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| October 16th, 2007 (October 16 2007) | Death | Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (born in 1921) | |
| October 16th, 2007 (October 16 2007) | Death | Tose Proeski, Macedonian music star (born in 1981) | |
| October 16th, 2007 (October 16 2007) | Death | Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor. | |
| October 16th, 2006 (October 16 2006) | Death | Valentin Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (born in 1936) | |
| October 16th, 2006 (October 16 2006) | Death | Ross Davidson, British actor (born in 1949) | |
| October 16th, 2006 (October 16 2006) | Death | Tommy Johnson, American tubist (born in 1935) | |
| October 16th, 2006 (October 16 2006) | Death | Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (born in 1921) | |
| October 16th, 2005 (October 16 2005) | Death | "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (born in 1925) | |
| October 16th, 2005 (October 16 2005) | Death | Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (born in 1933) | Lee Child Quotes |
| October 16th, 2005 (October 16 2005) | Death | David Reilly, American singer (God Lives Underwater) (born in 1971) | |
| October 16th, 2004 (October 16 2004) | Death | Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy s White House Press Secretary (born in 1925) | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| October 16th, 2003 (October 16 2003) | Death | Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (born in 1919) | |
| October 16th, 2003 (October 16 2003) | Death | Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (born in 1915) | |
| October 16th, 2003 (October 16 2003) | Death | Laszlo Papp, Hungarian boxer (born in 1926) | |
| October 16th, 2002 (October 16 2002) | Event | Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. | |
| October 16th, 2002 (October 16 2002) | Death | Angela Dawson, American murder victim | |
| October 16th, 2000 (October 16 2000) | Death | Mel Carnahan, American politician (born in 1934) | |
| October 16th, 1999 (October 16 1999) | Death | Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (born in 1921) | |
| October 16th, 1998 (October 16 1998) | Event | Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges. | |
| October 16th, 1998 (October 16 1998) | Death | Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (born in 1943) | Jon Postel Quotes |
| October 16th, 1997 (October 16 1997) | Death | James Michener, American writer (born in 1907) | James Michener Quotes |
| October 16th, 1997 (October 16 1997) | Death | Audra Lindley, American actress (born in 1918) | |
| October 16th, 1996 (October 16 1996) | Event | Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City. | |
| October 16th, 1996 (October 16 1996) | Death | Eric Malpass, English novelist (born in 1910) | |
| October 16th, 1996 (October 16 1996) | Death | Jason Bernard, American actor (born in 1938) | |
| October 16th, 1995 (October 16 1995) | Event | The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC. | |
| October 16th, 1994 (October 16 1994) | Death | Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (born in 1940) | |
| October 16th, 1993 (October 16 1993) | Event | Anti-Nazi riot breaks out in Welling in Kent, after police stop protesters approaching British National Party headquarters | |
| October 16th, 1992 (October 16 1992) | Death | Alvin Schwartz | |
| October 16th, 1992 (October 16 1992) | Death | Shirley Booth, American actress (born in 1898) | |
| October 16th, 1991 (October 16 1991) | Event | Luby s massacre: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20 in Luby s Cafeteria. | |
| October 16th, 1991 (October 16 1991) | Event | Jharkhand Chhatra Yuva Morcha is founded at a conference in Ranchi, India. | |
| October 16th, 1990 (October 16 1990) | Death | Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American classical pianist (born in 1914) | |
| October 16th, 1990 (October 16 1990) | Death | Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (born in 1919) | Art Blakey Quotes |
| October 16th, 1989 (October 16 1989) | Death | Cornel Wilde, American actor (born in 1915) | |
| October 16th, 1988 (October 16 1988) | Birth | Zoltan Stieber, Hungarian footballer | |
| October 16th, 1987 (October 16 1987) | Event | Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people. | |
| October 16th, 1986 (October 16 1986) | Death | Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (born in 1921) | |
| October 16th, 1985 (October 16 1985) | Birth | Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer and 2007 MotoGP World Champion | |
| October 16th, 1984 (October 16 1984) | Event | Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | Desmond Tutu Quotes |
| October 16th, 1984 (October 16 1984) | Birth | Trevor Blumas, Canadian actor | |
| October 16th, 1984 (October 16 1984) | Birth | Melissa Lauren, French pornographic actress | |
| October 16th, 1984 (October 16 1984) | Birth | Shayne Ward, UK singer, winner of The X Factor, series 2005 | |
| October 16th, 1983 (October 16 1983) | Death | Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (born in 1895) | |
| October 16th, 1983 (October 16 1983) | Death | Kelso, American racehorse (born in 1957) | |
| October 16th, 1982 (October 16 1982) | Birth | Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer | |
| October 16th, 1982 (October 16 1982) | Birth | Frederic Michalak, French rugby player | |
| October 16th, 1982 (October 16 1982) | Death | Mario del Monaco, Italian tenor (born in 1915) | |
| October 16th, 1981 (October 16 1981) | Birth | Caterina Scorsone, Canadian actress | |
| October 16th, 1981 (October 16 1981) | Birth | Anthony Reyes, starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals | |
| October 16th, 1981 (October 16 1981) | Birth | Martin Halle, Danish footballer | |
| October 16th, 1981 (October 16 1981) | Death | Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (born in 1915) | Moshe Dayan Quotes |
| October 16th, 1980 (October 16 1980) | Birth | Sue Bird, American basketball player | |
| October 16th, 1980 (October 16 1980) | Birth | Jeremy Jackson, American actor | |
| October 16th, 1980 (October 16 1980) | Birth | Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player | |
| October 16th, 1979 (October 16 1979) | Birth | Erin Brown, American B-movie actress, model, filmmaker, former softcore erotic actress, and musician | |
| October 16th, 1979 (October 16 1979) | Death | Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (born in 1903) | |
| October 16th, 1978 (October 16 1978) | Event | Pope John Paul II is elected in Rome. | |
| October 16th, 1978 (October 16 1978) | Birth | Ethan Luck, American musician (The O.C. Supertones, Demon Hunter, Relient K) | |
| October 16th, 1978 (October 16 1978) | Death | Dan Dailey, American actor (born in 1913) | |
| October 16th, 1977 (October 16 1977) | Birth | John Mayer, American musician | |
| October 16th, 1976 (October 16 1976) | Birth | Ryan Fitzgerald, Australian football (AFL) player and media personality | |
| October 16th, 1975 (October 16 1975) | Event | The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops. | |
| October 16th, 1975 (October 16 1975) | Birth | Kellie Martin, American actress | |
| October 16th, 1975 (October 16 1975) | Birth | Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer | |
| October 16th, 1975 (October 16 1975) | Birth | Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer | |
| October 16th, 1974 (October 16 1974) | Birth | Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player | |
| October 16th, 1974 (October 16 1974) | Birth | Deo Grech, Maltese television presenter, songwriter | |
| October 16th, 1974 (October 16 1974) | Death | Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (born in 1895) | |
| October 16th, 1973 (October 16 1973) | Event | Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| October 16th, 1973 (October 16 1973) | Birth | Peter Polaco, American professional wrestler | |
| October 16th, 1973 (October 16 1973) | Birth | David Unsworth, English professional footballer | |
| October 16th, 1973 (October 16 1973) | Death | Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (born in 1909) | |
| October 16th, 1972 (October 16 1972) | Birth | Tomas Lindberg, Swedish musician (At the Gates) | |
| October 16th, 1972 (October 16 1972) | Birth | Darius Kasparaitis, National Hockey League player | |
| October 16th, 1972 (October 16 1972) | Birth | Kordell Stewart, American football player | |
| October 16th, 1972 (October 16 1972) | Death | Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (born in 1914) | |
| October 16th, 1972 (October 16 1972) | Death | Leo G. Carroll, English actor (born in 1892) | |
| October 16th, 1971 (October 16 1971) | Birth | Chad Gray, American singer | |
| October 16th, 1970 (October 16 1970) | Event | CanadaIn response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act. | Pierre Trudeau Quotes |
| October 16th, 1970 (October 16 1970) | Birth | Mehmet Scholl, German footballer | |
| October 16th, 1970 (October 16 1970) | Birth | Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter | Martial Quotes |
| October 16th, 1969 (October 16 1969) | Birth | Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter | |
| October 16th, 1969 (October 16 1969) | Birth | Terri J. Vaughn, American actress | |
| October 16th, 1969 (October 16 1969) | Birth | Wendy Wilson, American pop singer (Wilson Phillips) | |
| October 16th, 1968 (October 16 1968) | Event | United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked out of the USA s team for performing a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony. | |
| October 16th, 1968 (October 16 1968) | Event | Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country. | |
| October 16th, 1968 (October 16 1968) | Birth | Randall Batinkoff, American actor | |
| October 16th, 1968 (October 16 1968) | Birth | Elsa Zylberstein, French actress | |
| October 16th, 1968 (October 16 1968) | Death | Ellis Kinder, baseball player (born in 1914) | |
| October 16th, 1967 (October 16 1967) | Birth | Davina McCall, British television presenter | |
| October 16th, 1966 (October 16 1966) | Death | George O Hara, American actor (born in 1899) | |
| October 16th, 1965 (October 16 1965) | Birth | Steve Lamacq, British journalist and disc jockey | |
| October 16th, 1964 (October 16 1964) | Event | People s Republic of China detonates its first nuclear weapon; Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksey Kosygin are inaugurated as General Secreaty of the CPSU and Premier, respectively. | Leonid Brezhnev Quotes |
| October 16th, 1962 (October 16 1962) | Event | Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba began. | |
| October 16th, 1962 (October 16 1962) | Birth | Flea, Australian musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers) | |
| October 16th, 1962 (October 16 1962) | Birth | Manute Bol, Sudanese-born basketball player for the NBA | |
| October 16th, 1962 (October 16 1962) | Birth | Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone | |
| October 16th, 1962 (October 16 1962) | Death | Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (born in 1884) | Gaston Bachelard Quotes |
| October 16th, 1961 (October 16 1961) | Birth | Randy Vasquez, American actor | |
| October 16th, 1961 (October 16 1961) | Birth | Marc Levy, French novelist | |
| October 16th, 1960 (October 16 1960) | Birth | Bob Mould, American musician | |
| October 16th, 1959 (October 16 1959) | Birth | Gary Kemp, British musician and actor | |
| October 16th, 1959 (October 16 1959) | Birth | Erkki-Sven Tuur, Estonian composer | |
| October 16th, 1959 (October 16 1959) | Birth | Brian Harper, baseball player | |
| October 16th, 1959 (October 16 1959) | Death | George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (born in 1880) | |
| October 16th, 1958 (October 16 1958) | Birth | Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and writer | |
| October 16th, 1958 (October 16 1958) | Birth | Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Greek singer | |
| October 16th, 1956 (October 16 1956) | Birth | Johnny Chavis, American football coach | |
| October 16th, 1956 (October 16 1956) | Death | Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (born in 1873) | |
| October 16th, 1954 (October 16 1954) | Birth | Stephen Mellor, American actor | |
| October 16th, 1953 (October 16 1953) | Birth | Paulo Roberto Falcao, Brazilian footballer | Cao Cao Quotes |
| October 16th, 1953 (October 16 1953) | Birth | Tony Carey, American-born rock keyboardist, producer (Rainbow, Planet P Project) | |
| October 16th, 1952 (October 16 1952) | Birth | Boogie Mosson, American musician (P Funk) | |
| October 16th, 1952 (October 16 1952) | Birth | Ron Taylor, American actor (died in 2002) | |
| October 16th, 1951 (October 16 1951) | Event | The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. | |
| October 16th, 1949 (October 16 1949) | Event | Nikolaos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a "temporary cease-fire", effectively ending the Greek Civil War. | |
| October 16th, 1949 (October 16 1949) | Event | The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic were established. | |
| October 16th, 1948 (October 16 1948) | Birth | Leo Mazzone, American baseball coach | |
| October 16th, 1948 (October 16 1948) | Birth | Hema Malini, Indian Actress | |
| October 16th, 1947 (October 16 1947) | Birth | Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player | |
| October 16th, 1947 (October 16 1947) | Birth | Bob Weir, American musician (Grateful Dead) | |
| October 16th, 1947 (October 16 1947) | Birth | David Zucker, American film director | |
| October 16th, 1946 (October 16 1946) | Event | Ten war criminals of the Second World War, condemned in the Nuremberg trials are hanged. | |
| October 16th, 1946 (October 16 1946) | Birth | Suzanne Somers, American actress | |
| October 16th, 1945 (October 16 1945) | Event | The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada. | |
| October 16th, 1943 (October 16 1943) | Birth | Fred Turner, Canadian bass player (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) | |
| October 16th, 1941 (October 16 1941) | Birth | Tim McCarver, baseball player and commentator | |
| October 16th, 1940 (October 16 1940) | Event | Benjamin O. Davis Sr. named first African American general in the United States Army. | |
| October 16th, 1940 (October 16 1940) | Event | Warsaw Ghetto established. | |
| October 16th, 1940 (October 16 1940) | Birth | Barry Corbin, American actor | |
| October 16th, 1940 (October 16 1940) | Birth | Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (died in 2003) | |
| October 16th, 1939 (October 16 1939) | Event | World War II: First attack on British territory by German Luftwaffe. | |
| October 16th, 1938 (October 16 1938) | Birth | Nico (born Christa Paffgen; singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress) (died in 1988) | |
| October 16th, 1938 (October 16 1938) | Birth | Carl Gunter Jr, Louisiana State Representative (died in 1999) | |
| October 16th, 1937 (October 16 1937) | Birth | Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza | |
| October 16th, 1937 (October 16 1937) | Death | Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (born in 1899) | |
| October 16th, 1936 (October 16 1936) | Birth | Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (died in 1994) | |
| October 16th, 1936 (October 16 1936) | Birth | Akira Machida, Japanese judge | |
| October 16th, 1936 (October 16 1936) | Birth | Peter Bowles, English actor | |
| October 16th, 1934 (October 16 1934) | Event | Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman. | Mao Zedong Quotes |
| October 16th, 1934 (October 16 1934) | Birth | Peter Ashdown, British racing driver | |
| October 16th, 1932 (October 16 1932) | Birth | John Grant, British politician (died in 2000) | |
| October 16th, 1932 (October 16 1932) | Birth | Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (died in 1996) | |
| October 16th, 1931 (October 16 1931) | Birth | Charles Colson, American Watergate conspirator | Charles Colson Quotes |
| October 16th, 1931 (October 16 1931) | Birth | Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress and humanitarian | |
| October 16th, 1930 (October 16 1930) | Birth | Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress | |
| October 16th, 1929 (October 16 1929) | Birth | Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress | |
| October 16th, 1928 (October 16 1928) | Birth | Mary Daly, American feminist | |
| October 16th, 1928 (October 16 1928) | Birth | Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress | |
| October 16th, 1927 (October 16 1927) | Birth | Gunter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate | Gunter Grass Quotes |
| October 16th, 1925 (October 16 1925) | Birth | Angela Lansbury, English-born actress | |
| October 16th, 1923 (October 16 1923) | Event | The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney. | Walt Disney Quotes |
| October 16th, 1923 (October 16 1923) | Birth | Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (died in 1980) | |
| October 16th, 1923 (October 16 1923) | Birth | Linda Darnell, American film actress (died in 1965) | |
| October 16th, 1922 (October 16 1922) | Birth | Max Bygraves, English singer/songwriter | |
| October 16th, 1922 (October 16 1922) | Birth | Leon Sullivan, American civil rights leader and pastor (died in 2001) | |
| October 16th, 1919 (October 16 1919) | Birth | Kathleen Winsor, American writer (died in 2003) | |
| October 16th, 1918 (October 16 1918) | Birth | Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher (died in 1990) | Philo Quotes |
| October 16th, 1917 (October 16 1917) | Birth | Alice Pearce, American actress (died in 1966) | |
| October 16th, 1916 (October 16 1916) | Event | Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic. | Margaret Sanger Quotes |
| October 16th, 1914 (October 16 1914) | Birth | Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (died in 2007) | |
| October 16th, 1909 (October 16 1909) | Death | Jakub Bart-Cisinski, Sorbian writer (born in 1856) | |
| October 16th, 1908 (October 16 1908) | Birth | Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator (died in 1985) | |
| October 16th, 1906 (October 16 1906) | Event | The Captain of Kopenick fools the city hall of Kopenick and several soldiers by impersonating a Prussian officer. | |
| October 16th, 1906 (October 16 1906) | Birth | Leon Klimovsky, Argentine film director (died in 1996) | |
| October 16th, 1905 (October 16 1905) | Event | The Partition of Bengal (India) occurred. | |
| October 16th, 1903 (October 16 1903) | Birth | Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (died in 2003) | |
| October 16th, 1900 (October 16 1900) | Birth | Edward Ardizzone, artist and illustrator (died in 1979) | |
| October 16th, 1900 (October 16 1900) | Birth | Primo Conti, Italian painter (died in 1988) | |
| October 16th, 1898 (October 16 1898) | Birth | William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died in 1980) | William O. Douglas Quotes |
| October 16th, 1897 (October 16 1897) | Birth | Louis de Cazenave, France s oldest living man | |
| October 16th, 1893 (October 16 1893) | Death | Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (born in 1808) | |
| October 16th, 1890 (October 16 1890) | Birth | Michael Collins, Irish patriot (died in 1922) | Michael Collins Quotes |
| October 16th, 1890 (October 16 1890) | Birth | Maria Goretti, Italian saint (died in 1902) | |
| October 16th, 1890 (October 16 1890) | Birth | Paul Strand, American photographer (died in 1975) | |
| October 16th, 1888 (October 16 1888) | Birth | Eugene O Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1953) | |
| October 16th, 1888 (October 16 1888) | Birth | Paul Popenoe, American activist (died in 1979) | |
| October 16th, 1888 (October 16 1888) | Death | John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (born in 1815) | |
| October 16th, 1886 (October 16 1886) | Birth | David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (died in 1973) | |
| October 16th, 1884 (October 16 1884) | Birth | Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (died in 1916) | |
| October 16th, 1883 (October 16 1883) | Birth | Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (died in 1973) | |
| October 16th, 1882 (October 16 1882) | Event | The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business. | |
| October 16th, 1878 (October 16 1878) | Birth | Maxey Long, American athlete (died in 1959) | |
| October 16th, 1877 (October 16 1877) | Death | Theodore Barriere, French dramatist (born in 1823) | |
| October 16th, 1875 (October 16 1875) | Event | Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah. | |
| October 16th, 1869 (October 16 1869) | Event | Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is discovered. | |
| October 16th, 1869 (October 16 1869) | Event | England s first residential college for women, Girton College, Cambridge, is founded. | |
| October 16th, 1865 (October 16 1865) | Death | Andres Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (born in 1781) | Philo Quotes |
| October 16th, 1863 (October 16 1863) | Birth | Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died in 1937) | |
| October 16th, 1861 (October 16 1861) | Birth | J. B. Bury, Irish historian (died in 1927) | |
| October 16th, 1859 (October 16 1859) | Event | John Brown leads raid on Harper s Ferry, West Virginia | |
| October 16th, 1855 (October 16 1855) | Birth | Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (died in 1931) | |
| October 16th, 1854 (October 16 1854) | Birth | Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (died in 1900) | Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| October 16th, 1854 (October 16 1854) | Birth | Karl Kautsky, Marxist theoretician (died in 1938) | Karl Marx Quotes |
| October 16th, 1843 (October 16 1843) | Event | Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. | |
| October 16th, 1841 (October 16 1841) | Event | Queen s University is founded in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. | |
| October 16th, 1841 (October 16 1841) | Birth | Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (died in 1909) | |
| October 16th, 1840 (October 16 1840) | Birth | Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (died in 1900) | |
| October 16th, 1834 (October 16 1834) | Event | Much of the ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster in London is burnt down. | |
| October 16th, 1822 (October 16 1822) | Death | Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (born in 1724) | |
| October 16th, 1819 (October 16 1819) | Birth | Austin F. Pike, American politician from New Hampshire (died in 1886) | |
| October 16th, 1815 (October 16 1815) | Birth | Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (died in 1905) | |
| October 16th, 1813 (October 16 1813) | Event | The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Leipzig. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| October 16th, 1810 (October 16 1810) | Death | Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (born in 1772) | |
| October 16th, 1806 (October 16 1806) | Birth | William Pitt Fessenden, U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1864-65) (died in 1869) | |
| October 16th, 1802 (October 16 1802) | Birth | Isaac Murphy, Governor of Arkansas (1864-68) (died in 1882) | |
| October 16th, 1796 (October 16 1796) | Death | Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (born in 1726) | |
| October 16th, 1795 (October 16 1795) | Birth | William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (died in 1876) | |
| October 16th, 1793 (October 16 1793) | Event | Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. | Marie Antoinette Quotes |
| October 16th, 1793 (October 16 1793) | Event | Battle of Wattignies. | |
| October 16th, 1793 (October 16 1793) | Death | Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (born in 1755) | Marie Antoinette Quotes |
| October 16th, 1793 (October 16 1793) | Death | John Hunter, eminent doctor and philosopher (born in 1728 | Philo Quotes |
| October 16th, 1791 (October 16 1791) | Death | Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (born in 1739) | |
| October 16th, 1789 (October 16 1789) | Birth | William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (died in 1866) | |
| October 16th, 1781 (October 16 1781) | Event | George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown. | George Washington Quotes |
| October 16th, 1781 (October 16 1781) | Death | Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (born in 1705) | |
| October 16th, 1780 (October 16 1780) | Event | Royalton, Vermont and Tunbridge, Vermont last major raid of the American Revolutionary War. | |
| October 16th, 1775 (October 16 1775) | Event | Portland, Maine burnt by the British. | |
| October 16th, 1762 (October 16 1762) | Birth | Paul Hamilton, Governor of South Carolina (1804-06) and U.S. Secretary of Navy (1809-12) (died in 1816) | |
| October 16th, 1758 (October 16 1758) | Birth | Noah Webster, American lexicographer (died in 1843) | |
| October 16th, 1755 (October 16 1755) | Death | Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (born in 1725) | |
| October 16th, 1754 (October 16 1754) | Birth | Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (died in 1844) | |
| October 16th, 1752 (October 16 1752) | Birth | Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (died in 1827) | |
| October 16th, 1751 (October 16 1751) | Birth | Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia (died in 1805) | |
| October 16th, 1750 (October 16 1750) | Death | Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (born in 1687) | |
| October 16th, 1726 (October 16 1726) | Birth | Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (died in 1801) | |
| October 16th, 1714 (October 16 1714) | Birth | Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (died in 1795) | |
| October 16th, 1710 (October 16 1710) | Birth | Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (died in 1790) | |
| October 16th, 1680 (October 16 1680) | Death | Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (born in 1608 or 1609) | |
| October 16th, 1663 (October 16 1663) | Birth | Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (died in 1736) | |
| October 16th, 1655 (October 16 1655) | Death | Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (born in 1591) | Solomon Quotes |
| October 16th, 1649 (October 16 1649) | Death | Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (born in 1621) | |
| October 16th, 1628 (October 16 1628) | Death | Francois de Malherbe, French poet and critic (born in 1555) | |
| October 16th, 1621 (October 16 1621) | Death | Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (born in 1562) | |
| October 16th, 1594 (October 16 1594) | Death | William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (born in 1532) | |
| October 16th, 1591 (October 16 1591) | Death | Pope Gregory XIV (born in 1535) | |
| October 16th, 1555 (October 16 1555) | Death | Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred) | |
| October 16th, 1555 (October 16 1555) | Death | Nicholas Ridley, English Protestant (martyred) | |
| October 16th, 1553 (October 16 1553) | Death | Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (born in 1472) | |
| October 16th, 1535 (October 16 1535) | Birth | Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (died in 1585) | |
| October 16th, 1483 (October 16 1483) | Birth | Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (died in 1542) | |
| October 16th, 1430 (October 16 1430) | Birth | King James II of Scotland (died in 1460) | |
| October 16th, 1396 (October 16 1396) | Birth | William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (died in 1450) | |
| October 16th, 1355 (October 16 1355) | Death | Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death | |
| October 16th, 0456 (October 16 0456) | Event | Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire. | |
