16 February

Notable Births

Yuki Naito

b. 2001

Japanese tennis player (born 2001)

Original Koffee

b. 2000

Jamaican musician (born 2000)

Coby White

b. 2000

American basketball player (born 2000)

Carlos Yulo

b. 2000

Filipino artistic gymnast (born 2000)

Ignatius Ganago

b. 1999

Cameroonian footballer (born 1999)

Girl in Red

b. 1999

Norwegian singer-songwriter (born 1999)

An Hye-jin

b. 1998

South Korean volleyball player (born 1998)

Kim Su-ji (diver)

b. 1998

South Korean diver (born 1998)

Jordan Greenway

b. 1997

American ice hockey player (born 1997)

Denzel Curry

b. 1995

American rapper (born 1995)

Katy Dunne

b. 1995

British tennis player (born 1995)

Carina Witthöft

b. 1995

German tennis player

Annika Beck

b. 1994

German tennis player

Federico Bernardeschi

b. 1994

Italian footballer (born 1994)

Ava Max

b. 1994

American singer and songwriter (born 1993)

Nicolai Boilesen

b. 1992

Danish footballer (born 1992)

Sergio Canales

b. 1991

Spanish footballer (born 1991)

The Weeknd

b. 1990

Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1990)

Elizabeth Olsen

b. 1989

American actress (born 1989)

Luc Bourdon

b. 1987

Canadian ice hockey player (1987–2008)

Notable Deaths

Billy Steinberg

d. 2026

American songwriter (1950–2026)

Frederick Wiseman

d. 2026

American filmmaker (1930–2026)

Viktor Antonov (artist)

d. 2025

Bulgarian video game artist (1972–2025)

Alexei Navalny

d. 2024

Russian opposition leader and activist (1976–2024)

Gustavo Noboa

d. 2021

President of Ecuador from 2000 to 2003

Bruno Ganz

d. 2019

Swiss actor (1941–2019)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

d. 2016

UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996 (1922–2016)

Lasse Braun

d. 2015

Italian pornographer, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and researcher

Lesley Gore

d. 2015

American singer (1946–2015)

R. R. Patil

d. 2015

Indian politician (1956–2015)

Lorena Rojas

d. 2015

Mexican actress and singer (1971–2015)

Ken Farragut

d. 2014

American football player (1928–2014)

Kralle Krawinkel

d. 2014

German guitarist (1947–2014)

Michael Shea (American author)

d. 2014

American fiction author (1946–2014)

Colin Edwards (footballer)

d. 2013

Guyanese footballer

Grigory Pomerants

d. 2013

Lithuanian-born Russian philosopher and cultural theorist

Tony Sheridan

d. 2013

British musician (1940–2013)

Gary Carter

d. 2012

American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (1954–2012)

Elyse Knox

d. 2012

American actress (1917–2012)

Chien-Shiung Wu

d. 1997

Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997)

On This Day in History

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2021

Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.

Kherrata

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2013

A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.

February 2013 Quetta bombing

2006

The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

2005

The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.

Kyoto Protocol

2005

The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.

National Hockey League

2000

Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.

Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17

1998

China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.

China Airlines Flight 676

1996

A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.

Amtrak

1991

Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.

Nicaragua

1986

The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Soviet Union

1986

China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.

China Airlines Flight 2265

1985

Hezbollah is founded.

Hezbollah

1984

Iran launches Operation Dawn 5, a major offensive during the Iran–Iraq War targeting the Basra–Baghdad highway, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides.

Iran