Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/June/June 16
- 1801 – Birth of mathematician Julius Plücker
- 1804 – Death of composer Johann Adam Hiller
- 1900 – Opening of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal
- 1972 – RAF terrorist Ulrike Meinhof is captured in Langenhagen
- 1977 – Death of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun