July 16
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Art and culture
- 1942 - Holocaust: Rafle du Vel'd'Hiv
- 1949, French censorship, adoption of "la loi sur les publications destinées à la jeunesse" (law on publications intended for the youth).
Births
- 1723 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (d. 1792)
- 1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
- 1941 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican musician (d. 2006)
- 1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
Deaths
- 1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
- 1896 - Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
- 1953 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
- 1982 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
Notes
- 1855 - Georges Rodenbach (born July 16, 1855 in Tournai, Belgium; died December 25, 1898 in Paris)
- 1997 - Dora Maar (November 22 1907 – July 16 1997) was a French photographer and painter of Croatian descent, best known for being a lover and muse of Pablo Picasso.
- 1594 - Louis Couperus
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