Famous Deaths In June - 16

0956  Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies on June - 16.  

1216  Innocent III, pope, dies at 54 on June - 16.  

1246  On June - 16 lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64  

1361  On June - 16 john Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61  

1397  Death of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358) on June - 16.  

1468  Death of Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395) on this day in history.  

1492  On this day in history death of jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded  

1575  Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63 on June - 16.  

1620  Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies on this day in history.  

1622  On this day in history death of alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)  

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1623  On June - 16 death of christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)  

1644  On June - 16 johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54  

1651  On June - 16 marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74  

1671  Death of Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow on this day in history.  

1707  On June - 16 death of marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)  

1722  On June - 16 john Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72  

1749  Death of Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672) on this day in history.  

1752  Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 on June - 16.  

1777  Death of Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709) on June - 16.  

1778  On June - 16 death of konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)  

1779  On June - 16 death of sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)  

1792  Death of Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738) on this day in history.  

1793  On June - 16 louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies  

1804  On this day in history johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75  

1808  Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

1812  Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23 on this day in history.  

1815  Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle on this day in history.  

1824  On this day in history death of charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)  

1831  On June - 16 joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64  

1837  Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.  

1850  On June - 16 death of william Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)  

1855  Death of John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803) on June - 16.  

1858  Death of John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813) on this day in history.  

1866  On June - 16 death of joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)  

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1139  Emperor Konoe of Japan (d. 1155) was born on this day in history.  

1332  On this day in history birth of isabella de Coucy, English princess (d. 1382)  

1514  John Cheke, English classical scholar (d. 1557) was born on June - 16.  

1583  On this day in history birth of axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent  

1591  On this day in history birth of joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (d. 1655)  

1606  Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675) was born on June - 16.  

1613  John Cleveland, English poet (d. 1658) was born on this day in history.  

1633  On this day in history birth of nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer