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| September 16th, 2005 (September 16 2005) | Event | Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples. |  | 
| September 16th, 2005 (September 16 2005) | Birth | Princess Jalilah bint Ali, of Jordan |  | 
| September 16th, 2005 (September 16 2005) | Death | Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (born in 1920) |  | 
| September 16th, 1985 (September 16 1985) | Birth | Madeline Zima, American actress |  | 
| September 16th, 1975 (September 16 1975) | Event | Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia. |  | 
| September 16th, 1975 (September 16 1975) | Event | The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight. |  | 
| September 16th, 1975 (September 16 1975) | Birth | Shannon Noll, Australian singer and songwriter |  | 
| September 16th, 1975 (September 16 1975) | Death | Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (born in 1896) |  | 
| September 16th, 1965 (September 16 1965) | Birth | Katy Kurtzman, American actress |  | 
| September 16th, 1965 (September 16 1965) | Death | Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (born in 1906) |  | 
| September 16th, 1955 (September 16 1955) | Event | Juan Peron is deposed in Argentina. |  | 
| September 16th, 1955 (September 16 1955) | Birth | Ron Brewer, American basketball player |  | 
| September 16th, 1955 (September 16 1955) | Birth | Janet Ellis, British television presenter |  | 
| September 16th, 1955 (September 16 1955) | Birth | Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer |  | 
| September 16th, 1955 (September 16 1955) | Birth | Robin Yount, American baseball player |  | 
| September 16th, 1945 (September 16 1945) | Death | John McCormack, Irish tenor (born in 1884) |  | 
| September 16th, 1935 (September 16 1935) | Birth | Carl Andre, American artist |  | 
| September 16th, 1935 (September 16 1935) | Birth | Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist |  | 
| September 16th, 1925 (September 16 1925) | Birth | Charlie Byrd, American musician (died in 1999) |  | 
| September 16th, 1925 (September 16 1925) | Birth | B. B. King, American musician |  | 
| September 16th, 1925 (September 16 1925) | Birth | Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (died in 2006) |  | 
| September 16th, 1925 (September 16 1925) | Death | Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (born in 1888) |  | 
| September 16th, 1905 (September 16 1905) | Birth | Vladimir Holan, Czech poet (died in 1980) |  | 
| September 16th, 1875 (September 16 1875) | Birth | James C. Penney, American department store founder (died in 1971) |  | 
| September 16th, 1865 (September 16 1865) | Death | Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (born in 1792) |  | 
| September 16th, 1795 (September 16 1795) | Event | United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa. |  | 
| September 16th, 1775 (September 16 1775) | Death | Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (born in 1684) |  | 
| September 16th, 1745 (September 16 1745) | Birth | Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (died in 1813) |  | 
| September 16th, 1725 (September 16 1725) | Birth | Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (died in 1815) |  | 
| September 16th, 1345 (September 16 1345) | Death | John IV, Duke of Brittany (born in 1295) |  |