Famous Deaths In October - 16

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

1323  Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 on October - 16.  

1333  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on October - 16.  

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

1473  On this day in history reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies  

1553  On October - 16 lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81  

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

1570  Death of Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered on this day in history.  

1591  On October - 16 gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56  

1594  William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 on October - 16.  

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1621  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 on October - 16.  

1628  Death of François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1680  Death of Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609) on this day in history.  

1688  Death of Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68 on October - 16.  

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  Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.  

1750  On this day in history 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  On October - 16 death of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)  

1791  Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies on this day in history.  

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

1796  Death of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726) on this day in history.  

1799  Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44 on October - 16.  

1810  On this day in history death of nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)  

1814  Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34 on this day in history.  

1817  On October - 16 manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies  

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

1862  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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  Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer was born on October - 16.  

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

1679  On October - 16 birth of jan Dismas Zelenka, composer  

1708  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on October - 16.