| 16/10/2022 | Giannis Kargiotakis loses 9-5 to Moldova's Alexander Romanov in the final to win the silver medal in the 130kg Grappling Gi at the World Grappling Championships in Pontevedra, Spain |
| 16/10/2015 | Racing car champion Makis Saliaris dies at the age of 71. He was also the founder of "Aftokinisi", one of the largest and most popular clubs in Athens in the 1980s, an excellent musician, having played with Eric Clapton in the early 60s, and a painter. |
| 16/10/2011 | Two-time Indy 500 winner 33-year-old Dan Wheldon dies of injuries he sustained in a massive 15-car crash at the Las Vegas Indy 300. |
| 16/10/2010 | Nikos Fassouras, Peristeri center from 1986 until 1996 dies of cancer at the age of 42 years. He had 98 participations with Peristeri (both in A1 and A2) and 9 caps with the men’s national team. |
| 16/10/2003 | Hungarian boxer Laszlo Papp dies aged 77. He was the first to win gold medals at 3 successive Olympics (1948, 1952, 1956). Papp was also the first fighter from the Soviet bloc to turn professional |
| 16/10/2000 | ULEB's Euroleague opens with a Real Madrid - Olympiacos game (75-73) in Madrid. It is the first basketball championship in 47 years not held under FIBA's rule |
| 16/10/1999 | Dimosthenis Tambakos wins the bronze medal in rings at the 34th World Gymnastics Championships in China |
| 16/10/1996 | One of the biggest football tragedies takes place in Guatemala. Overcrowding in ''Estadio Nacional Mateo Flores'' for the Guatemala - Costa Rica match results to 85 dead and 180 injured |
| 16/10/1992 | Magic Johnson plays his first professional game after his retirement |
| 16/10/1968 | Christos Papanikolaou takes fourth place at the Mexico Olympics after smashing the greek record in pole vault with 5.35m. American Bob Seagren wins the gold medal with 5.41m |
| 16/10/1968 | American sprinters Tommie Smith (gold medal in 200m) and John Carlos (bronze medal) give the ''Black Power'' salute during the medal ceremony. The US Athletic Federation expels them two days after. Australian Peter Norman, the second winner on the pontium, wears a ''Black Power'' badge and when he will return back to his country, he will act against minority discrimination. |
| 16/10/1952 | During the filming of "Eve", the first Greek neorealistic film, Dimitris Kominis, the father of the sports photoreporter Costas Kominis, is killed at Marathonas when the jeep he’s driving steps on a mine. Miraculously, the protagonist Manos Katrakis survives as he prefers to walk. The film, which is produced by "Kominis Films", is directed by Mary Plyta, with music by Mikis Theodorakis (his first soundtrack), scenery by Giannis Tsarouchis, and protagonist characters Dinos Iliopoulos, Aliki Georgouli and Alekos Alexandrakis, will be completed and released a few months later. |
| 16/10/1920 | Jockey Gordon Richards makes his debut at Lingfield Park. In his long career (34 years) he won 4.870 out of 21.843 races and 26 championships |
| 16/10/1910 | Middleweight boxing champion Stanley Ketchel is shot dead in Conway, Missouri |
| 16/10/1899 | Women's basketball official rules are first formulated. At that time women's basketball was more popular than men's |
