, 2004.
- 2007 – Seung-Hui Cho, kills 33 people, including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst shooting spree in modern US history.
- 2012 – Anders Behring Breivik goes on trial for the July 22, 2011 Norway attacks.
- 2013 - A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes southeast Iran, near the border with Pakistan. Damage is reported on both sides of the border.
Observances [change]
- Birthday of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- Emancipation Day (Washington, DC)
- World Voice Day
