| 92791 | August 16 | Event | 2013 – The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people and 59 others missing. |
| 92792 | August 16 | Event | 2014 – The Summer Youth Olympics open in the Chinese city of Nanjing. |
| 92793 | August 16 | Event | 2015 – More than 96 people have been killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma. |
| 92794 | August 16 | Event | 2015 – At least 22 people are dead following a suicide bombing in Punjab, Pakistan. |
| 92795 | August 16 | Birth | 1355 – Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (d. 1382) |
| 92796 | August 16 | Birth | 1378 – Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425) |
| 92797 | August 16 | Birth | 1401 – Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (d. 1436) |
| 92798 | August 16 | Birth | 1557 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and etcher (d. 1602) |
| 92799 | August 16 | Birth | 1573 – Anne of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1598) |
| 92800 | August 16 | Birth | 1596 – Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Bohemian king (d. 1632) |
| 92801 | August 16 | Birth | 1637 – Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (d. 1706) |
| 92802 | August 16 | Birth | 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French philosopher and author (d. 1696) |
| 92803 | August 16 | Birth | 1650 – Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian monk, cosmographer, and cartographer (d. 1718) |
| 92804 | August 16 | Birth | 1682 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1712) |
| 92805 | August 16 | Birth | 1744 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer and surveyor (d. 1804) |
| 92806 | August 16 | Birth | 1761 – Yevstigney Fomin, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1800) |
| 92807 | August 16 | Birth | 1815 – John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888) |
| 92808 | August 16 | Birth | 1820 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1892) |
| 92809 | August 16 | Birth | 1821 – Arthur Cayley, English mathematician and academic (d. 1895) |
| 92810 | August 16 | Birth | 1831 – John Jones Ross, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Premier of Quebec (d. 1901) |
| 92811 | August 16 | Birth | 1832 – Wilhelm Wundt, German physician, psychologist, and physiologist (d. 1920) |
| 92812 | August 16 | Birth | 1842 – Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician, chess player, and academic (d. 1922) |
| 92813 | August 16 | Birth | 1845 – Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921) |
| 92814 | August 16 | Birth | 1848 – Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (d. 1926) |
| 92815 | August 16 | Birth | 1856 – Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1904) |
| 92816 | August 16 | Birth | 1858 – Arthur Achleitner, German author (d. 1927) |
| 92817 | August 16 | Birth | 1860 – Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke, English-Scottish cricketer (d. 1938) |
| 92818 | August 16 | Birth | 1860 – Jules Laforgue, Uruguayan-French poet and author (d. 1887) |
| 92819 | August 16 | Birth | 1862 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American baseball player and coach (d. 1965) |
| 92820 | August 16 | Birth | 1868 – Bernarr Macfadden, American bodybuilder and publisher, founded Macfadden Publications (d. 1955) |