Famous Deaths In October - 16

0775  On October - 16 mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

1323  On October - 16 amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  On October - 16 nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies   

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on this day in history.   

1473  Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies on October - 16.   

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on October - 16.   

1555  Death of Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 on October - 16.   

1570  On this day in history death of baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered   

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  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 on October - 16.   

1628  On October - 16 death of françois de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)   

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

1655  On October - 16 death of joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)   

1680  Death of Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609) on October - 16.   

1688  On this day in history death of philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68   

1690  On October - 16 margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43   

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

1726  Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 on October - 16.   

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

1755  On October - 16 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 this day in history.   

1791  Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies on October - 16.   

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  Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

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  Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies on October - 16.   

1822  Death of Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724) on this day in history.   

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

1849  George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies on this day in history.   

1862  George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31 on this day in history.   

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1396  On October - 16 birth of william de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)   

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

1483  On this day in history birth of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)   

1535  On October - 16 birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

1605  On this day in history birth of charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1663  Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736) was born on this day in history.   

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

1708  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)