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| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Event | Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide. | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (born in 1962) | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (born in 1915) | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (born in 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (born in 1958) | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (born in 1961) | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (born in 1930) | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (born in 1954) | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Death | Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (born in 1909) | |
| April 16th, 1997 (April 16 1997) | Death | Doris Angleton, American socialite (born in 1951) | |
| April 16th, 1997 (April 16 1997) | Death | Roland Topor, French illustrator (born in 1938) | |
| April 16th, 1987 (April 16 1987) | Event | British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London charged with gross indecency. | |
| April 16th, 1987 (April 16 1987) | Birth | Aaron Lennon, English footballer | |
| April 16th, 1977 (April 16 1977) | Birth | Alek Wek, Sudanese supermodel | |
| April 16th, 1977 (April 16 1977) | Birth | Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer | |
| April 16th, 1947 (April 16 1947) | Event | Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. | |
| April 16th, 1947 (April 16 1947) | Event | Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. | Bernard Baruch Quotes |
| April 16th, 1947 (April 16 1947) | Birth | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player | |
| April 16th, 1947 (April 16 1947) | Birth | Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter | |
| April 16th, 1947 (April 16 1947) | Death | Rudolf Ho?, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (born in 1900) | |
| April 16th, 1927 (April 16 1927) | Birth | Edie Adams, American actress | |
| April 16th, 1927 (April 16 1927) | Birth | Pope Benedict XVI | |
| April 16th, 1927 (April 16 1927) | Birth | Peter Mark Richman, American actor | |
| April 16th, 1917 (April 16 1917) | Event | Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Finland. | Vladimir Lenin Quotes |
| April 16th, 1917 (April 16 1917) | Birth | Barry Nelson, American actor (died in 2007) | |
| April 16th, 1907 (April 16 1907) | Birth | August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (died in 1947) | |
| April 16th, 1907 (April 16 1907) | Birth | Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier) (died in 1964) | |
| April 16th, 1867 (April 16 1867) | Birth | Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (died in 1912) | Wilbur Wright Quotes |
| April 16th, 1847 (April 16 1847) | Birth | Hans Auer, Swiss architect, (died in 1906) | |
| April 16th, 1827 (April 16 1827) | Birth | Octave Cremazie, French Canadian poet (died in 1879) | |
| April 16th, 1687 (April 16 1687) | Death | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (born in 1628) | |
