Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 16

Births

 * 42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. AD 37)
 * 1873 - W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958)
 * 1880 - Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921) (pictured)
 * 1889 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
 * 1907 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
 * 1964 - Diana Krall, Canadian singer
 * 1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actor

Deaths

 * 1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)
 * 1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
 * 1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
 * 1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
 * 2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)