The August 16th is the 228e Jour of the Année (229e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
1 to 1900
XXe century
XXIe century
Births
Death
- 640: Saint Arnoul de Soissons, bishop
- 1153: Bernard de Tramelay, Master of the Order of the Temple.
- 1678 : Andrew Marvell, English poet (° March 31st 1621).
- 1695 : Christopher Merrett, Doctor and Naturalist English (° February 16th 1614).
- 1829 : Edouard-Léonor Havin, appointed French (° July 9th 1755).
- 1846 : Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (° December 17th 1773).
- 1938 : Robert Johnson, American musician (° May 8th 1911).
- 1949 : Margaret Mitchell, writer American (° November 8th 1900).
- 1972 : Pierre Brasseur, actor and realizer French (° December 22nd 1905)
- 1977: Elvis Aaron Presley, American singer of Rock' roll (° January 8th 1935)
- 1987: Pepe Cáceres (Jose Eslava Cáceres), Matador Colombia N (° March 16th 1935).
- 2003 : Idi Amin Hobby-horse, military Ugandan (° May 17th 1928), dictator of Uganda of 1971 with 1979
- 2005: Frère Roger, Swiss priest, founder and organizer of the the Community of Taizé (° May 12th 1915).
- 2006 : Alfredo Stroessner, president-dictator of the Paraguay of 1954 with 1989 (° 3 November 1912)
- 2007 :
Celebrations
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
Orthodoxe saints of the day
- Constantin Brancoveanu (+ 1714), martyr with his adviser his four sons.
Catholic saints of the day
See too
Beats-smg: Rogpjūtė 16
Be-X-old: 16 жніўня
Fiu-vro: 16. põimukuu päiv
Nds-nl: 16 augustus
Simple: August 16
Zh-yue: 8 月 16 號