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| March 16th, 2037 (March 16 2037) | Death | Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (born in 46 BC) | |
| March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (born in 1912) | |
| March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (born in 1946) | |
| March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (born in 1942) | |
| March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | G. David Low, American astronaut (born in 1956) | David Low Quotes |
| March 16th, 2008 (March 16 2008) | Death | John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (born in 1922) | |
| March 16th, 2007 (March 16 2007) | Death | Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (born in 1984) | |
| March 16th, 2006 (March 16 2006) | Event | The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council. | |
| March 16th, 2006 (March 16 2006) | Death | David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (born in 1944) | |
| March 16th, 2005 (March 16 2005) | Event | Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. | |
| March 16th, 2005 (March 16 2005) | Death | Todd Bell, American football player (born in 1958) | |
| March 16th, 2005 (March 16 2005) | Death | Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (born in 1914) | |
| March 16th, 2005 (March 16 2005) | Death | Anthony George, American TV actor (born in 1921) | |
| March 16th, 2005 (March 16 2005) | Death | Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (born in 1927) | |
| March 16th, 2005 (March 16 2005) | Death | Dick Radatz, American baseball player (born in 1937) | |
| March 16th, 2004 (March 16 2004) | Death | Vilem Tausky, Czech conductor and composer (born in 1910) | |
| March 16th, 2003 (March 16 2003) | Event | The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq war. | |
| March 16th, 2003 (March 16 2003) | Death | Rachel Corrie, American political activist (born in 1979) | |
| March 16th, 2003 (March 16 2003) | Death | Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (born in 1931) | |
| March 16th, 2001 (March 16 2001) | Death | Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (born in 1921) | |
| March 16th, 2001 (March 16 2001) | Death | Bob Wollek, French race car driver (born in 1943) | |
| March 16th, 2000 (March 16 2000) | Death | Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (born in 1918) | |
| March 16th, 1999 (March 16 1999) | Death | Gratien Gelinas, Quebec playwright and director (born in 1909) | |
| March 16th, 1998 (March 16 1998) | Event | Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust. | |
| March 16th, 1998 (March 16 1998) | Death | Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1918) | |
| March 16th, 1997 (March 16 1997) | Event | Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International. | |
| March 16th, 1996 (March 16 1996) | Death | Charlie Barnett, American actor (born in 1954) | |
| March 16th, 1995 (March 16 1995) | Event | Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. | |
| March 16th, 1994 (March 16 1994) | Birth | Sierra McClain, American actress and singer | |
| March 16th, 1993 (March 16 1993) | Death | Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (born in 1945) | |
| March 16th, 1992 (March 16 1992) | Death | Yves Rocard, French physicist (born in 1903) | |
| March 16th, 1992 (March 16 1992) | Death | Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (born in 1919) | |
| March 16th, 1991 (March 16 1991) | Birth | Wolfgang Van Halen, American musician | |
| March 16th, 1989 (March 16 1989) | Birth | Peaches Geldof, English Dosser | |
| March 16th, 1989 (March 16 1989) | Birth | Theo Walcott, English footballer | |
| March 16th, 1989 (March 16 1989) | Birth | Blake Griffin, American basketball player | |
| March 16th, 1988 (March 16 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. | |
| March 16th, 1988 (March 16 1988) | Event | Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents, killing 5000 people and injured about 10000 people. | |
| March 16th, 1987 (March 16 1987) | Birth | Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model | |
| March 16th, 1986 (March 16 1986) | Birth | Ken Doane, American professional wrestler | |
| March 16th, 1986 (March 16 1986) | Birth | T. J. Jordan, American basketball player | |
| March 16th, 1985 (March 16 1985) | Event | Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991. | |
| March 16th, 1985 (March 16 1985) | Birth | Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel | |
| March 16th, 1985 (March 16 1985) | Death | Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1902) | |
| March 16th, 1984 (March 16 1984) | Event | William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity. | |
| March 16th, 1984 (March 16 1984) | Birth | Levi Brown, American football player | |
| March 16th, 1984 (March 16 1984) | Death | John Hoagland, American photographer (born in 1947) | |
| March 16th, 1983 (March 16 1983) | Event | Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last radio tower in Germany built of wood. | |
| March 16th, 1983 (March 16 1983) | Birth | Brandon League, American baseball player | |
| March 16th, 1983 (March 16 1983) | Death | Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (born in 1903) | |
| March 16th, 1983 (March 16 1983) | Death | Fred Rose, Canadian politician (born in 1907) | |
| March 16th, 1981 (March 16 1981) | Birth | Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer | |
| March 16th, 1981 (March 16 1981) | Birth | Curtis Granderson, American baseball player | |
| March 16th, 1981 (March 16 1981) | Birth | Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer | |
| March 16th, 1980 (March 16 1980) | Birth | Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player | |
| March 16th, 1980 (March 16 1980) | Birth | Todd Heap, American football player | |
| March 16th, 1980 (March 16 1980) | Death | Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (born in 1898) | |
| March 16th, 1979 (March 16 1979) | Birth | Edison Mendez, Ecuadorian footballer | |
| March 16th, 1979 (March 16 1979) | Birth | Rashad Moore, National Football League player | |
| March 16th, 1979 (March 16 1979) | Birth | Leena Peisa, Finnish musician (Lordi) | |
| March 16th, 1979 (March 16 1979) | Death | Jean Monnet, French politician (born in 1888) | |
| March 16th, 1978 (March 16 1978) | Event | Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped by left-wing terrorists and is later killed by his captors. | |
| March 16th, 1978 (March 16 1978) | Event | Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits 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. | |
| March 16th, 1977 (March 16 1977) | Birth | Donal Og Cusack, Irish hurler | |
| March 16th, 1977 (March 16 1977) | Death | Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (born in 1917) | |
| March 16th, 1976 (March 16 1976) | Event | British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons. | |
| March 16th, 1976 (March 16 1976) | Birth | Abraham Nunez, Dominican baseball player | Abraham Quotes |
| March 16th, 1976 (March 16 1976) | Birth | Paul Schneider, American actor | |
| March 16th, 1976 (March 16 1976) | Birth | Nick Spano, American actor | |
| March 16th, 1975 (March 16 1975) | Birth | Sienna Guillory, English actress | |
| March 16th, 1975 (March 16 1975) | Death | Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (born in 1936) | |
| March 16th, 1975 (March 16 1975) | Death | T-Bone Walker, American musician (born in 1910) | |
| March 16th, 1974 (March 16 1974) | Birth | Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer | |
| March 16th, 1974 (March 16 1974) | Birth | Fotini Vavatsi, Greek archer | |
| March 16th, 1973 (March 16 1973) | Birth | Brant Bjork, American musician (Kyuss) | |
| March 16th, 1971 (March 16 1971) | Event | Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway. | |
| March 16th, 1971 (March 16 1971) | Birth | Alan Tudyk, American actor | |
| March 16th, 1971 (March 16 1971) | Death | Thomas Dewey, American presidential candidate (born in 1902) | |
| March 16th, 1970 (March 16 1970) | Birth | Paul Oscar (Pall Oskar Hjalmtysson), Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey | |
| March 16th, 1970 (March 16 1970) | Death | Tammi Terrell, American singer (born in 1946) | |
| March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers: men, women, and children are killed by American troops. | |
| March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Event | General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. | |
| March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Birth | Ananya Khare, Indian actress and teacher | |
| March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Death | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (born in 1895) | |
| March 16th, 1968 (March 16 1968) | Death | Gunnar Ekelof, Swedish poet and writer (born in 1907) | |
| March 16th, 1967 (March 16 1967) | Birth | Lauren Graham, American actress | |
| March 16th, 1966 (March 16 1966) | Event | Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle. | |
| March 16th, 1965 (March 16 1965) | Birth | Richard Daniel Roman, English songwriter and record producer | |
| March 16th, 1965 (March 16 1965) | Birth | Belen Rueda, Spanish actress | |
| March 16th, 1964 (March 16 1964) | Birth | Patty Griffin, American singer and songwriter | |
| March 16th, 1964 (March 16 1964) | Birth | Gore Verbinski, American movie director | |
| March 16th, 1964 (March 16 1964) | Birth | Pascal Richard, Swiss cyclist | |
| March 16th, 1963 (March 16 1963) | Event | Mount Agung erupts on Bali, as 11,000 die. | |
| March 16th, 1963 (March 16 1963) | Birth | Jimmy Degrasso, American musician, drummer | |
| March 16th, 1963 (March 16 1963) | Birth | Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (died in 2002) | Kevin Smith Quotes |
| March 16th, 1962 (March 16 1962) | Event | A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with 107 people missing. | |
| March 16th, 1961 (March 16 1961) | Birth | Todd McFarlane, Canadian cartoonist, comic book writer, artist, and media entrepreneur | |
| March 16th, 1961 (March 16 1961) | Birth | Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league footballer | |
| March 16th, 1961 (March 16 1961) | Death | Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (born in 1903) | |
| March 16th, 1960 (March 16 1960) | Birth | Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 16th, 1959 (March 16 1959) | Birth | Flavor Flav, American rapper | |
| March 16th, 1959 (March 16 1959) | Birth | Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway | |
| March 16th, 1958 (March 16 1958) | Event | The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company s founding. | |
| March 16th, 1958 (March 16 1958) | Birth | Jorge Ramos, Mexican TV anchor | |
| March 16th, 1958 (March 16 1958) | Birth | Kate Worley, American comic book writer (died in 2004) | |
| March 16th, 1957 (March 16 1957) | Death | Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (born in 1876) | |
| March 16th, 1955 (March 16 1955) | Birth | Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer | |
| March 16th, 1955 (March 16 1955) | Birth | Bruno Barreto, Brazilian film director | |
| March 16th, 1955 (March 16 1955) | Death | Nicolas de Stael, French-Russian painter (born in 1914) | |
| March 16th, 1954 (March 16 1954) | Birth | Jimmy Nail, British actor and singer | |
| March 16th, 1954 (March 16 1954) | Birth | Nancy Wilson, American guitarist, singer, and actress (Heart) | |
| March 16th, 1953 (March 16 1953) | Birth | Isabelle Huppert, French actress | |
| March 16th, 1953 (March 16 1953) | Birth | Richard Stallman, American free software activist | |
| March 16th, 1952 (March 16 1952) | Event | In Cilaos, Reunion, 1,870mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record. | |
| March 16th, 1952 (March 16 1952) | Birth | Philippe Kahn, French-American entrepreneur | |
| March 16th, 1951 (March 16 1951) | Birth | Joe DeLamielleure, American football player | |
| March 16th, 1950 (March 16 1950) | Event | Communist Czechoslovakia s ministry of foreign affairs asked nuncios of Vatican to leave the country. | |
| March 16th, 1950 (March 16 1950) | Birth | Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress | |
| March 16th, 1949 (March 16 1949) | Birth | Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor | |
| March 16th, 1949 (March 16 1949) | Birth | Elliott Murphy, American Singer-Songwriter | |
| March 16th, 1949 (March 16 1949) | Birth | Victor Garber, Canadian actor | |
| March 16th, 1948 (March 16 1948) | Birth | Michael Bruce, American musician. Guitarist and keyboard player for Alice Cooper | Alice Cooper Quotes |
| March 16th, 1948 (March 16 1948) | Birth | Margaret Weis, American author | |
| March 16th, 1948 (March 16 1948) | Birth | Richard Desjardins, Quebec singer, songwriter and film director | |
| March 16th, 1947 (March 16 1947) | Birth | Ramzan Paskayev, Chechen accordionist | |
| March 16th, 1946 (March 16 1946) | Birth | Michael Basman, English chess master | |
| March 16th, 1946 (March 16 1946) | Birth | Hubert Soudant, Dutch conductor | |
| March 16th, 1945 (March 16 1945) | Event | World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist. | |
| March 16th, 1945 (March 16 1945) | Event | Wurzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers. | |
| March 16th, 1945 (March 16 1945) | Death | Borries von Munchhausen, German poet (born in 1874) | |
| March 16th, 1943 (March 16 1943) | Event | The Royal Navy Isles Class Trawler HMS Campobello Sinks in the Atlantic. | |
| March 16th, 1943 (March 16 1943) | Birth | Ursula Goodenough, Evolutionary Scholar, Cell Biologist | |
| March 16th, 1943 (March 16 1943) | Birth | Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (died in 2005) | |
| March 16th, 1942 (March 16 1942) | Event | History of Rocketry: The first V-2 rocket test launch (exploded at liftoff). | |
| March 16th, 1942 (March 16 1942) | Birth | James Soong, Taiwanese politician | |
| March 16th, 1942 (March 16 1942) | Birth | Jerry Jeff Walker, American musician | |
| March 16th, 1942 (March 16 1942) | Birth | Roger Crozier, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (died in 1996) | |
| March 16th, 1941 (March 16 1941) | Birth | Robert Guei, ruler of Cote d Ivoire (died in 2002) | |
| March 16th, 1941 (March 16 1941) | Birth | Chuck Woolery, American game show host | |
| March 16th, 1940 (March 16 1940) | Birth | Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director | |
| March 16th, 1940 (March 16 1940) | Birth | Jan Pronk, Dutch politician | |
| March 16th, 1940 (March 16 1940) | Birth | Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM) and painter | |
| March 16th, 1940 (March 16 1940) | Death | Selma Lagerlof, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1858) | |
| March 16th, 1939 (March 16 1939) | Event | From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. | |
| March 16th, 1939 (March 16 1939) | Event | Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. | |
| March 16th, 1939 (March 16 1939) | Birth | Carlos Bilardo, Argetinian football coach | |
| March 16th, 1937 (March 16 1937) | Birth | Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (died in 1996) | |
| March 16th, 1936 (March 16 1936) | Birth | Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (died in 2001) | |
| March 16th, 1936 (March 16 1936) | Death | Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (born in 1864) | |
| March 16th, 1935 (March 16 1935) | Event | Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| March 16th, 1935 (March 16 1935) | Birth | Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano | |
| March 16th, 1935 (March 16 1935) | Death | John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1876) | John Scott Quotes |
| March 16th, 1935 (March 16 1935) | Death | Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (born in 1886) | |
| March 16th, 1934 (March 16 1934) | Birth | Ray Hnatyshyn, Governor-General of Canada (died in 2002) | Gene Ray Quotes |
| March 16th, 1933 (March 16 1933) | Birth | Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist | |
| March 16th, 1932 (March 16 1932) | Birth | Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (died in 2005) | |
| March 16th, 1932 (March 16 1932) | Birth | Walter Cunningham, American astronaut | |
| March 16th, 1931 (March 16 1931) | Birth | Betty Johnson, American singer | |
| March 16th, 1930 (March 16 1930) | Birth | Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (died in 2001) | |
| March 16th, 1930 (March 16 1930) | Death | Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (born in 1870) | |
| March 16th, 1929 (March 16 1929) | Birth | Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress | |
| March 16th, 1928 (March 16 1928) | Birth | Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano | |
| March 16th, 1928 (March 16 1928) | Birth | Karlheinz Bohm, Austrian actor | |
| March 16th, 1927 (March 16 1927) | Birth | Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (died in 1967) | |
| March 16th, 1927 (March 16 1927) | Birth | Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York (died in 2003) | |
| March 16th, 1927 (March 16 1927) | Birth | Olga San Juan, American comedian | |
| March 16th, 1926 (March 16 1926) | Event | History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. | |
| March 16th, 1926 (March 16 1926) | Birth | Charles Goodell, American politician (died in 1987) | |
| March 16th, 1926 (March 16 1926) | Birth | Jerry Lewis, American comedian | |
| March 16th, 1926 (March 16 1926) | Death | Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog | |
| March 16th, 1925 (March 16 1925) | Birth | Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (died in 2004) | |
| March 16th, 1924 (March 16 1924) | Event | The free port of Fiume is formally annexed by Mussolini s fascist regime. | |
| March 16th, 1922 (March 16 1922) | Birth | Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright | |
| March 16th, 1920 (March 16 1920) | Birth | Leo McKern, Australian actor (died in 2002) | |
| March 16th, 1920 (March 16 1920) | Birth | Traudl Junge, Hitler s secretary (died in 2002) | Traudl Junge Quotes |
| March 16th, 1920 (March 16 1920) | Birth | John Addison, British composer (died in 1998) | |
| March 16th, 1920 (March 16 1920) | Birth | Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (died in 1947) | |
| March 16th, 1918 (March 16 1918) | Birth | Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1998) | |
| March 16th, 1917 (March 16 1917) | Birth | Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (died in 1977) | |
| March 16th, 1916 (March 16 1916) | Event | The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. | |
| March 16th, 1916 (March 16 1916) | Birth | Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (died in 2004) | |
| March 16th, 1914 (March 16 1914) | Death | Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1843) | |
| March 16th, 1912 (March 16 1912) | Event | Lawrence Oates, ill member of Scott s South Pole expedition leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time." | |
| March 16th, 1912 (March 16 1912) | Birth | Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (died in 1993) | |
| March 16th, 1911 (March 16 1911) | Birth | Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (died in 1979) | Josef Mengele Quotes |
| March 16th, 1911 (March 16 1911) | Birth | Pierre Harmel, Belgian politician | |
| March 16th, 1908 (March 16 1908) | Birth | Rene Daumal, French Surrealist writer (died in 1944) | |
| March 16th, 1908 (March 16 1908) | Birth | Robert Rossen, American film director, screenwriter and producer (died in 1966) | |
| March 16th, 1906 (March 16 1906) | Birth | Henny Youngman, American comedian (died in 1998) | Henny Youngman Quotes |
| March 16th, 1906 (March 16 1906) | Birth | Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer | |
| March 16th, 1905 (March 16 1905) | Birth | Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (died in 1977) | |
| March 16th, 1905 (March 16 1905) | Birth | Marlin Perkins, American naturalist (died in 1986) | |
| March 16th, 1903 (March 16 1903) | Birth | Mike Mansfield, American politician, and diplomat (died in 2001) | |
| March 16th, 1903 (March 16 1903) | Death | Roy Bean, American jurist | Roy Bean Quotes |
| March 16th, 1902 (March 16 1902) | Birth | Leon Roppolo, American jazz clarinetist (died in 1943) | |
| March 16th, 1901 (March 16 1901) | Birth | Edward Pawley, American actor (died in 1988) | |
| March 16th, 1900 (March 16 1900) | Event | Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete. | Evans Quotes |
| March 16th, 1899 (March 16 1899) | Death | Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (born in 1823) | |
| March 16th, 1898 (March 16 1898) | Death | Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (born in 1872) | |
| March 16th, 1897 (March 16 1897) | Birth | Conrad Nagel, American actor (died in 1970) | |
| March 16th, 1892 (March 16 1892) | Birth | Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian poet (died in 1938) | |
| March 16th, 1892 (March 16 1892) | Birth | James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (died in 1984) | |
| March 16th, 1892 (March 16 1892) | Death | Samuel F. Miller, American politician (born in 1827) | |
| March 16th, 1890 (March 16 1890) | Birth | Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (died in 1948) | Solomon Quotes |
| March 16th, 1890 (March 16 1890) | Death | Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (born in 1864) | |
| March 16th, 1889 (March 16 1889) | Birth | Reggie Walker, South African athlete (died in 1951) | |
| March 16th, 1888 (March 16 1888) | Death | Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (born in 1801) | |
| March 16th, 1883 (March 16 1883) | Birth | Ethel Anderson, Australian poet (died in 1958) | |
| March 16th, 1878 (March 16 1878) | Birth | Clemens August Graf von Galen, German archbishop and cardinal (died in 1946) | |
| March 16th, 1877 (March 16 1877) | Birth | Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (died in 1941) | |
| March 16th, 1872 (March 16 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. | |
| March 16th, 1869 (March 16 1869) | Birth | F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (died in 1936) | |
| March 16th, 1867 (March 16 1867) | Event | First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet. | |
| March 16th, 1865 (March 16 1865) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough begins as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war. | |
| March 16th, 1865 (March 16 1865) | Birth | Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (died in 1953) | |
| March 16th, 1861 (March 16 1861) | Event | Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. | |
| March 16th, 1859 (March 16 1859) | Birth | Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (died in 1906) | |
| March 16th, 1857 (March 16 1857) | Birth | Charles Harding Firth, British historian (died in 1936) | |
| March 16th, 1856 (March 16 1856) | Birth | Napoleon Eugene Louis John Joseph, called Napoleon IV, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France (died in 1879) | |
| March 16th, 1851 (March 16 1851) | Birth | Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (died in 1931) | |
| March 16th, 1846 (March 16 1846) | Birth | Gosta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (died in 1927) | |
| March 16th, 1840 (March 16 1840) | Birth | Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (died in 1931) | |
| March 16th, 1839 (March 16 1839) | Birth | Rene Francois Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1907) | |
| March 16th, 1839 (March 16 1839) | Birth | John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (died in 1922) | |
| March 16th, 1834 (March 16 1834) | Birth | James Hector, Scottish geologist (died in 1907) | |
| March 16th, 1822 (March 16 1822) | Birth | Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (died in 1899) | |
| March 16th, 1818 (March 16 1818) | Event | Battle of Cancha RayadaSpanish forces defeat Chileans under Jose de San Martin. | Jose de San Martin Quotes |
| March 16th, 1815 (March 16 1815) | Event | Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in The Netherlands. | Will Self Quotes |
| March 16th, 1812 (March 16 1812) | Event | Battle of Badajoz (March April 6)British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during Peninsular War. | |
| March 16th, 1805 (March 16 1805) | Birth | Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (died in 1861) | Philo Quotes |
| March 16th, 1802 (March 16 1802) | Event | The United States Military Academy at West Point is established. | |
| March 16th, 1800 (March 16 1800) | Birth | Emperor Ninko of Japan (died in 1846) | |
| March 16th, 1794 (March 16 1794) | Birth | Ami Boue, Austrian geologist (died in 1881) | |
| March 16th, 1792 (March 16 1792) | Event | King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. | |
| March 16th, 1789 (March 16 1789) | Birth | Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (died in 1854) | |
| March 16th, 1774 (March 16 1774) | Birth | Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (died in 1814) | |
| March 16th, 1773 (March 16 1773) | Birth | Juan Ramon Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (died in 1836) | |
| March 16th, 1751 (March 16 1751) | Birth | James Madison, 4th President of the United States (died in 1836) | James Madison Quotes |
| March 16th, 1750 (March 16 1750) | Birth | Caroline Herschel, German-born English astronomer (died in 1848) | |
| March 16th, 1747 (March 16 1747) | Death | Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (born in 1690) | |
| March 16th, 1738 (March 16 1738) | Death | George Bahr, German architect (born in 1666) | |
| March 16th, 1737 (March 16 1737) | Death | Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (born in 1670) | |
| March 16th, 1736 (March 16 1736) | Death | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (born in 1710) | |
| March 16th, 1721 (March 16 1721) | Death | James Craggs the Elder, English politician (born in 1657) | |
| March 16th, 1689 (March 16 1689) | Event | The 23rd Regiment of Foot or Royal Welch Fusiliers is founded. | |
| March 16th, 1687 (March 16 1687) | Birth | Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort in Prussia (died in 1757) | |
| March 16th, 1679 (March 16 1679) | Death | John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born in 1616) | |
| March 16th, 1660 (March 16 1660) | Event | The Long Parliament disbands. | |
| March 16th, 1654 (March 16 1654) | Birth | Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (died in 1704) | |
| March 16th, 1649 (March 16 1649) | Death | St. Jean de Brebeuf, French Jesuit missionary (born in 1593) | |
| March 16th, 1631 (March 16 1631) | Birth | Rene Le Bossu, French critic (died in 1680) | |
| March 16th, 1621 (March 16 1621) | Event | Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." | |
| March 16th, 1620 (March 16 1620) | Death | St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing | |
| March 16th, 1585 (March 16 1585) | Birth | Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (died in 1618) | |
| March 16th, 1581 (March 16 1581) | Birth | Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and writer (died in 1647) | |
| March 16th, 1559 (March 16 1559) | Death | Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born in 1496) | |
| March 16th, 1521 (March 16 1521) | Event | Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines. | |
| March 16th, 1485 (March 16 1485) | Death | Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (born in 1456) | Richard III of England Quotes |
| March 16th, 1473 (March 16 1473) | Birth | Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (died in 1541) | |
| March 16th, 1457 (March 16 1457) | Death | Laszlo Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (born in 1433) | |
| March 16th, 1445 (March 16 1445) | Birth | Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (died in 1510) | |
| March 16th, 1410 (March 16 1410) | Death | John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (born in 1373) | |
| March 16th, 1338 (March 16 1338) | Birth | Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (died in 1401) | |
| March 16th, 1322 (March 16 1322) | Event | The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence. | |
| March 16th, 1322 (March 16 1322) | Death | Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (born in 1276) | |
| March 16th, 1249 (March 16 1249) | Event | The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany. | |
| March 16th, 1190 (March 16 1190) | Event | Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism. | |
| March 16th, 1072 (March 16 1072) | Death | Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop | |
| March 16th, 1037 (March 16 1037) | Death | Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen | |
| March 16th, 1021 (March 16 1021) | Death | Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III | |
| March 16th, 0597 (March 16 0597) | Event | Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king. | |
| March 16th, 0455 (March 16 0455) | Death | Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (born in 419) | |
