| 93031 | August 16 | Death | 1532 – John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468) |
| 93032 | August 16 | Death | 1661 – Thomas Fuller, English historian and author (b. 1608) |
| 93033 | August 16 | Death | 1678 – Andrew Marvell, English poet and author (b. 1621) |
| 93034 | August 16 | Death | 1705 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1654) |
| 93035 | August 16 | Death | 1733 – Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (b. 1657) |
| 93036 | August 16 | Death | 1791 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719) |
| 93037 | August 16 | Death | 1836 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755) |
| 93038 | August 16 | Death | 1855 – Henry Colburn, English publisher (b. 1785) |
| 93039 | August 16 | Death | 1886 – Ramakrishna, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836) |
| 93040 | August 16 | Death | 1888 – John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831) |
| 93041 | August 16 | Death | 1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825) |
| 93042 | August 16 | Death | 1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811) |
| 93043 | August 16 | Death | 1900 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845) |
| 93044 | August 16 | Death | 1904 – Prentiss Ingraham, American colonel and author (b. 1843) |
| 93045 | August 16 | Death | 1911 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830) |
| 93046 | August 16 | Death | 1914 – Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835) |
| 93047 | August 16 | Death | 1921 – Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844) |
| 93048 | August 16 | Death | 1938 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864) |
| 93049 | August 16 | Death | 1938 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911) |
| 93050 | August 16 | Death | 1945 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891) |
| 93051 | August 16 | Death | 1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895) |
| 93052 | August 16 | Death | 1949 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900) |
| 93053 | August 16 | Death | 1951 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and director (b. 1887) |
| 93054 | August 16 | Death | 1952 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866) |
| 93055 | August 16 | Death | 1956 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882) |
| 93056 | August 16 | Death | 1957 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) |
| 93057 | August 16 | Death | 1959 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882) |
| 93058 | August 16 | Death | 1959 – Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879) |
| 93059 | August 16 | Death | 1961 – Abdul Haq, Indian linguist and scholar (b. 1870) |
| 93060 | August 16 | Death | 1971 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893) |