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December 16th, 2007 (December 16 2007)DeathDan Fogelberg, American singer/songwriter (born in 1951)
December 16th, 1997 (December 16 1997)DeathNicolette Larson, American singer (born in 1952)
December 16th, 1987 (December 16 1987)BirthHallee Hirsh, American actress
December 16th, 1977 (December 16 1977)BirthEric Belanger, Canadian ice hockey player
December 16th, 1977 (December 16 1977)BirthSylvain Distin, French footballer
December 16th, 1977 (December 16 1977)DeathRisto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (born in 1934)
December 16th, 1967 (December 16 1967)BirthDonovan Bailey, Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter
December 16th, 1967 (December 16 1967)BirthMiranda Otto, Australian actress
December 16th, 1957 (December 16 1957)EventSir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
December 16th, 1947 (December 16 1947)EventWilliam Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
December 16th, 1947 (December 16 1947)BirthBen Cross, English actor
December 16th, 1947 (December 16 1947)BirthVincent Matthews, American sprinter
December 16th, 1937 (December 16 1937)EventTheodore 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)BirthJoyce Bulifant, American actress
December 16th, 1927 (December 16 1927)BirthRandall Garrett, American writer (died in 1987)
December 16th, 1917 (December 16 1917)BirthNabi Bux Khan Baloch, Sindhi scholar
December 16th, 1917 (December 16 1917)BirthSir Arthur C. Clarke, English writer (died in 2008)Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
December 16th, 1907 (December 16 1907)EventGreat White Fleet started its circumnavigation of the world
December 16th, 1897 (December 16 1897)DeathAlphonse Daudet, French novelist and short story writer (born in 1840)
December 16th, 1867 (December 16 1867)BirthAmy Carmichael, missionary in Dohnavur, India (died in 1951)
December 16th, 1787 (December 16 1787)BirthMary Russell Mitford, English writer (died in 1855)
December 16th, 1717 (December 16 1717)BirthElizabeth Carter, English writer (died in 1806)
December 16th, 1707 (December 16 1707)EventLast recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
December 16th, 1687 (December 16 1687)DeathWilliam Petty, English scientist and philosopher (born in 1623) Philo Quotes
December 16th, 1497 (December 16 1497)EventVasco 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)DeathEberhard of Friuli

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