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On this day: August 16

What happened in the Turkic world on August 16? Famous people born and died on this day, key events and national days.

Events

  1. 2019 –20 Süper Lig 62nd season of top-tier Turkish football

Births

  1. 1920 Leonid Beda Soviet aviator (1920–1976)
  2. 1925 Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh Azerbaijani poet (1925–2009)
  3. 1936 Vladimir Bagirov Soviet chess player (1936-2000)
  4. 1956 Isgender Aznaurov National Hero of Azerbaijan
  5. 1983 Vadim Krasnoslobodtsev ice hockey player
  6. 1989 Taleh Mammadov Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler
  7. 1990 Christina Hammer German boxer
  8. 1992 Nur Tatar Turkish taekwondo athlete (born 1992)

Deaths

  1. 2014 Shaken Niyazbekov Kazakhstani artist (1938-2014)
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Source: Wikidata and Wikipedia. Names link to the Wikipedia article.

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