Famous Deaths In October - 16

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

1323  Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

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 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 October - 16.  

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  On this day in history death of philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68  

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 this day in history.  

1750  Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64 on October - 16.  

1755  Death of Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725) on October - 16.  

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

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

1791  Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies on this day in history.  

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

1796  Death of Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726) on this day in history.  

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  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 this day in history.  

1836  Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33 on this day in history.  

1849  George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies on this day in history.  

1862  On October - 16 george Burgwyn Anderson, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 31  

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1396  On this day in history birth of william de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English soldier (d. 1450)  

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

1483  On this day in history birth of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)  

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  On this day in history 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  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on October - 16.