Famous Deaths Happened In January - 16
Tuesday, 20 May 2025
0308 Marcellus I, Catholic Pope (-308), dies on this day in history.
0429 On this day in history honoratius of Arles, bishop/saint, dies [or 430]
0960 On January - 16 death of polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople
1343 On January - 16 robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies
1400 Death of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352) on January - 16.
1545 Death of George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484) on this day in history.
1547 Death of Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477) on January - 16.
1554 On this day in history death of christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 On this day in history death of edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1595 On this day in history murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies
1659 On January - 16 death of charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
1703 Matteo Coferati, composer, dies at 64 on this day in history.
1710 On January - 16 death of emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1711 Death of Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651) on this day in history.
1747 Death of Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) on January - 16.
1748 Death of Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684) on January - 16.
1750 On this day in history death of ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
1752 On January - 16 death of francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
1794 On January - 16 edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56
1809 Death of John Moore, British general (b. 1761) on January - 16.
1817 Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55 on this day in history.
1834 On January - 16 death of jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
1838 Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS] on January - 16.
1842 On January - 16 thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies
1849 On January - 16 wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69
1856 On January - 16 death of thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
1864 On January - 16 anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68
1865 On January - 16 death of edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828)
1879 Death of Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827) on this day in history.
1886 On January - 16 amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
1891 On January - 16 clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54
1892 On this day in history imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies
1893 Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74 on January - 16.
1898 Death of Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802) on January - 16.
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next Page »