Famous Deaths In January - 16
Friday, 17 May 2024
0308 On this day in history marcellus I, Catholic Pope (-308), dies
0429 Honoratius of Arles, bishop/saint, dies [or 430] on January - 16.
0960 Death of Polyeuctus, Patriarch of Constantinople on January - 16.
1343 Robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies on January - 16.
1400 Death of John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed) (b. 1352) on this day in history.
1545 On January - 16 death of george Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
1547 On this day in history death of johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1554 On January - 16 death of christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
1585 On this day in history death of edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
1595 On January - 16 murad III, sultan of Turkey (1574-95), dies
1659 Death of Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580) on January - 16.
1703 Matteo Coferati, composer, dies at 64 on January - 16.
1710 On January - 16 death of emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1711 Death of Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651) on this day in history.
1747 Death of Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) on January - 16.
1748 Death of Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684) on January - 16.
1750 Death of Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667) on January - 16.
1752 Death of Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705) on January - 16.
1794 Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline & Fall), dies in London at 56 on January - 16.
1809 Death of John Moore, British general (b. 1761) on January - 16.
1817 On January - 16 antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer, dies at 55
1834 Death of Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769) on January - 16.
1838 On January - 16 aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS]
1842 Thomas Freanby, Norwegian landscape painter, dies on January - 16.
1849 Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69 on January - 16.
1856 Death of Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795) on this day in history.
1864 Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 on this day in history.
1865 Death of Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (b. 1828) on this day in history.
1879 Death of Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827) on January - 16.
1886 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 on this day in history.
1891 On this day in history clement-Philibert-Leo Delibes, composer, dies at 54
1892 On January - 16 imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies
1893 Johan Philip Koelman, painter/sculptor/architect, dies at 74 on January - 16.
1898 On this day in history death of charles Pelham Villiers, longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802)
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