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| 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 1925 (March 16 1925) | Birth | Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (died in 2004) | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1805 (March 16 1805) | Birth | Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (died in 1861) | Philo Quotes |
| March 16th, 1585 (March 16 1585) | Birth | Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch writer (died in 1618) | |
| 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, 1445 (March 16 1445) | Birth | Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (died in 1510) | |
| March 16th, 0455 (March 16 0455) | Death | Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (born in 419) | |
