| 43771 | April 16 | Event | 2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize. |
| 43772 | April 16 | Event | 2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others. |
| 43773 | April 16 | Event | 2014 – The MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing. |
| 43774 | April 16 | Birth | 1319 – John II of France (d. 1364) |
| 43775 | April 16 | Birth | 1488 – Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544) |
| 43776 | April 16 | Birth | 1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1557) |
| 43777 | April 16 | Birth | 1516 – Tabinshwehti, Burmese king (d. 1550) |
| 43778 | April 16 | Birth | 1635 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (d. 1681) |
| 43779 | April 16 | Birth | 1646 – Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect, designed the Château de Dampierre and Grand Trianon (d. 1708) |
| 43780 | April 16 | Birth | 1660 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (d. 1753) |
| 43781 | April 16 | Birth | 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, First Lord of the Treasury (d. 1715) |
| 43782 | April 16 | Birth | 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (d. 1744) |
| 43783 | April 16 | Birth | 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, Danish wife of Frederick IV of Denmark (d. 1743) |
| 43784 | April 16 | Birth | 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German organist and composer (d. 1778) |
| 43785 | April 16 | Birth | 1728 – Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799) |
| 43786 | April 16 | Birth | 1730 – Henry Clinton, English general and politician (d. 1795) |
| 43787 | April 16 | Birth | 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842) |
| 43788 | April 16 | Birth | 1786 – John Franklin, English admiral and politician, 4th Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (d. 1847) |
| 43789 | April 16 | Birth | 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English field marshal and politician (d. 1888) |
| 43790 | April 16 | Birth | 1808 – Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1864) |
| 43791 | April 16 | Birth | 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, French-English soldier and painter (d. 1893) |
| 43792 | April 16 | Birth | 1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852) |
| 43793 | April 16 | Birth | 1827 – Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet and bookseller (d. 1879) |
| 43794 | April 16 | Birth | 1839 – Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Italian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908) |
| 43795 | April 16 | Birth | 1834 – Charles Lennox Richardson, English-Chinese merchant (d. 1862) |
| 43796 | April 16 | Birth | 1844 – Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) |
| 43797 | April 16 | Birth | 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (d. 1906) |
| 43798 | April 16 | Birth | 1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (d. 1919) |
| 43799 | April 16 | Birth | 1851 – Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 3rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (d. 1930) |
| 43800 | April 16 | Birth | 1865 – Harry Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945) |