Famous Deaths In October - 16

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

1323  On October - 16 amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74  

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 October - 16.  

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 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 this day in history.  

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

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

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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  On this day in history 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 this day in history margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43  

1694  On October - 16 samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62  

1726  On October - 16 giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77  

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 this day in history.  

1781  On this day in history death of edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)  

1791  On this day in history grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies  

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 October - 16.  

1814  On this day in history 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 October - 16.  

1836  On this day in history friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33  

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 October - 16.  

1535  Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585) was born on October - 16.  

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

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

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)