Famous Deaths Happened In December - 16

0705  On this day in history death of empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625)   

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

0867  On December - 16 death of eberhard of Friuli   

0875  Ado of Vienne, French archbishop of Vienne, dies at about 75 on December - 16.   

0882  John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies on December - 16.   

0999  On this day in history adelheid the Saint, German empress of Otto I/saint, dies at about 68   

1325  Death of Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270) on this day in history.   

1378  On December - 16 death of otto III of Montferrat   

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  On December - 16 death of john II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425)   

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

1669  Death of Nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. circa 1608) on December - 16.   

1670  On December - 16 dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies   

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

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

1687  Death of William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623) on December - 16.   

1719  On December - 16 adrian "Aart" van Wijck, Dutch theologist (anti-jansenism), dies at 78   

1751  Death of Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700) on December - 16.   

1765  On December - 16 death of peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor   

1774  On December - 16 francois Quesnay, French personal physician of Louis XIV, dies at 80   

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  Death of Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755) on December - 16.   

1816  Vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

1833  On December - 16 friedrich August Kanne, composer, dies at 55   

1852  Andries H Potgieter, South African/Transvaal explorer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

1858  On this day in history richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69   

1859  Wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

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

1870  On this day in history stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31   

1871  Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73 on December - 16.   

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

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1485  On December - 16 birth of catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII   

1584  On this day in history birth of john Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)   

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  On this day in history birth of george Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770)   

1716  On this day in history birth of louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798)   

1717  On December - 16 birth of elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806)