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

1355  Death of Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death on October - 16.   

1473  On this day in history reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies   

1553  Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 on October - 16.   

1555  Death of Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 on October - 16.   

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

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

1649  Death of Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried on this day in history.   

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 October - 16.   

1688  Death of Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68 on this day in history.   

1690  On October - 16 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 October - 16.   

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

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

1793  Death of Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France on October - 16.   

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

1799  Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44 on this day in history.   

1810  On October - 16 death of nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)   

1814  Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34 on October - 16.   

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  On October - 16 george Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies   

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

1535  On this day in history birth of niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (d. 1585)   

1605  On October - 16 birth of charles C Dassoucy, French writer/singer   

1663  On October - 16 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  On this day in history birth of albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)