April 16

Shorts

• 1948 - Daddy Duck

Films

• 1964 - The Tattooed Police Horse
• 1988 - Grave of the Fireflies and My Neighbor Totoro

Television

• 1958 - The Disneyland episode "Four Tales on a Mouse" premieres on ABC.
• 1989 - The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Pound of the Baskervilles" premieres on Disney Channel.
• 1990 - The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "A Lean on the Property" premieres on syndication.
• 1999 - The Timon & Pumbaa episodes "You May Have Already Won Six Million Bakra" and "My Meteor, My Friend" premiere on CBS.
• 2000 - PB&J Otter premieres on Playhouse Disney with the episode "Aunt Nanner's Special Place/Munchy's Sinking Feeling".
• 2005
  • The Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! episode "Snowbound" premieres on ABC Family.
  • The W.I.T.C.H. episode "The Princess Revealed" premieres.
• 2017 - The Once Upon a Time episode "Awake" premieres on ABC.
• 2019 - Bless This Mess premieres on ABC.

Theme park happenings

• 2001 - The Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge opens at Walt Disney World.

Video games

• 2005 - Winnie the Pooh: The Honey Hunt for V.Smile

DVD & Blu-ray releases

• 2013 - Wings of Life
• 2019 - The Kid Who Would Be King (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) (Note: The first Fox home media release to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, despite of having to keep Fox-branded artwork.)

Comics

• 2019 - Toy Story Adventures: Volume 1

People

Births

• 1867 - Wilbur Wright (editor, bicycle retailer/manufacturer, airplane inventor/manufacturer, pilot trainer, and historic figure)
• 1921 - Peter Ustinov (actor, writer, dramatist, and filmmaker)
• 1924 - Henry Mancini (composer, conductor, and music arranger)
• 1934 - Robert Stigwood (music entrepreneur, film producer, and impresario)
• 1952 - Billy West (voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, and songwriter)
• 1965
  • Jon Cryer (actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director, and film producer)
  • Martin Lawrence (actor, comedian, screenwriter, film director, and film producer)
• 1968 - Greg Baker (actor and musician)
• 1993 - Chance the Rapper (rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and activist)
• 1994 - Liliana Mumy (actress and voice actress)

Deaths

• 2018 - Harry Anderson (actor, comedian, animator, screenwriter, director, and magician)