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On This Day · The 320th day of the year

November 16

250 years on from American Revolutionary War, November 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.

♏ZodiacScorpio ◈BirthstoneTopaz ❀Birth flowerChrysanthemum

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

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on November 16?

November 16 is the 320th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1632 and 2002. Famous people born on November 16 include Tiberius, William Bonner (newscaster) and Mika Aaltonen.

Released on November 16

Movies, games, albums & shows

2023

  • TV Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

2022

  • Game Call of Duty: Warzone
  • Game Goat Simulator 3

2021

  • Game Moncage
  • Game Ruined King: A League of Legends Story
  • Game Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One
  • Game Dysmantle

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1632

    Gustavus Adolphus

  2. 1776

    American Revolutionary War

  3. 1849

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

  4. 1940

    World War II

  5. 1940

    The Holocaust

  6. 1967

    Aeroflot Flight 2230

  7. 1973

    Richard Nixon

  8. 1988

    Pakistan

  9. 1997

    China

  10. 2002

    2002–2004 SARS outbreak

Famous birthday twins

Born on November 16

Tiberius

b. -42

William Bonner (newscaster)

b. 1963

Mika Aaltonen

b. 1965

José Saramago

b. 1922

Paul Scholes

b. 1974

Harvey Martin

b. 1950

Andrea Barrett

b. 1954

Zina Garrison

b. 1963

Deaths

  • 2006Milton Friedman
  • 1974Walther Meissner
  • 1922Max Abraham
  • 1264Emperor Lizong
  • 1240Ibn Arabi
  • 1005Ælfric of Abingdon

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Africus
  • —Christian feast day: Agnes of Assisi
  • —Christian feast day: Edmund of Abingdon
  • —Christian feast day: Elfric of Abingdon
  • —Christian feast day: Eucherius of Lyon
  • —Christian feast day: Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Giuseppe Moscati
  • —Christian feast day: Gobrain

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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