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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of February 0116 | EVENT | Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia. |
| 16th of February 1249 | EVENT | Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with Mongol Khagan of the Mongol Empire. |
| 16th of February 1646 | EVENT | Battle of Torrington, Devon : the last major battle of the first English Civil War. |
| 16th of February 1742 | EVENT | Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister. |
| 16th of February 1804 | EVENT | First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. |
| 16th of February 1852 | EVENT | Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established. |
| 16th of February 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee. |
| 16th of February 1866 | EVENT | Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War. |
| 16th of February 1899 | EVENT | Knattspyrnufelag Reykjavikur Iceland's first football club is founded. |
| 16th of February 1918 | EVENT | The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. |
| 16th of February 1923 | EVENT | Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. |
| 16th of February 1934 | EVENT | The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund. |
| 16th of February 1936 | EVENT | Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. |
| 16th of February 1937 | EVENT | Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. |
| 16th of February 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed. |
| 16th of February 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov. |
| 16th of February 1945 | EVENT | World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. |
| 16th of February 1957 | EVENT | The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00pm and 7.00pm is abolished in the United Kingdom. |
| 16th of February 1959 | EVENT | Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. |
| 16th of February 1960 | EVENT | The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. |
| 16th of February 1961 | EVENT | The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered. |
| 16th of February 1961 | EVENT | Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. |
| 16th of February 1962 | EVENT | Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people. |
| 16th of February 1968 | EVENT | In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. |
| 16th of February 1978 | EVENT | The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois). |
| 16th of February 1983 | EVENT | The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. |
| 16th of February 1985 | EVENT | Hezbollah is founded. |
| 16th of February 1986 | EVENT | The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. |
| 16th of February 1987 | EVENT | The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem. |
| 16th of February 1991 | EVENT | Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermudez is assassinated in Managua. |
| 16th of February 1998 | EVENT | China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground. |
| 16th of February 1999 | EVENT | Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Ocalan. |
| 16th of February 1999 | EVENT | In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov. |
| 16th of February 2005 | EVENT | The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. |
| 16th of February 2005 | EVENT | The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute. |
| 16th of February 2006 | EVENT | The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. |
| 16th of February 1032 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067) |
| 16th of February 1222 | BIRTHDAY | Nichiren Daishonin, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282) |
| 16th of February 1497 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560) |
| 16th of February 1519 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572) |
| 16th of February 1543 | BIRTHDAY | Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) |
| 16th of February 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick William, Duke of Prussia (d. 1688) |
| 16th of February 1643 | BIRTHDAY | John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714) |
| 16th of February 1698 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (d. 1758) |
| 16th of February 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist (d. 1817) |
| 16th of February 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804) |
| 16th of February 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1859) |
| 16th of February 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, American philosopher (d. 1866) |
| 16th of February 1804 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (d. 1885) |
| 16th of February 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Wilson, American politician 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875) |
| 16th of February 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Barth, German explorer (d. 1865) |
| 16th of February 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911) |
| 16th of February 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (d. 1879) |
| 16th of February 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1886) |
| 16th of February 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (d. 1895) |
| 16th of February 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919) |
| 16th of February 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Adams, American historian and novelist (d. 1918) |
| 16th of February 1845 | BIRTHDAY | George Kennan, American explorer (d. 1924) |
| 16th of February 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917) |
| 16th of February 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (d. 1935) |
| 16th of February 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944) |
| 16th of February 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (d. 1934) |
| 16th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (d. 1940) |
| 16th of February 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (d. 1949) |
| 16th of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935) |
| 16th of February 1876 | BIRTHDAY | George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian (d. 1962) |
| 16th of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Colman Smith, British writer and occultist (d. 1951) |
| 16th of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946) |
| 16th of February 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931) |
| 16th of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980) |
| 16th of February 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951) |
| 16th of February 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic (d. 1963) |
| 16th of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962) |
| 16th of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Hans F. K. Gunther, German eugenicist (d. 1967) |
| 16th of February 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Eugenie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (d. 2010) |
| 16th of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine Cornell, American actress (d. 1974) |
| 16th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 1971) |
| 16th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne King, American musician and orchestra leader (d. 1985) |
| 16th of February 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Morris, American film actor (d. 1970) |
| 16th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Georges-Henri Levesque, Quebec priest and sociologist (d. 2000) |
| 16th of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978) |
| 16th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Karl-Heinz Burger, German Nazi figure (d. 1988) |
| 16th of February 1904 | BIRTHDAY | George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat (d. 2005) |
| 16th of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Menchik, British-born Czech chess player (d. 1944) |
| 16th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 16th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (d. 1995) |
| 16th of February 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Richard McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 1998) |
| 16th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Jim O'Hora, American college football coach (d. 2005) |
| 16th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Relph, British film producer and director (d. 2004) |
| 16th of February 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet (d. 2007) |
| 16th of February 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Doggett, American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist (d. 1996) |
| 16th of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) |
| 16th of February 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Mae Hays, American army general |
| 16th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Vera-Ellen, American actress (d. 1981) |
| 16th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Behra, French race car driver (d. 1959) |
| 16th of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Araucaria, British crossword compiler |
| 16th of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German night fighter pilot (d. 1950) |
| 16th of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist (d. 2004) |
| 16th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | John Schlesinger, English film director (d. 2003) |
| 16th of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Margot Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim (d. 1945) |
| 16th of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | June Brown, British actress |
| 16th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer (d. 1980) |
| 16th of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Porter, Australian poet (d. 2010) |
| 16th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | George E. Sangmeister, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 16th of February 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Takakura, Japanese actor |
| 16th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer (d. 2007) |
| 16th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 16th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of Sierra Leone |
| 16th of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Blackwell, American songwriter and singer (d. 2002) |
| 16th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Kalin, American singer (d. 2005) |
| 16th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Kalin, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 16th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | August Coppola, American academic; father of Nicolas Cage (d. 2009) |
| 16th of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Marlene Hagge, American professional golfer |
| 16th of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Bono, American entertainer politician (d. 1998) |
| 16th of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Kinmont, American skier |
| 16th of February 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician |
| 16th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Primus, American actor |
| 16th of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Corigliano, American composer |
| 16th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino Supreme Court jurist |
| 16th of February 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Czes?aw Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter and composer (d. 2004) |
| 16th of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader |
| 16th of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Brig Owens, American football player |
| 16th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Mascarenhas Monteiro, 2nd President of Cape Verde |
| 16th of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Ford, American novelist |
| 16th of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Bulloch, English actor |
| 16th of February 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Lavender, English actor |
| 16th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hain, British politician |
| 16th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (d. 2002) |
| 16th of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese acid-folk singer |
| 16th of February 1951 | BIRTHDAY | William Katt, American actor |
| 16th of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Foote, American baseball player |
| 16th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lanny McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Roberta Williams, American video game designer |
| 16th of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | George Martin, English footballer |
| 16th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Holding, Jamaican West Indies cricketer |
| 16th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Iain Banks, Scottish author |
| 16th of February 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (d. 1996) |
| 16th of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Hunt Block, American actor |
| 16th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Ward, New Zealand director and screenwriter |
| 16th of February 1956 | BIRTHDAY | James Ingram, American singer |
| 16th of February 1957 | BIRTHDAY | LeVar Burton, American actor |
| 16th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Angier, American journalist and author |
| 16th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Loring, American actress |
| 16th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Ice-T, American rapper and actor |
| 16th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player |
| 16th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael W. Burns, American politician |
| 16th of February 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Williams, American basketball player and coach |
| 16th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Tripucka, American basketball player |
| 16th of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John McEnroe, American tennis player |
| 16th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Willis, English guitarist (Def Leppard) |
| 16th of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Cherie Chung, Hong Kong actress |
| 16th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Red, American screenwriter and director |
| 16th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran, The Power Station) |
| 16th of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | LaGaylia Frazier, American-Swedish singer |
| 16th of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Balance, English musician (Coil, Psychic TV) (d. 2004) |
| 16th of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dano Halsall, Swiss swimmer |
| 16th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Eccleston, English actor |
| 16th of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Bebeto, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Lombardo, Cuban-born drummer (Slayer) |
| 16th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Valentin, baseball player |
| 16th of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Gretzky, Canadian hockey player |
| 16th of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Ellis, British comic writer |
| 16th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Heath, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Aird, English actress |
| 16th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer |
| 16th of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Serdar Ortac, Turkish popstar |
| 16th of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Holden, British actress |
| 16th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Bettis, American football player |
| 16th of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Clarke, American actress |
| 16th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Bassedas, Argentine footballer |
| 16th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete |
| 16th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Kostakis, Greek footballer |
| 16th of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Maureen Johnson, American author |
| 16th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, American actor |
| 16th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Fanis Katergiannakis, Greek footballer |
| 16th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Tri Nguyen, Vietnamese-born American stuntman and martial artist |
| 16th of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Figueroa, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 16th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nanase Aikawa, Japanese singer |
| 16th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vanina Ickx, Belgian racing driver |
| 16th of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Don Jeffcoat, American actor |
| 16th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Byrnes, American baseball player |
| 16th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kyo, Japanese singer (Dir en grey) |
| 16th of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Odagiri, Japanese actor |
| 16th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Walst, American bassist (Three Days Grace) |
| 16th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Brittain, American comedian |
| 16th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ahman Green, American football player |
| 16th of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Clarke, Irish computer programmer |
| 16th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete |
| 16th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | John Tartaglia, Broadway actor and Muppeteer |
| 16th of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Wasim Jaffer, Indian cricketer |
| 16th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer |
| 16th of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Mun, Korean rapper (Shinhwa) |
| 16th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Lelie, American football player |
| 16th of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Agim Kaba, American actor and film producer |
| 16th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Howard, British racing driver |
| 16th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Owens, American baseball player |
| 16th of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Qyntel Woods, American basketball player |
| 16th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lupe Fiasco, American hip hop artist |
| 16th of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alemao, Portuguese footballer |
| 16th of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tuomo Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 16th of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ous Mellouli, Tunisian swimmer |
| 16th of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Zoi Dimoschaki, Greek swimmer |
| 16th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Hasheem Thabeet, American basketball player |
| 16th of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Theresa Goh, Singaporean paralympic swimmer |
| 16th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Diego Capel, Spanish footballer |
| 16th of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Denilson Pereira Neves, Brazilian footballer |
| 16th of February 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg |
| 16th of February 0307 | DEATH | Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder) |
| 16th of February 1247 | DEATH | Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (Born 1204) |
| 16th of February 1279 | DEATH | King Afonso III of Portugal (Born 1210) |
| 16th of February 1391 | DEATH | John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (Born 1332) |
| 16th of February 1531 | DEATH | Johannes Stoffler, German mathematician and astronomer (Born 1452) |
| 16th of February 1560 | DEATH | Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat |
| 16th of February 1645 | DEATH | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, (Born 1585) |
| 16th of February 1710 | DEATH | Esprit Flechier, French writer and Bishop of Nimes (Born 1632) |
| 16th of February 1721 | DEATH | James Craggs the Younger, English politician (Born 1686) |
| 16th of February 1754 | DEATH | Richard Mead, English physician (Born 1673) |
| 16th of February 1820 | DEATH | Georg Carl von Dobeln, Swedish Lieutenant General and war hero (Born 1758) |
| 16th of February 1844 | DEATH | Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (Born 1792) |
| 16th of February 1898 | DEATH | Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (Born 1843) |
| 16th of February 1899 | DEATH | Felix Faure, President of France (Born 1841) |
| 16th of February 1907 | DEATH | Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1835) |
| 16th of February 1912 | DEATH | St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (Born 1836) |
| 16th of February 1917 | DEATH | Octave Mirbeau, French writer (Born 1848) |
| 16th of February 1919 | DEATH | Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (Born 1893) |
| 16th of February 1928 | DEATH | Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (Born 1856) |
| 16th of February 1932 | DEATH | Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1841) |
| 16th of February 1932 | DEATH | Sir Edgar Speyer, American-born British financier and philanthropist (Born 1862) |
| 16th of February 1944 | DEATH | Henri Nathansen, Danish writer and stage director (Born 1868) |
| 16th of February 1961 | DEATH | Dazzy Vance, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Born 1891) |
| 16th of February 1967 | DEATH | Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (Born 1887) |
| 16th of February 1967 | DEATH | Smiley Burnette, American actor, singer and songwriter (Born 1911) |
| 16th of February 1974 | DEATH | John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (Born 1888) |
| 16th of February 1975 | DEATH | Morgan Taylor, American athlete (Born 1903) |
| 16th of February 1975 | DEATH | Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (Born 1927) |
| 16th of February 1977 | DEATH | Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (Born 1897) |
| 16th of February 1978 | DEATH | E. Roland Harriman, American financier (Born 1895) |
| 16th of February 1979 | DEATH | Nematollah Nassiri, executed Iran general/head of SAVAK (Born 1911) |
| 16th of February 1980 | DEATH | Erich Huckel, German physicist (Born 1895) |
| 16th of February 1984 | DEATH | M.A.G. Osmani, Supreme Commander of Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War (Born 1918) |
| 16th of February 1986 | DEATH | Howard Da Silva, American actor (Born 1909) |
| 16th of February 1988 | DEATH | Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (Born 1916) |
| 16th of February 1990 | DEATH | Keith Haring, American artist (Born 1958) |
| 16th of February 1991 | DEATH | Enrique Bermudez, Nicaraguan Contra leader (Born 1932) |
| 16th of February 1992 | DEATH | Angela Carter, English writer (Born 1940) |
| 16th of February 1992 | DEATH | Herman Wold, Swedish statistician (Born 1908) |
| 16th of February 1992 | DEATH | Janio Quadros, Brazilian politician (Born 1917) |
| 16th of February 1996 | DEATH | Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Governor of California (Born 1905) |
| 16th of February 1996 | DEATH | Roger Bowen, American actor (Born 1932) |
| 16th of February 1996 | DEATH | Brownie McGhee, American singer (Born 1915) |
| 16th of February 1997 | DEATH | Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (Born 1912) |
| 16th of February 1999 | DEATH | Michael Larson, Press Your Luck Big-winning contestant (Born 1949) |
| 16th of February 2000 | DEATH | Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (Born 1918) |
| 16th of February 2000 | DEATH | Marceline Day, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 16th of February 2000 | DEATH | Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born engineer and inventor (Born 1911) |
| 16th of February 2001 | DEATH | Bob Buhl, baseball player (Born 1928) |
| 16th of February 2001 | DEATH | Howard W. Koch, American film director (Born 1916) |
| 16th of February 2001 | DEATH | William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (Born 1915) |
| 16th of February 2002 | DEATH | Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (Born 1913) |
| 16th of February 2003 | DEATH | Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (Born 1907) |
| 16th of February 2003 | DEATH | Rusty Magee, American composer (Born 1955) |
| 16th of February 2004 | DEATH | Doris Troy, American singer (Born 1937) |
| 16th of February 2005 | DEATH | Queen Narriman, second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad II (Born 1933) |
| 16th of February 2005 | DEATH | Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia) (Born 1975) |
| 16th of February 2006 | DEATH | Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (Born 1925) |
| 16th of February 2006 | DEATH | Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler (Born 1966) |
| 16th of February 2009 | DEATH | Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Korean Cardinal, Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church (Born 1921) |
| 16th of February 2010 | DEATH | Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong soccer player and actor. (Born 1956) |
| 16th of February 2011 | DEATH | Justinas Marcinkevicius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (Born 1930) |
| 16th of February 2011 | DEATH | Len Lesser, American actor (Born 1922) |