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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of December 0755 | EVENT | An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty of China. |
| 16th of December 1392 | EVENT | Nanboku-cho: Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu. |
| 16th of December 1431 | EVENT | Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. |
| 16th of December 1497 | EVENT | Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. |
| 16th of December 1575 | EVENT | The 1575 Valdivia earthquake takes place. |
| 16th of December 1598 | EVENT | Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point : The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the China and the Korean Allied Forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Allied Forces victory. |
| 16th of December 1653 | EVENT | English Interregnum: The Protectorate : Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. |
| 16th of December 1689 | EVENT | Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. |
| 16th of December 1707 | EVENT | Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. |
| 16th of December 1761 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg. |
| 16th of December 1773 | EVENT | American Revolution: Boston Tea Party : Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act. |
| 16th of December 1811 | EVENT | The first two in a series of severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. These three so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2,000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today's heartland states of the United States. |
| 16th of December 1826 | EVENT | Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. |
| 16th of December 1838 | EVENT | Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
| 16th of December 1850 | EVENT | History of New Zealand: The Charlotte-Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. |
| 16th of December 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Army of Tennessee. |
| 16th of December 1907 | EVENT | The Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world |
| 16th of December 1914 | EVENT | World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough. |
| 16th of December 1920 | EVENT | The Haiyuan earthquake, magnitude 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. |
| 16th of December 1922 | EVENT | President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw. |
| 16th of December 1930 | EVENT | Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a posse of 200, following a botched bank robbery in Clinton, Indiana. |
| 16th of December 1937 | EVENT | Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again. |
| 16th of December 1938 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother |
| 16th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak |
| 16th of December 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: Porajmos : Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz. |
| 16th of December 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. |
| 16th of December 1946 | EVENT | Thailand joins the United Nations. |
| 16th of December 1947 | EVENT | William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor. |
| 16th of December 1950 | EVENT | U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War. |
| 16th of December 1957 | EVENT | Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
| 16th of December 1960 | EVENT | 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York's Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134. |
| 16th of December 1965 | EVENT | Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966. |
| 16th of December 1971 | EVENT | Bangladesh War of Independence and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The surrender of the Pakistan army brings an end to both conflicts. |
| 16th of December 1971 | EVENT | "National Day" of the Kingdom of Bahrain is celebrated. Not to be confused with Bahrain Independence Day which took place on August 15, 1971. |
| 16th of December 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left private peace negotiations, in Paris. |
| 16th of December 1978 | EVENT | Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks. |
| 16th of December 1979 | EVENT | Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, having an immediate dramatic effect on the United States. |
| 16th of December 1985 | EVENT | Mafia: In New York City, Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of the Gambino family. |
| 16th of December 1986 | EVENT | Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist Party of Kazakhstan, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's tenure |
| 16th of December 1989 | EVENT | Protests break out in Timisoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor Laszlo Tokes. |
| 16th of December 1989 | EVENT | Walter LeRoy Moody begins his terrorist bombing streak when he sends Judge Robert Smith Vance a bomb in the mail, instantly killing him near his house in Birmingham, Alabama. |
| 16th of December 1991 | EVENT | Independence of The Republic of Kazakhstan. |
| 16th of December 1997 | EVENT | An episode of Pokemon, "Denno Senshi Porygon", aired in Japan induces seizures in 685 Japanese children. |
| 16th of December 1998 | EVENT | Iraq disarmament crisis: Operation Desert Fox : The United States and United Kingdom bomb targets in Iraq. |
| 16th of December 2003 | EVENT | President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 into law. The law establishes the United States' first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and requires the Federal Trade Commission to enforce its provisions. |
| 16th of December 2010 | EVENT | Self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, sparking the Tunisian Revolution and the 2010 : 2011 Middle East and North Africa protests. |
| 16th of December 1485 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine of Aragon, Queen consort of England (d. 1536) |
| 16th of December 1584 | BIRTHDAY | John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654) |
| 16th of December 1614 | BIRTHDAY | Eberhard III, Duke of Wurttemberg (d. 1674) |
| 16th of December 1714 | BIRTHDAY | George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770) |
| 16th of December 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798) |
| 16th of December 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806) |
| 16th of December 1742 | BIRTHDAY | Gebhard Furst Blucher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819) |
| 16th of December 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist (d. 1827) |
| 16th of December 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Austen, English writer (d. 1817) |
| 16th of December 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer (d. 1834) |
| 16th of December 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810) |
| 16th of December 1778 | BIRTHDAY | John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 (d. 1841) |
| 16th of December 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (d. 1855) |
| 16th of December 1790 | BIRTHDAY | King Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865) |
| 16th of December 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1889) |
| 16th of December 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Walras, French economist (d. 1910) |
| 16th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio de La Gandara, French painter (d. 1917) |
| 16th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and writer (d. 1952) |
| 16th of December 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Olavo Bilac, Brazilian poet (d. 1918) |
| 16th of December 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter (d. 1944) |
| 16th of December 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (d. 1951) |
| 16th of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1952) |
| 16th of December 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Ivanovich Denikin, Russian general (d. 1947) |
| 16th of December 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (d. 1963) |
| 16th of December 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (d. 1967) |
| 16th of December 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Walther Meissner, German physicist (d. 1974) |
| 16th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Karoly Kos, Hungarian architect, writer and politician from Transylvania (d. 1977) |
| 16th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Max Linder, French pioneer of silent film (d. 1925) |
| 16th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934) |
| 16th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Alphonse Juin, marshal of France (d. 1967) |
| 16th of December 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Jwa-jin, played an important role in the Korean Anarchist Movement (d. 1930) |
| 16th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Noel Coward, English playwright, actor and composer (d. 1973) |
| 16th of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic (d. 1997) |
| 16th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978) |
| 16th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet (d. 1999) |
| 16th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Piet Hein, Danish mathematician and inventor (d. 1996) |
| 16th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Kent, Canadian actress |
| 16th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | George Ignatieff, Russian-born Canadian diplomat (d. 1989) |
| 16th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Turk Murphy, American trombonist (d. 1987) |
| 16th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress |
| 16th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (d. 2008) |
| 16th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar |
| 16th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Delanoe, French songwriter and lyricist (d. 2006) |
| 16th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian politician and jurist (d. 2005) |
| 16th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Cy Leslie, American music and video executive (d. 2008) |
| 16th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Menahem Pressler, German-Israeli pianist. |
| 16th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988) |
| 16th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Garrett, American writer (d. 1987) |
| 16th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982) |
| 16th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Courtney, English actor |
| 16th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Rodion Shchedrin, Soviet/Russian composer |
| 16th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center |
| 16th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Bulifant, American actress |
| 16th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Deford, American sportswriter |
| 16th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress |
| 16th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Langridge, English opera singer |
| 16th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lesley Stahl, American journalist |
| 16th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Carcieri, American politician, governor of Rhode Island |
| 16th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Bochco, American television producer and writer |
| 16th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Hicks, English guitarist (The Hollies) |
| 16th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Don Meyer Basketball coach Northern State, Lipscomb, and Hamline |
| 16th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist |
| 16th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Yukio Hattori, Japanese television commentator |
| 16th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby George, English professional darts player |
| 16th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Benny Andersson, Swedish musician, singer and songwriter (ABBA) |
| 16th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Pinnock, English conductor and harpsichordist |
| 16th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Cross, English actor |
| 16th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Matthews, American sprinter |
| 16th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Biggins, English actor |
| 16th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Gibbons, American guitarist (ZZ Top) |
| 16th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Cohen, American gossip columnist and socialite (d. 2007) |
| 16th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (d. 2006) |
| 16th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Robben Ford, American guitarist |
| 16th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer |
| 16th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Garner, Barbadian cricketer |
| 16th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Forstadt, American voice actor |
| 16th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Xander Berkeley, American actor |
| 16th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Browner, American environmentalist and government official |
| 16th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este |
| 16th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer/songwriter (d. 2009) |
| 16th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Leigh, American voice actress |
| 16th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Alison LaPlaca, American actress |
| 16th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer |
| 16th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Canuto Kallan, Danish visual artist |
| 16th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994) |
| 16th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Tenney, American actor |
| 16th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Andersen, Russian/Danish multi-instrumentalist and composer |
| 16th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Maruschka Detmers, Dutch actress |
| 16th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | William Perry, American football player |
| 16th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Bratt, American actor |
| 16th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Carson, American singer |
| 16th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | James Mangold, American film director and screenwriter |
| 16th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Heike Drechsler, East German sprinter |
| 16th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Georgie Parker, Australian actress |
| 16th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Ripken, American baseball player |
| 16th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Jones, American baseball player |
| 16th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Valen, American actress |
| 16th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Sloan, American attorney |
| 16th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Robinson, American basketball player |
| 16th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Wise, English footballer |
| 16th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Donovan Bailey, Jamaican/Canadian sprinter, |
| 16th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Palmer, American ambassador |
| 16th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Miranda Otto, Australian actress |
| 16th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lalah Hathaway, American singer |
| 16th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (d. 2008) |
| 16th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Cosgrove, American actor |
| 16th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Seyhan Kurt, French/Turkish poet,writer |
| 16th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Michael McCary, American singer (Boyz II Men) |
| 16th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Paul van Dyk, German DJ |
| 16th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Gipson, American baseball player |
| 16th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Bloomfield, New Zealand actress |
| 16th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Zeljko Kalac, Australian footballer |
| 16th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Themba Mnguni, South African footballer |
| 16th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Storch, Canadian/American hip-hop producer |
| 16th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress |
| 16th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Badoi, Romanian footballer |
| 16th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nawo Kawakita, Japanese drummer (Maximum the Hormone) |
| 16th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian musician (Billy Talent) |
| 16th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Scarfe, Canadian actor |
| 16th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Belanger, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Distin, French footballer |
| 16th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian footballer |
| 16th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Morris, Canadian Curler |
| 16th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kaine, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins) |
| 16th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mihai Traistariu, Romanian singer |
| 16th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jessie Ward, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Immelman, South African golfer |
| 16th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Flo Rida, American rapper |
| 16th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer |
| 16th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer |
| 16th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Garnon Davies, Welsh actor |
| 16th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Antrel Rolle, American football player |
| 16th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player |
| 16th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Lloyd, English model |
| 16th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Keita Tachibana, Japanese singer (w-inds.) |
| 16th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 16th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Beau Dowler, Australian footballer |
| 16th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Hallee Hirsh, American actress |
| 16th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Popplewell, English actress |
| 16th of December 0705 | DEATH | Empress Wu of Zhou (Born 625) |
| 16th of December 0714 | DEATH | Pippin of Herstal, Frankish noble |
| 16th of December 0867 | DEATH | Eberhard of Friuli |
| 16th of December 0999 | DEATH | Saint Adelaide of Italy (Born 931) |
| 16th of December 1325 | DEATH | Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (Born 1270) |
| 16th of December 1378 | DEATH | Otto III of Montferrat |
| 16th of December 1379 | DEATH | John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel, British noble and naval commander |
| 16th of December 1470 | DEATH | John II, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1425) |
| 16th of December 1515 | DEATH | Afonso de Albuquerque Portuguese naval commander (Born 1453) |
| 16th of December 1598 | DEATH | Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (Born 1545) |
| 16th of December 1669 | DEATH | Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (Born c. 1608) |
| 16th of December 1687 | DEATH | William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (Born 1623) |
| 16th of December 1751 | DEATH | Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (Born 1700) |
| 16th of December 1765 | DEATH | Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor (Born 1741/42) |
| 16th of December 1774 | DEATH | Francois Quesnay, French economist (Born 1694) |
| 16th of December 1783 | DEATH | Sir William James, British naval commander (Born 1720) |
| 16th of December 1783 | DEATH | Johann A. Hasse, German composer (Born 1699) |
| 16th of December 1809 | DEATH | Antoine Francois, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (Born 1755) |
| 16th of December 1859 | DEATH | Wilhelm Grimm, German writer and folklorist (Born 1786) |
| 16th of December 1892 | DEATH | Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician (Born 1810) |
| 16th of December 1897 | DEATH | Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and short story writer (Born 1840) |
| 16th of December 1898 | DEATH | Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (Born 1832) |
| 16th of December 1914 | DEATH | Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (Born 1832) |
| 16th of December 1916 | DEATH | Ognjeslav Kostovic Stepanovic, Serbian inventor (Born 1851) |
| 16th of December 1921 | DEATH | Camille Saint-Saens, French composer (Born 1835) |
| 16th of December 1922 | DEATH | Gabriel Narutowicz, Polish politician (Born 1865) |
| 16th of December 1928 | DEATH | Elinor Wylie, American poet and writer (Born 1885) |
| 16th of December 1930 | DEATH | Herman Lamm, German-born American bank robber (Born 1890) |
| 16th of December 1935 | DEATH | Thelma Todd, American actress (Born 1905) |
| 16th of December 1940 | DEATH | Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (Born 1866) |
| 16th of December 1944 | DEATH | Betsie ten Boom, sister of Corrie ten Boom and Holocaust victim (Born 1885) |
| 16th of December 1945 | DEATH | Giovanni Agnelli, Italian automobile manufacturer (Born 1866) |
| 16th of December 1945 | DEATH | Fumimaro Konoye, Japanese politician (Born 1891) |
| 16th of December 1948 | DEATH | Denham Fouts, American gigolo and socialite (Born 1914) |
| 16th of December 1949 | DEATH | Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (Born 1873) |
| 16th of December 1956 | DEATH | Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (Born 1890) |
| 16th of December 1965 | DEATH | W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (Born 1874) |
| 16th of December 1968 | DEATH | General Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian military commander and statesman (Born1916) |
| 16th of December 1968 | DEATH | Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna (Born 1912) |
| 16th of December 1976 | DEATH | Real Caouette, French-Canadian politician (Born 1917) |
| 16th of December 1977 | DEATH | Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (Born 1934) |
| 16th of December 1980 | DEATH | Colonel Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (Born 1890) |
| 16th of December 1980 | DEATH | Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (Born 1900) |
| 16th of December 1982 | DEATH | Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer (Born 1928) |
| 16th of December 1983 | DEATH | Debs Garms, American baseball player (Born 1907) |
| 16th of December 1985 | DEATH | Thomas Bilotti, American organizied crime figure (Born 1940) |
| 16th of December 1985 | DEATH | Paul Castellano, American organizied crime figure (Born 1915) |
| 16th of December 1988 | DEATH | Sylvester James, American singer (Born 1948) |
| 16th of December 1989 | DEATH | Oscar Alfredo Galvez, Argentine racing driver (Born 1913) |
| 16th of December 1989 | DEATH | Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Born 1930) |
| 16th of December 1989 | DEATH | Lee Van Cleef, American actor (Born 1925) |
| 16th of December 1989 | DEATH | Aileen Pringle, American actress (Born 1895) |
| 16th of December 1990 | DEATH | Douglas Campbell, American aviator (Born 1896) |
| 16th of December 1991 | DEATH | Tamasi Eszter, Hungarian TV announcer and actress (Born 1938) |
| 16th of December 1993 | DEATH | Moses Gunn, American actor (Born 1929) |
| 16th of December 1993 | DEATH | Tanaka Kakuei, Japanese politician (Born 1918) |
| 16th of December 1993 | DEATH | Charizma, American Hip-Hop MC (Born 1973) |
| 16th of December 1995 | DEATH | Johnny Moss, American poker player (Born 1907) |
| 16th of December 1995 | DEATH | Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (Born 1939) |
| 16th of December 1996 | DEATH | Quentin Bell, English art historian (Born 1910) |
| 16th of December 1997 | DEATH | Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney (Born 1899) |
| 16th of December 1997 | DEATH | Nicolette Larson, American singer (Born 1952) |
| 16th of December 1998 | DEATH | William Gaddis, American writer (Born 1922) |
| 16th of December 2001 | DEATH | Stuart Adamson, English-born Scottish musician (The Skids, Big Country) (Born 1958) |
| 16th of December 2001 | DEATH | Stefan Heym, German author (Born 1913) |
| 16th of December 2003 | DEATH | Robert Stanfield, Canadian politician (Born 1914) |
| 16th of December 2003 | DEATH | Gary Stewart, American musician and songwriter (Born 1945) |
| 16th of December 2004 | DEATH | Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (Born 1933) |
| 16th of December 2005 | DEATH | Ed Hansen, American film director and editor (Born 1937) |
| 16th of December 2005 | DEATH | Kenneth Bulmer, English author (Born 1921) |
| 16th of December 2005 | DEATH | John Spencer, American actor (Born 1946) |
| 16th of December 2006 | DEATH | Taliep Petersen, South African singer and composer (Born 1950) |
| 16th of December 2006 | DEATH | Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1940) |
| 16th of December 2006 | DEATH | Pnina Salzman, Israeli pianist (Born 1922) |
| 16th of December 2007 | DEATH | Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (Born 1951) |
| 16th of December 2009 | DEATH | Roy E. Disney, American film industry executive (Born 1930) |
| 16th of December 2009 | DEATH | Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South African physician and politician (Born 1940) |
| 16th of December 2009 | DEATH | Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (Born 1956) |
| 16th of December 2010 | DEATH | Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1923) |