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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of August 1513 | EVENT | Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs) : King Henry VIII of England defeats French Forces who are then forced to retreat. |
| 16th of August 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York. |
| 16th of August 1780 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden : The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina. |
| 16th of August 1792 | EVENT | Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal. |
| 16th of August 1812 | EVENT | War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army. |
| 16th of August 1819 | EVENT | Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England. |
| 16th of August 1841 | EVENT | U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history. |
| 16th of August 1858 | EVENT | U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks. |
| 16th of August 1859 | EVENT | The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. |
| 16th of August 1865 | EVENT | Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation. |
| 16th of August 1868 | EVENT | Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami that follows a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami kill an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all. |
| 16th of August 1869 | EVENT | Battle of Acosta Nu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance. |
| 16th of August 1870 | EVENT | Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory. |
| 16th of August 1896 | EVENT | Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush. |
| 16th of August 1913 | EVENT | Tohoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) admits its first female students. |
| 16th of August 1913 | EVENT | Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary. |
| 16th of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Cer begins. |
| 16th of August 1920 | EVENT | Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. To date, Chapman is the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909. |
| 16th of August 1920 | EVENT | The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution. |
| 16th of August 1929 | EVENT | The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed. |
| 16th of August 1930 | EVENT | The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks. |
| 16th of August 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway. |
| 16th of August 1941 | EVENT | HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England. |
| 16th of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California. |
| 16th of August 1944 | EVENT | First flight of the Junkers Ju 287. |
| 16th of August 1945 | EVENT | An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantaro Suzuki. |
| 16th of August 1945 | EVENT | Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops. |
| 16th of August 1954 | EVENT | The first edition of Sports Illustrated is published. |
| 16th of August 1960 | EVENT | Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 16th of August 1960 | EVENT | Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft. |
| 16th of August 1964 | EVENT | Vietnam War: A coup d'etat replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy. |
| 16th of August 1966 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested. |
| 16th of August 1972 | EVENT | In an unsuccessful coup d'etat attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat. |
| 16th of August 1989 | EVENT | A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market. |
| 16th of August 1992 | EVENT | In response to an appeal by President Fernando Collor de Mello to wear green and yellow as a way to show support for him, thousands of Brazilians take to the streets dressed in black. |
| 16th of August 1355 | BIRTHDAY | Countess Philippa Plantagenet of Ulster (d. 1382) |
| 16th of August 1378 | BIRTHDAY | Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425) |
| 16th of August 1401 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, dauphine of France (d. 1436) |
| 16th of August 1557 | BIRTHDAY | Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602) |
| 16th of August 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Anna of Austria of Poland (d. 1598) |
| 16th of August 1596 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632) |
| 16th of August 1637 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706) |
| 16th of August 1645 | BIRTHDAY | Jean de La Bruyere, French writer (d. 1696) |
| 16th of August 1650 | BIRTHDAY | Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718) |
| 16th of August 1682 | BIRTHDAY | Louis, duc de Bourgogne, dauphine of France (d. 1712) |
| 16th of August 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800) |
| 16th of August 1815 | BIRTHDAY | John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888) |
| 16th of August 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892) |
| 16th of August 1831 | BIRTHDAY | John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901) |
| 16th of August 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (d. 1920) |
| 16th of August 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922) |
| 16th of August 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1921) |
| 16th of August 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader (d. 1904) |
| 16th of August 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927) |
| 16th of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, England cricketer (d. 1938) |
| 16th of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Laforgue, French poet (d. 1887) |
| 16th of August 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Amos Alonzo Stagg, American coach (d. 1965) |
| 16th of August 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Bernarr McFadden, American publisher (d. 1955) |
| 16th of August 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942) |
| 16th of August 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic (d. 1947) |
| 16th of August 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Mortensen, Danish-born American supercentenarian (d. 1998) |
| 16th of August 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (d. 1967) |
| 16th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935) |
| 16th of August 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943) |
| 16th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983) |
| 16th of August 1894 | BIRTHDAY | George Meany, American labor union leader (d. 1980) |
| 16th of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000) |
| 16th of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981) |
| 16th of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Georgette Heyer, English novelist (d. 1974) |
| 16th of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) |
| 16th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist and editor (d. 2000) |
| 16th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Orlando Cole, American classical cellist and educator (d. 2010) |
| 16th of August 1911 | BIRTHDAY | E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (d. 1977) |
| 16th of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995) |
| 16th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Menachem Begin, Israeli statesman, Nobel laureate (d. 1992) |
| 16th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Al Hibbler, American singer (d. 2001) |
| 16th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003) |
| 16th of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bukowski, American poet (d. 1994) |
| 16th of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (d. 2001) |
| 16th of August 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Millor Fernandes, Brazilian playwright |
| 16th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Fess Parker, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 16th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Inez Voyce, American female baseball player |
| 16th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983) |
| 16th of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Blyth, American actress |
| 16th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003) |
| 16th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (d. 1980) |
| 16th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Wyatt Tee Walker, American civil rights activist |
| 16th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997) |
| 16th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 16th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Gifford, American football player and announcer |
| 16th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Trabert, American former tennis player |
| 16th of August 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Eydie Gorme, American singer |
| 16th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Newmar, American actress |
| 16th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (d. 1994) |
| 16th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Richard, French actor |
| 16th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Wynne Jones, British author (d. 2011) |
| 16th of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ketty Lester, American singer |
| 16th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Fletcher, Canadian National Hockey League executive |
| 16th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach |
| 16th of August 1937 | BIRTHDAY | David Anderson, Canadian politician |
| 16th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Trevor Mcdonald, Trinidadian-born British television newsreader |
| 16th of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Brady, Cardinal-Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland |
| 16th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Craven, English journalist and television presenter |
| 16th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Beresford, Australian film director |
| 16th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Theoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army officer and alleged war criminal |
| 16th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara George, American singer and songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 16th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Baird, American actress and tap dancer |
| 16th of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Woody Peoples, American football player (d. 2010) |
| 16th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Suzanne Farrell, American ballet dancer |
| 16th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician |
| 16th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lesley Ann Warren, American actress |
| 16th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Murdoch, American professional wrestler (d. 1996) |
| 16th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer |
| 16th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Messier, Canadian actor |
| 16th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Moseley Braun, American politician and lawyer |
| 16th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player |
| 16th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Reid, Canadian politician and teacher |
| 16th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Hay, Indian-born Dutch singer (Golden Earring) |
| 16th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Goodson, American voice actress |
| 16th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Asheton, American musician (The Stooges) |
| 16th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Manesh, Iranian-born American actor |
| 16th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Stockwell Day, Canadian politician |
| 16th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Hasely Crawford, Trinidadian athlete |
| 16th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer |
| 16th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992) |
| 16th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigerian politician |
| 16th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Reginald VelJohnson, American actor |
| 16th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mahes Goonatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 16th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kathie Lee Gifford, American singer and actress |
| 16th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | James "J.T." Taylor, American singer (Kool & The Gang) |
| 16th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | George Galloway, British politician |
| 16th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | James Cameron, Canadian film director |
| 16th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist |
| 16th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Randhir Singh, Indian cricketer |
| 16th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Farriss, Australian musician (INXS) |
| 16th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Luis Clerc, Argentine tennis player |
| 16th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Angela Bassett, American actress |
| 16th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Harkin, American anthropologist |
| 16th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Collodo, Swiss-born Italian rugby player and coach |
| 16th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Madonna, American singer and actress |
| 16th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Innes, American actress |
| 16th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Sergeant, Belgian cyclist |
| 16th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Hutton, American actor |
| 16th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Okoye, American football player |
| 16th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michaela Dornonville de la Cour, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers) |
| 16th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Carell, American actor and comedian |
| 16th of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Cavanaugh, American voice actress |
| 16th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Arias, American tennis player |
| 16th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Lather, American choreographer, musician and actor |
| 16th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Smart, American convicted murderess |
| 16th of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish television personality |
| 16th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mateja Svet, Slovenian alpine skier |
| 16th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Milder, American voice actor |
| 16th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster |
| 16th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Casartelli, Italian cyclist (d. 1995) |
| 16th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Killah Priest, American rapper |
| 16th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Manisha Koirala, Nepalese Bollywood actress |
| 16th of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor |
| 16th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rulon Gardner, American Greco-Roman wrestler |
| 16th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Klos, German footballer |
| 16th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Robison, American country singer (Dixie Chicks) |
| 16th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Lazaridis, Australian footballer |
| 16th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian |
| 16th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | George Stroumboulopoulos, Canadian television and radio personality |
| 16th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Damian Jackson, American baseball player |
| 16th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Cedeno, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 16th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer |
| 16th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer |
| 16th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Hurtado, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 16th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Didier Agathe, French footballer |
| 16th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | George Stults, American actor |
| 16th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Pantelis Konstantinidis, Greek footballer |
| 16th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jonatan Johansson, Finnish footballer |
| 16th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tiina Kankaanpaa, Finnish discus thrower |
| 16th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Ockun, American concert producer |
| 16th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer/actor |
| 16th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Fu Mingxia, Chinese female diver |
| 16th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Gill, American basketball player |
| 16th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Thalia Pellegrini, British children's TV presenter |
| 16th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Monder Rizki, Belgian athlete |
| 16th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gallacher, Scottish football player |
| 16th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Carlton, American singer/songwriter |
| 16th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Emerson, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Raniere, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Piet Rooijakkers, Dutch professional bicyclist |
| 16th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hardy, English musician (Franz Ferdinand) |
| 16th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hwangbo, Korean singer/rapper |
| 16th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer |
| 16th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Gremelmayr, German male tennis player |
| 16th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Rain, American pornographic actress |
| 16th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Joleon Lescott, English footballer |
| 16th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tomohiro Ito, Japanese sprinter |
| 16th of August 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cam Gigandet, American actor |
| 16th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Colt Brennan, American football player |
| 16th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player |
| 16th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Griffiths, English TV presenter and DJ |
| 16th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Candice Dupree, American basketball player |
| 16th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Matteo Anesi, Italian speed skater |
| 16th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Bruckner, American actress |
| 16th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player |
| 16th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Oh-Sung, South Korean footballer |
| 16th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Pyfrom, American actor |
| 16th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Reynolds, Welsh DJ |
| 16th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Carey Price, Canadian Hockey Player |
| 16th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kyal Marsh, Australian actor |
| 16th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Berger, Australian footballer |
| 16th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Schmidt, American actor |
| 16th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Rumer Willis, American actress |
| 16th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Wang Hao, Chinese athlete |
| 16th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte Gurr, British female footballer |
| 16th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, Canadian actress |
| 16th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Evanna Lynch, Irish actress |
| 16th of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | G.E.M., Hong Kong singer |
| 16th of August 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Islam Dzhabrailov, Russian footballer |
| 16th of August 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Greyson Chance, American singer |
| 16th of August 1027 | DEATH | Giorgi I, King of Georgia (Born 998) |
| 16th of August 1297 | DEATH | John II of Trebizond (Born 1262) |
| 16th of August 1327 | DEATH | Roch, French saint (Born 1295) |
| 16th of August 1358 | DEATH | Duke Albert II of Austria (Born 1298) |
| 16th of August 1419 | DEATH | Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (Born 1361) |
| 16th of August 1443 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (Born 1434) |
| 16th of August 1445 | DEATH | Margaret of Scotland, consort of Louis XI (Born 1424) |
| 16th of August 1518 | DEATH | Loyset Compere, French composer (Born circa 1445) |
| 16th of August 1532 | DEATH | John, Elector of Saxony (Born 1468) |
| 16th of August 1661 | DEATH | Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (Born 1608) |
| 16th of August 1678 | DEATH | Andrew Marvell, English poet (Born 1621) |
| 16th of August 1705 | DEATH | Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (Born 1654) |
| 16th of August 1733 | DEATH | Matthew Tindal, English deist (Born 1657) |
| 16th of August 1791 | DEATH | Charles-Francois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (Born 1719) |
| 16th of August 1836 | DEATH | Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (Born 1755) |
| 16th of August 1855 | DEATH | Henry Colburn, British publisher (Born ?) |
| 16th of August 1886 | DEATH | Sri Ramakrishna, Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda (Born 1836) |
| 16th of August 1888 | DEATH | John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (Born 1831) |
| 16th of August 1893 | DEATH | Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (Born 1825) |
| 16th of August 1899 | DEATH | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (Born 1811) |
| 16th of August 1900 | DEATH | Eca de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (Born 1845) |
| 16th of August 1907 | DEATH | James Hector, Scottish geologist (Born 1834) |
| 16th of August 1921 | DEATH | King Peter I of Serbia (Born 1844) |
| 16th of August 1938 | DEATH | Robert Johnson, American blues singer and guitarist (Born 1911) |
| 16th of August 1938 | DEATH | Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (Born 1864) |
| 16th of August 1948 | DEATH | Babe Ruth, American baseball player (Born 1895) |
| 16th of August 1949 | DEATH | Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (Born 1900) |
| 16th of August 1951 | DEATH | Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (Born 1887) |
| 16th of August 1952 | DEATH | Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (Born 1866) |
| 16th of August 1956 | DEATH | Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (Born 1882) |
| 16th of August 1957 | DEATH | Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1881) |
| 16th of August 1959 | DEATH | William Halsey Jr., American Navy Admiral (Born 1882) |
| 16th of August 1959 | DEATH | Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (Born 1879) |
| 16th of August 1961 | DEATH | Maulvi Abdul Haq, Indian educator and linguist, Father of Modern Urdu (Born 1870) |
| 16th of August 1971 | DEATH | Spyros Skouras, Greek-born American movie executive, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox (Born 1893) |
| 16th of August 1972 | DEATH | Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Born 1905) |
| 16th of August 1973 | DEATH | Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1888) |
| 16th of August 1975 | DEATH | Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian-born Soviet distance runner (Born 1927) |
| 16th of August 1977 | DEATH | Elvis Presley, American singer, actor, and guitarist (Born1935) |
| 16th of August 1978 | DEATH | Jean Acker, American silent film actress (Born 1893) |
| 16th of August 1978 | DEATH | Alidius Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (Born 1888) |
| 16th of August 1979 | DEATH | John Diefenbaker, Canadian politician and 13th Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1895) |
| 16th of August 1983 | DEATH | Earl Averill, American baseball player (Born 1902) |
| 16th of August 1986 | DEATH | Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet and novelist, and short story writer (Born 1921) |
| 16th of August 1989 | DEATH | Amanda Blake, American actress (Born 1929) |
| 16th of August 1990 | DEATH | Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (Born 1925) |
| 16th of August 1991 | DEATH | Luigi Zampa, Italian film director (Born 1905) |
| 16th of August 1992 | DEATH | Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter (Born 1951) |
| 16th of August 1993 | DEATH | Stewart Granger, British film actor (Born 1913) |
| 16th of August 1995 | DEATH | J.P. McCarthy, American radio personality (Born 1933) |
| 16th of August 1997 | DEATH | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician & singer (Born 1948) |
| 16th of August 1997 | DEATH | Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright and actor (Born 1915) |
| 16th of August 1999 | DEATH | Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (Born 1914) |
| 16th of August 2002 | DEATH | Jeff Corey, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 16th of August 2002 | DEATH | John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (Born 1933) |
| 16th of August 2002 | DEATH | Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (Born 1937) |
| 16th of August 2003 | DEATH | Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (Born 1928) |
| 16th of August 2004 | DEATH | Carl Mydans, American photographer (Born 1907) |
| 16th of August 2004 | DEATH | Robert Quiroga, American boxer (Born 1969) |
| 16th of August 2004 | DEATH | Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (Born 1950) |
| 16th of August 2005 | DEATH | Joe Ranft, American animator (Born 1960) |
| 16th of August 2005 | DEATH | Frere Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (Born 1915) |
| 16th of August 2005 | DEATH | William Corlett, English children's author (Born 1938) |
| 16th of August 2005 | DEATH | Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (Born 1943) |
| 16th of August 2005 | DEATH | Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (Born 1922) |
| 16th of August 2005 | DEATH | Vassar Clements, American musician (Born 1928) |
| 16th of August 2006 | DEATH | Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (Born 1944) |
| 16th of August 2006 | DEATH | Herschel Green, American pilot (Born 1920) |
| 16th of August 2006 | DEATH | Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan politician and President of Paraguay (Born 1912) |
| 16th of August 2006 | DEATH | Jon Nodtveidt, Swedish musician (Born 1975) |
| 16th of August 2007 | DEATH | Bahaedin Adab, Iranian politician (Born 1945) |
| 16th of August 2007 | DEATH | Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (Born 1924) |
| 16th of August 2007 | DEATH | Dewey Robertson, Canadian professional wrestler (Born 1939) |
| 16th of August 2008 | DEATH | Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (The Dubliners) (Born 1934) |
| 16th of August 2008 | DEATH | Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer and songwriter (Born 1914) |
| 16th of August 2008 | DEATH | Elena Leusteanu, Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist (Born 1935) |
| 16th of August 2008 | DEATH | Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese sustainable farmer and author (Born 1913) |
| 16th of August 2010 | DEATH | Bobby Thomson, American baseball player |