June 16 Deaths |
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| June 16th, 2008 (June 16 2008) | Death | Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (born in 1975) | |
| June 16th, 2008 (June 16 2008) | Death | Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (born in 1921) | |
| June 16th, 2007 (June 16 2007) | Death | Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, (born in 1931) | |
| June 16th, 2007 (June 16 2007) | Death | Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (born in 1940) | |
| June 16th, 2006 (June 16 2006) | Death | Igor Smialowski, Polish actor (born in 1917) | |
| June 16th, 2006 (June 16 2006) | Death | Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (born in 1942) | |
| June 16th, 2005 (June 16 2005) | Death | Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (born in 1906) | |
| June 16th, 2004 (June 16 2004) | Death | Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (born in 1912) | |
| June 16th, 2003 (June 16 2003) | Death | Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (born in 1934) | |
| June 16th, 2003 (June 16 2003) | Death | Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (born in 1916) | Philo Quotes |
| June 16th, 2000 (June 16 2000) | Death | Empress Kojun of Japan (born in 1903) | |
| June 16th, 1999 (June 16 1999) | Death | David Edward Sutch, British musician (born in 1940) | |
| June 16th, 1996 (June 16 1996) | Death | Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (born in 1913) | |
| June 16th, 1996 (June 16 1996) | Death | Curt Swan, American comic book artist (born in 1920) | |
| June 16th, 1994 (June 16 1994) | Death | Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (Hole) (born in 1967) | |
| June 16th, 1993 (June 16 1993) | Death | Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (born in 1913) | |
| June 16th, 1990 (June 16 1990) | Death | Megan Leigh, American porn star (born in 1964) | |
| June 16th, 1988 (June 16 1988) | Death | Miguel Pinero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (born in 1946) | |
| June 16th, 1986 (June 16 1986) | Death | Maurice Durufle, French composer and organist (born in 1902) | |
| June 16th, 1984 (June 16 1984) | Death | Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (born in 1895) | |
| June 16th, 1982 (June 16 1982) | Death | James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (born in 1956) | |
| June 16th, 1981 (June 16 1981) | Death | Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (born in 1917) | |
| June 16th, 1979 (June 16 1979) | Death | Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (born in 1931) | |
| June 16th, 1979 (June 16 1979) | Death | Nicholas Ray, American film director (born in 1911) | |
| June 16th, 1977 (June 16 1977) | Death | Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (born in 1912) | Wernher von Braun Quotes |
| June 16th, 1971 (June 16 1971) | Death | Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (born in 1889) | |
| June 16th, 1970 (June 16 1970) | Death | Heino Eller, Estonian composer (born in 1887) | |
| June 16th, 1970 (June 16 1970) | Death | Brian Piccolo, American football player (born in 1943) | |
| June 16th, 1969 (June 16 1969) | Death | Harold Alexander, British military commander (born in 1891) | |
| June 16th, 1961 (June 16 1961) | Death | Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (born in 1904) | |
| June 16th, 1959 (June 16 1959) | Death | George Reeves, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| June 16th, 1958 (June 16 1958) | Death | Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (born in 1895) | |
| June 16th, 1955 (June 16 1955) | Death | Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (born in 1864) | |
| June 16th, 1953 (June 16 1953) | Death | Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (born in 1873) | |
| June 16th, 1952 (June 16 1952) | Death | Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (born in 1861) | |
| June 16th, 1945 (June 16 1945) | Death | Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (born in 1905) | |
| June 16th, 1944 (June 16 1944) | Death | Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (born in 1886) | |
| June 16th, 1940 (June 16 1940) | Death | DuBose Heyward, American writer (born in 1885) | |
| June 16th, 1939 (June 16 1939) | Death | Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (born in 1905) | |
| June 16th, 1930 (June 16 1930) | Death | Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (born in 1866) | |
| June 16th, 1930 (June 16 1930) | Death | Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (born in 1860) | Ambrose Quotes |
| June 16th, 1929 (June 16 1929) | Death | Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (born in 1856) | |
| June 16th, 1928 (June 16 1928) | Death | Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (born in 1867) | |
| June 16th, 1925 (June 16 1925) | Death | Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (born in 1870) | |
| June 16th, 1925 (June 16 1925) | Death | Emmett Hardy, American musician (born in 1903) | |
| June 16th, 1902 (June 16 1902) | Death | Ernst Schroder, German mathematician (born in 1841) | |
| June 16th, 1885 (June 16 1885) | Death | Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (born in 1818) | |
| June 16th, 1881 (June 16 1881) | Death | Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (born in 1801) | |
| June 16th, 1881 (June 16 1881) | Death | Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (born in 1795) | |
| June 16th, 1878 (June 16 1878) | Death | Crawford Long, American physician (born in 1815) | |
| June 16th, 1872 (June 16 1872) | Death | Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (born in 1812) | |
| June 16th, 1869 (June 16 1869) | Death | Charles Sturt, English explorer (born in 1795) | |
| June 16th, 1866 (June 16 1866) | Death | Joseph Mery French poet (born in 1798) | |
| June 16th, 1858 (June 16 1858) | Death | John Snow, English epidemiologist (born in 1813) | |
| June 16th, 1855 (June 16 1855) | Death | John Gorrie, American physician (born in 1803) | |
| June 16th, 1850 (June 16 1850) | Death | William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (born in 1774) | |
| June 16th, 1849 (June 16 1849) | Death | Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (born in 1780) | |
| June 16th, 1824 (June 16 1824) | Death | Charles-Francois Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (born in 1739) | |
| June 16th, 1804 (June 16 1804) | Death | Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (born in 1728) | |
| June 16th, 1792 (June 16 1792) | Death | Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (born in 1738) | |
| June 16th, 1779 (June 16 1779) | Death | Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (born in 1712) | |
| June 16th, 1778 (June 16 1778) | Death | Konrad Ekhof, German actor (born in 1720) | |
| June 16th, 1777 (June 16 1777) | Death | Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (born in 1709) | |
| June 16th, 1752 (June 16 1752) | Death | Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (born in 1664) | |
| June 16th, 1752 (June 16 1752) | Death | Joseph Butler, English philosopher (born in 1692) | Philo Quotes |
| June 16th, 1749 (June 16 1749) | Death | Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (born in 1672) | |
| June 16th, 1722 (June 16 1722) | Death | John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (born in 1650) | |
| June 16th, 1707 (June 16 1707) | Death | Marie d Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchatel and writer (born in 1625) | |
| June 16th, 1671 (June 16 1671) | Death | Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) | |
| June 16th, 1666 (June 16 1666) | Death | Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (born in 1608) | |
| June 16th, 1623 (June 16 1623) | Death | Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg-Wolfenbuttel, German Protestant military leader (born in 1599) | |
| June 16th, 1622 (June 16 1622) | Death | Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (born in 1555) | |
| June 16th, 1468 (June 16 1468) | Death | Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (born in ca. 1395) | |
| June 16th, 1397 (June 16 1397) | Death | Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (born in 1358) | |
| June 16th, 1216 (June 16 1216) | Death | Pope Innocent III | |
