Famous Deaths 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  Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies on October - 16.  

1553  On October - 16 lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81  

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

1570  On October - 16 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  

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1621  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 on this day in history.  

1628  On this day in history death of françois de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)  

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  Death of Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609) on this day in history.  

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 October - 16.  

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

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  Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies on this day in history.  

1781  Death of Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705) on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1810  Death of Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772) on October - 16.  

1814  On October - 16 juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34  

1817  On this day in history manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies  

1822  On October - 16 death of eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)  

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

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

1862  On October - 16 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  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)  

1605  Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer was born on October - 16.  

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)