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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of June 1487 | EVENT | Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses. |
| 16th of June 1586 | EVENT | Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor. |
| 16th of June 1745 | EVENT | British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada. |
| 16th of June 1745 | EVENT | Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia during the War of the Austrian Succession. |
| 16th of June 1746 | EVENT | War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza. |
| 16th of June 1755 | EVENT | French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beausejour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians. |
| 16th of June 1774 | EVENT | Foundation of Harrodsburg, Kentucky. |
| 16th of June 1779 | EVENT | Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the siege of Gibraltar begins. |
| 16th of June 1795 | EVENT | First Battle of Groix otherwise known as Cornwallis' Retreat. |
| 16th of June 1815 | EVENT | Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo. |
| 16th of June 1836 | EVENT | The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement. |
| 16th of June 1846 | EVENT | The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter). |
| 16th of June 1858 | EVENT | Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. |
| 16th of June 1858 | EVENT | Battle of Morar takes place during the Indian Mutiny. |
| 16th of June 1871 | EVENT | The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology. |
| 16th of June 1883 | EVENT | The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England kills 183 children. |
| 16th of June 1891 | EVENT | John Abbott becomes Canada's third Prime Minister. |
| 16th of June 1897 | EVENT | A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later. |
| 16th of June 1903 | EVENT | The Ford Motor Company is incorporated. |
| 16th of June 1903 | EVENT | Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway. |
| 16th of June 1904 | EVENT | Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday". |
| 16th of June 1904 | EVENT | Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. |
| 16th of June 1911 | EVENT | A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. |
| 16th of June 1915 | EVENT | Foundation of the British Women's Institute. |
| 16th of June 1922 | EVENT | General election in the Irish Free State: a large majority goes to the pro-Treaty Sinn Fein. |
| 16th of June 1924 | EVENT | The Whampoa Military Academy is founded. |
| 16th of June 1925 | EVENT | The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established. |
| 16th of June 1930 | EVENT | Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
| 16th of June 1933 | EVENT | The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. |
| 16th of June 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Marshal Henri Philippe Petain becomes Premier of Vichy France. |
| 16th of June 1940 | EVENT | A Communist government is installed in Lithuania. |
| 16th of June 1958 | EVENT | Imre Nagy, Pal Maleter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed. |
| 16th of June 1963 | EVENT | Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission : Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. |
| 16th of June 1967 | EVENT | Monterey Pop Festival begins |
| 16th of June 1972 | EVENT | The largest single-site hydro-electric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls, Labrador. |
| 16th of June 1972 | EVENT | Red Army Faction member Ulrike Meinhof is captured by police in Langenhagen. |
| 16th of June 1976 | EVENT | Soweto uprising: a non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd. |
| 16th of June 1977 | EVENT | Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. |
| 16th of June 1989 | EVENT | Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest. |
| 16th of June 1997 | EVENT | The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed. |
| 16th of June 2000 | EVENT | Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms. |
| 16th of June 1139 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155) |
| 16th of June 1332 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382) |
| 16th of June 1514 | BIRTHDAY | John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557) |
| 16th of June 1583 | BIRTHDAY | Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1654) |
| 16th of June 1591 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Crete-born Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655) |
| 16th of June 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish aristocrat and soldier (d. 1675) |
| 16th of June 1612 | BIRTHDAY | Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1640) |
| 16th of June 1613 | BIRTHDAY | John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658) |
| 16th of June 1633 | BIRTHDAY | Jean de Thevenot, French traveler and scientist (d. 1667) |
| 16th of June 1644 | BIRTHDAY | Henrietta Anne Stuart, French-born Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland and Duchess of Orleans (d. 1670) |
| 16th of June 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Meshech Weare, American Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1786) |
| 16th of June 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist (d. 1790) |
| 16th of June 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Katharine Goddard, American printer and publisher (d. 1816) |
| 16th of June 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800) |
| 16th of June 1792 | BIRTHDAY | John Linnell, English landscape painter (d. 1882) |
| 16th of June 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Thomas Mitchell, Australian explorer (d. 1855) |
| 16th of June 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Plucker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868) |
| 16th of June 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Davy, English physician, chemist and inventor (d. 1885) |
| 16th of June 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869) |
| 16th of June 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Athanase Coquerel, French Protestant preacher (d. 1875) |
| 16th of June 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1908) |
| 16th of June 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (d. 1897) |
| 16th of June 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Geronimo, Apache leader (d. 1909) |
| 16th of June 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Merritt, American general (d. 1910) |
| 16th of June 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Laas, German philosopher (d. 1885) |
| 16th of June 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Cushman Davis, American politician (d. 1900) |
| 16th of June 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913) |
| 16th of June 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Arz von Straussenburg, Austro-Hungarian Colonel General (d. 1935) |
| 16th of June 1858 | BIRTHDAY | King Gustaf V of Sweden (d. 1950) |
| 16th of June 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Germanos Karavangelis, Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop (d. 1935) |
| 16th of June 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Meighen, 9th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1960) |
| 16th of June 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Eisenschiml, Austrian-born American chemist and historian (d. 1963) |
| 16th of June 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (d. 1925) |
| 16th of June 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980) |
| 16th of June 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Laurel, British actor and comedian (d. 1965) |
| 16th of June 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Kerry, American actor (d. 1956) |
| 16th of June 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Murray Leinster, American science-fiction and alternate history writer (d. 1976) |
| 16th of June 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948) |
| 16th of June 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987) |
| 16th of June 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara McClintock, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992) |
| 16th of June 1902 | BIRTHDAY | George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (d. 1984) |
| 16th of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Huldreich Georg Fruh, Swiss composer (d. 1945) |
| 16th of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Traubel, American soprano (d. 1972) |
| 16th of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Albertson, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 16th of June 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Fairley Carr, American biologist (d. 1987) |
| 16th of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Velasco Alvarado, Peruvian general and President of Peru (d. 1977) |
| 16th of June 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998) |
| 16th of June 1915 | BIRTHDAY | John Tukey, American statistician (d. 2000) |
| 16th of June 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Luisetti, American basketball player (d. 2002) |
| 16th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Graham, American publisher (d. 2001) |
| 16th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Phaedon Gizikis, Greek Army officer and President of Greece (d. 1999) |
| 16th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Penn, American photographer (d. 2009) |
| 16th of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Aurelio Lampredi, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari) (d. 1989) |
| 16th of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Howard Griffin, American journalist (d. 1980) |
| 16th of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Lopez Portillo, 31st President of Mexico (d. 2004) |
| 16th of June 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond U. Lemieux, Canadian organic chemist (d. 2002) |
| 16th of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (d. 1962) |
| 16th of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Faith Domergue, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 16th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Graveney, English cricketer |
| 16th of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Lichtenfeld, German author and playwright (d. 2001) |
| 16th of June 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Speedy O. Long, American politician (d. 2006) |
| 16th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Pauline Yates, English actress |
| 16th of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Bieri, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 16th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-born American cinematographer |
| 16th of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Allan D'Arcangelo, American artist (d. 1998) |
| 16th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Eileen Atkins, English actress |
| 16th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Neilson, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2003) |
| 16th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 16th of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV personality |
| 16th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Cobbs, American actor |
| 16th of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Dine, American artist |
| 16th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Segal, American author (d. 2010) |
| 16th of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Tsar and later Prime Minister of Bulgaria |
| 16th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist |
| 16th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Torgny Lindgren, Swedish writer |
| 16th of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | James Bolam, English actor |
| 16th of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Crash Craddock, American country singer |
| 16th of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Goldschmidt, American Governor of Oregon |
| 16th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist |
| 16th of June 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lamont Dozier, American record company executive |
| 16th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Levert, American singer (The O'Jays) |
| 16th of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo Agostini, Italian motorcyclist |
| 16th of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Van Ark, American actress |
| 16th of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Richelet, French painter |
| 16th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Alexander, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lucienne Robillard, Canadian politician |
| 16th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Adelman, American basketball player and coach |
| 16th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jodi Rell, American politician |
| 16th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Sanderson, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ritts, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 16th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | -minu, Swiss columnist and writer |
| 16th of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Wyner, British-born American voice actor and writer |
| 16th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ron LeFlore, American baseball player |
| 16th of June 1948 | BIRTHDAY | V. Hanumantha Rao, Indian politician |
| 16th of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Cesar, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Duran, Panamanian boxer |
| 16th of June 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Dominici, American singer (Dream Theater, Dominici) |
| 16th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | George Papandreou, junior, Greek politician |
| 16th of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 16th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Mosley, British drummer (Marillion) |
| 16th of June 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Mahaffey, American actress |
| 16th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tree Rollins, American basketball player |
| 16th of June 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Metcalf, American actress |
| 16th of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Buchanan, Scottish actor |
| 16th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Darrell Griffith, American basketball player |
| 16th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Helgason, Icelandic guitarist (?eyr) |
| 16th of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer |
| 16th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Desiree Rogers, American public relations executive and former Social Secretary for the White House |
| 16th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John Franklin, American actor |
| 16th of June 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Sterling, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 16th of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Larmer, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Joyner, American baseball player |
| 16th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Femi Kuti, Nigerian afrobeat musician |
| 16th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Arnold Vosloo, South African actor |
| 16th of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Wong Yiu Ming, Hong Kong composer and producer |
| 16th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Alexander, American screenwriter |
| 16th of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Fullington, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Zelezny, Czech athlete |
| 16th of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Charalambos Andreou, Greek-Cypriot footballer |
| 16th of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Crossley, Welsh footballer |
| 16th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Clifton Collins Jr., American actor |
| 16th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Mickelson, American golfer |
| 16th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Cobi Jones, American soccer player |
| 16th of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Younus AlGohar, British spiritualist, author, poet, sufi and humanitarian |
| 16th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Gomez, American baseball player |
| 16th of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tupac Shakur, American rapper and actor (d. 1996) |
| 16th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | John Cho, Korean-American actor |
| 16th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Khan, English golfer |
| 16th of June 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Shoket, American magazine editor |
| 16th of June 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Machlas, Greek footballer |
| 16th of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Lee, British sculptor |
| 16th of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Carter, American basketball player |
| 16th of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 16th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Wood, American baseball player |
| 16th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Foster, American convicted murderer |
| 16th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Petros Papadakis, American sportscaster |
| 16th of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Fitzgibbon, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 16th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Bruhl, German actor |
| 16th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dainius Zubrus, Lithuanian ice hockey player |
| 16th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jasmine Leong, Chinese Malaysian singer |
| 16th of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lyndsey Marshal, British actress |
| 16th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nehir Erdogan, Turkish actress |
| 16th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Armstrong, American basketball player |
| 16th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Gushue, Canadian curler |
| 16th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Stranzl, Austrian footballer |
| 16th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Christophers, German-born English rugby player |
| 16th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dare Nibombe, Togolese footballer |
| 16th of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer |
| 16th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Becker, German tennis player |
| 16th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Bieksa, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Kweller, American singer and songwriter |
| 16th of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Villalta, Peruvian footballer |
| 16th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Fraser Cartmell, British triathlete |
| 16th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Costa, American singer and songwriter |
| 16th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Wingert, American footballer |
| 16th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Missy Peregrym, Canadian actress |
| 16th of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jodi Santamaria, Filipino actress |
| 16th of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Armend Dallku, Albanian footballer |
| 16th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Whittaker, Scottish Footballer |
| 16th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Nash, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Broxton, American baseball player |
| 16th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Urby Emanuelson, Dutch footballer |
| 16th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer |
| 16th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Farhad Reza, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 16th of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rothbart, Bosnian/Israeli/Serbian basketball player |
| 16th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Diana DeGarmo, American singer |
| 16th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Abby Elliott, American comedienne |
| 16th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Per Ciljan Skjelbred, Norwegian footballer |
| 16th of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer |
| 16th of June 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Keshia Chante, Canadian singer |
| 16th of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Glebova, Estonian figure skater |
| 16th of June 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Joe McElderry, English singer |
| 16th of June 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Aarya Ambekar, Indian Marathi singer |
| 16th of June 1216 | DEATH | Pope Innocent III (Born 1160 or 1161) |
| 16th of June 1397 | DEATH | Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier and nobleman (Born 1358) |
| 16th of June 1468 | DEATH | Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (Born c. 1395) |
| 16th of June 1622 | DEATH | Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (Born 1555) |
| 16th of June 1623 | DEATH | Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg-Wolfenbuttel, German Protestant military leader (Born 1599) |
| 16th of June 1666 | DEATH | Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (Born 1608) |
| 16th of June 1671 | DEATH | Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (Born 1630) |
| 16th of June 1707 | DEATH | Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchatel and writer (Born 1625) |
| 16th of June 1722 | DEATH | John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (Born 1650) |
| 16th of June 1749 | DEATH | Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (Born 1672) |
| 16th of June 1752 | DEATH | Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (Born 1664) |
| 16th of June 1752 | DEATH | Joseph Butler, English philosopher (Born 1692) |
| 16th of June 1777 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (Born 1709) |
| 16th of June 1778 | DEATH | Konrad Ekhof, German actor (Born 1720) |
| 16th of June 1779 | DEATH | Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (Born 1712) |
| 16th of June 1792 | DEATH | Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (Born 1738) |
| 16th of June 1804 | DEATH | Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (Born 1728) |
| 16th of June 1824 | DEATH | Charles-Francois Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (Born 1739) |
| 16th of June 1849 | DEATH | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (Born 1780) |
| 16th of June 1850 | DEATH | William Lawson, English explorer of New South Wales, Australia (Born 1774) |
| 16th of June 1855 | DEATH | John Gorrie, American physician (Born 1803) |
| 16th of June 1858 | DEATH | John Snow, English epidemiologist (Born 1813) |
| 16th of June 1862 | DEATH | Hidenoyama Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9th Yokozuna (Born 1808) |
| 16th of June 1866 | DEATH | Joseph Mery French poet (Born 1798) |
| 16th of June 1869 | DEATH | Charles Sturt, English explorer (Born 1795) |
| 16th of June 1872 | DEATH | Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (Born 1812) |
| 16th of June 1878 | DEATH | Crawford Long, American physician (Born 1815) |
| 16th of June 1881 | DEATH | Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (Born 1801) |
| 16th of June 1881 | DEATH | Sir Josiah Mason, English pen manufacturer (Born 1795) |
| 16th of June 1885 | DEATH | Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (Born 1818) |
| 16th of June 1902 | DEATH | Ernst Schroder, German mathematician (Born 1841) |
| 16th of June 1925 | DEATH | Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (Born 1870) |
| 16th of June 1925 | DEATH | Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornet player (Born 1903) |
| 16th of June 1928 | DEATH | Dr. Mark Keppel, American County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (Born 1867) |
| 16th of June 1929 | DEATH | Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (Born 1856) |
| 16th of June 1930 | DEATH | Ezra Fitch, American founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (Born 1866) |
| 16th of June 1930 | DEATH | Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American co-inventor of the gyrocompass (Born 1860) |
| 16th of June 1939 | DEATH | Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (Born 1905) |
| 16th of June 1940 | DEATH | DuBose Heyward, American novelist (Born 1885) |
| 16th of June 1944 | DEATH | Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (Born 1886) |
| 16th of June 1945 | DEATH | Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (Born 1905) |
| 16th of June 1952 | DEATH | Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, the first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (Born 1861) |
| 16th of June 1953 | DEATH | Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (Born 1873) |
| 16th of June 1955 | DEATH | Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (Born 1864) |
| 16th of June 1958 | DEATH | Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (Born 1895) |
| 16th of June 1959 | DEATH | George Reeves, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 16th of June 1961 | DEATH | Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (Born 1904) |
| 16th of June 1967 | DEATH | Reginald Denny, English stage, film, and television actor (Born 1891) |
| 16th of June 1969 | DEATH | Harold Alexander, British military commander (Born 1891) |
| 16th of June 1970 | DEATH | Brian Piccolo, American football player (Born 1943) |
| 16th of June 1970 | DEATH | Heino Eller, Estonian composer (Born 1887) |
| 16th of June 1970 | DEATH | Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (Born 1888) |
| 16th of June 1971 | DEATH | Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (Born 1889) |
| 16th of June 1977 | DEATH | Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (Born 1912) |
| 16th of June 1979 | DEATH | Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (Born 1931) |
| 16th of June 1979 | DEATH | Nicholas Ray, American film director (Born 1911) |
| 16th of June 1981 | DEATH | Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (Born 1917) |
| 16th of June 1982 | DEATH | James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (Born 1956) |
| 16th of June 1984 | DEATH | Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (Born 1895) |
| 16th of June 1986 | DEATH | Maurice Durufle, French composer and organist (Born 1902) |
| 16th of June 1988 | DEATH | Miguel Pinero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Born 1946) |
| 16th of June 1990 | DEATH | Megan Leigh, American porn star (Born 1964) |
| 16th of June 1990 | DEATH | Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (Born 1929) |
| 16th of June 1993 | DEATH | Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (Born 1913) |
| 16th of June 1994 | DEATH | Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (Hole) (Born 1967) |
| 16th of June 1996 | DEATH | Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (Born 1913) |
| 16th of June 1996 | DEATH | Curt Swan, American comic book artist (Born 1920) |
| 16th of June 1997 | DEATH | Dal Stivens, Australian author (Born 1911) |
| 16th of June 1999 | DEATH | Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician (Born 1940) |
| 16th of June 2000 | DEATH | Empress Kojun of Japan (Born 1903) |
| 16th of June 2003 | DEATH | Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (Born 1916) |
| 16th of June 2003 | DEATH | Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (Born 1934) |
| 16th of June 2004 | DEATH | Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (Born 1911) |
| 16th of June 2005 | DEATH | Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (Born 1906) |
| 16th of June 2006 | DEATH | Igor Smia?owski, Polish actor (Born 1917) |
| 16th of June 2006 | DEATH | Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (Born 1942) |
| 16th of June 2007 | DEATH | Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (Born 1931) |
| 16th of June 2007 | DEATH | Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (Born 1940) |
| 16th of June 2008 | DEATH | Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (Born 1921) |
| 16th of June 2008 | DEATH | Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (Born 1975) |
| 16th of June 2010 | DEATH | Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (Born 1932) |