March 16th (1940) was a Saturday. It's the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 16th March, 1940
» First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.
Famous Birthdays on March 16 in 1940
» Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter
» Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani pianist and composer (d. 1979)
» Jan Pronk, Dutch politician
» Keith Rowe, English guitarist (AMM (group) or AMM and M.I.M.E.O.)
March 16th Famous Deaths for 1940
» Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel Prize in Literature or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)