Template:On this day/September 16
- 1843 – Charles McKenzie Oerting was born.
- 1889 – The Pensacola Chamber of Commerce met for the first time and William Dudley Chipley became its first president.
- 2004 – Hurricane Ivan made landfall near Gulf Shores. Trucker Roberto Alvarado was killed when his cab fell into Escambia Bay.
- 2007 – Roy Atchison was arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in an Internet sex sting.