April 16
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[edit] Births
- 1867 - Wilbur Wright of the Wright brothers, American co-inventor of the airplane.
- 1900 - Polly Adler
- 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
- 1939 - Dusty Springfield
- 1940 - Margrethe II of Denmark
[edit] Deaths
- 69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
- 744 - al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
- 1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
- 1689 - Aphra Behn, dramatist (b. ca. 1640)
- 1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (b. 1707)
- 1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
- 1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
- 1914 - George William Hill, astronomer (b. 1838)
- 1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
- 1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
- 1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and Automobile designer
- 1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
- 1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
- 1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese author (b. 1899)
- 1978 - Lucius Clay, American general
- 1985 - Scott Brady, American actor
- 1991 - David Lean, American film director (b. 1908)
- 1992 - Neville Brand, actor (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave
- 1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
- 1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
- 2001 - Michael Ritchie, American film director
- 2002 - Ruth Fertel, restaurateur
- 2002 - Robert Urich, American actor
- 2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, horticultural artist, author, and garden designer
- 2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
