16 April
Notable Births
Sadie Sink
b. 2002
American actress (born 2002)
Anya Taylor-Joy
b. 1996
Actress (born 1996)
Taylor Townsend
b. 1996
American tennis player (born 1996)
Chance the Rapper
b. 1993
American rapper (born 1993)
Mirai Nagasu
b. 1993
American figure skater (born 1993)
Brian Poe Llamanzares
b. 1992
Filipino Philanthropist, Entrepreneur, Public Servant (born 1992)
Nolan Arenado
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Kim Kyung-jung
b. 1991
South Korean footballer (born 1991)
Reggie Jackson (basketball, born 1990)
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Vangelis Mantzaris
b. 1990
Greek basketball player (born 1990)
Tony McQuay
b. 1990
American sprinter
Kyle Okposo
b. 1988
American ice hockey player (born 1988)
Cenk Akyol
b. 1987
Turkish basketball player (born 1987)
Aaron Lennon
b. 1987
English footballer (born 1987)
Shinji Okazaki
b. 1986
Japanese footballer (born 1986)
Peter Regin
b. 1986
Danish ice hockey player (born 1986)
Epke Zonderland
b. 1986
Dutch gymnast
Luol Deng
b. 1985
British basketball player (born 1985)
Nate Diaz
b. 1985
American mixed martial artist (born 1985)
Charlie Chaplin
b. 1889
English comic actor and filmmaker (1889–1977)
Notable Deaths
Nora Aunor
d. 2025
Filipino actress and singer (1953–2025)
Carl Erskine
d. 2024
American baseball player (1926–2024)
Bob Graham
d. 2024
American politician (1936–2024)
Andrew Peacock
d. 2021
Australian politician (1939–2021)
Helen McCrory
d. 2021
British actress (1968–2021)
Liam Scarlett
d. 2021
British choreographer (1986–2021)
John Dawes
d. 2021
British Lions & Wales international rugby union player and coach (1940–2021)
Harry Anderson
d. 2018
American actor, comedian, and magician (1952–2018)
Valery Belousov
d. 2015
Russian ice hockey player and coach
Stanislav Gross
d. 2015
Czech politician (1969–2015)
Gyude Bryant
d. 2014
Head of state of Liberia from 2003 to 2006
Aulis Rytkönen
d. 2014
Finnish footballer (1929-2014)
Ernst Florian Winter
d. 2014
American historian and politologist (1923–2014)
Charles Bruzon
d. 2013
Gibraltarian politician and priest
Ali Kafi
d. 2013
Algerian politician
Siegfried Ludwig
d. 2013
Austrian politician (1926–2013)
Pentti Lund
d. 2013
Finnish Canadian ice hockey player (1925–2013)
George Beverly Shea
d. 2013
American gospel singer and hymn composer born in Canada (1909-2013)
Pat Summerall
d. 2013
American football player and sportscaster (1930–2013)
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
d. 2013
Mexican architect (1919–2013)
On This Day in History
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2024
The historic Børsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, is severely damaged by a fire.
Børsen
2018
The New York Times and The New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
The New York Times
2016
Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures more than 230,000.
2016 Ecuador earthquake
2014
The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
South Korea
2013
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Balochistan province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
Moment magnitude scale
2013
The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
2013 Baga massacre
2012
The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
Trial of Anders Behring Breivik
2012
The Pulitzer Prize winners are announced. It was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2012 Pulitzer Prize
2008
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
Supreme Court of the United States
2007
Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho murders 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
Virginia Tech shooting
2003
The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
Treaty of Accession 2003
2001
India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
Bangladesh
1972
Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Apollo program
1963
U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1961
In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
Fidel Castro
1948
The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.
OECD
1947
An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
Texas City disaster
1947
Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Bernard Baruch
1945
World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
Red Army
1945
World War II: The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
United States Army