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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of September 0307 | EVENT | Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy. |
| 16th of September 1400 | EVENT | Owain Glyndwr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers. |
| 16th of September 1620 | EVENT | The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America |
| 16th of September 1701 | EVENT | James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. |
| 16th of September 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought. |
| 16th of September 1795 | EVENT | The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands. |
| 16th of September 1810 | EVENT | With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain. |
| 16th of September 1812 | EVENT | The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later. |
| 16th of September 1863 | EVENT | Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. |
| 16th of September 1880 | EVENT | The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, N.Y.. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily in the United States. |
| 16th of September 1893 | EVENT | Settlers race in Oklahoma for prime land in the Cherokee Strip. |
| 16th of September 1908 | EVENT | The General Motors Corporation is founded. |
| 16th of September 1919 | EVENT | The American Legion is incorporated. |
| 16th of September 1920 | EVENT | The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City : 38 are killed and 400 injured. |
| 16th of September 1941 | EVENT | World War II: concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. |
| 16th of September 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt. |
| 16th of September 1947 | EVENT | Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed. |
| 16th of September 1955 | EVENT | Juan Peron is deposed as the ruler of Argentina. |
| 16th of September 1963 | EVENT | Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country, |
| 16th of September 1966 | EVENT | The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra. |
| 16th of September 1970 | EVENT | King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit. |
| 16th of September 1975 | EVENT | Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia. |
| 16th of September 1975 | EVENT | The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations. |
| 16th of September 1975 | EVENT | The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight. |
| 16th of September 1976 | EVENT | Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir. |
| 16th of September 1978 | EVENT | An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people. |
| 16th of September 1980 | EVENT | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations. |
| 16th of September 1982 | EVENT | Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon. |
| 16th of September 1987 | EVENT | The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion. |
| 16th of September 1990 | EVENT | The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan becomes complete at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge. |
| 16th of September 1991 | EVENT | The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States. |
| 16th of September 1992 | EVENT | Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark. |
| 16th of September 2005 | EVENT | The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy. |
| 16th of September 2007 | EVENT | One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people. |
| 16th of September 0016 | BIRTHDAY | Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38) |
| 16th of September 1098 | BIRTHDAY | Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known (d. 1179) |
| 16th of September 1386 | BIRTHDAY | King Henry V of England, (d. 1422) |
| 16th of September 1507 | BIRTHDAY | Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567) |
| 16th of September 1557 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627) |
| 16th of September 1651 | BIRTHDAY | Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716) |
| 16th of September 1666 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716) |
| 16th of September 1678 | BIRTHDAY | Henry St John, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751) |
| 16th of September 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799) |
| 16th of September 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815) |
| 16th of September 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813) |
| 16th of September 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850) |
| 16th of September 1795 | BIRTHDAY | Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (d. 1870) |
| 16th of September 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Parkman, American historian (d. 1893) |
| 16th of September 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908) |
| 16th of September 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Claude-Paul Taffanel, French flautist, conductor and instructor regarded as the founder of the French Flute School (d. 1908) |
| 16th of September 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927) |
| 16th of September 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923) |
| 16th of September 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Yuan Shikai, Chinese politician (d. 1916) |
| 16th of September 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Voigt, German politician (d. 1927) |
| 16th of September 1875 | BIRTHDAY | James C. Penney, American department store founder (d. 1971) |
| 16th of September 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964) |
| 16th of September 1883 | BIRTHDAY | T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917) |
| 16th of September 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966) |
| 16th of September 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher (d. 1979) |
| 16th of September 1888 | BIRTHDAY | F. E. Sillanpaa, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964) |
| 16th of September 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972) |
| 16th of September 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Donitz, German naval leader (d. 1980) |
| 16th of September 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956) |
| 16th of September 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) |
| 16th of September 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Fitzgerald, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2009) |
| 16th of September 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Milt Franklyn, American musician (d. 1962) |
| 16th of September 1898 | BIRTHDAY | H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977) |
| 16th of September 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980) |
| 16th of September 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Churchill, English soldier (d. 1996) |
| 16th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975) |
| 16th of September 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003) |
| 16th of September 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (d. 1999) |
| 16th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bradshaw, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician (d. 1978) |
| 16th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004) |
| 16th of September 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999) |
| 16th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990) |
| 16th of September 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Russell, American popular vocalist (d. 1992) |
| 16th of September 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer |
| 16th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994) |
| 16th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Janis Paige, American actress |
| 16th of September 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Hamilton, English film director |
| 16th of September 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore |
| 16th of September 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Bacall, American actress |
| 16th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Byrd, American musician (d. 1999) |
| 16th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006) |
| 16th of September 1925 | BIRTHDAY | B. B. King, American musician |
| 16th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 16th of September 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter |
| 16th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Falk, American actor |
| 16th of September 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 16th of September 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Gwen Thompson, British occultist (d. 1986) |
| 16th of September 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011) |
| 16th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Elgin Baylor, American basketball player |
| 16th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | George Chakiris, American actor |
| 16th of September 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Drew, Ex-Singer of The Dubliners and Solo Artist (d. 2008) |
| 16th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Bass, American author, producer, director and composer |
| 16th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist |
| 16th of September 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Andre, American artist |
| 16th of September 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Medved, Russian wrestler |
| 16th of September 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter |
| 16th of September 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Perle, American political advisor |
| 16th of September 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Calvert, British musician (The Hollies) |
| 16th of September 1943 | BIRTHDAY | James Alan McPherson, American writer |
| 16th of September 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Winston Grennan, Jamaican American drummer |
| 16th of September 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Stevens, American actress and voice actress (d. 2010) |
| 16th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Reynolds, Australian politician |
| 16th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Cathee Dahmen, American fashion model |
| 16th of September 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer |
| 16th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Abbot, British comedian |
| 16th of September 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer |
| 16th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kenney Jones, English musician (The Small Faces; Faces; The Who) |
| 16th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Blair, American bassist |
| 16th of September 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Ruttan, American actress |
| 16th of September 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Begley, Jr., American actor |
| 16th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Loyd Grossman, American television presenter |
| 16th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Bellamy, American guitarist and singer |
| 16th of September 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Louis Gates, American scholar |
| 16th of September 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Rourke, American actor |
| 16th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (d. 1995) |
| 16th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist |
| 16th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of September 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Pate, American golfer |
| 16th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Klugh, American jazz guitarist |
| 16th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | William McKeen, American author |
| 16th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Newman, English musician (Wire) |
| 16th of September 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Reed, American singer (The Chi-Lites) |
| 16th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Brewer, American basketball player |
| 16th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Janet Ellis, British television presenter |
| 16th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer |
| 16th of September 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Yount, American baseball player |
| 16th of September 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David Copperfield, American magician |
| 16th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | David McCreery, Irish footballer |
| 16th of September 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer |
| 16th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Orel Hershiser, American baseball player |
| 16th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Neville Southall, Welsh footballer |
| 16th of September 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Tilly, American actress |
| 16th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Richardson, former South African cricketer |
| 16th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Raines, American baseball player |
| 16th of September 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Keleghan, Canadian actor |
| 16th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Danny John-Jules, British actor |
| 16th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Yianna Katsoulos, French singer |
| 16th of September 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer |
| 16th of September 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bilinda Butcher, British singer (My Bloody Valentine) |
| 16th of September 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Marx, American singer |
| 16th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Shannon, American actress |
| 16th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress |
| 16th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Sabo, American musician (Skid Row) |
| 16th of September 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Coustas, Australian entertainer |
| 16th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Katy Kurtzman, American actress |
| 16th of September 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer |
| 16th of September 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Young, American athlete |
| 16th of September 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroya Oku, Japanese Manga-ka |
| 16th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Anthony, American singer |
| 16th of September 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Becker, American director and writer |
| 16th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica) |
| 16th of September 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Janno Gibbs, Filipino singer |
| 16th of September 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Schultz, American musician |
| 16th of September 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live) |
| 16th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician |
| 16th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Bruener, American football player |
| 16th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shalane McCall, American actress |
| 16th of September 1972 | BIRTHDAY | James Westman, Canadian Operatic Baritone |
| 16th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | George Corrie, English footballer |
| 16th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Haythe, American writer |
| 16th of September 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist |
| 16th of September 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Noll, Australian singer and songwriter |
| 16th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club) |
| 16th of September 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Buckner, American basketball player |
| 16th of September 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Ball, American politician |
| 16th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Dickau, American basketball player |
| 16th of September 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Rogers, American singer |
| 16th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Korecky, American baseball player |
| 16th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Aileen Celeste, Venezuelan actress |
| 16th of September 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fanny, French singer |
| 16th of September 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player |
| 16th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress |
| 16th of September 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Bledel, American actress (Gilmore Girls) |
| 16th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Rizzo, Italian rugby player |
| 16th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Knight, English footballer |
| 16th of September 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Thomson, Scottish footballer |
| 16th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Moss, American baseball player |
| 16th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | John Afoa, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 16th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Legedu Naanee, American football player |
| 16th of September 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer |
| 16th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Melua, Georgian/British singer |
| 16th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer (The Cheetah Girls) |
| 16th of September 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Serginho, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of September 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Madeline Zima, American actress |
| 16th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Harding, American Actor |
| 16th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kyla Pratt, American actress |
| 16th of September 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Beckham, American baseball player |
| 16th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Clement Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player |
| 16th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Wall, American dancer and dance instructor |
| 16th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Daren Kagasoff, American actor |
| 16th of September 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Lafferty, Northern Irish Footballer |
| 16th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Geiger, American singer |
| 16th of September 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Steele, American actress |
| 16th of September 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey goalie |
| 16th of September 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Jonas, American singer and guitar player (Jonas Brothers) |
| 16th of September 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Jalilah bint Ali, of Jordan |
| 16th of September 0096 | DEATH | Domitian, Roman Emperor (Born 51) |
| 16th of September 0307 | DEATH | Severus II, Roman Emperor |
| 16th of September 0827 | DEATH | Pope Valentine |
| 16th of September 1087 | DEATH | Pope Victor III (Born 1026) |
| 16th of September 1100 | DEATH | Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (Born 1054) |
| 16th of September 1345 | DEATH | John IV, Duke of Brittany (Born 1295) |
| 16th of September 1380 | DEATH | King Charles V of France (Born 1338) |
| 16th of September 1394 | DEATH | Avignon Pope Clement VII (Born 1342) |
| 16th of September 1406 | DEATH | Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (Born 1336) |
| 16th of September 1498 | DEATH | Tomas de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (Born 1420) |
| 16th of September 1589 | DEATH | Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (Born 1513) |
| 16th of September 1672 | DEATH | Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (Born 1612) |
| 16th of September 1701 | DEATH | James II of England and VII of Scotland (Born 1633) |
| 16th of September 1736 | DEATH | Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (Born 1686) |
| 16th of September 1775 | DEATH | Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (Born 1684) |
| 16th of September 1782 | DEATH | Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (Born 1705) |
| 16th of September 1792 | DEATH | Quang Trung, Tay Son dynasty's emperor of Viet Nam (Born 1788) |
| 16th of September 1803 | DEATH | Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (Born 1754) |
| 16th of September 1824 | DEATH | King Louis XVIII of France (Born 1755) |
| 16th of September 1843 | DEATH | Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (Born 1770) |
| 16th of September 1864 | DEATH | John Hanning Speke, English explorer (Born 1827) |
| 16th of September 1865 | DEATH | Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (Born 1792) |
| 16th of September 1887 | DEATH | Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (Born 1841) |
| 16th of September 1896 | DEATH | Antonio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (Born 1836) |
| 16th of September 1898 | DEATH | Ramon Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (Born 1827) |
| 16th of September 1911 | DEATH | Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (Born 1840) |
| 16th of September 1925 | DEATH | Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (Born 1888) |
| 16th of September 1932 | DEATH | Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1857) |
| 16th of September 1933 | DEATH | George Gore, American baseball player (Born 1857) |
| 16th of September 1944 | DEATH | Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1870) |
| 16th of September 1945 | DEATH | John McCormack, Irish tenor (Born 1884) |
| 16th of September 1950 | DEATH | Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (Born 1881) |
| 16th of September 1957 | DEATH | Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (Born 1864) |
| 16th of September 1965 | DEATH | Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (Born 1906) |
| 16th of September 1975 | DEATH | Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (Born 1896) |
| 16th of September 1977 | DEATH | Marc Bolan, English musician (Born 1947) |
| 16th of September 1977 | DEATH | Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (Born 1923) |
| 16th of September 1978 | DEATH | Lavrentis Dianellos, Greek actor (Born 1911) |
| 16th of September 1980 | DEATH | Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (Born 1896) |
| 16th of September 1987 | DEATH | Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (Born 1922) |
| 16th of September 1992 | DEATH | Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (Born 1910) |
| 16th of September 1993 | DEATH | Rok Petrovic, Slovenian skier (Born 1966) |
| 16th of September 1996 | DEATH | McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (Born 1919) |
| 16th of September 1996 | DEATH | Gene Nelson, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 16th of September 2000 | DEATH | Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (Born 1969) |
| 16th of September 2001 | DEATH | Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (Born 1918) |
| 16th of September 2002 | DEATH | James Gregory, American actor (Born 1911) |
| 16th of September 2003 | DEATH | Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (Born 1921) |
| 16th of September 2003 | DEATH | Erich Hallhuber, German actor (Born 1951) |
| 16th of September 2004 | DEATH | Michael Donaghy Poet, (Born 1954) |
| 16th of September 2005 | DEATH | Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (Born 1920) |
| 16th of September 2005 | DEATH | Harry Freedman, Canadian composer and music educator (Born 1922) |
| 16th of September 2006 | DEATH | Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (Born 1955) |
| 16th of September 2006 | DEATH | Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1925) |
| 16th of September 2007 | DEATH | Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (Born 1948) |
| 16th of September 2008 | DEATH | Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (Born 1940) |
| 16th of September 2009 | DEATH | Myles Brand, NCAA President (Born 1942) |
| 16th of September 2009 | DEATH | Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (Born 1936) |
| 16th of September 2010 | DEATH | Jim Towers, English footballer (Born 1933) |