Template:On this day/July 16
- 1868 – The Pensacola & Louisville Railroad Company was incorporated by the Florida legislaure.
- 1967 – A fire broke out at the Jay Prison Camp, killing 38 inmates.
- 1989 – T. T. Wentworth died.
- 2003 – McGuire's Pipe Band founder Jack Dasinger was killed in a plane crash at Beulah's Coastal Airport.