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April 16

25 years on from Bangladesh, April 16 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

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Aries is the sign for April 16 — read more on the Aries page, or see April's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on April 16?

April 16 is the 106th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 69 and 2014. Famous people born on April 16 include Charlie Chaplin, Pope Benedict XVI and John Franklin.

Released on April 16

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game Opus: Prism Peak
  • Movie Bhooth Bangla
  • Game Ground Zero
  • Game Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
  • Game Mouse: P.I. For Hire
  • Game Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss
  • Game The Day I Became a Bird
  • Movie Normal

2025

  • Game Rusty Rabbit
  • Movie Sinners

2024

  • Game Harold Halibut

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 69

    AD 69

  2. 1520

    Revolt of the Comuneros

  3. 1799

    French Revolutionary Wars

  4. 1912

    Harriet Quimby

  5. 1941

    World War II

  6. 1947

    Bernard Baruch

  7. 1948

    OECD

  8. 2001

    Bangladesh

  9. 2007

    Virginia Tech shooting

  10. 2014

    South Korea

Famous birthday twins

Born on April 16

Charlie Chaplin

b. 1889

Pope Benedict XVI

b. 1927

John Franklin

b. 1786

Jules Hardouin-Mansart

b. 1646

Freddie Ljungberg

b. 1977

Leo Tindemans

b. 1922

Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

b. 1955

Selena

b. 1971

Deaths

  • 1991David Lean
  • 1972Yasunari Kawabata
  • 1958Rosalind Franklin
  • 1828Francisco Goya
  • 1118Adelaide del Vasto

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Benedict Joseph Labre
  • —Christian feast day: Bernadette Soubirous
  • —Christian feast day: Drogo
  • —Christian feast day: Engratia
  • —Christian feast day: Fructuosus of Braga
  • —Christian feast day: Isabella Gilmore (Church of England)
  • —Christian feast day: Martyrs of Zaragoza
  • —Christian feast day: Molly Brant (Konwatsijayenni) (Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church)

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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