Famous Deaths In January - 16

0308  Marcellus I, Catholic Pope (-308), dies on this day in history.  

0429  Honoratius of Arles, bishop/saint, dies [or 430] on this day in history.  

0960  On this day in history death of polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople  

1343  Robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies on January - 16.  

1400  Death of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352) on this day in history.  

1545  On this day in history death of george Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)  

1547  Death of Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477) on January - 16.  

1554  On January - 16 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  Murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies on January - 16.  

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1659  Death of Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580) on this day in history.  

1703  On January - 16 matteo Coferati, composer, dies at 64  

1710  On this day in history death of emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)  

1711  On this day in history death of joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)  

1747  Death of Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) on this day in history.  

1748  On this day in history death of arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)  

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  Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56 on this day in history.  

1809  On this day in history death of john Moore, British general (b. 1761)  

1817  Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55 on January - 16.  

1834  On January - 16 death of jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)  

1838  On January - 16 aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]  

1842  Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies on this day in history.  

1849  Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69 on January - 16.  

1856  Death of Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795) on this day in history.  

1864  On January - 16 anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68  

1865  Death of Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828) on this day in history.  

1879  Death of Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827) on January - 16.  

1886  Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1891  On this day in history clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54  

1892  On this day in history imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies  

1893  On this day in history johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74  

1898  Death of Charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802) on this day in history.  

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1245  Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296) was born on this day in history.  

1409  On January - 16 birth of rené I of Naples (d. 1480)  

1477  Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547) was born on January - 16.  

1501  Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559) was born on January - 16.  

1587  Alexander Adriaenssen, Flemish painter was born on January - 16.  

1616  François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669) was born on this day in history.  

1626  Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699) was born on January - 16.  

1634  On this day in history birth of dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)