Famous Deaths In December - 16

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

0714  Pippin II, of Héristal, Duke/prince of France, dies on December - 16.  

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

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

0882  On December - 16 john VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies  

0999  Adelheid the Saint, German empress of Otto I/saint, dies at about 68 on this day in history.  

1325  On December - 16 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 this day in history.  

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1470  Death of John II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1425) on December - 16.  

1598  On December - 16 death of yi Sun-sin, Korean admiral (b. 1545)  

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

1670  Dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies on December - 16.  

1672  John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 on this day in history.  

1673  On December - 16 juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68  

1687  Death of William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623) on this day in history.  

1719  On this day in history adrian "Aart" van Wijck, Dutch theologist (anti-jansenism), dies at 78  

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

1765  On this day in history 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  Georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56 on this day in history.  

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

1790  Ludwig August Lebrun, composer, dies at 38 on this day in history.  

1809  On December - 16 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 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 December - 16 richard Bright, British Dr (Bright's disease/nephritis), dies at 69  

1859  On December - 16 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  Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1874  Abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79 on December - 16.  

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1485  Catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII was born on this day in history.  

1584  On December - 16 birth of john Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654)  

1614  On December - 16 birth of eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)  

1622  Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder was born on this day in history.  

1652  Giovanni Maria Casini, composer was born on this day in history.  

1714  George Whitefield, English-born Methodist leader (d. 1770) was born on December - 16.  

1716  Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (d. 1798) was born on this day in history.  

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