February 16

Pre-1600

 * 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
 * 1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.

1601–1900

 * 1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
 * 1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the First English Civil War.
 * 1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
 * 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
 * 1796 – Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon.
 * 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia (1799).
 * 1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
 * 1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
 * 1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
 * 1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
 * 1900 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier.

1901–present

 * 1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
 * 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
 * 1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
 * 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
 * 1936 – The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
 * 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
 * 1940 – World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. A total of 299 British prisoners are freed.
 * 1942 – World War II: In Athens, the Greek People's Liberation Army is established
 * 1942  – World War II: Attack on Aruba, first World War II German shots fired on a land based object in the Americas.
 * 1943 – World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
 * 1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
 * 1945  – The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.
 * 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
 * 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586) begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
 * 1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
 * 1962 – The Great Sheffield Gale impacts the United Kingdom, killing nine people; the city of Sheffield is devastated, with 150,000 homes damaged.
 * 1962  – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
 * 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
 * 1968  – Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground.
 * 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
 * 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
 * 1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
 * 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
 * 1986  – China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
 * 1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
 * 1996 – A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
 * 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.
 * 2000 – Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.
 * 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
 * 2005  – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
 * 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
 * 2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
 * 2021 – Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.

Pre-1600

 * 1222 – Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282)
 * 1304 – Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Chinese emperor (d. 1332)
 * 1331 – Coluccio Salutati, Italian political leader (d. 1406)
 * 1419 – John I, Duke of Cleves (d. 1481)
 * 1470 – Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1540)
 * 1471 – Krishnadevaraya, emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire (d. 1529)
 * 1497 – Philip Melanchthon, German astronomer, theologian, and academic (d. 1560)
 * 1514 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574)
 * 1519 – Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (d. 1572)
 * 1543 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (d. 1590)

1601–1900

 * 1620 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1688)
 * 1643 – John Sharp, English archbishop (d. 1714)
 * 1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758)
 * 1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist (d. 1817)
 * 1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
 * 1761 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)
 * 1774 – Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer (d. 1830)
 * 1786 – Maria Pavlovna, Russian Grand Duchess (d. 1859)
 * 1802 – Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866)
 * 1804 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (d. 1885)
 * 1812 – Henry Wilson, American colonel and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
 * 1821 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (d. 1865)
 * 1822 – Francis Galton, English biologist and statistician (d. 1911)
 * 1824 – Peter Kosler, Slovenian lawyer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1879)
 * 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and author (d. 1886)
 * 1830 – Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (d. 1902)
 * 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (d. 1895)
 * 1834 – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1919)
 * 1838 – Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (d. 1918)
 * 1841 – Armand Guillaumin, French painter (d. 1927)
 * 1843 – Henry M. Leland, American engineer and businessman, founded Cadillac and Lincoln (d. 1932)
 * 1845 – George Kennan, American journalist and explorer (d. 1924)
 * 1848 – Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic (d. 1935)
 * 1848  – Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright (d. 1917)
 * 1856 – Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (d. 1920)
 * 1866 – Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (d. 1940)
 * 1873 – Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author (d. 1908)
 * 1876 – G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic (d. 1962)
 * 1877 – Tom Crean, Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer (d. 1938)
 * 1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951)
 * 1878  – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920)
 * 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (d. 1951)
 * 1887 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
 * 1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (d. 1968)
 * 1893 – Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer (d. 1974)
 * 1896 – Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (d. 2010)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985)
 * 1901  – Chester Morris, American actor (d. 1970)
 * 1902 – Cyril Vincent, South African cricketer (d. 1968)
 * 1903 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist and actor (d. 1978)
 * 1904 – James Baskett, American actor and singer (d. 1948)
 * 1904  – George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (d. 2005)
 * 1905 – Henrietta Barnett, English Women's Royal Air Force officer (d. 1985)
 * 1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-Czechoslovak-British chess player (d. 1944)
 * 1909 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor and director (d. 1982)
 * 1909  – Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (d. 1998)
 * 1914 – Jimmy Wakely, American country music singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1982)
 * 1916 – Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
 * 1919 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (d. 1989)
 * 1920 – Anna Mae Hays, American general (d. 2018)
 * 1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (d. 1959)
 * 1921  – John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic (d. 2013)
 * 1921  – Vera-Ellen, German-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)
 * 1922 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German soldier and pilot (d. 1950)
 * 1923 – Samuel Willenberg, Polish-Israeli sculptor and painter (d. 2016)
 * 1925 – Ed Emshwiller, American illustrator and experiment film maker (d. 1990)
 * 1926 – Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim (d. 1945)
 * 1926  – John Schlesinger, English actor and director (d. 2003)
 * 1927 – June Brown, English actress (d. 2022)
 * 1929 – Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect (d. 1980)
 * 1929  – Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator (d. 2010)
 * 1931 – Otis Blackwell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2002)
 * 1931  – Bernie Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2006)
 * 1931  – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor and singer (d. 2014)
 * 1932 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
 * 1932  – Gretchen Wyler, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2007)
 * 1934 – August Coppola, American author and academic (d. 2009)
 * 1934  – Marlene Hagge, American golfer (d. 2023)
 * 1935 – Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director (d. 2016)
 * 1934 – Ken Brown, English footballer and manager
 * 1935  – Sonny Bono, American actor, singer, and politician  (d. 1998)
 * 1935  – Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founded The Farm (d. 2014)
 * 1935  – Bradford Parkinson, American colonel and engineer
 * 1935  – Kenneth Price, American painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
 * 1936 – Carl Icahn, American businessman and investor
 * 1937 – Paul Bailey, British novelist, critic, and biographer
 * 1937  – Valentin Bondarenko, Soviet aviator and cosmonaut (d. 1961)
 * 1937  – Yuri Manin, Russian-German mathematician and academic (d. 2023)
 * 1938 – John Corigliano, American composer and academic
 * 1939 – Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino lawyer and judge
 * 1940 – Hannelore Schmatz, German mountaineer (d. 1979)
 * 1941 – Kim Jong Il, North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 2011)
 * 1944 – Glyn Davies, Welsh farmer and politician
 * 1944  – Richard Ford, American novelist and short story writer
 * 1944  – António Mascarenhas Monteiro, Cape Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde (d. 2016)
 * 1947 – Jaroslav Kubera, Czech politician (d. 2020)
 * 1948 – Kaiketsu Masateru, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
 * 1950 – Peter Hain, Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales
 * 1951 – William Katt, American actor
 * 1952 – James Ingram, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2019)
 * 1952  – Peter Kitchen, English footballer
 * 1953 – John Bradbury, English musician, songwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
 * 1953  – Lanny McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
 * 1953  – Roberta Williams, American video game designer, co-founded Sierra Entertainment
 * 1954 – Iain Banks, Scottish author and playwright (d. 2013)
 * 1954  – Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (d. 1996)
 * 1954  – Michael Holding, Jamaican cricketer and sportscaster
 * 1956 – Vincent Ward, New Zealand director and screenwriter
 * 1957 – LeVar Burton, American actor, director, and producer
 * 1958 – Natalie Angier, American author
 * 1958  – Ice-T, American rapper and actor
 * 1958  – Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player
 * 1958  – Herb Williams, American basketball player and coach
 * 1959 – John McEnroe, American tennis player and sportscaster
 * 1959  – Kelly Tripucka, American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1960 – Pete Willis, English guitarist and songwriter
 * 1961 – Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (d. 2013)
 * 1961  – Niko Nirvi, Finnish journalist
 * 1961  – Andy Taylor, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 * 1962 – John Balance, English singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
 * 1964 – Bebeto, Brazilian footballer and manager
 * 1964  – Christopher Eccleston, English actor
 * 1965 – Dave Lombardo, Cuban-American musician and songwriter
 * 1967 – Keith Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * 1968 – Warren Ellis, English author and screenwriter
 * 1970 – Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer and manager
 * 1971 – Michael Avenatti, American attorney and pundit
 * 1971  – Craig Laundy, Australian politician
 * 1972 – Jerome Bettis, American football player
 * 1972  – Zoran Čampara, Bosnian football player
 * 1972  – Sarah Clarke, American actress
 * 1972  – Naomi Nishida, Japanese actress
 * 1973 – Cathy Freeman, Australian sprinter
 * 1974 – Mahershala Ali, American actor
 * 1974  – José Dominguez, Portuguese footballer and manager
 * 1976 – Eric Byrnes, American baseball player and sportscaster
 * 1976  – Kyo, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1977 – Ian Clarke, Irish-American computer scientist, founded Freenet
 * 1977  – Ahman Green, American football player
 * 1977  – Alexei Morozov, Russian ice hockey player and executive
 * 1978 – Tia Hellebaut, Belgian high jumper and chemist
 * 1978  – Wasim Jaffer, Indian cricketer
 * 1978  – John Tartaglia, American actor, singer, and puppeteer
 * 1979 – Stéphane Dalmat, French footballer
 * 1979  – Eric Mun, American-South Korean singer and actor
 * 1979  – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
 * 1980 – Longineu W. Parsons III, French-American musician and songwriter
 * 1981 – Jay Howard, English race car driver
 * 1981  – Susanna Kallur, Swedish sprint hurdler
 * 1981  – Jerry Owens, American baseball player
 * 1981  – Qyntel Woods, American basketball player
 * 1982 – Manny Delcarmen, American baseball player
 * 1982  – Aleksandr Dmitrijev, Estonian footballer
 * 1982  – Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
 * 1982  – Rickie Lambert, English footballer
 * 1983 – Agyness Deyn, English model, actress, and singer
 * 1983  – Tuomo Ruutu, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
 * 1984 – Sofia Arvidsson, Swedish tennis player
 * 1984  – Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian swimmer
 * 1985 – Simon Francis, English footballer
 * 1985  – Stacy Lewis, American golfer
 * 1985  – Ron Vlaar, Dutch footballer
 * 1986 – Diego Godín, Uruguayan footballer
 * 1986  – Shawne Williams, American basketball player
 * 1987 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
 * 1987  – Theresa Goh, Singaporean swimmer
 * 1987  – Tommy Milone, American baseball player
 * 1987  – Jon Ossoff, American politician and filmmaker
 * 1987  – Hasheem Thabeet, Tanzanian basketball player
 * 1988 – Diego Capel, Spanish footballer
 * 1988  – Denílson, Brazilian footballer
 * 1988  – Korbinian Holzer, German ice hockey player
 * 1988  – Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
 * 1988  – Andrea Ranocchia, Italian footballer
 * 1988  – Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer
 * 1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
 * 1990 – The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1991 – Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer
 * 1992 – Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer
 * 1992  – Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player
 * 1994 – Annika Beck, German tennis player
 * 1994  – Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
 * 1994  – Ava Max, American singer and songwriter
 * 1995 – Katy Dunne, English tennis player
 * 1995  – Carina Witthöft, German tennis player
 * 1997 – Jordan Greenway, American ice hockey player
 * 1999 – Ignatius Ganago, Cameroonian footballer
 * 1999  – Marie Ulven Ringheim, Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer
 * 2000 – Koffee, Jamaican singer, songwriter and rapper
 * 2000  – Coby White, American basketball player
 * 2001 – Yuki Naito, Japanese tennis player

Pre-1600

 * 549 – Zhu Yi, Chinese general (b. 483)
 * 902 – Mary the Younger, Byzantine saint (b. 875)
 * 1184 – Richard of Dover, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * 1247 – Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
 * 1279 – Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
 * 1281 – Gertrude of Hohenberg, queen consort of Germany (b. c. 1225)
 * 1390 – Rupert I, Elector Palatine (b. 1309)
 * 1391 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1332)
 * 1531 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
 * 1560 – Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1493)
 * 1579 – Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Spanish explorer (b. 1509)

1601–1900

 * 1645 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1585)
 * 1710 – Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (b. 1632)
 * 1721 – James Craggs the Younger, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (b. 1686)
 * 1754 – Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
 * 1820 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
 * 1862 – William Pennington, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of New Jersey, 23rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1796)
 * 1898 – Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1843)
 * 1899 – Félix Faure, French merchant and politician, 7th President of France (b. 1841)

1901–present

 * 1907 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
 * 1912 – Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
 * 1917 – Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1848)
 * 1919 – Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
 * 1928 – Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
 * 1932 – Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
 * 1932  – Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
 * 1944 – Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)
 * 1957 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1876)
 * 1961 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (b. 1891)
 * 1964 – James M. Canty, American educator, school administrator, and businessperson (b. 1865)
 * 1967 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1911)
 * 1974 – John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand Rifle (b. 1888)
 * 1975 – Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach (b. 1903)
 * 1977 – Janani Luwum, bishop, Church of Uganda, martyr (b. c.1922)
 * 1977  – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
 * 1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895)
 * 1984 – M. A. G. Osmani, Bangladeshi general (b. 1918)
 * 1988 – Ye Shengtao, Chinese writer, educator, and politician (b. 1894)
 * 1990 – Keith Haring, American painter and activist (b. 1958)
 * 1991 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan lieutenant and engineer (b. 1932)
 * 1992 – Angela Carter, English novelist, short story writer (b. 1940)
 * 1992  – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917)
 * 1992  – Herman Wold, Norwegian-Swedish economist and statistician (b. 1908)
 * 1996 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
 * 1996  – Roger Bowen, American actor and author (b. 1932)
 * 1996  – Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905)
 * 1996  – Brownie McGhee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
 * 1997 – Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
 * 1998 – Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (b. 1908)
 * 1998  – Sheu Yuan-dong, Taiwanese politician (b. 1927)
 * 2000 – Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
 * 2000  – Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer
 * 2000  – Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (b. 1911)
 * 2001 – Howard W. Koch, American director and producer (b. 1916)
 * 2001  – William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
 * 2002 – Walter Winterbottom, English footballer and manager (b. 1913)
 * 2003 – Rusty Magee, American actor and composer (b. 1955)
 * 2004 – Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
 * 2006 – Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (b. 1966)
 * 2006  – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (b. 1925)
 * 2009 – Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, South Korean cardinal (b. 1921)
 * 2011 – Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
 * 2011  – Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
 * 2012 – Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
 * 2012  – Elyse Knox, American model, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1917)
 * 2012  – John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916)
 * 2012  – Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968)
 * 2013 – Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991)
 * 2013  – Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918)
 * 2013  – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
 * 2014 – Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928)
 * 2014  – Kralle Krawinkel, German guitarist (b. 1947)
 * 2014  – Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946)
 * 2015 – Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 * 2015  – Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 * 2015  – R. R. Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1957)
 * 2015  – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971)
 * 2016 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922)
 * 2019 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941)
 * 2021 – Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 42nd President of Ecuador (b. 1937)
 * 2024 – Alexei Navalny, Russian activist (b. 1976)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Abda of Edessa
 * Elias and companions
 * Juliana of Nicomedia (Catholic Church)
 * Onesimus
 * Charles Todd Quintard (Episcopal Church (USA))
 * February 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong Il's birthday) (North Korea)
 * Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood Day, celebrate the independence of Lithuania from Russia and Germany in 1918 (Lithuania)
 * Elizabeth Peratrovich Day (Alaska)