Famous Deaths In January - 16

0308  Marcellus I, Catholic Pope (-308), dies on January - 16.  

0429  Honoratius of Arles, bishop/saint, dies [or 430] on January - 16.  

0960  Death of Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople on January - 16.  

1343  On January - 16 robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies  

1400  Death of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352) on January - 16.  

1545  Death of George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484) on January - 16.  

1547  On this day in history death of johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)  

1554  Death of Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480) on January - 16.  

1585  On this day in history death of edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)  

1595  Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies on January - 16.  

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1659  Death of Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580) on this day in history.  

1703  On January - 16 matteo Coferati, composer, dies at 64  

1710  On this day in history death of emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)  

1711  On January - 16 death of joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)  

1747  Death of Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) on January - 16.  

1748  Death of Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684) on January - 16.  

1750  Death of Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667) on January - 16.  

1752  Death of Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705) on January - 16.  

1794  Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56 on this day in history.  

1809  On January - 16 death of john Moore, British general (b. 1761)  

1817  On January - 16 antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55  

1834  Death of Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769) on January - 16.  

1838  On this day in history aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]  

1842  Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies on January - 16.  

1849  Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1856  Death of Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795) on this day in history.  

1864  Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 on this day in history.  

1865  On January - 16 death of edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)  

1879  On January - 16 death of octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)  

1886  Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1891  Clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54 on January - 16.  

1892  Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies on January - 16.  

1893  Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74 on January - 16.  

1898  On this day in history death of charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)  

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1245  On this day in history birth of edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)  

1409  René I of Naples (d. 1480) was born on this day in history.  

1477  On this day in history birth of johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)  

1501  On January - 16 birth of anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)  

1587  Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter was born on January - 16.  

1616  On January - 16 birth of françois de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)  

1626  Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699) was born on January - 16.  

1634  Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716) was born on this day in history.