April 16 - Deaths

Deaths

• 69 – Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
• 665 – Fructuosus of Braga
• 744 – Al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
• 924 – Berengar of Friuli
• 1113 – Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)
• 1118 – Adelaide del Vasto, Italian wife of Roger II of Sicily
• 1198 – Frederick I, Duke of Austria
• 1640 – Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (b. 1579)
• 1645 – Tobias Hume, English composer
• 1687 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet (b. 1628)
• 1689 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
• 1783 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
• 1788 – Georges Louis Leclerc, Count of Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707)
• 1828 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
• 1846 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
• 1850 – Marie Tussaud, French-English artist, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761)
• 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
• 1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French mystic and Saint (b. 1844)
• 1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
• 1899 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
• 1904 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
• 1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
• 1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
• 1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
• 1928 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
• 1930 – José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
• 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
• 1942 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
• 1942 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862)
• 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
• 1947 – Rudolf Höß, German lieutenant, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
• 1950 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish shooter (b. 1867)
• 1955 – David Kirkwood, Scottish labor leader (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English chemist (b. 1920)
• 1968 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
• 1973 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
• 1978 – Lucius D. Clay, American general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1988 – Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian military leader, founder of Fatah (b. 1935)
• 1989 – Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
• 1991 – David Lean, English director (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist, agent, and officer (b. 1915)
• 1992 – Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
• 1996 – Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Doris Angleton, American murder victim (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1880)
• 1999 – Skip Spence, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur, founder of Ruth's Chris Steak House (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
• 2003 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Kay Walsh, English actress (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian and activist (b. 1976)
• 2006 – Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
• 2007 – People of the Virginia Tech massacre:
  • – Jamie Bishop, American instructor of German language (b. 1971)
  • – Seung-Hui Cho, American student and murderer (b. 1984)
  • – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian instructor of French language (b. 1958)
  • – Kevin Granata, American professor of engineering (b. 1961)
  • – Liviu Librescu, American-Romanian professor of engineering science and mechanics and holocaust survivor (b. 1930)
  • – G. V. Loganathan, Indian-American professor of civil and environmental engineering (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Joseph Solman, American painter (b. 1909)
• 2010 – Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Daryl Gates, American police chief, created the D.A.R.E. program (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925)
• 2011 – Sol Saks, American screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Sari Barabas, Hungarian soprano (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Marian Biskup, Polish author and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Ray Davey, Irish-Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community (b. 1915)
• 2012 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player (b. 1938)
• 2012 – George Kunda, Zambian lawyer and politician, Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1956)
• 2012 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Carlo Petrini, Italian footballer (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Ageeth Scherphuis, Dutch journalist and broadcaster (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Jack Streidl, American football coach and educator (b. 1918)