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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of March 0037 | EVENT | Caligula became Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius. |
| 16th of March 1190 | EVENT | Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. |
| 16th of March 1322 | EVENT | The Battle of Boroughbridge took place in the Despenser Wars. |
| 16th of March 1521 | EVENT | Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. |
| 16th of March 1621 | EVENT | Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." |
| 16th of March 1660 | EVENT | The Long Parliament dissolved. |
| 16th of March 1689 | EVENT | The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. |
| 16th of March 1792 | EVENT | King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he died on March 29. |
| 16th of March 1802 | EVENT | The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. |
| 16th of March 1815 | EVENT | Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. |
| 16th of March 1818 | EVENT | Second Battle of Cancha Rayada : Spanish forces defeated Chileans under Jose de San Martin. |
| 16th of March 1861 | EVENT | Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. |
| 16th of March 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war. |
| 16th of March 1872 | EVENT | The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London. |
| 16th of March 1900 | EVENT | Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete. |
| 16th of March 1912 | EVENT | Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time." |
| 16th of March 1916 | EVENT | The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. |
| 16th of March 1924 | EVENT | In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume became annexed as part of Italy. |
| 16th of March 1926 | EVENT | History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. |
| 16th of March 1935 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. |
| 16th of March 1939 | EVENT | From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. |
| 16th of March 1939 | EVENT | Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. |
| 16th of March 1940 | EVENT | First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister. |
| 16th of March 1942 | EVENT | The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off. |
| 16th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted. |
| 16th of March 1945 | EVENT | Ninety percent of Wurzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed. |
| 16th of March 1950 | EVENT | Communist Czechoslovakia's ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country. |
| 16th of March 1958 | EVENT | The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. |
| 16th of March 1962 | EVENT | A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 missing. |
| 16th of March 1963 | EVENT | Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing 11,000. |
| 16th of March 1966 | EVENT | Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle. |
| 16th of March 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops. |
| 16th of March 1968 | EVENT | General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. |
| 16th of March 1976 | EVENT | British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigned, citing personal reasons. |
| 16th of March 1977 | EVENT | Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. |
| 16th of March 1978 | EVENT | Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and is later killed by his captors. |
| 16th of March 1978 | EVENT | Supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the 5th-largest oil spill in history. |
| 16th of March 1983 | EVENT | Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany. |
| 16th of March 1984 | EVENT | William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity. |
| 16th of March 1985 | EVENT | Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991. |
| 16th of March 1988 | EVENT | Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. |
| 16th of March 1988 | EVENT | Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people. |
| 16th of March 1995 | EVENT | Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865. |
| 16th of March 2005 | EVENT | Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control. |
| 16th of March 1338 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401) |
| 16th of March 1445 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (d. 1510) |
| 16th of March 1473 | BIRTHDAY | Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541) |
| 16th of March 1581 | BIRTHDAY | Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (d. 1647) |
| 16th of March 1585 | BIRTHDAY | Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (d. 1618) |
| 16th of March 1631 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680) |
| 16th of March 1654 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704) |
| 16th of March 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757) |
| 16th of March 1750 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1848) |
| 16th of March 1751 | BIRTHDAY | James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836) |
| 16th of March 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Ramon Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (d. 1836) |
| 16th of March 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer (d. 1814) |
| 16th of March 1789 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854) |
| 16th of March 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Ami Boue, Austrian geologist (d. 1881) |
| 16th of March 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (d. 1864) |
| 16th of March 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846) |
| 16th of March 1805 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861) |
| 16th of March 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899) |
| 16th of March 1834 | BIRTHDAY | James Hector, Scottish geologist (d. 1907) |
| 16th of March 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Francois Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1907) |
| 16th of March 1839 | BIRTHDAY | John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (d. 1922) |
| 16th of March 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931) |
| 16th of March 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Umegatani Totaro I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (d. 1928) |
| 16th of March 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book-smuggler (d. 1918) |
| 16th of March 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Gosta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (d. 1927) |
| 16th of March 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931) |
| 16th of March 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1879) |
| 16th of March 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Harding Firth, British historian (d. 1936) |
| 16th of March 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1906) |
| 16th of March 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Patsy Donovan, American baseball player (d. 1953) |
| 16th of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936) |
| 16th of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (d. 1951) |
| 16th of March 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Reza Shah Pahlavi, Iranian shah (d. 1944) |
| 16th of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (d. 1946) |
| 16th of March 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (d. 1958) |
| 16th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Harrison Ford, American silent actor. (d. 1957) |
| 16th of March 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951) |
| 16th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948) |
| 16th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | James Petrillo, American president of the musicians union (d. 1984) |
| 16th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian poet (d. 1938) |
| 16th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970) |
| 16th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Pawley, American actor (d. 1988) |
| 16th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Potti Sreeramulu, an Indian revolutionary (d. 1952) |
| 16th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1943) |
| 16th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Mansfield, American politician, and diplomat (d. 2001) |
| 16th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977) |
| 16th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (d. 2009) |
| 16th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Henny Youngman, American comedian (d. 1998) |
| 16th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1966) |
| 16th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Daumal, French writer (d. 1944) |
| 16th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician (d. 2009) |
| 16th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Josef Mengele, German physician and SS officer (d. 1979) |
| 16th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993) |
| 16th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004) |
| 16th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese Businessman, and Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings (d.2010) |
| 16th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (d. 1977) |
| 16th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Louis C. Wyman, American politician (d. 2002) |
| 16th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) |
| 16th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Fleischman, American author (d. 2010) |
| 16th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Addison, British composer (d. 1998) |
| 16th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Traudl Junge, German secretary to Adolf Hitler (d. 2002) |
| 16th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Leo McKern, Australian actor (d. 2002) |
| 16th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (d. 1947) |
| 16th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright |
| 16th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist (d. 2004) |
| 16th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Goodell, American politician (d. 1987) |
| 16th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Lewis, American comedian |
| 16th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1967) |
| 16th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American senator (d. 2003) |
| 16th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Olga San Juan, American comedian (d. 2009) |
| 16th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Karlheinz Bohm, Austrian actor |
| 16th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano |
| 16th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (d. 2010) |
| 16th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress |
| 16th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (d. 2001) |
| 16th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Johnson, American singer |
| 16th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005) |
| 16th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Cunningham, American astronaut |
| 16th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Baruch Modan, Israeli scientist (d. 2001) |
| 16th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer |
| 16th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist |
| 16th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002) |
| 16th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano |
| 16th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian American practitioner of MRI |
| 16th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001) |
| 16th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (d. 1996) |
| 16th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach |
| 16th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Pronk, Dutch politician |
| 16th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Rowe, English painter and guitarist (AMM) |
| 16th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director |
| 16th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Guei, ruler of Cote d'Ivoire (d. 2002) |
| 16th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Woolery, American game show host |
| 16th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Jeff Walker, American musician |
| 16th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996) |
| 16th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | James Soong, Taiwanese politician |
| 16th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, professor and author |
| 16th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (d. 2005) |
| 16th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American Computer Science Professor, Author of MINIX OS |
| 16th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Basman, English chess master |
| 16th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor |
| 16th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist |
| 16th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Baek Yoon-sik, South Korean actor |
| 16th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bruce, American musician (Alice Cooper) |
| 16th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Weis, American author |
| 16th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer, songwriter and film director |
| 16th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Estrada, American actor |
| 16th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Pilato, Italian-American actor |
| 16th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Garber, Canadian actor |
| 16th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Elliott Murphy, American singer-songwriter |
| 16th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Joe DeLamielleure, American football player |
| 16th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress |
| 16th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Cole, British actor |
| 16th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Hoffman, American author |
| 16th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Simon, American journalist and radio personality |
| 16th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Isabelle Huppert, French actress |
| 16th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Stallman, American free software activist |
| 16th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer |
| 16th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer and actress (Heart) |
| 16th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director |
| 16th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer |
| 16th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor |
| 16th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Worley, American comic book writer (d. 2004) |
| 16th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Flavor Flav, American rapper, and reality TV star |
| 16th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway |
| 16th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Eclair, British comedienne, novellist and actress. |
| 16th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 16th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 16th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Todd McFarlane, Canadian comic book artist, writer and media entrepreneur |
| 16th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Michiru Oshima, Japanese composer |
| 16th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Kahn, French entrepreneur |
| 16th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Degrasso, American musician (F5) |
| 16th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002) |
| 16th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist |
| 16th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter |
| 16th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gore Verbinski, American movie director |
| 16th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Daniel Roman, English songwriter and record producer |
| 16th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Belen Rueda, Spanish actress |
| 16th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Peter Geerdes, German musician (Scooter) |
| 16th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Graham, American actress |
| 16th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher |
| 16th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Wilson, American basketball player |
| 16th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Aggelos Koronios, Greek basketball coach and retired player |
| 16th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joakim Berg, Swedish singer (Kent) |
| 16th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Pall Oskar Hjalmtysson, Icelandic singer, songwriter and disc jockey |
| 16th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Reynolds Wolf, American TV meteorologist and journalist |
| 16th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Tudyk, American actor |
| 16th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Velibor Radovic, Serbian basketball player |
| 16th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Vonda Ward, American boxer |
| 16th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brant Bjork, American musician (Kyuss) |
| 16th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer |
| 16th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer |
| 16th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sienna Guillory, British actress |
| 16th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Nunez, Dominican baseball player |
| 16th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Schneider, American actor |
| 16th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Spano, American actor |
| 16th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Donal Og Cusack, Irish hurler |
| 16th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Burns, American actress |
| 16th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Edison Mendez, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 16th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rashad Moore, American football player |
| 16th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi) |
| 16th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player |
| 16th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Heap, American football player |
| 16th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Granderson, American baseball player |
| 16th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer |
| 16th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer |
| 16th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Riley Cote, Canadian hockey player |
| 16th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon League, American baseball player |
| 16th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tramon Williams, American football player |
| 16th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player |
| 16th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Levi Brown, American football player |
| 16th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer |
| 16th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Denly, English cricketer |
| 16th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Doane, American professional wrestler |
| 16th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Toney Douglas, American basketball player |
| 16th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | T. J. Jordan, American basketball player |
| 16th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater |
| 16th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Trunfio, Australian model |
| 16th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model |
| 16th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Blake Griffin, American basketball player |
| 16th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Walcott, English footballer |
| 16th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician |
| 16th of March 0037 | DEATH | Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (Born 46 BC) |
| 16th of March 0455 | DEATH | Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor (Born 419) |
| 16th of March 0455 | DEATH | Heraclius, Western Roman courtier |
| 16th of March 1021 | DEATH | Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III |
| 16th of March 1037 | DEATH | Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen |
| 16th of March 1072 | DEATH | Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop |
| 16th of March 1322 | DEATH | Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (Born 1276) |
| 16th of March 1410 | DEATH | John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (Born 1373) |
| 16th of March 1457 | DEATH | Laszlo Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (Born 1433) |
| 16th of March 1485 | DEATH | Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (Born 1456) |
| 16th of March 1559 | DEATH | Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (Born 1496) |
| 16th of March 1620 | DEATH | St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing (Born 1576) |
| 16th of March 1649 | DEATH | Saint Jean de Brebeuf, French Jesuit missionary (Born 1593) |
| 16th of March 1679 | DEATH | John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Born 1616) |
| 16th of March 1721 | DEATH | James Craggs the Elder, English politician (Born 1657) |
| 16th of March 1736 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (Born 1710) |
| 16th of March 1737 | DEATH | Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (Born 1670) |
| 16th of March 1738 | DEATH | George Bahr, German architect (Born 1666) |
| 16th of March 1747 | DEATH | Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (Born 1690) |
| 16th of March 1888 | DEATH | Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (Born 1801) |
| 16th of March 1890 | DEATH | Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (Born 1864) |
| 16th of March 1892 | DEATH | Samuel F. Miller, American politician (Born 1827) |
| 16th of March 1898 | DEATH | Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (Born 1872) |
| 16th of March 1899 | DEATH | Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (Born 1823) |
| 16th of March 1903 | DEATH | Roy Bean, American jurist |
| 16th of March 1914 | DEATH | Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1843) |
| 16th of March 1926 | DEATH | Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog |
| 16th of March 1930 | DEATH | Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (Born 1870) |
| 16th of March 1935 | DEATH | John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1876) |
| 16th of March 1935 | DEATH | Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (Born 1886) |
| 16th of March 1936 | DEATH | Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (Born 1864) |
| 16th of March 1940 | DEATH | Selma Lagerlof, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1858) |
| 16th of March 1945 | DEATH | Borries von Munchhausen, German poet (Born 1874) |
| 16th of March 1955 | DEATH | Nicolas de Stael, French-Russian painter (Born 1914) |
| 16th of March 1957 | DEATH | Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (Born 1876) |
| 16th of March 1961 | DEATH | Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (Born 1903) |
| 16th of March 1968 | DEATH | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (Born 1895) |
| 16th of March 1968 | DEATH | Gunnar Ekelof, Swedish poet and writer (Born 1907) |
| 16th of March 1970 | DEATH | Tammi Terrell, American singer (Born 1946) |
| 16th of March 1971 | DEATH | Thomas E. Dewey, American presidential candidate (Born 1902) |
| 16th of March 1975 | DEATH | Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (Born 1936) |
| 16th of March 1975 | DEATH | T-Bone Walker, American musician (Born 1910) |
| 16th of March 1977 | DEATH | Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (Born 1917) |
| 16th of March 1979 | DEATH | Jean Monnet, French politician (Born 1888) |
| 16th of March 1980 | DEATH | Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (Born 1898) |
| 16th of March 1983 | DEATH | Fred Rose, Canadian politician (Born 1907) |
| 16th of March 1983 | DEATH | Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (Born 1903) |
| 16th of March 1984 | DEATH | John Hoagland, American photographer (Born 1947) |
| 16th of March 1985 | DEATH | Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1902) |
| 16th of March 1992 | DEATH | Roger Lemelin, Canadian novelist and television writer (Born 1919) |
| 16th of March 1992 | DEATH | Yves Rocard, French physicist (Born 1903) |
| 16th of March 1993 | DEATH | Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (Born 1945) |
| 16th of March 1996 | DEATH | Charlie Barnett, American actor (Born 1954) |
| 16th of March 1998 | DEATH | Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1918) |
| 16th of March 1999 | DEATH | Gratien Gelinas, Canadian playwright and director (Born 1909) |
| 16th of March 2000 | DEATH | Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (Born 1918) |
| 16th of March 2001 | DEATH | Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (Born 1921) |
| 16th of March 2001 | DEATH | Bob Wollek, French race car driver (Born 1943) |
| 16th of March 2003 | DEATH | Rachel Corrie, American political activist (Born 1979) |
| 16th of March 2003 | DEATH | Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (Born 1931) |
| 16th of March 2004 | DEATH | Vilem Tausky, Czech conductor and composer (Born 1910) |
| 16th of March 2005 | DEATH | Todd Bell, American football player (Born 1958) |
| 16th of March 2005 | DEATH | Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (Born 1927) |
| 16th of March 2005 | DEATH | Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (Born 1914) |
| 16th of March 2005 | DEATH | Anthony George, American TV actor (Born 1921) |
| 16th of March 2005 | DEATH | Dick Radatz, American baseball player (Born 1937) |
| 16th of March 2006 | DEATH | David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (Born 1944) |
| 16th of March 2007 | DEATH | Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (Born 1984) |
| 16th of March 2008 | DEATH | Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (Born 1912) |
| 16th of March 2008 | DEATH | Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (Born 1946) |
| 16th of March 2008 | DEATH | Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (Born 1942) |
| 16th of March 2008 | DEATH | G. David Low, American astronaut (Born 1956) |
| 16th of March 2008 | DEATH | John Hewer, English actor (Born 1922) |
| 16th of March 2008 | DEATH | Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham). (Born 1968) |
| 16th of March 2011 | DEATH | Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan. (Born 1931) |