Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 16

Births

 * 1430 - King James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
 * 1758 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
 * 1854 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900) (pictured)
 * 1886 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
 * 1888 - Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
 * 1925 - Angela Lansbury, English-born actress (d. 2022)
 * 1977 - John Mayer, American musician

Deaths

 * 1555 - Hugh Latimer, English Protestant (martyred)
 * 1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)
 * 1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1886)
 * 1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
 * 1994 - Raul Julia, American actor (b. 1940)