Famous Deaths In December - 16

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

0714  On this day in history 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  John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies on December - 16.  

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

1325  Death of Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (b. 1270) on December - 16.  

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.  

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

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

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

1670  On this day in history dorothy, 1st English marquis of Halifax, dies  

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

1673  Juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68 on this day in history.  

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 December - 16.  

1765  Death of Peter Frederick Haldimand, Swiss military officer and surveyor on December - 16.  

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 this day in history johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84  

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

1809  On December - 16 death of antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist (b. 1755)  

1816  On December - 16 vincenzo Galeotti, [Tomazelli], Ital dancer/choreographer, dies at 73  

1833  Friedrich August Kanne, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.  

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

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  On this day in history karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71  

1870  Stanislaw Duniecki, composer, dies at 31 on December - 16.  

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

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 December - 16.  

1584  John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (d. 1654) was born on this day in history.  

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

1622  Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship builder was born on December - 16.  

1652  On this day in history birth of giovanni Maria Casini, composer  

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

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)