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

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on this day in history.   

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

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

1555  On this day in history 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 October - 16.   

1591  On this day in history gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56   

1594  William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 on October - 16.   

1621  Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 on October - 16.   

1628  On October - 16 death of françois de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)   

1649  On this day in history death of isaac van Ostade, painter, buried   

1655  On October - 16 death of joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)   

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

1694  On this day in history samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62   

1726  Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1750  On this day in history silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64   

1755  On October - 16 death of saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)   

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 October - 16 grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies   

1793  On October - 16 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  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  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  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  On this day in history birth of gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (d. 1542)   

1535  On October - 16 birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

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  On October - 16 birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)