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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of July 0622 | EVENT | The beginning of the Islamic calendar. |
| 16th of July 1054 | EVENT | Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing an invalidly-issued Papal Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the start of the East-West Schism. |
| 16th of July 1212 | EVENT | Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Pedro II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain. |
| 16th of July 1377 | EVENT | Coronation of Richard II of England. |
| 16th of July 1661 | EVENT | The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco. |
| 16th of July 1683 | EVENT | Manchu Qing Dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands. |
| 16th of July 1769 | EVENT | Father Junipero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcala. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego. |
| 16th of July 1779 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point. |
| 16th of July 1782 | EVENT | First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. |
| 16th of July 1790 | EVENT | The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act. |
| 16th of July 1809 | EVENT | The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo. |
| 16th of July 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become The First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war. |
| 16th of July 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank. |
| 16th of July 1880 | EVENT | Emily Stowe becomes the first female physician licensed to practice medicine in Canada. |
| 16th of July 1915 | EVENT | Henry James becomes a British citizen, to highlight his commitment to England during the first World War. |
| 16th of July 1931 | EVENT | Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia. |
| 16th of July 1935 | EVENT | The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 16th of July 1941 | EVENT | Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a MLB record. |
| 16th of July 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): the government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz. |
| 16th of July 1945 | EVENT | World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, President of the United States Harry S Truman and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany. |
| 16th of July 1945 | EVENT | Manhattan Project: the Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico. |
| 16th of July 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Heavy Cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island. This would be the last time the Indianapolis would be seen by the Mainland she would be torpedoed by the Japanese Submarine I-58 on July 30 and sink with 880 out of 1,196 crewmen. |
| 16th of July 1948 | EVENT | Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. |
| 16th of July 1948 | EVENT | The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane. |
| 16th of July 1951 | EVENT | King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium. |
| 16th of July 1951 | EVENT | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company. |
| 16th of July 1956 | EVENT | Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas. |
| 16th of July 1957 | EVENT | United States Marine major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record. |
| 16th of July 1960 | EVENT | USS George Washington a modified Skipjack class submarine successfully test fires the first ballistic missile while submerged. |
| 16th of July 1965 | EVENT | The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens. |
| 16th of July 1969 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
| 16th of July 1973 | EVENT | Watergate Scandal: former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. |
| 16th of July 1979 | EVENT | Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein. |
| 16th of July 1981 | EVENT | Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader. |
| 16th of July 1983 | EVENT | Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities. |
| 16th of July 1990 | EVENT | The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. |
| 16th of July 1990 | EVENT | Luzon Earthquake stroke in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7. |
| 16th of July 1993 | EVENT | The Slackware operating system is first released. |
| 16th of July 1994 | EVENT | Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter. Impacts continue until July 22. |
| 16th of July 1999 | EVENT | John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed. |
| 16th of July 2004 | EVENT | Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley. |
| 16th of July 2007 | EVENT | 2007 Chuetsu offshore earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing 8 people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. |
| 16th of July 1194 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253) |
| 16th of July 1486 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530) |
| 16th of July 1611 | BIRTHDAY | Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Austrian-born Queen consort of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, wife of King W?adys?aw IV Vasa (d. 1644) |
| 16th of July 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Rene, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800) |
| 16th of July 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Wilton, English sculptor (d. 1803) |
| 16th of July 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792) |
| 16th of July 1731 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Huntington, American statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, 3rd Governor of Connecticut and 7th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1796) |
| 16th of July 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrus Griffin, American statesman, 16th and last president of the Continental Congress (d. 1810) |
| 16th of July 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875) |
| 16th of July 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910) |
| 16th of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Ysaye, Belgian violinist (d. 1931) |
| 16th of July 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, American civil rights activist (d. 1931) |
| 16th of July 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Lambert McKenna, Irish Jesuit priest and scholar of the Irish language (d. 1956) |
| 16th of July 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928) |
| 16th of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Thompson Norris, American novelist (d. 1966) |
| 16th of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Sheeler, American photographer and artist (d. 1965) |
| 16th of July 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964) |
| 16th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964) |
| 16th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966) |
| 16th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951) |
| 16th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Semon, American film comedy actor (d. 1928) |
| 16th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969) |
| 16th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Trygve Lie, Norwegian diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1968) |
| 16th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Preer, American actress (d. 1932) |
| 16th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977) |
| 16th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer and composer (d. 1971) |
| 16th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Philbin, American stage and film actress (d. 1993) |
| 16th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Bauer, German judge (d. 1968) |
| 16th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (d. 2003) |
| 16th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006) |
| 16th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001) |
| 16th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995) |
| 16th of July 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 16th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (d. 1968) |
| 16th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995) |
| 16th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 16th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 16th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006) |
| 16th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989) |
| 16th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Kyu-hah, South Korean politician, 4th President of South Korea (d. 2006) |
| 16th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian concentration and extermination camp guard (d. 1999) |
| 16th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Anatole Broyard, American literary critic and essayist (d. 1990) |
| 16th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Anwar Hussain, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2002) |
| 16th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Argyris, American educator |
| 16th of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bess Myerson, American beauty queen |
| 16th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Cal Tjader, American vibraphonist, percussionist and pianist (d. 1982) |
| 16th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 16th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | John Warr, English cricketer |
| 16th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Anita Brookner, English novelist |
| 16th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993) |
| 16th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Sheckley, American science fiction writer (d. 2005) |
| 16th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Treen, American politician, 51st Governor of Louisiana (d. 2009) |
| 16th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer (d. 2000) |
| 16th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (d. 1984) |
| 16th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bilirakis, American politician |
| 16th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Beart, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter |
| 16th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Thornburgh, American politician |
| 16th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007) |
| 16th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Don Payne, American politician |
| 16th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician |
| 16th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Venkatraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer |
| 16th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show) |
| 16th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bryan, American politician |
| 16th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003) |
| 16th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Corin Redgrave, English actor and political activist (d. 2010) |
| 16th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995) |
| 16th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Miso Kovac, Croatian singer |
| 16th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska and reggae singer-songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 16th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dag Solstad, Norwegian novelist, short-story writer and dramatist |
| 16th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Court, Australian tennis player |
| 16th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Johnson, American football coach |
| 16th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990) |
| 16th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Toshio Furukawa, Japanese voice actor |
| 16th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Lee, American politician |
| 16th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Yary, American football player |
| 16th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Richard LeParmentier, American actor |
| 16th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Herman, American politician, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor |
| 16th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Assata Shakur, American BPP and BLA activist |
| 16th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Blades, Panamanian singer and actor |
| 16th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist |
| 16th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin McKenzie, South African cricketer |
| 16th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Koffmann, French chef |
| 16th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician |
| 16th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Priestley, English darts player |
| 16th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Terrell, American journalist, musicologist and DJ (d. 2007) |
| 16th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian journalist |
| 16th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Momir Karadzic, Serbian footballer |
| 16th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Copeland, American drummer (The Police) |
| 16th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Robert David Steele, American spy |
| 16th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ken McEwan, South African cricketer |
| 16th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy |
| 16th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician |
| 16th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Doyle, American actor |
| 16th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Kushner, American playwright |
| 16th of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer |
| 16th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Flatley, American dancer |
| 16th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Roland Renoir, Monaco-born Canadian painter |
| 16th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mike D. Rogers, American politician |
| 16th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Herzog, American television executive |
| 16th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Anderson, American football player |
| 16th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Zoran Jolevski, Macedonian diplomat, Ambassador to the USA |
| 16th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Pendleton, American baseball player |
| 16th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Srecko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach |
| 16th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Phoebe Cates, American actress |
| 16th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Hellmuth, American poker player |
| 16th of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist |
| 16th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Tyler, Canadian porn actress |
| 16th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster |
| 16th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Will Ferrell, American comedian |
| 16th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist |
| 16th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia and founder of Citizendium |
| 16th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Sanders, American football player |
| 16th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Hate, American-born English tattoo artist |
| 16th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player |
| 16th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer |
| 16th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl Mitchell, American actor |
| 16th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rain Pryor, American actress |
| 16th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director |
| 16th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Kowalczyk, American singer (Live) |
| 16th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Feldman, American actor |
| 16th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist |
| 16th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer |
| 16th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Ryan, American politician |
| 16th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author |
| 16th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Enigk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Fire Theft) |
| 16th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby league and union player |
| 16th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member |
| 16th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Paula Arosio, Brazilian actress |
| 16th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bas Leinders, Belgian racing car driver |
| 16th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist (Lostprophets) |
| 16th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer |
| 16th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Lashley, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player |
| 16th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tomasz Kuchar, Polish rally driver |
| 16th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Budd, British soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2006) |
| 16th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Taj Anwar, American model and social activist |
| 16th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jayma Mays, American actress |
| 16th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mai Nakamura, Japanese swimmer |
| 16th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Mihm, American basketball player |
| 16th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Justine Joli, American pornographic actress, adult model and ballerina |
| 16th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress and erotic model |
| 16th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Scott, Australian golfer |
| 16th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Di Masi, Italian footballer |
| 16th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Randolph, American basketball player |
| 16th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Umana, Costa Rican footballer |
| 16th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Keith, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Katrina Kaif, Indian actress |
| 16th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver |
| 16th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor |
| 16th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | AnnaLynne McCord, American actress |
| 16th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Moussa Dembele, Belgian footballer |
| 16th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew James Allen, American actor |
| 16th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Busquets,Spanish footballer |
| 16th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer |
| 16th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | James Maslow, American singer and actor (Big Time Rush) |
| 16th of July 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Bentley, American actor |
| 16th of July 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor |
| 16th of July 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Adele Peer, American model, singer, Broadway actress, and charity runner. |
| 16th of July 1216 | DEATH | Pope Innocent III (Born 1160 or 1161) |
| 16th of July 1324 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (Born 1267) |
| 16th of July 1342 | DEATH | King Charles I of Hungary (Born 1288) |
| 16th of July 1546 | DEATH | Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (Born 1521) |
| 16th of July 1557 | DEATH | Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England (Born 1515) |
| 16th of July 1594 | DEATH | Thomas Kyd, English playwright (Born 1558) |
| 16th of July 1647 | DEATH | Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (Born 1622) |
| 16th of July 1664 | DEATH | Andreas Gryphius, German writer (Born 1616) |
| 16th of July 1686 | DEATH | John Pearson, English theologian (Born 1612) |
| 16th of July 1691 | DEATH | Francois-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (Born 1641) |
| 16th of July 1729 | DEATH | Johann David Heinichen, German composer (Born 1683) |
| 16th of July 1747 | DEATH | Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (Born 1665) |
| 16th of July 1770 | DEATH | Francis Cotes, English painter (Born 1726) |
| 16th of July 1796 | DEATH | George Howard, British field marshal (Born 1718) |
| 16th of July 1831 | DEATH | Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (Born 1763) |
| 16th of July 1850 | DEATH | Julia Glover, Irish-born actress (Born c. 1779) |
| 16th of July 1868 | DEATH | Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (Born 1840) |
| 16th of July 1879 | DEATH | Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (Born 1800) |
| 16th of July 1882 | DEATH | Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (Born 1818) |
| 16th of July 1886 | DEATH | Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (Born 1823) |
| 16th of July 1896 | DEATH | Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (Born 1822) |
| 16th of July 1915 | DEATH | Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (Born 1827) |
| 16th of July 1916 | DEATH | Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1845) |
| 16th of July 1917 | DEATH | Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Born 1847) |
| 16th of July 1947 | DEATH | Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (Born 1912) |
| 16th of July 1949 | DEATH | Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian poet (Born 1866) |
| 16th of July 1953 | DEATH | Hilaire Belloc, English writer (Born 1870) |
| 16th of July 1960 | DEATH | John P. Marquand, American novelist (Born 1893) |
| 16th of July 1960 | DEATH | Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (Born 1881) |
| 16th of July 1976 | DEATH | Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat (assassinated) (Born 1921) |
| 16th of July 1979 | DEATH | Alfred Deller, English countertenor (Born 1912) |
| 16th of July 1981 | DEATH | Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter (Born 1942) |
| 16th of July 1982 | DEATH | Patrick Dewaere, French actor (Born 1947) |
| 16th of July 1982 | DEATH | Charles Robberts Swart, South African politician, 1st State President of South Africa (Born 1894) |
| 16th of July 1985 | DEATH | Heinrich Boll, German writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1917) |
| 16th of July 1985 | DEATH | Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter and bandleader (Born 1901) |
| 16th of July 1989 | DEATH | Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (Born 1908) |
| 16th of July 1990 | DEATH | Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (Born 1908) |
| 16th of July 1990 | DEATH | Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (Born 1927) |
| 16th of July 1991 | DEATH | Robert Motherwell, American painter (Born 1915) |
| 16th of July 1991 | DEATH | Frank Rizzo, American politician (Born 1920) |
| 16th of July 1992 | DEATH | Buck Buchanan, American football player (Born 1940) |
| 16th of July 1994 | DEATH | Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French-Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (Born 1908) |
| 16th of July 1994 | DEATH | Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1918) |
| 16th of July 1995 | DEATH | May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (Born 1912) |
| 16th of July 1995 | DEATH | Stephen Spender, English poet (Born 1909) |
| 16th of July 1996 | DEATH | John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx) (Born 1948) |
| 16th of July 1996 | DEATH | Adolf von Thadden, German politician (Born 1921) |
| 16th of July 1998 | DEATH | John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (Born 1915) |
| 16th of July 1999 | DEATH | John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (Born 1960) |
| 16th of July 1999 | DEATH | Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (Born 1979) |
| 16th of July 1999 | DEATH | Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (Born 1966) |
| 16th of July 2001 | DEATH | Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Born 1923) |
| 16th of July 2001 | DEATH | Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (Born 1961) |
| 16th of July 2002 | DEATH | John Cocke, American computer scientist (Born 1925) |
| 16th of July 2003 | DEATH | Celia Cruz, Cuban salsa singer (Born 1924) |
| 16th of July 2003 | DEATH | Carol Shields, American-born Canadian novelist (Born 1935) |
| 16th of July 2004 | DEATH | George Busbee, American politician, 77th Governor of Georgia (Born 1927) |
| 16th of July 2004 | DEATH | Charles Sweeney, American general (Born 1919) |
| 16th of July 2005 | DEATH | Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (Born 1920) |
| 16th of July 2005 | DEATH | Prince Gu of Korea (Born 1931) |
| 16th of July 2005 | DEATH | Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist and entertainer (Born 1920) |
| 16th of July 2006 | DEATH | Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, American politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (Born 1948) |
| 16th of July 2006 | DEATH | Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (Born 1929) |
| 16th of July 2007 | DEATH | Caterina Bueno, Italian singer and folk music historian (Born 1943) |
| 16th of July 2008 | DEATH | Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (Born 1917) |
| 16th of July 2010 | DEATH | James Gammon, American actor (Born 1940) |