April 16

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 73 &ndash; Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege.
* 1520 &ndash; The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1521 &ndash; Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and other estates of the empire.
* 1582 &ndash; Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the city of Salta, Argentina.
* 1705 &ndash; Isaac Newton is knighted, becoming a Sir.
* 1746 &ndash; The Battle of Culloden is fought near Inverness, Scotland, as a Highlander army is defeated by a Lowlander army, led by the Duke of Cumberland.
* 1780 &ndash; The University of Muenster in Germany is founded.
* 1799 &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon Bonaparte drives the Ottoman Turks across the Jordan River near Acre, in present-day Israel.
* 1818 &ndash; The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
* 1847 &ndash; The accidental shooting of a Maori by an English sailor results in the start of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Land Wars.
* 1853 &ndash; India's first passenger rail opens from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills, Virginia
* 1863 &ndash; American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg
* 1881 &ndash; Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle in Dodge City, Kansas.
* 1888 &ndash; Germany annexes Nauru.
* 1894 &ndash; Manchester City F.C. is formed from Ardwick F.C.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1908 &ndash; The Natural Bridges National Monument is created in Utah.
* 1912 &ndash; Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
* 1917 &ndash; Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
* 1919 &ndash; Mahatma Gandhi organizes a day of "Prayer and Fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protestors in Amritsar, in the Jallianwala Massacre by British colonial troops three days earlier.
* 1919 &ndash; Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in present-day Lithuania.
* 1922 &ndash; The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing diplomatic relations between Germany and Soviet Russia.
* 1925 &ndash; A Communist assault on Saint Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, kills 150 people.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: Italian convoy *Duisburg* is destroyed by British ships.
* 1941 &ndash; A Fascist government led by Ante Pavelic comes to power in Croatia.
* 1941 &ndash; Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only opening day no-hitter in Major League Baseball, defeating the Chicago White Sox 1–0.
* 1943 &ndash; Albert Hofmann first discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: The Allied bombing of Belgrade kills around 1,100 people.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: The Red Army begins its final assault on German forces around Berlin.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: German refugee ship *Goya* is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo, killing around 7,000 people.
* 1947 &ndash; Texas City, Texas, is set on fire after an explosion on a freighter, killing around 600 people.
* 1947 &ndash; Bernard Baruch first uses the term *Cold War*.
* 1953 &ndash; Queen Elizabeth II launches the royal yacht HMY *Britannia*.
* 1961 &ndash; Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is officially adopting Communism.
* 1962 &ndash; Walter Cronkite becomes the lead anchor of CBS Evening News.
* 1963 &ndash; Martin Luther King, Jr. writes the 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' while imprisoned in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against racial segregation.
* 1964 &ndash; The participants of the Great Train Robbery are sentenced to prison.
* 1972 &ndash; Apollo 16 is launched.
* 1990 &ndash; Jack Kevorkian participates in his first assisted suicide.
* 1992 &ndash; The *Katina P* runs aground off Maputo, Mozambique, spilling around 60,000 tons of crude oil into the Indian Ocean.
* 1994 &ndash; Hutu soldiers in Rwanda begin the Massacre of Nyarubuye on the Tutsi people. By the time it ends the next day, around 2,000 people have been killed.
* 1996 &ndash; Basketball: The Chicago Bulls win a record 70th game in one NBA season. The team's most famous player at the time was Michael Jordan.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border war.
* 2003 &ndash; The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, allowing 10 new members to join the EU on May 1, 2004.
* 2007 &ndash; Seung-Hui Cho, kills 33 people, including himself in the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst shooting spree in modern US history.
* 2012 &ndash; Anders Behring Breivik goes on trial for the July 22, 2011 Norway attacks.
* 2013 &ndash; A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes southeast Iran, near the border with Pakistan. Damage is reported on both sides of the border.
* 2014 &ndash; The MV *Sewol* ferry, travelling from Incheon to Jeju Island off the south coast of South Korea, sinks near Jindo Island off the southwest coast, killing 295 people.
* 2014 &ndash; Scientists announce the possible discovery of a new moon of Saturn being created out of its rings.
* 2016 &ndash; A large scale earthquake strikes Ecuador.
* 2017 &ndash; Turkey holds a referendum on changing the constitution to that of a Presidential republic; Results indicate just over half of voters support the proposal.
* 2019 &ndash; The Notre-Dame de Paris fire, which broke out the previous evening, is extinguished by firefighters.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 778 &ndash; King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
* 1319 &ndash; King John II of France (d. 1364)
* 1488 &ndash; Jungjong of Joseon of Korea (d. 1544)
* 1495 &ndash; Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
* 1516 &ndash; Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (d. 1550)
* 1619 &ndash; Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch ship doctor, salesman and colonial official (d. 1677)
* 1646 &ndash; Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
* 1652 &ndash; Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
* 1660 &ndash; Hans Sloane, English scientist (d. 1753)
* 1661 &ndash; Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (d. 1715)
* 1682 &ndash; John Hadley, English inventor (d. 1744)
* 1693 &ndash; Anne Sophie Reventlow, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
* 1728 &ndash; Joseph Black, Scottish scientist who discovered carbon gas (d. 1799)
* 1730 &ndash; Henry Clinton, English general and politician (d. 1795)
* 1786 &ndash; John Franklin, British royal navy officer and Arctic explorer (d. 1847)
* 1799 &ndash; John Wesley Davis, American politician (d. 1850)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1808 &ndash; Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician (d. 1864)
* 1821 &ndash; Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893)
* 1823 &ndash; Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852)
* 1838 &ndash; Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist (d. 1922)
* 1839 &ndash; Antonio Starabba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
* 1844 &ndash; Anatole France, French writer (d. 1924)
* 1847 &ndash; Hans Auer, Swiss architect (d. 1906)
* 1848 &ndash; Kandukuri Veerasalingam, Indian social reformer (d. 1919)
* 1863 &ndash; Emile Friant, French painter (d. 1932)
* 1866 &ndash; Jose de Diego, Puerto Rican statesman and journalist (d. 1918)
* 1867 &ndash; Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, air travel pioneer (d. 1912)
* 1868 &ndash; Spottiswoode Aitken, Scottish-American actor (d. 1933)
* 1871 &ndash; Henry Stephenson, English actor (d. 1956)
* 1871 &ndash; John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
* 1885 &ndash; Leo Weiner, Hungarian composer and music educator (d. 1960)
* 1886 &ndash; Ernst Thaelmann, German politician (d. 1944)
* 1886 &ndash; Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of Woodrow Wilson (d. 1944)
* 1887 &ndash; Gudjon Samuelsson, Icelandic architect (d. 1950)
* 1888 &ndash; Billy Minter, English footballer (d. 1940)
* 1889 &ndash; Charlie Chaplin, British actor and movie producer (d. 1977)
* 1890 &ndash; Vernon Sturdee, Australian army commander (d. 1966)
* 1890 &ndash; Michalis Dorizas, Greek javelin thrower (d. 1957)
* 1890 &ndash; Nikolai Trubetzkoy, Russian linguist and ethnologist (d. 1938)
* 1893 &ndash; Federico Mompou, Catalan composer and pianist (d. 1987)
* 1894 &ndash; Ernst Ziegler, German actor (d. 1974)
* 1895 &ndash; Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer (d. 1988)
* 1896 &ndash; Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (d. 1962)
* 1896 &ndash; Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet (d. 1963)
* 1900 &ndash; Polly Adler, Russian–born writer (d. 1962)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1905 &ndash; Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
* 1907 &ndash; Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor of the snowmobile (d. 1964)
* 1908 &ndash; Ray Ventura, French pianist and bandleader (d. 1979)
* 1911 &ndash; Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (d. 1963)
* 1912 &ndash; Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
* 1915 &ndash; Joan Alexander, American actress (d. 2009)
* 1917 &ndash; Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
* 1917 &ndash; Charlotte Salomon, German artist (d. 1943)
* 1918 &ndash; Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
* 1919 &ndash; Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (d. 2009)
* 1921 &ndash; Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and writer (d. 2014)
* 1921 &ndash; Peter Ustinov, British actor (d. 2004)
* 1922 &ndash; Kingsley Amis, British writer (d. 1995)
* 1922 &ndash; Samuel Youd, British writer (d. 2012)
* 1922 &ndash; Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
* 1923 &ndash; Arch A. Moore, Jr., American politician, 28th and 30th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2015)
* 1924 &ndash; Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
* 1924 &ndash; Rudy Pompilli, American musician (d. 1976)
* 1927 &ndash; Peter Mark Richman, American actor
* 1927 &ndash; Pope Benedict XVI
* 1930 &ndash; Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
* 1932 &ndash; Henk Schouten, Dutch footballer (d. 2018)
* 1933 &ndash; Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
* 1933 &ndash; Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper
* 1933 &ndash; Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
* 1934 &ndash; Robert Stigwood, Australian-British music entrepreneur (d. 2016)
* 1934 &ndash; Barrie Unsworth, Australian politician, 38th Premier of New South Wales
* 1935 &ndash; Sarah Kirsch, German writer (d. 2013)
* 1935 &ndash; Dominique Venner, French historian and writer (d. 2013)
* 1935 &ndash; Bobby Vinton, American musician
* 1936 &ndash; Derrick Sherwin, English television producer and actor (d. 2018)
* 1937 &ndash; Vince Hill, English singer-songwriter and record producer
* 1937 &ndash; Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist (d. 2015)
* 1938 &ndash; Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician (d. 2017)
* 1939 &ndash; Dusty Springfield, British singer (d. 1999)
* 1940 &ndash; Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
* 1940 &ndash; Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Russian poet (d. 2015)
* 1941 &ndash; Cliff Stearns, American businessman and politician
* 1942 &ndash; Frank Williams, Formula One team principal
* 1944 &ndash; Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor
* 1944 &ndash; Dennis Russell Davies, American conductor and pianist
* 1944 &ndash; Elmar Wepper, German actor
* 1945 &ndash; Tom Allen, American politician
* 1946 &ndash; Margot Adler, American writer, journalist and Wiccan priest (d. 2014)
* 1946 &ndash; Ernst Bakker, Dutch politician (d. 2014)
* 1947 &ndash; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
* 1947 &ndash; Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician (d. 2011)
* 1949 &ndash; Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney and former First Lady of Massachusetts

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
* 1951 &ndash; Ari Kristinsson, Icelandic director and screenwriter
* 1951 &ndash; Bill Walker, American politician, former Governor of Alaska
* 1952 &ndash; Bill Belichick, American football coach
* 1952 &ndash; Yoshikazu Nagai, Japanese footballer
* 1952 &ndash; Billy West, American voice actor
* 1954 &ndash; Ellen Barkin, American actress
* 1954 &ndash; Sibylle Lewitscharoff, German writer
* 1955 &ndash; Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
* 1956 &ndash; David M. Brown, American captain, pilot and astronaut (d. 2003)
* 1960 &ndash; Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
* 1960 &ndash; Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
* 1960 &ndash; Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
* 1961 &ndash; Jarbom Gamlin, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (d. 2014)
* 1963 &ndash; Jimmy Osmond, American singer
* 1963 &ndash; Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
* 1964 &ndash; Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (d. 2008)
* 1965 &ndash; Jon Cryer, American actor, screenwriter, movie director and producer
* 1965 &ndash; Martin Lawrence, American actor and comedian
* 1965 &ndash; Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and singer
* 1968 &ndash; Martin Dahlin, Swedish footballer
* 1969 &ndash; Patrik Jaerbyn, Swedish ski racer
* 1969 &ndash; Michael Baur, Austrian footballer
* 1970 &ndash; Gabrielle, English singer
* 1971 &ndash; Selena, Mexican-American singer (d. 1995)
* 1971 &ndash; Natasha Zvereva, Belarussian tennis player
* 1971 &ndash; Max Beesley, English actor and singer
* 1971 &ndash; Peter Billingsley, American actor, director and producer
* 1972 &ndash; Conchita Martínez, Spanish tennis player
* 1973 &ndash; Akon, American singer
* 1975 &ndash; Sean Maher, American actor

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
* 1976 &ndash; Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and singer (d. 2017)
* 1977 &ndash; Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Thomas Rasmussen, Danish footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Alek Wek, Sudanese model
* 1978 &ndash; Lara Dutta, Indian actress and model
* 1978 &ndash; Igor Tudor, Croatian footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Nikki Griffin, American actress
* 1979 &ndash; Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Sean Costello, American blues musician (d. 2008)
* 1980 &ndash; Reeyot Alemu, Ethiopian journalist
* 1982 &ndash; Gina Carano, American actress, television personality, model and former mixed martial artist
* 1982 &ndash; Boris Diaw, French basketball player
* 1983 &ndash; Marié Digby, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress
* 1984 &ndash; Claire Foy, British actress
* 1985 &ndash; Luol Deng, Sudanese-British basketball player
* 1985 &ndash; Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player
* 1985 &ndash; Sam Tillen, English footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Taye Taiwo, Nigerian footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Shinji Okazaki, Japanese footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Paul di Resta, Scottish racing driver
* 1986 &ndash; Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast
* 1987 &ndash; Aaron Lennon, English footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Aleksander Vinter, Norwegian musician
* 1988 &ndash; Hayley Squires, British actress
* 1990 &ndash; Lily Loveless, British actress
* 1990 &ndash; Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
* 1991 &ndash; Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg
* 1993 &ndash; Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
* 1993 &ndash; Chance the Rapper, American singer and rapper
* 1994 &ndash; Liliana Mumy, American actress
* 1996 &ndash; Kento Misao, Japanese footballer
* 2002 &ndash; Sadie Sink, American actress
* 2008 &ndash; Princess Eléonore of Belgium

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 69 &ndash; Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
* 665 &ndash; Fructuosus of Braga, French archbishop and saint
* 744 &ndash; al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
* 1113 &ndash; Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)
* 1118 &ndash; Adelaide of Vasto, Italian wife of Roger II of Sicily (b. 1075)
* 1198 &ndash; Duke Frederick I of Austria
* 1687 &ndash; George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet (b. 1628)
* 1689 &ndash; Aphra Behn, dramatist (b. ca. 1640)
* 1742 &ndash; Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (b. 1672)
* 1756 &ndash; Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
* 1783 &ndash; Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
* 1788 &ndash; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
* 1828 &ndash; Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
* 1846 &ndash; Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
* 1850 &ndash; Marie Tussaud, French creator of waxworks (Madame Tussaud's) (b. 1761)
* 1859 &ndash; Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
* 1879 &ndash; Bernadette Soubirous, French Roman Catholic saint (b. 1844)
* 1888 &ndash; Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
* 1898 &ndash; Robert Milligan McLane, Governor of Maryland (b. 1815)
* 1899 &ndash; Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1904 &ndash; Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
* 1914 &ndash; George William Hill, astronomer (b. 1838)
* 1915 &ndash; Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
* 1930 &ndash; Jose Carlos Mariategui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
* 1934 &ndash; John J. Blaine, 24th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1875)
* 1938 &ndash; Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
* 1941 &ndash; Hans Driesch, German biologist and philosopher (b. 1867)
* 1942 &ndash; Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
* 1946 &ndash; Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and Automobile designer (b. 1884)
* 1958 &ndash; Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
* 1968 &ndash; Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
* 1968 &ndash; Edna Ferber, American writer (b. 1885)
* 1972 &ndash; Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer (b. 1899)
* 1973 &ndash; Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
* 1973 &ndash; Nino Bravo, Spanish pop singer (b. 1944)
* 1978 &ndash; Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
* 1978 &ndash; Philibert Tsiranana, President of Madagascar (b. 1912)
* 1985 &ndash; Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
* 1988 &ndash; Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian military leader (b. 1935)
* 1991 &ndash; David Lean, American movie director (b. 1908)
* 1991 &ndash; Sergio Peresson, Italian violin maker (b. 1913)
* 1992 &ndash; Neville Brand, actor (b. 1920)
* 1994 &ndash; Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
* 1995 &ndash; Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave (b. 1982)
* 1996 &ndash; Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1927)
* 1997 &ndash; Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
* 1997 &ndash; Roland Topor, French actor, director and painter (b. 1938)
* 1998 &ndash; Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
* 1998 &ndash; Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Michael Ritchie, American movie director (b. 1938)
* 2002 &ndash; Olivier Eggimann, Swiss footballer (b. 1919)
* 2002 &ndash; Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
* 2002 &ndash; Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
* 2003 &ndash; Graham Stuart Thomas, British horticultural artist, writer, and garden designer (b. 1909)
* 2005 &ndash; Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
* 2007 &ndash; Deaths in the Virginia Tech Massacre:
** Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian French instructor (b. 1958)
** Kevin Granata, American professor of languages (b. 1961)
** Liviu Librescu, Romanian-born engineer and professor (b. 1930)
** Seung-Hui Cho, perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre (b. 1984)
* 2007 &ndash; Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
* 2008 &ndash; Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
* 2010 &ndash; Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and political activist (b. 1921)
* 2010 &ndash; Tomas Spidlik, Czech cardinal (b. 1919)
* 2011 &ndash; Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925)
* 2012 &ndash; Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, Danish shipping magnate (b. 1913)
* 2013 &ndash; Pat Summerall, American football player (b. 1930)
* 2013 &ndash; Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
* 2013 &ndash; George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American gospel singer (b. 1909)
* 2013 &ndash; Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (b. 1949)
* 2014 &ndash; Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (b. 1923)
* 2014 &ndash; Albert André, German Roman Catholic priest (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
* 2015 &ndash; Attaphol Buspakom, Thai footballer and coach (b. 1962)
* 2015 &ndash; Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
* 2015 &ndash; Lee Remmel, American PR spokesman (b. 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Oles Buzina, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
* 2015 &ndash; Johnny Kemp, Bahamian singer (b. 1959)
* 2015 &ndash; Heino Kleiminger, German footballer (b. 1939)
* 2016 &ndash; Rubén Mendoza Ayala, Mexican politician (b. 1961) 
* 2016 &ndash; Jeanette Bonnier, Swedish media proprietor, journalist and writer (b. 1934)
* 2016 &ndash; Rod Daniel, American film director (b. 1942)
* 2016 &ndash; William M. Gray, American meteorologist (b. 1929)
* 2016 &ndash; Charlie Hodge, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
* 2016 &ndash; Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian footballer (b. 1940)
* 2016 &ndash; Helmut Rohde, German politician (b. 1925)
* 2016 &ndash; Peter Rock, Chilean musician and actor (b. 1945)
* 2016 &ndash; Kit West, British special effects artist (b. 1936)
* 2017 &ndash; Gianni Boncompagni, Italian television presenter, producer and screenwriter (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Arcan Cetin, Turkish-American terrorist (b. 1996)
* 2017 &ndash; Allan Holdsworth, British guitarist and composer (b. 1946)
* 2018 &ndash; Harry Anderson, American actor (b. 1952)
* 2018 &ndash; Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (b. 1926)
* 2018 &ndash; Dona Ivone Lara, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1921)
* 2018 &ndash; Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider (b. 1939)
* 2018 &ndash; Lynn Stout, American law scholar (b. 1957)
* 2018 &ndash; Pamela Gidley, American actress (b. 1965)
* 2018 &ndash; Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Paul Singer, Austrian-Brazilian economist (b. 1932)
* 2019 &ndash; Ahmad Eghtedari, Iranian teacher, writer and lawyer (b. 1925)
* 2019 &ndash; Guro Fjellanger, Norwegian politician (b. 1964)
* 2019 &ndash; Jörg Demus, Austrian pianist (b. 1928)
* 2019 &ndash; Kent Harris, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Suzanne Twelftree, Australian wheelchair tennis player and powerlifter (b. 1956)
* 2019 &ndash; Hansjörg Auer, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1984)
* 2019 &ndash; David Lama, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1990)
* 2019 &ndash; Jess Roskelley, American mountaineer (b. 1982)

## Observances 
* Birthday of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
* Emancipation Day (Washington, DC)
* World Voice Day