16 July
Notable Births
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)
Andros Townsend
b. 1991
English footballer (born 1991)
James Maslow
b. 1990
American actor and singer (born 1990)
Wizkid
b. 1990
Nigerian singer (born 1990)
Johann Zarco
b. 1990
French motorcycle racer
Gareth Bale
b. 1989
Welsh footballer (born 1989)
Sergio Busquets
b. 1988
Spanish footballer (born 1988)
Mousa Dembélé (Belgian footballer)
b. 1987
Belgian footballer (born 1987)
AnnaLynne McCord
b. 1987
American actress (born 1987)
Knowshon Moreno
b. 1987
American football player (born 1987)
Misako Uno
b. 1986
Musical artist (born 1986)
Katrina Kaif
b. 1983
British actress (born 1983)
Duncan Keith
b. 1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)
Carli Lloyd
b. 1982
American soccer player (born 1982)
Shoeless Joe Jackson
b. 1887
American baseball player (1887–1951)
Notable Deaths
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)
Denis Avey
d. 2015
British Army soldier during World War II (1919–2015)
Alcides Ghiggia
d. 2015
Uruguayan footballer (1926-2015)
Jack Goody
d. 2015
English social anthropologist (1919–2015)
Johnny Winter
d. 2014
American blues guitarist and singer (1944–2014)
Heinz Zemanek
d. 2014
Austrian computer pioneer
Talia Castellano
d. 2013
American internet celebrity
Alex Colville
d. 2013
Canadian artist (1920–2013)
Marv Rotblatt
d. 2013
American baseball player (1927–2013)
William Asher
d. 2012
American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter (1921–2012)
Stephen Covey
d. 2012
American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Gilbert Esau
d. 2012
American politician
Ed Lincoln
d. 2012
Brazilian musician, composer and arranger
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
1999
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
1994
The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
1990
The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.
1990 Luzon earthquake
1990
The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
Verkhovna Rada
1983
Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
British Airways Helicopters Flight 5918
1979
Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
President of Iraq
1969
The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission is launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida, USA.
Apollo 11
1965
The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
Mont Blanc Tunnel
1965
South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
1957
KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people.
KLM Flight 844
1956
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1951
King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin of Belgium.
Leopold III of Belgium