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)