February 16
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Art and culture
- 1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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Births
- 1804 - Jules Janin, French writer (The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman) (d. 1874)
- 1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
- 1884 - Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (d. 1951)
- 1893 - Vsevolod Pudovkin, Russian film director (d. 1953)
- 1918 - Achille Castiglioni, Italian designer. (d. 2002)
- 1926 - John Schlesinger, English film director (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Yoshishige Yoshida, Japanese filmmaker (Eros Plus Massacre)
- 1954 - Iain Banks, Scottish author (d. 2013)
- 1956 - James Ingram, American singer
- 1958 - Ice-T, American rapper, songwriter, and actor
- 1967 - A Guy Called Gerald, British musician
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Deaths
- 1823 - Pierre Paul Prud'hon, French Romantic painter and draughtsman (b. 1758)
- 1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
- 1931 - Wilhelm von Gloeden, German photographer of male nudes (b. 1856)
- 1990 - Keith Haring, American artist (b. 1958)
- 1992 - Angela Carter, English writer (b. 1940)
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