Famous Deaths In December - 16

0705  Death of Empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625) on December - 16.   

0714  On December - 16 pippin II, of Héristal, Duke/prince of France, dies   

0867  Death of Eberhard of Friuli on this day in history.   

0875  On December - 16 ado of Vienne, French archbishop of Vienne, dies at about 75   

0882  On this day in history john VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies   

0999  On December - 16 adelheid the Saint, German empress of Otto I/saint, dies at about 68   

1325  On this day in history death of charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270)   

1378  Death of Otto III of Montferrat on this day in history.   

1379  Death of John Fitzalan, Marshal of England on December - 16.   

1404  Albrecht of Bavaria, duke of Bavaria, dies at about 74 on December - 16.   

1470  Death of John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425) on this day in history.   

1598  Death of Yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (b. 1545) on December - 16.   

1669  On December - 16 death of nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. circa 1608)   

1670  Dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies on this day in history.   

1672  On December - 16 john II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63   

1673  On this day in history juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68   

1687  On December - 16 death of william Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)   

1719  Adrian "Aart" van Wijck, Dutch theologist (anti-jansenism), dies at 78 on December - 16.   

1751  Death of Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700) on this day in history.   

1765  Death of Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor on this day in history.   

1774  Francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80 on December - 16.   

1781  On this day in history georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56   

1783  On December - 16 johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84   

1790  On December - 16 ludwig August Lebrun, composer, dies at 38   

1809  On this day in history death of antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)   

1816  On this day in history vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73   

1833  On this day in history friedrich August Kanne, composer, dies at 55   

1852  On this day in history andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59   

1858  On December - 16 richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69   

1859  On this day in history wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73   

1861  Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1870  On December - 16 stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31   

1871  On December - 16 willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73   

1874  On this day in history abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79   

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1485  On this day in history birth of catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII   

1584  John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654) was born on December - 16.   

1614  Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674) was born on December - 16.   

1622  On December - 16 birth of kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder   

1652  Giovanni Maria Casini, composer was born on December - 16.   

1714  George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770) was born on this day in history.   

1716  On December - 16 birth of louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)   

1717  On this day in history birth of elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806)