Famous Deaths In May - 16
Tuesday, 28 November 2023
0942 On this day in history saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
1265 Death of Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165) on May - 16.
1434 On this day in history pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1569 On May - 16 death of dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 On May - 16 death of william Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657 On this day in history death of andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667 On this day in history death of thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 On May - 16 pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1691 On this day in history death of jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1703 Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies on this day in history.
1754 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.
1762 Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86 on May - 16.
1768 On this day in history cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
1777 On May - 16 button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1778 Death of Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718) on May - 16.
1782 On this day in history daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
1790 Death of Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720) on this day in history.
1805 Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68 on this day in history.
1819 On this day in history alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
1829 On May - 16 william Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
1830 On this day in history jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
1835 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies on this day in history.
1847 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.
1862 On this day in history lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
1863 Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47 on May - 16.
1864 On May - 16 death of lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
1880 On this day in history karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76
1891 On this day in history death of ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1892 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies on this day in history.
1903 Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72 on May - 16.
1904 N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies on this day in history.
1910 Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53 on May - 16.
1913 On this day in history death of louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
1918 On this day in history eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64
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