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March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 290 days remain until the end of the year.

March 16 is a day filled with many interesting events throughout history, from ancient times to the modern era. It's a day when important leaders were born, new inventions changed the world, and significant historical moments took place across the globe. Let's explore some of the key events, births, and deaths that happened on this day.

Historical Events on March 16
Notable People Born on March 16
Notable People Who Passed Away on March 16
Holidays and Observances
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Historical Events on March 16

Early History (Before 1600)

934 – Meng Zhixiang declared himself emperor, starting the Later Shu state, which was separate from the Later Tang dynasty.
1190 – A sad event occurred at Clifford's Tower in York, where many Jewish people were killed.
1244 – After the Fall of Montségur, over 200 Cathars were executed because they would not change their beliefs.
1355 – During the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, who claimed to be a descendant of an earlier emperor, was announced as the emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.

From 1601 to 1900

1621 – Samoset, a member of the Abenaki people, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and famously greeted them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1660 – England's Long Parliament was ended to get ready for a new Convention Parliament.
1696 – The Dutch military attacked Givet during the Nine Years' War.
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden was shot and later passed away on March 29.
1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers was created. Its job was to establish and run the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1815 – Prince Willem declared himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. This made him the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the very first FA Cup, which is the oldest football competition in the world. They beat Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 in London.
1898 – In Melbourne, representatives from five colonies agreed on a constitution. This document later became the foundation for the Commonwealth of Australia.

Modern History (1901–Present)

1916 – US cavalry regiments, led by John J. Pershing, crossed the US–Mexico border to search for Pancho Villa.
1918 – During the Finnish Civil War, the Battle of Länkipohja ended with a tragic event where many captured Reds were executed by the Whites.
1924 – Following the Treaty of Rome, the city of Fiume became part of Italy.
1925 – A strong earthquake (about 7.0 magnitude) hit Dali, China, causing an estimated 5,000 deaths.
1926 – In a major step for rocketry, Robert Goddard launched the first ever liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to build up its military again, which went against the Treaty of Versailles. This included bringing back conscription to form the Wehrmacht.
1936 – Unusually warm weather caused snow and ice on the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers to melt quickly, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler declared Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1941 – Operation Appearance took place to regain control of British Somaliland.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima officially ended, though some Japanese resistance continued for a while.
1945 – Most of Würzburg, Germany was destroyed in just 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.
1962 – Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 mysteriously disappeared over the western Pacific Ocean. All 107 people on board were missing and presumed to have died.
1966 – The Gemini 8 spacecraft was launched with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It achieved the first ever docking of two spacecraft in orbit.
1968 – Vietnam War: The My Lai massacre occurred, a tragic event where between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers were killed by American troops.
1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashed in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155 people.
1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, a main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War, passed away.
1978 – The supertanker Amoco Cadiz broke in half after hitting rocks off the coast of Brittany. This caused the largest oil spill in history at that time.
1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army returned to China, ending the war.
1984 – William Buckley, a CIA station chief in Lebanon, was taken hostage by Hezbollah. He later died while in captivity.
1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut. He was not released until December 1991.
1995 – Mississippi officially approved the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to agree to the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment had actually been officially ratified in 1865.
2005 – Israel officially handed over control of Jericho to the Palestinians.
2010 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, were destroyed in a fire.
2012 – Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar made history by becoming the first batter to score 100 centuries in international cricket.
2014 – Crimea voted in a referendum to leave Ukraine and join Russia.
2020 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 2,997.10 points. This was the largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever (12.93%). This happened after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it would cut interest rates.
2022 – A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, causing 4 deaths and injuring 225 people.

Notable People Born on March 16

Born Before 1600

1399 – The Xuande Emperor, who ruled Ming China.
1445 – Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, a Swiss priest and theologian.
1465 – Kunigunde of Austria, who became the Duchess of Bavaria.
1473 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony.
1559 – Amar Singh I, a successor to Maharana Pratap of Mewar.
1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, a Dutch historian and poet.
1585 – Gerbrand Bredero, a Dutch poet and playwright.
1590 – Ii Naotaka, a Japanese daimyō (a powerful feudal lord).
1596 – Ebba Brahe, a Swedish countess.

Born From 1601 to 1900

1609 – Michael Franck, a German poet and composer of hymns.
1609 – Agostino Mitelli, an Italian painter.
1621 – Georg Neumark, another German poet and composer of hymns.
1631 – René Le Bossu, a French literary critic.
1638 – François Crépieul, a Jesuit missionary.
1654 – Andreas Acoluthus, a German scholar.
1670 – François de Franquetot de Coigny, a French general.
1673 – Jean Bouhier, a French jurist and scholar.
1687 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, who became the queen consort of Frederick William I.
1693 – Malhar Rao Holkar, an Indian nobleman.
1701 – Daniel Lorenz Salthenius, a Swedish theologian.
1729 – Maria Louise Albertine.
1741 – Carlo Amoretti, an Italian scientist.
1744 – Nicolas-Germain Léonard, a poet and novelist from Guadeloupe.
1750 – Caroline Herschel, a German-English astronomer.
1751 – James Madison, an American academic and politician, who became the 4th President of the United States.
1760 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, a Swiss painter and writer.
1766 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist, and explorer.
1771 – Antoine-Jean Gros, a French painter.
1773 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, an Argentinian general and politician.
1774 – Matthew Flinders, an English navigator and cartographer.
1789 – Francis Rawdon Chesney, an English general and explorer.
1789 – Georg Ohm, a German physicist and mathematician known for Ohm's Law.
1794 – Ami Boué, an Austrian geologist and ethnographer.
1797 – Alaric Alexander Watts, an English poet and journalist.
1799 – Anna Atkins, an English botanist and photographer.
1800 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan.
1805 – Ernst von Lasaulx, a German philologist and politician.
1806 – Félix De Vigne, a Belgian painter.
1808 – Hannah T. King, a British-born American writer and pioneer.
1813 – Gaëtan de Rochebouët, a French prime minister.
1819 – José Paranhos, a Brazilian politician.
1820 – Enrico Tamberlik, an Italian tenor.
1821 – Eduard Heine, a German mathematician and academic.
1822 – Rosa Bonheur, a French painter and sculptor.
1822 – John Pope, an American general.
1823 – William Henry Monk, an English organist and composer.
1825 – Camilo Castelo Branco, a Portuguese writer.
1828 – Émile Deshayes de Marcère, a French politician.
1834 – James Hector, a Scottish geologist and surgeon.
1836 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, an English-American engineer and inventor.
1839 – Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and critic, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1839 – John Butler Yeats, an Irish painter.
1840 – Shibusawa Eiichi, a Japanese industrialist.
1840 – Georg von der Gabelentz, a German linguist.
1845 – Umegatani Tōtarō I, a Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna.
1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, a Swedish mathematician and academic.
1846 – Rebecca Cole, an American physician and social reformer.
1846 – Jurgis Bielinis, a Lithuanian book smuggler.
1848 – Axel Heiberg, a Norwegian financier and diplomat.
1851 – Otto Bardenhewer, a German theologian.
1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, a Dutch microbiologist and botanist.
1856 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France.
1857 – Charles Harding Firth, an English historian.
1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, a Russian physicist and inventor.
1865 – Patsy Donovan, an Irish-American baseball player and manager.
1869 – Willy Burmester, a German violinist.
1871 – Hans Merensky, a South African geologist and philanthropist.
1871 – Frantz Reichel, a French rugby player and hurdler.
1874 – Frédéric François-Marsal, a French prime minister.
1877 – Léo-Ernest Ouimet, a Canadian director and producer.
1878 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, a German cardinal.
1878 – Paul Jouve, a French painter.
1881 – Fannie Charles Dillon, an American composer.
1882 – James Lightbody, an American runner.
1883 – Ethel Anderson, an Australian poet, author, and painter.
1884 – Eric P. Kelly, an American journalist and author.
1885 – Giacomo Benvenuti, an Italian composer and musicologist.
1885 – Sydney Chaplin, an English actor.
1886 – Herbert Lindström, a Swedish tug-of-war player.
1887 – Emilio Lunghi, an Italian runner.
1887 – S. Stillman Berry, an American marine zoologist.
1889 – Reggie Walker, a South African athlete.
1892 – César Vallejo, a Peruvian poet.
1895 – Ernest Labrousse, a French historian.
1897 – Antonio Donghi, an Italian painter.
1897 – Conrad Nagel, an American actor.
1900 – Cyril Hume, an American novelist and screenwriter.
1900 – Mencha Karnicheva, a Macedonian revolutionary.

Born From 1901 to Present

1901 – Alexis Chantraine, a Belgian footballer.
1903 – Mike Mansfield, an American politician and diplomat.
1906 – Francisco Ayala, a Spanish sociologist, author, and translator.
1906 – Maurice Turnbull, a Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player.
1906 – Henny Youngman, an English-American violinist and comedian.
1908 – René Daumal, a French author and poet.
1908 – Ernest Rogez, a French water polo player.
1908 – Robert Rossen, an American director, producer, and screenwriter.
1909 – Don Raye, an American songwriter.
1910 – Aladár Gerevich, a Hungarian fencer.
1910 – Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, an Indian-English cricketer and politician.
1911 – Pierre Harmel, a Belgian lawyer and diplomat, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium.
1911 – Josef Mengele, a German physician.
1911 – Philip Pavia, an American painter and sculptor.
1912 – Pat Nixon, an American teacher and First Lady of the United States.
1913 – Rémy Raffalli, a French soldier.
1915 – Kunihiko Kodaira, a Japanese mathematician.
1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, an American actress.
1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese engineer and businessman.
1917 – Mehrdad Pahlbod, an Iranian politician.
1917 – Laure Pillay, a Mauritian lawyer and jurist.
1917 – Louis C. Wyman, an American lawyer and politician.
1918 – Frederick Reines, an American physicist and academic, who won a Nobel Prize.
1918 – Aldo van Eyck, a Dutch architect.
1920 – John Addison, an English-American soldier and composer.
1920 – Sid Fleischman, an American author and screenwriter.
1920 – Traudl Junge, a German secretary.
1920 – Leo McKern, an Australian-English actor.
1922 – Harding Lemay, an American screenwriter and playwright.
1923 – Heinz Wallberg, a German conductor.
1925 – Cornell Borchers, a Lithuanian-German actress and singer.
1925 – Mary Hinkson, an American dancer and choreographer.
1925 – Ervin Kassai, a Hungarian basketball player and referee.
1925 – Luis E. Miramontes, a Mexican chemist and engineer.
1926 – Charles Goodell, an American lawyer and politician.
1926 – Jerry Lewis, an American actor and comedian.
1927 – Vladimir Komarov, a Russian pilot, engineer, and cosmonaut.
1927 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American sociologist and politician.
1927 – Olga San Juan, an American actress and dancer.
1928 – Wakanohana Kanji I, a Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna.
1928 – Christa Ludwig, a German opera singer.
1929 – Betty Johnson, an American singer.
1929 – Tihomir Novakov, a Serbian-American physicist and academic.
1929 – Nadja Tiller, an Austrian actress.
1930 – Tommy Flanagan, an American pianist and composer.
1930 – Minoru Miki, a Japanese composer.
1931 – Augusto Boal, a Brazilian theatre director, writer, and politician.
1931 – Alan Heyman, an American-South Korean musicologist and composer.
1931 – Anthony Kenny, an English philosopher and academic.
1931 – John Munro, a Canadian lawyer and politician.
1932 – Don Blasingame, an American baseball player and manager.
1932 – Walter Cunningham, an American astronaut.
1932 – Kurt Diemberger, an Austrian mountaineer and author.
1932 – Herbert Marx, a Canadian politician.
1933 – Keith Critchlow, an English architect and academic.
1933 – Sanford I. Weill, an American banker and financier.
1934 – Jean Cournoyer, a Canadian politician.
1934 – Ray Hnatyshyn, a Canadian lawyer and politician, who was the 24th Governor General of Canada.
1934 – Roger Norrington, an English violinist and conductor.
1934 – Howard Schnellenberger, an American football player and coach.
1935 – Teresa Berganza, a Spanish soprano and actress.
1935 – Pepe Cáceres, a Colombian bullfighter.
1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, an Armenian-American inventor, who invented the MRI.
1936 – Fred Neil, an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1937 – David Frith, an English historian, journalist, and author.
1937 – Attilio Nicora, an Italian cardinal.
1937 – Amos Tversky, an Israeli-American psychologist and academic.
1938 – Carlos Bilardo, an Argentinian footballer and manager.
1939 – Yvon Côté, a Canadian politician and teacher.
1940 – Vagif Mustafazadeh, an Azerbaijani pianist and composer.
1940 – Jan Pronk, a Dutch academic and politician.
1940 – Keith Rowe, an English guitarist.
1941 – Bernardo Bertolucci, an Italian director and screenwriter.
1941 – Robert Guéï, an Ivorian soldier and politician, who was the 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire.
1941 – Chuck Woolery, an American game show host and television personality.
1942 – Roger Crozier, a Canadian-American ice hockey player.
1942 – Jean-Pierre Schosteck, a French politician.
1942 – James Soong, a Chinese-Taiwanese politician.
1942 – Gijs van Lennep, a Dutch race car driver.
1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1943 – Álvaro de Soto, a Peruvian diplomat.
1943 – Ursula Goodenough, an American biologist, zoologist, and author.
1943 – Hans Heyer, a German race car driver.
1944 – Andrew S. Tanenbaum, an American computer scientist and academic.
1946 – Sigmund Groven, a Norwegian harmonica player and composer.
1946 – Mary Kaldor, an English economist and academic.
1946 – J. Z. Knight, an American New Age teacher and author.
1946 – Guesch Patti, a French singer.
1948 – Michael Owen Bruce, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1948 – Richard Desjardins, a Canadian singer-songwriter and director.
1948 – Catherine Quéré, a French politician.
1949 – Erik Estrada, an American actor.
1949 – Victor Garber, a Canadian actor and singer.
1949 – Elliott Murphy, an American-French singer-songwriter and journalist.
1950 – Peter Forster, an English bishop.
1950 – Kate Nelligan, a Canadian actress.
1950 – Edhem Šljivo, a Bosnian footballer.
1951 – Ray Benson, an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer.
1951 – Abdelmajid Bourebbou, an Algerian footballer.
1951 – Oddvar Brå, a Norwegian skier.
1951 – Joe DeLamielleure, an American football player.
1951 – Alexandre Gonzalez, a French long-distance runner.
1953 – Claus Peter Flor, a German conductor.
1953 – Isabelle Huppert, a French actress.
1953 – Rainer Knaak, a German chess player.
1953 – Richard Stallman, an American computer scientist and programmer.
1954 – David Heath, an English politician.
1954 – Jimmy Nail, an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor.
1954 – Tim O'Brien, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1954 – Dav Whatmore, a Sri Lankan-Australian cricketer and coach.
1954 – Nancy Wilson, an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress.
1955 – Svetlana Alexeeva, a Russian ice dancer and coach.
1955 – Rimantas Astrauskas, a Lithuanian physicist.
1955 – Bruno Barreto, a Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter.
1955 – Linda Lepomme, a Belgian actress and singer.
1955 – Bob Ley, an American sports anchor and reporter.
1955 – Andy Scott, a Canadian politician.
1955 – Jiro Watanabe, a Japanese boxer.
1956 – Ozzie Newsome, an American football player and executive.
1956 – Clifton Powell, an American actor, director, and producer.
1956 – Yoriko Shono, a Japanese writer.
1956 – Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, a Swiss lawyer and politician.
1958 – Jorge Ramos, a Mexican-American journalist and author.
1958 – Phillip Wilcher, an Australian pianist and composer.
1958 – Kate Worley, an American author.
1959 – Michael J. Bloomfield, an American astronaut.
1959 – Sebastian Currier, an American composer and educator.
1959 – Greg Dyer, an Australian cricketer.
1959 – Flavor Flav, an American rapper and actor.
1959 – Charles Hudson, an American baseball player.
1959 – Steve Marker, an American musician.
1959 – Jens Stoltenberg, a Norwegian economist and politician, who was the 27th Prime Minister of Norway and 13th Secretary General of NATO.
1960 – Jenny Eclair, an English comedian, actress, and screenwriter.
1960 – John Hemming, an English businessman and politician.
1960 – Duane Sutter, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
1961 – Todd McFarlane, a Canadian author, illustrator, and businessman, who founded McFarlane Toys.
1962 – Franck Fréon, a French race car driver.
1962 – Liliane Gaschet, a French athlete.
1963 – Jerome Flynn, an English actor and singer.
1963 – Kevin Smith, a New Zealand actor and singer.
1964 – Patty Griffin, an American singer-songwriter.
1964 – Jaclyn Jose, a Filipino actress.
1964 – Pascal Richard, a Swiss racing cyclist.
1964 – Gore Verbinski, an American director, producer, and screenwriter.
1965 – Steve Armstrong, an American wrestler.
1965 – Sergei Bazarevich, a Russian basketball player and coach.
1965 – Cindy Brown, an American basketball player.
1965 – Mark Carney, a Canadian-English economist and banker.
1965 – Cristiana Reali, an Italian-Brazilian actress.
1966 – H.P. Baxxter, a German musician.
1966 – Chrissy Redden, a Canadian cross-country cyclist.
1967 – Tracy Bonham, an American singer and violinist.
1967 – John Darnielle, an American musician and novelist.
1967 – Lauren Graham, an American actress and producer.
1967 – Ronnie McCoury, an American bluegrass mandolin player, singer, and songwriter.
1967 – Heidi Zurbriggen, a Swiss alpine skier.
1969 – Judah Friedlander, an American comedian and actor.
1969 – Ottis Gibson, a Barbadian cricketer and coach.
1969 – Alina Ivanova, a Russian athlete.
1969 – Evangelos Koronios, a Greek basketball player and coach.
1970 – Joakim Berg, a Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1971 – Greg Johnson, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1971 – Alan Tudyk, an American actor.
1972 – Ismaïl Sghyr, a French-Moroccan long-distance runner.
1973 – Tim Kang, an American actor.
1973 – Andrey Mizurov, a Kazakhstani road bicycle racer.
1973 – Vonda Ward, an American boxer.
1974 – Georgios Anatolakis, a Greek footballer and politician.
1974 – Anne Charrier, a French actress.
1974 – Heath Streak, a Zimbabwean cricketer.
1975 – Luciano Castro, an Argentine actor.
1975 – Sienna Guillory, an English model and actress.
1975 – Lionel Torres, a French archer.
1976 – Blu Cantrell, an American singer-songwriter and producer.
1976 – Zhu Chen, a Qatari chess Grandmaster.
1976 – Kim Johnsson, a Swedish ice hockey player.
1976 – Leila Lejeune, a French handballer.
1976 – Susanne Ljungskog, a Swedish cyclist.
1976 – Abraham Núñez, a Dominican baseball player.
1977 – Mónica Cruz, a Spanish actress and dancer.
1977 – Thomas Rupprath, a German swimmer.
1978 – Brooke Burns, an American fashion model, television personality, and actress.
1978 – Annett Renneberg, a German actress and singer.
1979 – Tyler Arnason, an American ice hockey player.
1979 – Hee-seop Choi, a South Korean baseball player.
1979 – Christina Liebherr, a Swiss equestrian.
1979 – Rashad Moore, an American football player.
1979 – Sébastien Ostertag, a French handball player.
1979 – Leena Peisa, a Finnish keyboard player and songwriter.
1979 – Andrei Stepanov, an Estonian footballer.
1980 – Todd Heap, an American football player.
1980 – Felipe Reyes, a Spanish basketball player.
1981 – Andrew Bree, an Irish swimmer.
1981 – Danny Brown, an American rapper.
1981 – Curtis Granderson, an American baseball player.
1981 – Julien Mazet, a French road bicycle racer.
1981 – Fabiana Murer, a Brazilian pole vaulter.
1982 – Miguel Comminges, a Guadeloupean footballer.
1982 – Riley Cote, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
1982 – Jesús Del Nero, a Spanish road bicycle racer.
1982 – Brian Wilson, an American baseball player.
1983 – Brett Davern, an American actor.
1983 – Stephen Drew, an American baseball player.
1983 – Brandon League, an American baseball player.
1983 – Nicolas Rousseau, a French road bicycle racer.
1983 – Tramon Williams, an American football player.
1984 – Aisling Bea, an Irish comedienne and actress.
1984 – Levi Brown, an American football player.
1984 – Sharon Cherop, a Kenyan long-distance runner.
1984 – Hosea Gear, a New Zealand rugby player.
1984 – Brandon Prust, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1985 – Teddy Atine-Venel, a French athlete.
1985 – Eddy Lover, a Panamanian singer-songwriter.
1985 – Aleksei Sokirskiy, a Russian hammer thrower.
1986 – Alexandra Daddario, an American actress.
1986 – Toney Douglas, an American basketball player.
1986 – Kenny Dykstra, an American wrestler.
1986 – T. J. Jordan, an American basketball player.
1986 – Boaz Solossa, an Indonesian footballer.
1986 – Daisuke Takahashi, a Japanese figure skater.
1987 – Fabien Lemoine, a French football player.
1988 – Jhené Aiko, an American singer-songwriter and rapper.
1988 – Jessica Gregg, a Canadian speed skater.
1988 – Patrick Herrmann, a German footballer.
1988 – Agustín Marchesín, an Argentinian footballer.
1988 – Jiří Tlustý, a Czech ice hockey player.
1989 – Blake Griffin, an American basketball player.
1989 – Jung So-min, a South Korean actress.
1989 – Magalie Pottier, a French racing cyclist.
1989 – Theo Walcott, an English footballer.
1990 – Andre Young, an American basketball player.
1991 – Chris Boswell, an American football player.
1991 – Reggie Bullock, an American basketball player.
1991 – Admir Mehmedi, a Swiss footballer.
1991 – Wolfgang Van Halen, an American bassist.
1992 – Tim Hardaway Jr., an American basketball player.
1993 – George Ford, an English rugby union player.
1993 – Marine Lorphelin, a French model and beauty queen, Miss France 2013.
1994 – Camilo, a Colombian singer.
1994 – Joel Embiid, a Cameroonian basketball player.
1994 – Sierra McClain, an American actress.
1995 – Inga Janulevičiūtė, a Lithuanian figure skater.
1996 – Ajiona Alexus, an American actress and singer.
1996 – Ivan Toney, an English footballer.
1997 – Dominic Calvert-Lewin, an English footballer.
1997 – Florian Neuhaus, a German footballer.
1997 – Tyrel Jackson Williams, an American actor.
1999 – Vladimir Guerrero Jr., a Canadian baseball player.
2000 – Jalen Smith, an American basketball player.
2001 – Kyle Hamilton, an American football player.

Notable People Who Passed Away on March 16

Passed Away Before 1600

AD 37 – Tiberius, a Roman emperor.
455 – Valentinian III, a Roman emperor.
455 – Heraclius, a Roman courtier.
842 – Xiao Mian, a chancellor of the Tang dynasty.
933 – Takin al-Khazari, an Egyptian commander and politician.
943 – Pi Guangye, a Chinese official and chancellor.
1021 – Heribert of Cologne, a German archbishop and saint.
1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg, a German archbishop.
1181 – Henry I, Count of Champagne.
1185 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.
1279 – Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León.
1405 – Margaret III, Countess of Flanders.
1410 – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, a French-English admiral and politician.
1457 – Ladislaus Hunyadi, a Hungarian politician.
1485 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England.
1559 – Anthony St. Leger, an English-Irish politician.

Passed Away From 1601 to 1900

1649 – Jean de Brébeuf, a French-Canadian missionary and saint.
1679 – John Leverett, an English general and politician.
1698 – Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, a Danish countess and author.
1721 – James Craggs the Elder, an English politician.
1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, an Italian composer.
1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth, an American minister and academic.
1738 – George Bähr, a German architect, who designed the Dresden Frauenkirche.
1747 – Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.
1804 – Henrik Gabriel Porthan, a Finnish professor and historian.
1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, an American ocean navigator and mathematician.
1841 – Félix Savart, a French physicist and psychologist.
1868 – David Wilmot, an American politician.
1884 – Art Croft, an American baseball player.
1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, a French politician.
1892 – Samuel F. Miller, an American politician.
1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, an English author and illustrator.
1899 – Joseph Medill, an American journalist and politician.

Passed Away From 1901 to Present

1903 – Roy Bean, an American justice of the peace.
1907 – John O'Leary, an Irish republican and journalist.
1912 – Max Burckhard, an Austrian theater director.
1914 – Gaston Calmette, a French journalist.
1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, a Swiss lawyer and politician, who won a Nobel Peace Prize.
1914 – John Murray, a Scottish oceanographer and biologist.
1925 – August von Wassermann, a German bacteriologist.
1930 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, a Spanish general and politician.
1935 – John Macleod, a Scottish physician and physiologist, who won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, a Latvian-Danish chess player.
1936 – Marguerite Durand, a French actress, journalist, and activist.
1937 – Austen Chamberlain, an English politician, who won a Nobel Peace Prize.
1937 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, an Estonian orientalist.
1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, a Swedish author and academic, who won a Nobel Prize in Literature.
1945 – Börries von Münchhausen, a German poet.
1955 – Nicolas de Staël, a French-Russian painter and illustrator.
1957 – Constantin Brâncuși, a Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer.
1958 – Leon Cadore, an American baseball player.
1961 – Chen Geng, a Chinese general and politician.
1961 – Václav Talich, a Czech violinist and conductor.
1963 – Laura Adams Armer, an American author and photographer.
1965 – Alice Herz, a German activist.
1967 – Thomas MacGreevy, an Irish poet.
1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, an Italian-American pianist and composer.
1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, a Swedish poet and translator.
1970 – Tammi Terrell, an American singer.
1971 – Bebe Daniels, an American actress.
1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, an American lawyer and politician.
1972 – Pie Traynor, an American baseball player.
1975 – T-Bone Walker, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, a Lebanese lawyer and politician.
1979 – Jean Monnet, a French economist and politician.
1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, a Polish-American painter.
1983 – Arthur Godfrey, an American actor and television host.
1983 – Fred Rose, a Polish-Canadian politician.
1985 – Roger Sessions, an American composer, critic, and educator.
1985 – Eddie Shore, a Canadian-American ice hockey player.
1988 – Jigger Statz, an American baseball player.
1988 – Mickey Thompson, an American race car driver.
1990 – Ernst Bacon, an American pianist, composer, and conductor.
1991 – Chris Austin, an American country singer.
1991 – Jean Bellette, an Australian artist.
1992 – Yves Rocard, a French physicist and engineer.
1994 – Eric Show, an American baseball player.
1998 – Derek Barton, an English-American chemist and academic, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1998 – Esther Bubley, an American photographer.
1999 – Gratien Gélinas, a Canadian actor, director, and playwright.
2000 – Thomas Ferebee, an American colonel and pilot.
2000 – Pavel Prudnikau, a Belarusian poet and author.
2000 – Michael Starr, a Canadian judge and politician.
2000 – Carlos Velázquez, a Puerto Rican pitcher.
2001 – Bob Wollek, a French race car driver.
2003 – Rachel Corrie, an American activist.
2003 – Ronald Ferguson, an English captain, polo player, and manager.
2004 – Vilém Tauský, a Czech conductor and composer.
2005 – Todd Bell, an American football player.
2005 – Ralph Erskine, an English architect.
2005 – Dick Radatz, an American baseball player.
2007 – Manjural Islam Rana, a Bangladeshi cricketer.
2008 – Bill Brown, an Australian cricketer and soldier.
2008 – Ivan Dixon, an American actor, director, and producer.
2008 – Gary Hart, an American wrestler and manager.
2010 – Ksenija Pajčin, a Serbian singer, dancer, and model.
2011 – Richard Wirthlin, an American religious leader.
2012 – Donald E. Hillman, an American colonel and pilot.
2012 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, a Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic.
2013 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, a Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist.
2013 – José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, an Argentinian economist and politician.
2013 – Yadier Pedroso, a Cuban pitcher.
2013 – Ruchoma Shain, an American-born teacher and author.
2013 – Marina Solodkin, a Russian-Israeli academic and politician.
2013 – Frank Thornton, an English actor.
2014 – Gary Bettenhausen, an American race car driver.
2014 – Donald Crothers, an American chemist and academic.
2014 – Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, a Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright.
2014 – Steve Moore, an English author and illustrator.
2014 – Alexander Pochinok, a Russian economist and politician.
2015 – Jack Haley, an American basketball player and sportscaster.
2015 – Don Robertson, an American pianist and composer.
2016 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, a Russian-American mathematician and poet.
2016 – Frank Sinatra Jr., an American singer and actor.
2017 – Lewis Rowland, an American neurologist.
2018 – Louise Slaughter, a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.
2019 – Dick Dale, an American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

Holidays and Observances

Saint Urho

Christian feast day:
- Abbán
- Finian Lobhar (Finian the Leper)
- Heribert of Cologne.
- Hilarius of Aquileia
- Julian of Antioch
- March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of the Book Smugglers (Lithuania)
Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires (Latvia)
Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians)