Famous Deaths Happened In October - 16

0775  Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on October - 16.   

1323  On this day in history amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  On this day in history nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies   

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on October - 16.   

1473  On October - 16 reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies   

1553  On this day in history lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81   

1555  On this day in history death of hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80   

1570  Death of Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered on October - 16.   

1591  Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56 on October - 16.   

1594  On October - 16 william Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62   

1621  On October - 16 jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59   

1628  On this day in history death of françois de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)   

1649  On October - 16 death of isaac van Ostade, painter, buried   

1655  Death of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591) on October - 16.   

1680  On October - 16 death of raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)   

1688  Death of Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68 on this day in history.   

1690  Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43 on this day in history.   

1694  Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1726  On October - 16 giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77   

1750  On October - 16 silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64   

1755  On this day in history death of saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)   

1774  Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies on this day in history.   

1781  Death of Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705) on October - 16.   

1791  On October - 16 grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies   

1793  On October - 16 death of marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France   

1796  On this day in history death of victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)   

1799  On October - 16 antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44   

1810  Death of Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772) on this day in history.   

1814  On this day in history juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34   

1817  On this day in history manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies   

1822  Death of Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724) on October - 16.   

1836  Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33 on this day in history.   

1849  On this day in history george Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies   

1862  On October - 16 george Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31   

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1396  William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450) was born on October - 16.   

1430  On this day in history birth of king James II of Scotland (d. 1460)   

1483  On October - 16 birth of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)   

1535  Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585) was born on October - 16.   

1605  On October - 16 birth of charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1663  On this day in history birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)   

1679  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on October - 16.   

1708  On October - 16 birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)