Famous Deaths Happened In October - 16

0775  On this day in history mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies   

1323  Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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

1355  On October - 16 death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

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

1553  On October - 16 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  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 this day in history.   

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  Death of François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555) on October - 16.   

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  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 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  On this day in history robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies   

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 October - 16.   

1793  Death of Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France on this day in history.   

1796  On October - 16 death of victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)   

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

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

1814  Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34 on October - 16.   

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 this day in history.   

1836  Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33 on October - 16.   

1849  On October - 16 george Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies   

1862  George Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31 on October - 16.   

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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  King James II of Scotland (d. 1460) was born on this day in history.   

1483  Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542) was born on this day in history.   

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 October - 16 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)