Famous Deaths In January - 16

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

0429  On January - 16 honoratius of Arles, bishop/saint, dies [or 430]  

0960  On January - 16 death of polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople  

1343  Robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies on January - 16.  

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 this day in history.  

1547  Death of Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477) on January - 16.  

1554  On this day in history death of christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)  

1585  Death of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512) on this day in history.  

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

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

1703  Matteo Coferati, composer, dies at 64 on January - 16.  

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

1711  Death of Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651) on January - 16.  

1747  On this day in history death of barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)  

1748  Death of Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684) on this day in history.  

1750  On January - 16 death of ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)  

1752  On this day in history death of francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)  

1794  On January - 16 edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56  

1809  On this day in history death of john Moore, British general (b. 1761)  

1817  Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55 on January - 16.  

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

1838  On January - 16 aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]  

1842  Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies on this day in history.  

1849  On this day in history wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69  

1856  On January - 16 death of thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)  

1864  On January - 16 anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68  

1865  Death of Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828) on this day in history.  

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

1886  On January - 16 amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51  

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

1892  On January - 16 imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies  

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

1898  On January - 16 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 this day in history birth of françois de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)  

1626  Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699) was born on this day in history.  

1634  On this day in history birth of dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)