August 16

2024 Calendar

August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 137 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1027 – King Giorgi I of Georgia (b. 998)
1297 – John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1358 – Albert II, Duke of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 – Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1445 – Margaret of Scotland, Consort of Louis XI of France (b. 1424)
1532 – John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1705 – Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (b. 1654)
1791 – Charles-Francois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1836 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1880 – Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1812)
1886 – Ramakrishna, Bengali saint (b. 1836)
1888 – John Pemberton, American inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
1899 – Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
1900 – Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (b. 1845)

1901 – 2000

1910 – Pedro Montt, President of Chile (b. 1849)
1911 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
1921 – Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
1937 – Rodolfo Chiari, President of Panama (b. 1869)
1938 – Robert Johnson, American musician (b. 1911)
1940 – Henri Desgrange, French journalist (b. 1865)
1945 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese naval leader (b. 1891)
1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1949 – Margaret Mitchell, American writer (b. 1900)
1951 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (b. 1887)
1956 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)
1957 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist (b. 1881)
1959 – Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
1961 – Maulvi Abdul Haq, Indian Urdu educator and linguist (b. 1870)
1972 – Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
1973 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist (b. 1888)
1975 – Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian distance runner (b. 1927)
1977 – Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
1978 – Tjarda von Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch nobleman and statesman (b. 1888)
1979 – John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
1986 – Jaime Saenz, Bolivian writer (b. 1921)
1989 – Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
1989 – Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Prime Minister of Gabon (b. 1912)
1991 – Luigi Zampa, Italian movie director (b. 1905)
1993 – Stewart Granger, British actor (b. 1913)
1998 – Dorothy West, American author (b. 1907)

From 2001

2002 – Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)
2003 – Idi Amin, Dictator of Uganda (b. around 1928)
2004 – Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (b. 1950)
2005 – Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
2006 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
2007 – Max Roach, American musician and composer (b. 1924)
2008 – Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (b. 1934)
2009 – Warren E. Earnes, 46th Governor of Missouri (b. 1923)
2010 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer (b. 1923)
2010 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935)
2011 – Andrej Bajuk, Slovenian banker and politician (b. 1943)
2012 – Abune Paulos, Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. 1935)
2012 – William Windom, American actor (b. 1923)
2013 – Roy Bonisteel, Canadian journalist and television host (b. 1930)
2014 – Peter Scholl-Latour, German historian and author (b. 1924)
2014 – Fernand St. Germain, American politician (b. 1928)
2015 – Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani politician (b. 1943)
2016 – Joao Havelange, Brazilian football official, President of FIFA (b. 1916)
2017 – Vera Glagoleva, Russian actress (b. 1956)
2017 – David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer (b. 1928)
2017 – Roger Pinto Molina, Bolivian politician (b. 1960)
2017 – Jon Shepodd, American actor (b. 1924)
2017 – Vicente Sota, Chilean politician (b. 1924)
2018 – Benny Andersen, Danish writer and pianist (b. 1929)
2018 – Donald E. Edwards, American general (b. 1937)
2018 – Aretha Franklin, American singer (b. 1942)
2018 – Kim Yong-chun, North Korean politician (b. 1936)
2018 – Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast (b. 1969)
2018 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician, Prime Minister of India (b. 1924)
2019 – Gustavo Barreiro, Cuban-American politician (b. 1959)
2019 – Princess Christina of the Netherlands (b. 1947)
2019 – Peter Fonda, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2019 – Felice Gimondi, Italian cyclist (b. 1942)
2019 – Faisal Masud, Pakistani physician and educator (b. 1954)
2019 – José Nápoles, Cuban-Mexican boxer (b. 1940)
2019 – Richard Williams, Canadian-British animator and director (b. 1933)

Births

1901 – 1950

1902 – Georgette Heyer, British writer (d. 1974)
1904 – Minoru Genda, Japanese military aviator and politician (d. 1989)
1904 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist (d. 1971)
1905 – Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician (d. 1980)
1906 – Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1989)
1908 – Orlando Cole, American cello teacher (d. 2010)
1911 – E. F. Schumacher, German-British economist (d. 1977)
1912 – Ted Drake, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1995)
1913 – Menachem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1992)
1920 – Charles Bukowski, American writer (d. 1994)
1924 – Fess Parker, American actor (d. 2010)
1928 – Ann Blyth, American actress and singer
1928 – Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)
1928 – Ara Güler, Armenian-Turkish photojournalist (d. 2018)
1929 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 – Bill Evans, American jazz musician, composer and bandleader (d. 1980)
1930 – Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010)
1930 – Frank Gifford, American football player and announcer (d. 2015)
1930 – Leslie Manigat, 43rd President of Haiti (d. 2014)
1930 – Wolfgang Völz, German actor (d. 2018)
1933 – Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994)
1934 – Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (d. 2011)
1934 – Pierre Richard, French actor
1935 – Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
1937 – Lorraine Gary, American actress
1938 – Rocco Granata, Italian singer
1938 – Bill Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1968)
1939 – Valery Ryumin, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1939 – Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian-British broadcaster and journalist
1939 – Sean Brady, Irish cardinal and Archbishop of Armagh
1940 – Bruce Beresford, Australian director
1940 – John Craven, British journalist
1940 – Aleksander Mandziara, Polish footballer and coach (d. 2015)
1941 – Ahmed al-Mirghani, President of Sudan (d. 2008)
1942 – Lesley Turner, Australian tennis player
1944 – Kevin Ayers, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1945 – Suzanne Farrell, American ballet dancer
1946 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
1946 – Massoud Barzani, First President of Iraqi Kurdistan
1947 – Ephraïm Inoni, Prime Minister of Cameroon
1947 – Carol Moseley Braun, American lawyer and politician
1948 – Earl Blumenauer, American politician
1948 – Annemarie Huber-Hotz, Swiss Federal Chancellor (d. 2019)
1949 – Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges)
1950 – Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian athlete
1950 – Jack Unterweger, Austrian murderer (d. 1994)

1951 – 1975

1951 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (d. 2010)
1953 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host, singer and actress
1954 – James Cameron, Canadian movie director
1954 – George Galloway, British politician
1956 – Vahan Hovhannisyan, Armenian politician (d. 2014)
1956 – R. R. Patil, Indian politician (d. 2015)
1957 – Laura Innes, American actress
1957 – Phil Murphy, American politician, diplomat and investment banker, 56th Governor of New Jersey
1958 – Madonna, American singer and actress
1958 – Angela Bassett, American actress
1958 – Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach
1960 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
1960 – Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian conductor
1962 – Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (d. 2018)
1962 – Steve Carell, American actor and comedian
1963 – Christine Cavanaugh, American voice actress (d. 2014)
1964 – Jimmy Arias, American tennis player
1964 – Barry Venison, English footballer and journalist
1967 – Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-British television personality
1970 – Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (d. 1995)
1970 – Manisha Koirala, Nepalese Bollywood actress
1970 – Seth Peterson, American actor
1971 – Matthew Bingley, Australian footballer
1971 – Dirk Lehmann, German footballer
1971 – Stefan Klos, German footballer
1971 – Rulon Gardner, American wrestler
1972 – Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer
1972 – Emily Robison, American country music singer (Dixie Chicks)
1972 – Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian
1974 – Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer
1974 – Ivan Hurtado, Ecuadorean footballer
1975 – Didier Agathe, French footballer
1975 – Tamara Natalie Madden, Jamaican-American artist (d. 2017)

From 1976

1976 – Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer
1978 – Fu Mingxia, Chinese diver
1979 – Cleo Lemon, American NFL player
1980 – Hwangbo, South Korean singer, rapper and actress
1980 – Vanessa Carlton, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1980 – Robert Hardy, British musician (Franz Ferdinand)
1981 – Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer
1982 – Joleon Lescott, English footballer
1983 – Poom Jensen, Thai royal (d. 2004)
1983 – Nikolaos Zisis, Greek basketball player
1984 – Candice Dupree, American basketball player
1984 – Matteo Anesi, Italian speed skater
1987 – Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Kevin Schmidt, American actor
1989 – Wang Hao, Chinese athlete
1991 – G.E.M., Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
1991 – Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (d. 2014)
1991 – Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
1991 – Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress
1993 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
1997 – Greyson Chance, American singer
1997 – Piper Curda, American actress and singer

Deaths

Observances

Battle of Bennington Day (Vermont)