March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). There are 290 days remaining.
Events:
- 1802 - West Point established.
- 1968 - My Lai massacre
Births:
- 1751 - James Madison, 4th president of the United States
- 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law (+ 1854)
- 1829 - Rene Francois Prudhomme, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literatute in 1901
- 1861 - Maxim Gorky, writer and political activist
- 1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, archbishop of Münster and cardinal (+ 1946)
- 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, actress (+ 1977)
- 1911 - Josef Mengele
- 1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady
- 1918 - Frederick Reines, physicist (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- 1926 - Jerry Lewis, comedian
- 1929 - Nadja Tiller, actress
- 1941 - Bernardo Bertolucci, film director
- 1949 - Erik Estrada, actor
- 1953 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
- 1954 - Nancy Wilson, guitarist, singer, actress
Deaths:
Holidays and observances:
- the first day of the Bacchanalia in ancient Rome
See Also: March 15 - March 17 - February 16 - April 16 -- listing of all days
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