October 16

October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
==Births==
* 1914: Joel Thorne (d. 1955)
* 1916: Pierre Meyrat (d. 1969)
* 1918: Tony Rolt (d. 2008)
* 1934: Peter Ashdown
* 1976: Dave Robson
* 1997: Charles Leclerc
==Deaths==
* 2011: Dan Wheldon, race car crash (b. 1978)
==Races==
* 1994: 
* 2005: 
* 2011: 
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