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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of April 0073 | EVENT | Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt. |
| 16th of April 1346 | EVENT | The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans. |
| 16th of April 1521 | EVENT | Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire. |
| 16th of April 1582 | EVENT | Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina. |
| 16th of April 1746 | EVENT | The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. |
| 16th of April 1780 | EVENT | The University of Munster in Munster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded. |
| 16th of April 1799 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor : Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. |
| 16th of April 1818 | EVENT | The United States Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada. |
| 16th of April 1847 | EVENT | The accidental shooting of a Maori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars. |
| 16th of April 1853 | EVENT | The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane. |
| 16th of April 1858 | EVENT | The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up. |
| 16th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law. |
| 16th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia. |
| 16th of April 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg : ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi. |
| 16th of April 1881 | EVENT | In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. |
| 16th of April 1908 | EVENT | Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah. |
| 16th of April 1912 | EVENT | Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. |
| 16th of April 1917 | EVENT | Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland. |
| 16th of April 1919 | EVENT | Polish : Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. |
| 16th of April 1919 | EVENT | Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British. |
| 16th of April 1922 | EVENT | The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed. |
| 16th of April 1925 | EVENT | During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded. |
| 16th of April 1941 | EVENT | Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0. |
| 16th of April 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships. |
| 16th of April 1944 | EVENT | Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter. |
| 16th of April 1945 | EVENT | The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights. |
| 16th of April 1945 | EVENT | The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz). |
| 16th of April 1945 | EVENT | More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo. |
| 16th of April 1947 | EVENT | Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. |
| 16th of April 1947 | EVENT | Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. |
| 16th of April 1953 | EVENT | Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. |
| 16th of April 1962 | EVENT | Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America". |
| 16th of April 1963 | EVENT | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. |
| 16th of April 1972 | EVENT | Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
| 16th of April 1990 | EVENT | The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide. |
| 16th of April 1992 | EVENT | The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean. |
| 16th of April 2001 | EVENT | India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border. |
| 16th of April 2003 | EVENT | The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union. |
| 16th of April 2007 | EVENT | Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree killing in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide. |
| 16th of April 2007 | EVENT | President of Cote d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo declares the First Ivorian Civil War to be over. |
| 16th of April 0778 | BIRTHDAY | King Louis the Pious (d. 840) |
| 16th of April 1319 | BIRTHDAY | King John II of France (d. 1364) |
| 16th of April 1495 | BIRTHDAY | Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557) |
| 16th of April 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708) |
| 16th of April 1660 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (d. 1753) |
| 16th of April 1661 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715) |
| 16th of April 1682 | BIRTHDAY | John Hadley, British inventor (d. 1744) |
| 16th of April 1693 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743) |
| 16th of April 1728 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (d. 1799) |
| 16th of April 1730 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795) |
| 16th of April 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842) |
| 16th of April 1800 | BIRTHDAY | George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888) |
| 16th of April 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893) |
| 16th of April 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852) |
| 16th of April 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Octave Cremazie, Canadian poet (d. 1879) |
| 16th of April 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) |
| 16th of April 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906) |
| 16th of April 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer (d. 1919) |
| 16th of April 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, Welsh socialite (d. 1924) |
| 16th of April 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945) |
| 16th of April 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Jose de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist (d. 1918) |
| 16th of April 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912) |
| 16th of April 1871 | BIRTHDAY | John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909) |
| 16th of April 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Tip Foster, English cricketer (d. 1914) |
| 16th of April 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Thalmann, German politician (d. 1944) |
| 16th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Chaplin, English actor and filmmaker (d. 1977) |
| 16th of April 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower, Olympic medal winner (d. 1957) |
| 16th of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948) |
| 16th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (d. 1962) |
| 16th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1963) |
| 16th of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988) |
| 16th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983) |
| 16th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005) |
| 16th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman (d. 1964) |
| 16th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947) |
| 16th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Berton Roueche, American medical writer (d. 1994) |
| 16th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996) |
| 16th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997) |
| 16th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Alexander, American actress (d. 2009) |
| 16th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997) |
| 16th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 16th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002) |
| 16th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Gibson, British racing driver |
| 16th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009) |
| 16th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005) |
| 16th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004) |
| 16th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Kingsley Amis, English author (d. 1995) |
| 16th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Peppler, American pro football coach and executive |
| 16th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sir John Harvey-Jones, British industrialist (d. 2008) |
| 16th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976) |
| 16th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994) |
| 16th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Benedict XVI |
| 16th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Edie Adams, American actress (d. 2008) |
| 16th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mark Richman, American actor |
| 16th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (d. 2002) |
| 16th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Hamilton, American singer (d. 1969) |
| 16th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Townsend, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003) |
| 16th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003) |
| 16th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster |
| 16th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Kirsch, German poet |
| 16th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Vinton, American singer |
| 16th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | George "The Animal" Steele, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician |
| 16th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Rollins, American baseball player |
| 16th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999) |
| 16th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (d. 2008) |
| 16th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Margrethe II of Denmark |
| 16th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Benoit Bouchard, Canadian politician |
| 16th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Frank Williams, English Formula One constructor and team principal |
| 16th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Lonborg, American baseball player |
| 16th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Madoc, British actress |
| 16th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000) |
| 16th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bradshaw British opera conductor |
| 16th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Allen, American politician |
| 16th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Margot Adler, American journalist |
| 16th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter (d. 2011) |
| 16th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player |
| 16th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lynne Franks, British public relations consultant |
| 16th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Melody Patterson, American actress |
| 16th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Graf, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 16th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer |
| 16th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorgvin Halldorsson, Icelandic singer |
| 16th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Mordechai Ben David, American Yiddish singer |
| 16th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Belichick, American football coach |
| 16th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Blanc, French actor |
| 16th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Billy West, American voice actor |
| 16th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Garrett, Australian singer (Midnight Oil) |
| 16th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | J. Neil Schulman, American writer |
| 16th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | John Bowe, Australian racing driver |
| 16th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Barkin, American actress |
| 16th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager |
| 16th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
| 16th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier |
| 16th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David McDowell Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003) |
| 16th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Scott McKinsey, American television director |
| 16th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player |
| 16th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Casilla, American artist and illustrator |
| 16th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007) |
| 16th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Benitez, Spanish football manager |
| 16th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Littbarski, German footballer |
| 16th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Dragovic, Croatian singer |
| 16th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ian MacKaye, American musician, (Fugazi and Minor Threat) |
| 16th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer (The Osmonds) |
| 16th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer |
| 16th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Pirner, American rock singer (Soul Asylum) |
| 16th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | David Kohan, American television producer |
| 16th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Lawrence, American actor |
| 16th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Cryer, American actor |
| 16th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director |
| 16th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Vickie Guerrero, American professional wrestling personality |
| 16th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Patrik Jarbyn, Swedish alpine ski racer |
| 16th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Vina, American baseball player |
| 16th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dero Goi, German musician |
| 16th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Williams, American basketball player |
| 16th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Max Beesley, English musician and actor |
| 16th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Selena, American Tejano singer (d. 1995) |
| 16th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver |
| 16th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor |
| 16th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Billingsley, American actor |
| 16th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Byrne, British comedian |
| 16th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Conchita Martinez, Spanish tennis player |
| 16th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer |
| 16th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Akon, American singer and song writer |
| 16th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director |
| 16th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Valarie Rae Miller, American actress |
| 16th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah) |
| 16th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Maher, American actor |
| 16th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Keon Clark, American basketball player |
| 16th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Pickard, British actor |
| 16th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kelli O'Hara, American singer/actress |
| 16th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Haas, American actor |
| 16th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Kellner, American fencer |
| 16th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress |
| 16th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer |
| 16th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Alek Wek, Sudanese supermodel |
| 16th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lara Dutta, Indian actress |
| 16th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer |
| 16th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Christijan Albers, Dutch Formula One driver |
| 16th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer |
| 16th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Costello, American blues musician (d. 2008) |
| 16th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Paul London, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer |
| 16th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Jones, Scottish magician |
| 16th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Diaw, French basketball player |
| 16th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Vilma, American football player |
| 16th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter |
| 16th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Digby, American singer |
| 16th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Cat Osterman, American softball pitcher |
| 16th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | George Patis, Greek badminton player |
| 16th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author |
| 16th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Fleiss, American actor |
| 16th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater |
| 16th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian |
| 16th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player |
| 16th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player |
| 16th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Rojas, Argentine actor and singer |
| 16th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player |
| 16th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Paul di Resta, British racing driver |
| 16th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Lennon, English footballer |
| 16th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lily Loveless, British actress |
| 16th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Evangelos Mantzaris, Greek basketball player |
| 16th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lorraine Nicholson, American actress |
| 16th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Sebastien of Luxembourg |
| 16th of April 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater |
| 16th of April 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Liliana Mumy, American actress |
| 16th of April 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Alina Foley, American actress |
| 16th of April 2008 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Eleonore of Belgium |
| 16th of April 0069 | DEATH | Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (Born 32) |
| 16th of April 0665 | DEATH | Fructuosus of Braga |
| 16th of April 0744 | DEATH | al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph |
| 16th of April 0924 | DEATH | Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy |
| 16th of April 1113 | DEATH | Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (Born 1050) |
| 16th of April 1118 | DEATH | Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily |
| 16th of April 1198 | DEATH | Duke Frederick I of Austria |
| 16th of April 1645 | DEATH | Tobias Hume, English composer |
| 16th of April 1687 | DEATH | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (Born 1628) |
| 16th of April 1689 | DEATH | Aphra Behn, English dramatist (Born 1640) |
| 16th of April 1783 | DEATH | Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (Born 1719) |
| 16th of April 1788 | DEATH | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (Born 1707) |
| 16th of April 1828 | DEATH | Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (Born 1746) |
| 16th of April 1846 | DEATH | Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (Born 1763) |
| 16th of April 1850 | DEATH | Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (Born 1761) |
| 16th of April 1859 | DEATH | Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (Born 1805) |
| 16th of April 1879 | DEATH | Bernadette Soubirous, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church and visionary of Lourdes, France during 1858 (Born 1844) |
| 16th of April 1888 | DEATH | Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, Polish physicist (Born 1845) |
| 16th of April 1899 | DEATH | Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (Born 1875) |
| 16th of April 1904 | DEATH | Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (Born 1888) |
| 16th of April 1904 | DEATH | Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (Born 1812) |
| 16th of April 1914 | DEATH | George William Hill, American astronomer (Born 1838) |
| 16th of April 1915 | DEATH | Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (Born 1841) |
| 16th of April 1928 | DEATH | Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (Born 1840) |
| 16th of April 1930 | DEATH | Jose Carlos Mariategui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (Born 1894) |
| 16th of April 1938 | DEATH | Steve Bloomer, English footballer (Born 1874) |
| 16th of April 1946 | DEATH | Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (Born 1884) |
| 16th of April 1947 | DEATH | Rudolf Hoss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (Born 1900) |
| 16th of April 1955 | DEATH | David Kirkwood, Scottish labor leader (Born 1872) |
| 16th of April 1958 | DEATH | Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (Born 1920) |
| 16th of April 1968 | DEATH | Edna Ferber, American author (Born 1885) |
| 16th of April 1968 | DEATH | Fay Bainter, American actress (Born 1893) |
| 16th of April 1970 | DEATH | Richard Neutra, American architect (Born 1892) |
| 16th of April 1972 | DEATH | Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1899) |
| 16th of April 1973 | DEATH | Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (Born 1944) |
| 16th of April 1978 | DEATH | Lucius D. Clay, American general (Born 1897) |
| 16th of April 1985 | DEATH | Scott Brady, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 16th of April 1989 | DEATH | Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (Born 1940) |
| 16th of April 1991 | DEATH | Sir David Lean, British film director (Born 1908) |
| 16th of April 1992 | DEATH | Neville Brand, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 16th of April 1992 | DEATH | Andy Russell, American singer (Born 1919) |
| 16th of April 1994 | DEATH | Ralph Ellison, American writer (Born 1913) |
| 16th of April 1995 | DEATH | Arthur English, English actor and comedian (Born 1919) |
| 16th of April 1995 | DEATH | Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (Born 1982) |
| 16th of April 1996 | DEATH | Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (Born 1909) |
| 16th of April 1997 | DEATH | Doris Angleton, American socialite (Born 1951) |
| 16th of April 1997 | DEATH | Roland Topor, French illustrator (Born 1938) |
| 16th of April 1998 | DEATH | Alberto Calderon, Argentine mathematician (Born 1920) |
| 16th of April 1998 | DEATH | Fred Davis, English snooker player (Born 1913) |
| 16th of April 1999 | DEATH | Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (Born 1946) |
| 16th of April 2001 | DEATH | Alec Stock, English football manager (Born 1917) |
| 16th of April 2002 | DEATH | Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (Born 1952) |
| 16th of April 2002 | DEATH | Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (Born 1927) |
| 16th of April 2002 | DEATH | Robert Urich, American actor (Born 1946) |
| 16th of April 2003 | DEATH | Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (Born 1930) |
| 16th of April 2003 | DEATH | Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (Born 1909) |
| 16th of April 2005 | DEATH | Kay Walsh, British actress (Born 1911) |
| 16th of April 2005 | DEATH | Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (Born 1943) |
| 16th of April 2005 | DEATH | Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (Born 1976) |
| 16th of April 2006 | DEATH | Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (Born 1983) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (Born 1962) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (Born 1915) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | Seung-Hui Cho, American spree killer (Born 1984) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian instructor of French at Virginia Tech (Born 1958) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Born 1954) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (Born 1961) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Holocaust survivor (Born 1930) |
| 16th of April 2007 | DEATH | Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (Born 1909) |
| 16th of April 2008 | DEATH | Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (Born 1917) |
| 16th of April 2008 | DEATH | Joseph Solman, American painter (Born 1909) |
| 16th of April 2010 | DEATH | Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (Born 1949) |