Famous Deaths Happened In October - 16

0775  Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies on this day in history.   

1323  On October - 16 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  On October - 16 death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

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

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

1555  On October - 16 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  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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1649  Death of Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried on October - 16.   

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

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

1688  On October - 16 death of philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68   

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

1694  On this day in history samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62   

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  Death of Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725) on October - 16.   

1774  Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies on October - 16.   

1781  On October - 16 death of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)   

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

1793  On this day in history death of marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France   

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

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  On this day in history friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33   

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

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

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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 October - 16.   

1483  Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542) was born on October - 16.   

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  On October - 16 birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)   

1679  On this day in history birth of jan Dismas Zelenka, composer   

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