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| '''April 16''' is the 106th day of the year in the ] (107th in ]s). There are 259 days remaining. | '''April 16''' is the 106th day of the year in the ] (107th in ]s). There are 259 days remaining. | ||
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April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining.
Events
- 1746 - Battle of Culloden, in Scotland, last battle of the Jacobite Rising, destruction of the Highland clans
- 1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychic effects of LSD
Births
- 1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter (+ 1842)
- 1844 - Anatole France, narrator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1921 (+ 1924)
- 1867 - Wilbur Wright, pioneer pilot (+ 1912)
- 1886 - Ernst Thälmann, politician (+ 1944)
- 1889 - Charlie Chaplin, actor, writer and film producer (+ 1977)
- 1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (+ 1983)
- 1918 - Spike Milligan, comedian
- 1921 - Peter Ustinov, writer, actor and film director
- 1924 - Henry Mancini, film and TV composer, "Moon River", Peter Gunn
- 1927 - Joseph Ratzinger, cardinal
- 1930 - Herbie Mann, jazz flute player
- 1935 - Sarah Kirsch, lyricist
- 1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark
- 1946 - Bobby Vinton, teen balladeer of the 1960s
- 1954 - James Cameron, director
- 1958 - Angela Bassett, actress
- 1958 - Madonna, singer, personality
- 1960 - Timothy Hutton, actor
- 1962 - Ian MacKaye, musician
Deaths
Holidays
- Birthday of the Queen celebrated in Greenland
See Also:
April 15 - April 17 - March 16 - May 16 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December