Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 16
Births
[edit]- 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
- 1889 – Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer (d. 1977) (pictured)
- 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
- 1927 – Pope Benedict XVI (d. 2022)
- 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
- 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
Deaths
[edit]- 1689 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
- 1828 – Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- 1850 – Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
- 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
- 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
- 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)