July 16
July 16 is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births
- 1194 – Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian Saint (d. 1355).
- 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530).
- 1723 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792).
- 1731 – Samuel Huntington, American statesman (d. 1796).
- 1746 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (d. 1826).
- 1796 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875).
- 1821 – Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910).
- 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928).
- 1884 – Anna Vryubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964).
- 1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist (d. 1966).
- 1888 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951).
- 1896 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian diplomat, UN Secretary-General (d. 1968).
- 1907 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990).
- 1911 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995).
- 1919 – Choi Kyu-ha, President of South Korea (d. 2006).
- 1924 – Bess Myerson, American beauty queen.
- 1926 – Heinz Kwiatkowski, German footballer (d. 2008).
- 1926 – Alfred Pfaff, German footballer (d. 2008).
- 1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist.
- 1928 – Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993).
- 1928 – Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountain climber (d. 2000).
- 1936 – Yasuo Fukuda, former Prime Minister of Japan.
- 1939 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (d. 2010).
- 1939 – Lido Vieri, Italian footballer.
- 1941 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer (d. 2006).
- 1941 – Dag Solstad, Norwegian writer and dramatist.
- 1942 – Margaret Court, Australian tennis player.
- 1946 – Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor.
- 1948 – Lars Lagerback, Swedish football coach.
- 1948 – Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist.
- 1958 – Michael Flatley, American dancer.
- 1959 – Zoran Joleski, Macedonian diplomat, Ambassador to the US.
- 1963 – Phoebe Cates, American actress.
- 1964 – Nino Burjanadze, Georgian politician.
- 1967 – Will Ferrell, American comedian and actor.
- 1968 – Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia.
- 1970 – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai movie director.
- 1976 – Bobby Lashley, American wrestler.
- 1976 – Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguayan footballer.
- 1976 – Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player.
- 1983 – Duncan Keith, NHL ice hockey defencemen for the Chicago Blackhawks.
- 1987 – AnnaLynne McCord, American actress.
- 1988 – Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer.
- 1989 – Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer.
- 1994 – Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor.
Deaths
- 1216 – Pope Innocent III (b. 1160/1161).
- 1324 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267).
- 1557 – Anne of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515).
- 1764 – Tsar Ivan VI of Russia (b. 1740).
- 1882 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818).
- 1916 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian biologist, won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845).
- 1943 – Helga Deen, German Holocaust victim (b. 1925).
- 1947 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat (disappeared on this date) (b. 1912).
- 1953 – Hilaire Belloc, British writer (b. 1870).
- 1976 – Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat (b. 1921).
- 1982 – Charles Robberts Swart, South African politician (b. 1894).
- 1985 – Heinrich Boell, German writer (b. 1917).
- 1989 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908).
- 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (b. 1960).
- 1999 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1966).
- 2001 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923).
- 2003 – Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (b. 1924).
- 2003 – Carol Shields, Canadian writer (b. 1935).
Events
- 622 – Start of the Islamic calendar
- 1377 – King Richard II of England is crowned.
- 1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the US.
- 1931 – Haile Selassie signs the first Ethiopian Constitution.
- 1935 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits Taiwan, killing around 2,700 people.
- 1935 – The first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City.
- 1945 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, US President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meet in Potsdam to discuss the future of a defeated Germany after World War II.
- 1945 – First atomic bomb test occurs at Alamagordo, New Mexico.
- 1950 – Uruguay wins the FIFA World Cup for the second time, with a 2-1 win over the host nation Brazil in the final.
- 1951 – The famous novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published.
- 1965 – The Mont Blanc tunnel between France and Italy is opened.
- 1969 – Apollo 11 launched for the first moon landing.
- 1979 – Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq.
- 1981 – Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Prime Minister of Malaysia, serving until October 31, 2003.
- 1984 – San Ysidro massacre: 21 people are killed and 19 injured in a shooting in a fast food restaurant in San Diego, California. The perpetrator is then killed by police.
- 1990 – A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits the Philippine island of Luzon, killing 1,621 people.
- 1994 – Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with the planet Jupiter.
- 2007 – A 6.8 magnitude earthquake strikes near Niigata, Japan, killing 8 people and injuring more than 800.