February 16

2023 Calendar

February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of the year (319 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

1184 - Richard of Dover, Archbishop of Canterbury
1247 – Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
1279 – King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
1390 - Rupert I, Elector Palatine (b. 1309)
1391 – John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
1531 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
1560 – Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat
1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1645 - Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, Spanish military leader and politician (b. 1585)
1710 – Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)
1721 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686)
1754 – Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1763)
1892 - Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist, evolutionary biologist and entomologist (b. 1825)
1898 – Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
1899 - Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841)

1901 – 2000

1907 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
1912 – St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
1917 – Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
1924 - John William Kendrick, American railroad executive (b. 1853)
1927 – Jonas Basanavicius, Lithuanian independence hero (b. 1851)
1928 – Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b. 1856)
1932 – Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1841)
1944 - Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1870)
1957 - Josef Hofmann, Polish inventor, composer and pianist (b. 1876)
1957 - John Sealy, Irish physicist (b. 1868)
1961 - Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1967 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (b. 1887)
1967 - Smiley Burnette, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1911)
1974 – John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
1975 – Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
1977 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (b. 1897)
1978 – E. Roland Harriman, American financier (b. 1895)
1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist (b. 1895)
1990 – Keith Haring, American artist (b. 1958)
1991 - Enrique Bermudez, leader of the Nicaraguan Contras (b. 1932)
1992 – Angela Carter, English writer (b. 1940)
1992 – Herman Wold, Swedish statistician (b. 1908)
1994 – Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b. 1936)
1996 – Pat Brown, Governor of California (b. 1905)
1996 – Brownie McGhee, American singer (b. 1915)
1996 – Roger Bowen, American actor (b. 1932)
2000 – Karsten Solheim, engineer, inventor

From 2001

2001 – Bob Buhl, baseball player (b. 1928)
2001 – William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
2001 - Howard W. Koch, American movie director (b. 1916)
2002 – Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (b. 1913)
2003 - Rusty Magee, American composer (b. 1955)
2004 – Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
2004 – Doris Troy, American singer (b. 1937)
2005 - Narriman Sadek, former Queen of Egypt
2005 – Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia) (b. 1974)
2007 – Sheridan Morley, English writer, actor and director (b. 1941)
2009 - Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, South Korean cardinal (b. 1922)
2011 - Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
2012 - Baddeley Devesi, Governor-General of the Solomon Islands (b. 1941)
2012 - Anil Ramdas, Surinamese-Dutch journalist (b. 1958)
2012 - Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968)
2013 - Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
2014 - Mansour Koushan, Norwegian-Iranian poet, writer and director (b. 1948)
2014 - Jimmy Murakami, American animator and movie director (b. 1933)
2014 - Michael Shea, American writer (b. 1946)
2015 - John Davies, Welsh historian (b. 1938)
2015 - Lesley Gore, American singer, songwriter, actress and activist (b. 1946)
2015 - Uri Orbach, Israeli writer, journalist and politician (b. 1960)
2015 - R. R. Patil, Indian politician (b. 1956)
2015 - Lasse Braun, Italian director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2015 - Aleksandr Melentyev, Russian short shooter (b. 1954)
2015 - Heinrich Windelen, German politician (b. 1921)
2016 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922)
2016 - Belinda Nash, Canadian-American historian (b. 1946)
2016 - Charles Caldwell Ryrie, American theologian (b. 1925)
2016 - Robert J. Walker, American sailor (b. 1929)
2017 - Josef Augusta, Czech ice hockey player and coach (b. 1946)
2017 - Dick Bruna, Dutch author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2017 - Ep Wieldraaijer, Dutch politician (b. 1927)
2017 - George Steele, American professional wrestler (b. 1937)
2017 - Jannis Kounellis, Greek-Italian artist (b. 1936)

Births

1901 – 1950

1901 - Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 1971)
1903 - Georges-Henri Lévesque, Canadian priest and sociologist (d. 2000)
1903 – Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (d. 1978)
1904 – George F. Kennan, architect of Cold War policy of containment, centenarian (d. 2005)
1906 - Vera Menchik, Russian-British chess player (d. 1944)
1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (d. 1995)
1909 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982)
1909 - Dick McDonald, American businessman (d. 1998)
1915 - Michael Relph, American movie producer and director (d. 2004)
1916 - Duong Van Minh, South Vietnamese politician and general (d. 2001)
1916 - Bill Doggett, American pianist and organist (d. 1996)
1918 - Patty Andrews, American singer (d. 2013)
1919 - Georges Ulmer, French singer and composer (d. 1989)
1920 - Anna Mae Hays, American brigadier general
1921 - Hua Guofeng, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (d. 2008)
1921 - Araucaria, British crossword compiler (d. 2013)
1921 – Vera-Ellen, American actress (d. 1981)
1923 - Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2016)
1925 - Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist (d. 2004)
1926 – John Schlesinger, American movie director (d. 2003)
1926 – Margot Frank, sister of Anne Frank (d. 1945)
1927 – June Brown, British actress
1927 – Tom Kennedy, game show host
1929 – Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980)
1929 - Kazimierz Kutz, Polish actor, director and politician
1931 - Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
1931 – Otis Blackwell, American songwriter, singer (d. 2002)
1932 – Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish matador (d. 1998)
1932 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
1934 - August Coppola, American academic (d. 2009)
1934 - Marlene Hagge, American golfer
1935 – Sonny Bono, American singer, music producer, television producer, Congressman (d. 1998)
1935 - Stephen Gaskin, American activist (d. 2014)
1935 - Brian Bedford, English actor (d. 2016)
1936 – Jill Kinmont, American skier
1936 - Joe Frank Harris, American politician, former Governor of Georgia
1937 - Valentin Bondarenko, Soviet-Ukrainian pilot (d. 1961)
1937 - Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician
1938 – John Corigliano, American Composer, wrote Academy Award winning music for The Red Violin
1939 - Czeslaw Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter and composer (d. 2004)
1940 - Hannelore Schmatz, German mountaineer (d. 1979)
1941 – Kim Jong-Il, North Korean leader (d. 2011)
1942 - Richard Williams, father of Venus Williams and Serena Williams
1944 – Richard Ford, American Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
1944 - Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde
1945 – Jeremy Bulloch, British actor
1946 - Ian Lavender, British actor
1948 - Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2014)
1950 - Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese singer
1950 – Peter Hain, British politician

1951 – 1975

1951 – William Katt, American actor
1952 - James Ingram, American singer, pianist and composer
1953 - Lanny McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 - Roberta Williams, American computer game developer
1954 – Iain Banks, Scottish writer (d. 2013)
1955 - Bruce Crawford, Scottish politician
1955 – Margaux Hemingway, American actress, model (d. 1996)
1956 - Bodo Ramelow, German politician, Prime Minister of Thuringia
1957 – LeVar Burton, American actor, director and writer
1958 – Ice-T, American singer, songwriter, actor
1958 – Lisa Loring, American actress
1958 - Anil Ramdas, Surinamese-Dutch journalist (d. 2012)
1958 - Herb Williams, American basketball player and coach
1959 – John McEnroe, American tennis player
1959 - Kelly Tripucka, American basketball player
1960 – Pete Willis, English ex-Def Leppard guitarist
1961 – Andy Taylor, English musician, Duran Duran
1964 – Christopher Eccleston, English actor (Our Friends in the North, Doctor Who)
1964 – Bebeto, Brazilian footballer
1965 - Adama Barrow, President of the Gambia
1965 - Dave Lombardo, Cuban drummer
1966 - Martin Perscheid, German cartoonist
1967 - Keith Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – John Valentin, American baseball player
1969 - Holly Aird, English actress
1970 – Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer
1971 - Amanda Holden, English actress
1971 - Steven Houghton, English actor and singer
1972 – Jerome Bettis, American football player
1972 – Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)
1972 - Grit Breuer, German athlete
1972 - Sarah Clarke, American actress
1973 – Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
1973 - Christian Bassedas, Argentine footballer
1973 - Nikos Kostakis, Greek footballer
1974 - Luis Figueroa, Puerto Rican baseball player
1975 – Aikawa Nanase, Japanese musician

From 1976

1977 – Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet
1978 - Vala Flosadottir, Icelandic pole vaulter
1978 – Sam Salter, American singer
1978 – Tia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete
1978 - John Tartaglia, American actor
1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
1980 – Ashley Lelie, American football player
1981 – Susanna Kallur, Swedish athlete
1981 – Jenny Kallur, Swedish athlete
1982 - Aleksandr Dmitrijev, Estonian footballer
1982 - Rickie Lambert, English footballer
1982 - Lee Min-jung, South Korean actress
1983 – Agyness Deyn, English model
1985 - Ron Vlaar, Dutch footballer
1986 - Josje Huisman, Dutch singer, actress and dancer
1986 - Diego Godin, Uruguayan footballer
1987 - Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1987 - Theresa Goh, Singaporean swimmer
1987 - Hasheem Thabeet, American basketball player
1988 - Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
1989 - Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
1990 - The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1991 - Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
1991 - Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer
1993 - Mike Weinberg, American actor
1994 - Annika Beck, German tennis player
1995 - Carina Witthöft, German tennis player

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day (Lithuania)
Birthday of Kim Jong-Il (North Korea)