July 16 is the 197nd (198rd in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 168 days left until the end of the year.
Railways
- 16 July 1920 The Directorate of Parliament was established in Eskisehir to seize railways outside the Turkish Grand National Assembly's occupation zones. Colonel Behiç (Erkin) Bey was brought to his head. Konya-Yenice and Afyon-Uşak lines were given to the military inspector Vasfi Bey and Ankara-Eskişehir, Eskişehir-Bilecik, Eskişehir-Konya and Toros-Amanos parts were given to Behiç Bey.
Events
- 622 – Muhammad and the first Muslims with him migrated from Mecca to Medina. This event is accepted as the beginning of the Hijri calendar.
- 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: During the Reconquista, Pope III. The Christian Kingdoms in Spain, coming together at the call of Innocentius, defeated the Muslim Almohads under Muhammad Nasser.
- 1394 – King of France VI. Charles gave orders for the Jews to be expelled from France.
- 1661 – The first banknote in Europe was printed and put into circulation by a Swedish bank called “Stockholms Banco”.
- 1782 – by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Abduction from the Palace opera was performed for the first time.
- 1880 - Emily Stowe becomes the first licensed female physician in Canada.
- 1912 – Stockholm Olympic Games started.
- 1921 - Adjara Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established. In 1991, the Autonomous Republic of Adjara was established.
- 1935 - The world's first parking meter is installed on a street in Oklahoma City.
- 1942 – Largest Jewish arrest in France: 12884 Jews are arrested for deportation to Auschwitz.
- 1945 – Manhattan Project: The first atomic bomb test (Trinity test) was conducted near the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
- 1965 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel, connecting France and Italy, was opened.
- 1969 - Apollo 11 was launched from Kennedy Space Center.
- 1979 - Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq.
- 1990 – Earthquake in Philippines: 1450 dead.
- 1994 - Pieces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into the planet Jupiter.
- 1999 – The small plane of John F. Kennedy, Jr., son of former US President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. Kennedy lost his life with his wife and sister-in-law that are in the plane.
- 2005 – A suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden tanker truck to the gas station in Musayyib, Iraq: 98 dead, 100 injured.
- 2008 – A bomb-laden vehicle exploded in a market place in Tal Afar, Iraq: 7 people, including 11 children, were killed and 90 injured. Archived July 30, 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- 2016 – The military coup attempt initiated on 15 July by a group of soldiers who defined themselves as the Peace at Home Council within the Turkish Armed Forces in Turkey was suppressed.
Births
- 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1531)
- 1517 – Frances Brandon, first daughter and second child of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor, 1st Duke of Suffolk (d. 1559)
- 1723 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- 1796 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French impressionist painter (d. 1875)
- 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
- 1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his Phase contrast microscope (d. 1966)
- 1896 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, diplomat (d. 1968)
- 1902 – Orhan Şaik Gökyay, Turkish poet and literature history and language researcher (d. 1994)
- 1906 – Halide Pişkin, Turkish theater actress (d. 1959)
- 1907 Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1911 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
- 1915 – Cihat Arman, Turkish football player (Fenerbahce and the national team's goalkeeper) (d. 1994)
- 1918 – Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish singer (d. 2015)
- 1919 – Choi Kyu-ha, South Korean politician (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Rosita Quintana, Argentine-Mexican actress, singer, and songwriter (d. 2021)
- 1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist (d. 2015)
- 1930 – Guy Béart, French singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1930 – Bert Rechichar, Former professional American football player (d. 2019)
- 1934 – Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine journalist and author (d. 2010)
- 1936 – Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician
- 1939 – Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran, of Turkish origin, religious and political.
- 1939 – Denise LaSalle, American blues singer and songwriter (d. 2018)
- 1939 – Corin Redgrave, English actress and activist (d. 2010)
- 1942 - Margaret Court, Australian tennis player
- 1943 – Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright (d. 1990)
- 1945 – Çetin Tekindor, Turkish actor and voice actor
- 1948 – Lars Lagerbäck, Swedish coach
- 1952 – Stewart Copeland, American musician
- 1954 – Betül Arım, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actress
- 1956 – Lutz Eigendorf, German former football player (d. 1983)
- 1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
- 1957 – Włodzimierz Smolarek, former Polish football player (d. 2012)
- 1959 – Jürgen League, Estonian politician, minister
- 1959 – James MacMillan, Scottish classical composer and conductor
- 1963 – Phoebe Cates, American actress
- 1963 – Srečko Katanec, Slovenian international football player and manager
- 1963 – Nina Petri, German actress
- 1964 – Ashot Anastasyan, Armenian World champion chess player (d. 2016)
- 1964 – Costance Adams, American architect and author (d. 2018)
- 1964 – Nino Burcanadze, Georgian politician and speaker of the Georgian Parliament
- 1964 – Miguel Indurain, Retired Spanish road cyclist
- 1966 – Yıldız Tilbe, Turkish singer, composer and songwriter
- 1967 – Will Ferrell, American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
- 1968 – Larry Sanger, American internet project/software developer, co-founder of Wikipedia and founder of Citizendium
- 1971 – Bibiana Beglau, German actress
- 1974 – Ryan McCombs, American singer-songwriter
- 1976 - Carlos Paredes, former Paraguayan international football player
- 1976 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish model and actress
- 1976 – Michael Petkovic, Croatian-Australian former Goalkeeper
- 1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli professional tennis player
- 1978 – Gülhan Şen, Turkish presenter
- 1979 – Jayma Mays, American actress
- 1979 - Kim Rhode, American shooter
- 1980 – Svetlana Feofanova, Russian former pole vaulter
- 1980 – Jesse Jane, American pornographic actress and model
- 1980 – Adam Scott, Australian golfer
- 1981 - Zach Randolph, American professional basketball player
- 1981 – Vicente Rodríguez, Spanish football player
- 1981 – Maher Zain, Lebanese-Swedish musician
- 1982 – André Greipel is a retired German professional road cyclist.
- 1982 - Carli Lloyd was an American women's international football player.
- 1982 – Michael Umana is a Costa Rican football player.
- 1983 - Katrina Kaif, British actress and model
- 1984 – Franco Dario Cangele, Argentine football player
- 1987 – Annalynne McCord, American actress
- 1987 – Mousa Dembélé, Belgian football player
- 1988 – Sergio Busquets, Spanish national football player
- 1989 – Gareth Bale, Welsh football player
- 1991 – Andros Townsend is an English footballer.
- 1993 – Alpaslan Öztürk, Turkish-Belgian football player
- 1994 - Koki Tsukagawa, Japanese football player
- 1996 – Nathaël Julan, French football player (d. 2020)
Deaths
- 1060 – Çağrı, grandson of Seljuk ruler Seljuk Bey from Kınık tribe of Oghuz, son of Mikail, elder brother of Tugrul Bey and father of Alp Arslan (b. 989)
- 1216 – III. Innocentius was pope from 8 January 1198 to 16 July 1216 (b. 1161)
- 1324 – Go-Uda, 91st Emperor of Japan (b. 1267)
- 1342 – Károly I, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1308 until his death (b. 1288)
- 1344 – Ahmed I is the fifteenth Turkish-born Mamluk Sultan of the Bahri dynasty who ruled in Egypt in 1342 (b. 1318)
- 1557 – Anne of Cleves, VIII. Henry's fourth wife (b. 1515)
- 1612 – Leonardo Donato, 90th Duke of the Republic of Venice (b. 1536)
- 1664 – Andreas Gryphius, German poet of baroque literature (b. 1616)
- 1764 – VI. Ivan, Russian tsar in 1740-1741 (b. 1740)
- 1857 – Pierre-Jean de Béranger, French lyricist and poet (b. 1780)
- 1882 – Mary Ann Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1818)
- 1889 – Michele Amari, Sicilian historian and orientalist (b. 1806)
- 1910 – Albert Anker, Swiss painter (b. 1831)
- 1915 – Ellen G. White, co-founder and leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
- 1920 – Gyula Benczúr, Hungarian painter (b. 1844)
- 1945 – David Lindsay, English writer (b. 1876)
- 1959 – Henri Prost, French architect and urban planner (b. 1874)
- 1960 – Albert Kesselring, German soldier and Luftwaffe marshal in Nazi Germany (b. 1885)
- 1960 – John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
- 1963 – Nikolay Aseyev, Russian poet (b. 1889)
- 1964 – Rauf Orbay, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1881)
- 1969 – Vecihi Hürkuş, Turkish pilot, engineer and entrepreneur (Turkish aviation leader) (b. 1896)
- 1982 – Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
- 1985 – Heinrich Böll, German writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
- 1989 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Miguel Muñoz, Spanish former football player and manager (b. 1922)
- 1994 – Julian Schwinger, American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
- 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher (b. 1960)
- 2001 – Morris (Maurice de Bevere), Belgian illustrator (comics) Red kit'creator of (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Celia Cruz, Cuban singer (b. 1925)
- 2003 – Carol Shields, Canadian-American novelist and short story writer (b. 1935)
- 2005 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Güzin Sayar, Turkish journalist and Guzin Sister Columnist who became famous for his column (b. 1921)
- 2008 – Çetin Özek, Turkish lawyer, writer and journalist (b. 1934)
- 2012 – Stephen Covey, Trainer, corporate consultant, and author (b. 1932)
- 2012 – Jon Lord, English composer, organ and piano musician (b. 1941)
- 2012 – Kitty Wells, American country music singer (b. 1919)
- 2013 – T-Model Ford, American guitarist and blues singer (b. 1924)
- 2014 – Karl Hans Albrecht, German entrepreneur and businessman (b. 1920)
- 2014 – Faruk Ilgaz, Turkish sportsman (b. 1922)
- 2014 – Johnny Winter, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
- 2015 – Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan international football player (b. 1926)
- 2015 – Brian Hall, Former Scottish footballer (b. 1946)
- 2015 – Ali Nar, Turkish poet and writer (b. 1938)
- 2016 – Ömer Halisdemir, Turkish non-commissioned officer (b. 1974)
- 2016 – Nate Thurmond, American black legendary basketball player (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Trevor Baxter, English actor and playwright (b. 1932)
- 2017 – Régis Gizavo, Malagasy-Malaysian accordionist and musician (b. 1959)
- 2017 – George A. Romero, American director, writer, editor, and actor (b. 1940)
- 2018 – Jerzy Piskun, Polish former basketball player (b. 1938)
- 2019 – Rosa María Britton, Panamanian physician and novelist (b. 1936)
- 2019 – Ernie Broglio, American former professional baseball player (b. 1935)
- 2019 – Sonia Infante, Mexican film producer, film and television actress (b. 1944)
- 2020 – Patrick Ellis, American radio show host and production director (b. 1943)
- 2020 – Cornelius Mwalwanda, Malawian development economist (b. 1944)
- 2020 – Neela Satyanarayanan, Indian writer (b. 1948)
- 2020 – Phyllis Somerville, American actress (b. 1943)
- 2020 – Víctor Víctor, Dominican guitarist, singer and composer (b. 1948)
- 2021 – Biz Markie, American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, producer, comedian, actor, and television personality (b. 1964)
- 2021 – Yves Boutet, French former professional football player (b. 1936)
- 2021 – Roger Fauroux, French bureaucrat (b. 1926)
- 2021 – Surekha Sikri, Indian actress (b. 1945)
- 2022 – Vira Vovk, Brazilian writer, poet, critic, and translator writing in Ukrainian (b. 1926)
