Famous Deaths In December - 16

0705  Death of Empress Wu of Zhou (b. 625) on this day in history.  

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

0867  Death of Eberhard of Friuli on December - 16.  

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 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  On this day in history death of john Fitzalan, Marshal of England  

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

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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  On this day in history death of nathaniel Fiennes, English politician (b. circa 1608)  

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

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

1673  Juan de Padilla, composer, dies at 68 on December - 16.  

1687  On this day in history death of william Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)  

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

1751  On this day in history death of leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)  

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 December - 16 georg Simon Lohlein, composer, dies at 56  

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

1816  On December - 16 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 December - 16.  

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 this day in history.  

1874  On December - 16 abraham Capadose, physician/missionary, dies at 79  

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1485  Catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII was born on December - 16.  

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

1614  On this day in history birth of eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1674)  

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

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

1717  Elizabeth Carter, English writer (d. 1806) was born on December - 16.