Famous Deaths In October - 16

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

1323  Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 on October - 16.   

1333  On October - 16 nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies   

1355  On this day in history 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  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  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  On October - 16 william Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62   

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

1628  Death of François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555) on this day in history.   

1649  On October - 16 death of isaac van Ostade, painter, buried   

1655  On this day in history death of joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)   

1680  On this day in history death of raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1608 or 1609)   

1688  On this day in history 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  Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

1726  Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 on October - 16.   

1750  On October - 16 silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64   

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

1774  On October - 16 robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies   

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  Death of Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France on October - 16.   

1796  On October - 16 death of victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)   

1799  On this day in history antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44   

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

1814  Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34 on this day in history.   

1817  On October - 16 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 this day in history.   

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

1535  Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585) was born on this day in history.   

1605  Charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer was born on this day in history.   

1663  On October - 16 birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)   

1679  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on October - 16.   

1708  Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science) was born on this day in history.