On this day in sports: December 16
- 1994 Born: Nigel Hayes, American basketball player Source
- 2004 Died: Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (born 1933) Source
- 2024 Died: Dick Van Arsdale, American basketball player (born 1943) Source
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