Famous Deaths In October - 16

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

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

1333  On this day in history 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  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on October - 16.  

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

1570  On October - 16 death of baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered  

1591  On this day in history gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56  

1594  On this day in history william Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62  

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1621  On this day in history jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59  

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

1649  Death of Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried on this day in history.  

1655  Death of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history 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  Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64 on October - 16.  

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

1774  On this day in history robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies  

1781  On this day in history 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 October - 16.  

1796  Death of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726) on October - 16.  

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 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 October - 16.  

1849  George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies on October - 16.  

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 October - 16.  

1430  On October - 16 birth of king James II of Scotland (d. 1460)  

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 this day in history.  

1605  Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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