deaths
July 16, 1999
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist and wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (born 1966)
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette-Kennedy was an American fashion publicist. She worked for Calvin Klein until her 1996 marriage to attorney and publisher John F. Kennedy Jr. Her life and fashion sense became the subjects of intense media scrutiny afterwards. The couple, along with her older sister Lauren, died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in 1999.
July 16
July 16 is the 197th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 168 days remain until the end of the year.