People who died on February 16 (various years)
2006 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player
2006 - Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler
2005 - Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia)
2004 - Doris Troy, American singer
2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
2003 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley
2002 - Walter Winterbottom, England football manager
2001 - William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist
2001 - Howard W. Koch, American film director
2001 - Bob Buhl, baseball player
2000 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress
2000 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born engineer and inventor
2000 - Marceline Day, American actress
1997 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist
1996 - Brownie McGhee, American singer
1996 - Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California
1996 - Roger Bowen, American actor
1992 - Herman Wold, Swedish statistician (b. 1908
1992 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician
1992 - Angela Carter, English writer
1990 - Keith Haring, American artist
1988 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler
1980 - Erich Hückel, German physicist
1978 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier
1977 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet
1975 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone
1975 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete
1974 - John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer
1967 - Smiley Burnette, American actor, singer and songwriter
1967 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor
1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1928 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer
1919 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star
1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer
1912 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest
1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate
1899 - Félix Faure, President of France
1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet
1844 - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer
1754 - Richard Mead, English physician
1721 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician
1710 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes
1560 - Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat
1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer
1391 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor
1279 - King Afonso III of Portugal
1247 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia