Famous Deaths Happened In October - 16

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

1323  On this day in history amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74   

1333  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on this day in history.   

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on October - 16.   

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

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1555  Death of Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 on this day in history.   

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

1591  Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56 on October - 16.   

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

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  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 this day in history death of raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)   

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

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

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

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

1814  On October - 16 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 October - 16.   

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 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 October - 16.   

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

1535  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

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

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  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on this day in history.