Today in History
16 July
216 births · 100 deaths · 56 events recorded
Notable Births
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Kevin Abstract
b. 1996
American rapper and singer (born 1996)
Luke Hemmings
b. 1996
Australian singer and guitarist (born 1996)
Shericka Jackson
b. 1994
Jamaican sprinter (born 1994)
Safiya Nygaard
b. 1992
American YouTuber
Dylan Grimes
b. 1991
Australian rules footballer
Nate Schmidt
b. 1991
American ice hockey player (born 1991)
Carli Lloyd
b. 1982
American soccer player (born 1982)
Shoeless Joe Jackson
b. 1887
American baseball player (1887–1951)
Notable Deaths
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Connie Francis
d. 2025
American singer and actress (1937–2025)
Joe Bryant
d. 2024
American basketball head coach and player (1954–2024)
Kevin Mitnick
d. 2023
American hacker (1963–2023)
Biz Markie
d. 2021
American rapper and singer (1964–2021)
Tony Taylor (baseball)
d. 2020
Cuban baseball player (1935–2020)
John Paul Stevens
d. 2019
United States Supreme Court justice from 1975 to 2010
George A. Romero
d. 2017
American filmmaker (1940–2017)
Herbert von Karajan
d. 1989
Austrian conductor (1908–1989)
On This Day in History
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2019
A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.
Mumbai
2015
Four U.S. Marines and a United States Navy Sailor are killed in the a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
United States Marine Corps
2013
As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
Bihar school meal poisoning incident
2013
Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava–Islamist conflict.
Syrian civil war
2009
Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention.
Teoh Beng Hock
2007
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake
2005
An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.
Antonov An-24
2004
Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
Millennium Park