Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 16

Births

• 1839 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907) (pictured)
• 1912 - Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
• 1916 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian (d. 2017)
• 1958 - Bipin Rawat, Indian military officer, Chief of Defence Staff (d. 2021)
• 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway

Deaths

• AD 37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
• 1903 - Judge Roy Bean, American jurist and pioneer
• 1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1971 - Thomas Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)