Famous Deaths Happened 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  Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies on October - 16.   

1355  On October - 16 death of louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death   

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

1553  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.   

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  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 this day in history.   

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  Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43 on October - 16.   

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

1755  Death of Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725) on this day in history.   

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

1781  On October - 16 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 October - 16.   

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  Death of Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772) on this day in history.   

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

1817  Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies on this day in history.   

1822  On this day in history death of eva Marie Veigel, Austrian ballet dancer (b. 1724)   

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

1849  George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies on October - 16.   

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 this day in history 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  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 October - 16 birth of prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (d. 1736)   

1679  Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer was born on this day in history.   

1708  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)