| 80671 | July 16 | Event | 2013 – As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India. |
| 80672 | July 16 | Event | 2015 – Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee. |
| 80673 | July 16 | Birth | 1194 – Clare of Assisi, Italian nun and saint (d. 1253) |
| 80674 | July 16 | Birth | 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530) |
| 80675 | July 16 | Birth | 1611 – Cecilia Renata of Austria (d. 1644) |
| 80676 | July 16 | Birth | 1661 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain, explorer, and politician (d. 1706) |
| 80677 | July 16 | Birth | 1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and author (d. 1800) |
| 80678 | July 16 | Birth | 1722 – Joseph Wilton, English sculptor and academic (d. 1803) |
| 80679 | July 16 | Birth | 1723 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (d. 1792) |
| 80680 | July 16 | Birth | 1731 – Samuel Huntington, American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1796) |
| 80681 | July 16 | Birth | 1749 – Cyrus Griffin, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 16th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1810) |
| 80682 | July 16 | Birth | 1796 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and etcher (d. 1875) |
| 80683 | July 16 | Birth | 1821 – Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (d. 1910) |
| 80684 | July 16 | Birth | 1841 – Nikolai von Glehn, Estonian-German architect and activist (d. 1923) |
| 80685 | July 16 | Birth | 1858 – Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931) |
| 80686 | July 16 | Birth | 1862 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (d. 1931) |
| 80687 | July 16 | Birth | 1870 – Lambert McKenna, Irish priest, lexicographer, and scholar (d. 1956) |
| 80688 | July 16 | Birth | 1871 – John Maxwell, American golfer (d. 1906) |
| 80689 | July 16 | Birth | 1872 – Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (d. 1928) |
| 80690 | July 16 | Birth | 1880 – Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1966) |
| 80691 | July 16 | Birth | 1883 – Charles Sheeler, American photographer and painter (d. 1965) |
| 80692 | July 16 | Birth | 1884 – Anna Vyrubova, Russian author (d. 1964) |
| 80693 | July 16 | Birth | 1887 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1951) |
| 80694 | July 16 | Birth | 1888 – Percy Kilbride, American actor and singer (d. 1964) |
| 80695 | July 16 | Birth | 1888 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966) |
| 80696 | July 16 | Birth | 1889 – Arthur Bowie Chrisman, American author (d. 1953) |
| 80697 | July 16 | Birth | 1889 – Larry Semon, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1928) |
| 80698 | July 16 | Birth | 1895 – Wilfrid Hamel, Canadian businessman and politician, 35th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 1968) |
| 80699 | July 16 | Birth | 1896 – Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969) |
| 80700 | July 16 | Birth | 1896 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian union leader and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1968) |