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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of October 0456 | EVENT | Magister militum Ricimer defeats Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. |
| 16th of October 1384 | EVENT | Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. |
| 16th of October 1590 | EVENT | Carlo Gesualdo, composer, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, murders his wife, Donna Maria d'Avalos, and her lover Fabrizio Carafa, the Duke of Andria at the Palazzo San Severo in Naples. |
| 16th of October 1780 | EVENT | Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont are the last major raids of the American Revolutionary War. |
| 16th of October 1781 | EVENT | George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown. |
| 16th of October 1793 | EVENT | The Battle of Wattignies ends in a French victory. |
| 16th of October 1793 | EVENT | Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. |
| 16th of October 1813 | EVENT | The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig. |
| 16th of October 1834 | EVENT | Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt to the ground. |
| 16th of October 1841 | EVENT | Queen's University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. |
| 16th of October 1843 | EVENT | Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. |
| 16th of October 1846 | EVENT | William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. |
| 16th of October 1859 | EVENT | John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. |
| 16th of October 1869 | EVENT | The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". |
| 16th of October 1869 | EVENT | Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women. |
| 16th of October 1875 | EVENT | Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. |
| 16th of October 1882 | EVENT | The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. |
| 16th of October 1905 | EVENT | The Partition of Bengal in India takes place. |
| 16th of October 1906 | EVENT | The Captain of Kopenick fools the city hall of Kopenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer. |
| 16th of October 1916 | EVENT | Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic. |
| 16th of October 1923 | EVENT | The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. |
| 16th of October 1934 | EVENT | Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman. |
| 16th of October 1939 | EVENT | World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe. |
| 16th of October 1940 | EVENT | Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established. |
| 16th of October 1940 | EVENT | Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army. |
| 16th of October 1945 | EVENT | The Food and Agriculture Organization is founded in Quebec City, Canada. |
| 16th of October 1946 | EVENT | Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial. |
| 16th of October 1949 | EVENT | Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War. |
| 16th of October 1949 | EVENT | The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic are established. |
| 16th of October 1951 | EVENT | The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. |
| 16th of October 1962 | EVENT | Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba begins. |
| 16th of October 1964 | EVENT | The People's Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon. |
| 16th of October 1964 | EVENT | Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier, respectively and the collective leadership is established. |
| 16th of October 1968 | EVENT | United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the USA's team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. |
| 16th of October 1968 | EVENT | Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country. |
| 16th of October 1970 | EVENT | In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act. |
| 16th of October 1973 | EVENT | Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 16th of October 1975 | EVENT | The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops. |
| 16th of October 1975 | EVENT | Rahima Banu, a 2-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox. |
| 16th of October 1975 | EVENT | The Australian Coalition opposition parties using their senate majority, vote to defer the decision to grant supply of funds for the Whitlam Government's annual budget, sparking the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. |
| 16th of October 1978 | EVENT | Wanda Rutkiewicz is the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
| 16th of October 1978 | EVENT | Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave. |
| 16th of October 1984 | EVENT | Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 16th of October 1986 | EVENT | Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders. |
| 16th of October 1986 | EVENT | Ron Arad, Israeli Weapons System Officer, is captured by Lebanese Shi'ite militia Amal. |
| 16th of October 1991 | EVENT | Luby's massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby's Cafeteria. |
| 16th of October 1993 | EVENT | Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching the British National Party headquarters. |
| 16th of October 1995 | EVENT | The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C. |
| 16th of October 1995 | EVENT | The Skye Bridge is opened. |
| 16th of October 1996 | EVENT | Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City. |
| 16th of October 1998 | EVENT | Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. |
| 16th of October 2002 | EVENT | Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. |
| 16th of October 2006 | EVENT | Hawaii Earthquake: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport. |
| 16th of October 1396 | BIRTHDAY | William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450) |
| 16th of October 1430 | BIRTHDAY | King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) |
| 16th of October 1483 | BIRTHDAY | Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542) |
| 16th of October 1535 | BIRTHDAY | Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585) |
| 16th of October 1663 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736) |
| 16th of October 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (d. 1790) |
| 16th of October 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (d. 1795) |
| 16th of October 1726 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (d. 1801) |
| 16th of October 1751 | BIRTHDAY | Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (d. 1805) |
| 16th of October 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (d. 1827) |
| 16th of October 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804 : 07) (d. 1844) |
| 16th of October 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843) |
| 16th of October 1762 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hamilton, American politician (d. 1816) |
| 16th of October 1789 | BIRTHDAY | William Burton, American politician (d. 1866) |
| 16th of October 1795 | BIRTHDAY | William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876) |
| 16th of October 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Murphy, American politician (d. 1882) |
| 16th of October 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Russell, American artist (d. 1885) |
| 16th of October 1806 | BIRTHDAY | William Pitt Fessenden, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1864 : 65) (d. 1869) |
| 16th of October 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Lubbock, American politician (d. 1905) |
| 16th of October 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Austin F. Pike, American politician (d. 1886) |
| 16th of October 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese politician (d. 1900) |
| 16th of October 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Hirobumi Ito, Japanese politician (d. 1909) |
| 16th of October 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900) |
| 16th of October 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Kautsky, Czech-born German theoretician (d. 1938) |
| 16th of October 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (d. 1931) |
| 16th of October 1861 | BIRTHDAY | J. B. Bury, Irish historian (d. 1927) |
| 16th of October 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1937) |
| 16th of October 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer, rugby union and soccer player (d. 1913) |
| 16th of October 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Maxey Long, American athlete (d. 1959) |
| 16th of October 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (d. 1973) |
| 16th of October 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916) |
| 16th of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman (d. 1973) |
| 16th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Popenoe, American activist (d. 1979) |
| 16th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) |
| 16th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Collins, Irish politician (d. 1922) |
| 16th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902) |
| 16th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1975) |
| 16th of October 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Louis de Cazenave, French supercentenarian (d. 2008) |
| 16th of October 1898 | BIRTHDAY | William O. Douglas, American jurist (d. 1980) |
| 16th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-born British writer and illustrator (d. 1979) |
| 16th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Goose Goslin, American baseball player (d. 1971) |
| 16th of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988) |
| 16th of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (d. 2003) |
| 16th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Klimovsky, Argentine film director (d. 1996) |
| 16th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (d. 1985) |
| 16th of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Clifford Hansen, American politician (d. 2009) |
| 16th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Zahir Shah, Shah of Afghanistan (d. 2007) |
| 16th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997) |
| 16th of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Pearce, American actress (d. 1966) |
| 16th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (d. 1990) |
| 16th of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Winsor, American writer (d. 2003) |
| 16th of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010) |
| 16th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (d. 2001) |
| 16th of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter |
| 16th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Darnell, American film actress (d. 1965) |
| 16th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby commentator (d. 2010) |
| 16th of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (d. 1980) |
| 16th of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Lansbury, English-born actress |
| 16th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Gunter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 16th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress |
| 16th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Daly, American feminist philosopher and theologian (d. 2010) |
| 16th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress |
| 16th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress |
| 16th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Valery Klimov, Russian violinist |
| 16th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian |
| 16th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Colson, American Watergate figure |
| 16th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (d. 1996) |
| 16th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Grant, British politician (d. 2000) |
| 16th of October 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Ashdown, British racing driver |
| 16th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Bowles, English actor |
| 16th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994) |
| 16th of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Machida, Japanese judge |
| 16th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Nico, German musician, fashion model and actress (d. 1988) |
| 16th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Gunter Jr, American state legislator (d. 1999) |
| 16th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Corbin, American actor |
| 16th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (d. 2003) |
| 16th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2009) |
| 16th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tim McCarver, American baseball player and commentator |
| 16th of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman : Turner Overdrive) |
| 16th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Suzanne Somers, American actress |
| 16th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead) |
| 16th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player |
| 16th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Zucker, American film director |
| 16th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Hema Malini, Indian Actress |
| 16th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach |
| 16th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Taylor, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 16th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk) |
| 16th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Carey, American musician (Rainbow, Planet P Project) |
| 16th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Roberto Falcao, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Al Sobotka, American sports facility operations manager |
| 16th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player |
| 16th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Mellor, American actor |
| 16th of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Chavis, American football coach |
| 16th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer |
| 16th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer |
| 16th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Kemp, British musician and actor |
| 16th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Collins-Rector, American businessman and sex offender |
| 16th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Harper, American baseball player |
| 16th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Erkki-Sven Tuur, Estonian composer |
| 16th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Mould, American musician |
| 16th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Levy, French novelist |
| 16th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Vasquez, American actor |
| 16th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (d. 2010) |
| 16th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Chinn, American musician (SNFU) |
| 16th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Flea, Australian-born American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers) |
| 16th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Nico Lazaridis, German footballer |
| 16th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone |
| 16th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Kibble, Australian musician |
| 16th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Tolbert, American basketball player |
| 16th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey |
| 16th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Batinkoff, American actor |
| 16th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Lee, Singaporean actor & comedian |
| 16th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Elsa Zylberstein, French actress |
| 16th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Takao Omori, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 16th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips) |
| 16th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Terri J. Vaughn, American actress |
| 16th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter |
| 16th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mehmet Scholl, German footballer |
| 16th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter |
| 16th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Gray, American singer |
| 16th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Adrianne Frost, American comedian and author |
| 16th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Darius Kasparaitis, Russian ice hockey player |
| 16th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates) |
| 16th of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kordell Stewart, American football player |
| 16th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Eugenia Larrain, Chilean model, engineer and socialite |
| 16th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | David Unsworth, English professional footballer |
| 16th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player |
| 16th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer |
| 16th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer |
| 16th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kellie Martin, American actress |
| 16th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian footballer and media personality |
| 16th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | John Mayer, American musician |
| 16th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K) |
| 16th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Brown, American actress, model, filmmaker, and musician |
| 16th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sue Bird, American basketball player |
| 16th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Jackson, American actor |
| 16th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player |
| 16th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Reyes, American baseball player |
| 16th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Halle, Danish footballer |
| 16th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress |
| 16th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Frederic Michalak, French rugby player |
| 16th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer |
| 16th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Pippa Black, Australian actress |
| 16th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player |
| 16th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress |
| 16th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Shayne Ward, British singer |
| 16th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Verena Sailer, German sprinter |
| 16th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer |
| 16th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nicky Adams, Welsh footballer |
| 16th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Pickering, British sprinter |
| 16th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Zoltan Stieber, Hungarian footballer |
| 16th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Yohanna, Icelandic singer |
| 16th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | John and Edward Grimes, Irish twin entertainers |
| 16th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Bryce Harper, American baseball player |
| 16th of October 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of Crown Prince Paras |
| 16th of October 1355 | DEATH | Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death (Born |
| 16th of October 1553 | DEATH | Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (Born 1472) |
| 16th of October 1555 | DEATH | Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred) |
| 16th of October 1555 | DEATH | Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred) |
| 16th of October 1591 | DEATH | Pope Gregory XIV (Born 1535) |
| 16th of October 1594 | DEATH | William Allen, English Catholic cardinal (Born 1532) |
| 16th of October 1621 | DEATH | Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (Born 1562) |
| 16th of October 1628 | DEATH | Francois de Malherbe, French poet and critic (Born 1555) |
| 16th of October 1649 | DEATH | Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (Born 1621) |
| 16th of October 1655 | DEATH | Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (Born 1591) |
| 16th of October 1680 | DEATH | Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general |
| 16th of October 1750 | DEATH | Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (Born 1687) |
| 16th of October 1755 | DEATH | Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (Born 1725) |
| 16th of October 1774 | DEATH | Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Born 1750) |
| 16th of October 1781 | DEATH | Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English naval officer (Born 1705) |
| 16th of October 1791 | DEATH | Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (Born 1739) |
| 16th of October 1793 | DEATH | Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (Born 1755) |
| 16th of October 1793 | DEATH | John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (Born 1728) |
| 16th of October 1796 | DEATH | Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (Born 1726) |
| 16th of October 1810 | DEATH | Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (Born 1772) |
| 16th of October 1822 | DEATH | Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (Born 1724) |
| 16th of October 1865 | DEATH | Andres Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (Born 1781) |
| 16th of October 1877 | DEATH | Theodore Barriere, French dramatist (Born 1823) |
| 16th of October 1888 | DEATH | John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (Born 1815) |
| 16th of October 1893 | DEATH | Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (Born 1808) |
| 16th of October 1908 | DEATH | Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius), a restorer of monastic life in the Church of England (Born 1837) |
| 16th of October 1909 | DEATH | Jakub Bart-Cisinski, Sorbian writer (Born 1856) |
| 16th of October 1937 | DEATH | Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (Born 1899) |
| 16th of October 1946 | DEATH | Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: |