December 16

Events

 * 1925 - Dynamic loudspeaker is designed at General Electric by Chester Rice and Edward Kellogg
 * 1947 - William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.

Births

 * 1770 -, German composer (d. 1827)
 * 1775 -, French composer (d. 1834)
 * 1882 -, Hungarian composer (d. 1967)
 * 1899 -, English playwright, actor and composer (d. 1973)
 * 1915 -, American trombonist (d. 1987)
 * 1932 -, Soviet/Russian composer
 * 1946 -, Swedish musician, singer and songwriter (ABBA)
 * 1949 -, American guitarist (ZZ Top)
 * 1971 -, German DJ
 * 1975 -, Japanese drummer (Maximum the Hormone)
 * 1978 -, American rapper (Ying Yang Twins)
 * 1979 -, Romanian singer
 * 1979 -, American rapper
 * 1981 -, Ukrainian singer