April 16
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April 16 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining after April 16 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
- 1786 – John Franklin, British royal navy officer and Arctic explorer (d. 1847)
- 1844 – Anatole France, French writer (d. 1924)
- 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906)
- 1867 – Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, air travel pioneer (d. 1912)
- 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, British actor and film producer (d. 1977)
- 1900 – Polly Adler, Russian-born author (d. 1962)
- 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)
- 1927 – Pope Benedict XVI
- 1939 – Dusty Springfield, British singer (d. 1999)
- 1940 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
- 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (d. 2011)
- 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1960 – Rafael Benitez, Spanish football manager
- 1960 – Pierre Littbarski, German football player
- 1963 – Jimmy Osmond, American singer
- 1971 – Selena, Mexican-American singer (d. 1995)
- 1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish football player
- 1986 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese football player
- 1987 – Aaron Lennon, English football player
- 1993 – Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
- 1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 69 – Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
- 744 – al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
- 1198 – Duke Frederick I of Austria
- 1689 – Aphra Behn, dramatist (b. ca. 1640)
- 1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (b. 1707)
- 1828 – Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
- 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)
- 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
- 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and Automobile designer
- 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
- 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
- 1972 – Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese author (b. 1899)
- 1978 – Lucius Clay, American general
- 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor
- 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
- 1997 – Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
- 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
- 2001 – Michael Ritchie, American film director
- 2002 – Ruth Fertel, restaurateur
- 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor
- 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, horticultural artist, author, and garden designer
- 2005 – Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
- 2010 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and political activist (b. 1921)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 1943 – Albert Hofmann first discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
- 1964 – The participants of the Great Train Robbery are sentenced to prison.
- 2007 – Cho Seung-Hui, kills 33 people, including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst shooting spree in modern US history.
