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December 16th, 2007 (December 16 2007) | Death | Dan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (born in 1951) | |
December 16th, 1997 (December 16 1997) | Death | Nicolette Larson, American singer (born in 1952) | |
December 16th, 1987 (December 16 1987) | Birth | Hallee Hirsh, American actress | |
December 16th, 1977 (December 16 1977) | Birth | Eric Belanger, Canadian ice hockey player | |
December 16th, 1977 (December 16 1977) | Birth | Sylvain Distin, French footballer | |
December 16th, 1977 (December 16 1977) | Death | Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (born in 1934) | |
December 16th, 1967 (December 16 1967) | Birth | Donovan Bailey, Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter | |
December 16th, 1967 (December 16 1967) | Birth | Miranda Otto, Australian actress | |
December 16th, 1957 (December 16 1957) | Event | Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan. | |
December 16th, 1947 (December 16 1947) | Event | William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor. | |
December 16th, 1947 (December 16 1947) | Birth | Ben Cross, English actor | |
December 16th, 1947 (December 16 1947) | Birth | Vincent Matthews, American sprinter | |
December 16th, 1937 (December 16 1937) | Event | Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again. | |
December 16th, 1937 (December 16 1937) | Birth | Joyce Bulifant, American actress | |
December 16th, 1927 (December 16 1927) | Birth | Randall Garrett, American writer (died in 1987) | |
December 16th, 1917 (December 16 1917) | Birth | Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar | |
December 16th, 1917 (December 16 1917) | Birth | Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (died in 2008) | Arthur C. Clarke Quotes |
December 16th, 1907 (December 16 1907) | Event | Great White Fleet started its circumnavigation of the world | |
December 16th, 1897 (December 16 1897) | Death | Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and short story writer (born in 1840) | |
December 16th, 1867 (December 16 1867) | Birth | Amy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (died in 1951) | |
December 16th, 1787 (December 16 1787) | Birth | Mary Russell Mitford, English writer (died in 1855) | |
December 16th, 1717 (December 16 1717) | Birth | Elizabeth Carter, English writer (died in 1806) | |
December 16th, 1707 (December 16 1707) | Event | Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan. | |
December 16th, 1687 (December 16 1687) | Death | William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (born in 1623) | Philo Quotes |
December 16th, 1497 (December 16 1497) | Event | Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. | |
December 16th, 0867 (December 16 0867) | Death | Eberhard of Friuli | |