October 16 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1333 – Antipope Nicholas V (b. 1260)
  • 1355 – Louis, King of Sicily (b. 1337)
  • 1553 – Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)
  • 1555 – Hugh Latimer, English bishop (b. 1487)
  • 1555 – Nicholas Ridley, English bishop (b. 1500)
  • 1591 – Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)
  • 1594 – William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
  • 1621 – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)
  • 1628 – François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
  • 1649 – Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)
  • 1655 – Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591)
  • 1680 – Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian general (b. 1609)
  • 1730 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, founded Detroit (b. 1658)
  • 1750 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
  • 1755 – Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725)
  • 1774 – Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)
  • 1679 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
  • 1781 – Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English navy officer (b. 1705)
  • 1791 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and statesman (b. 1739)
  • 1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755)
  • 1793 – John Hunter, Scottish doctor and philosopher (b. 1728)
  • 1796 – Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)
  • 1810 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founder of Breslov Hasidic movement (b. 1772)
  • 1822 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian dancer (b. 1724)
  • 1865 – Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
  • 1877 – Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823)
  • 1888 – John Wentworth, American politician, 21st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
  • 1908 – Joseph Leycester Lyne, English preacher (b. 1837)
  • 1909 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
  • 1913 – Ralph Rose, American track and field athlete (b. 1885)
  • 1937 – Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
  • 1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
    • Hans Frank, German lawyer (b. 1900)
    • Wilhelm Frick, German nazi official (b. 1877)
    • Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)
    • Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
    • Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)
    • Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)
    • Fritz Sauckel, German politician (b. 1894)
    • Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
    • Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)
    • Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)
  • 1951 – Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
  • 1952 – Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and poet (b. 1876)
  • 1956 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator, 3rd President of FIFA (b. 1873)
  • 1959 – Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
  • 1959 – George Marshall, American military officer and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
  • 1962 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)
  • 1964 – Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
  • 1966 – George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)
  • 1968 – Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914)
  • 1971 – Robin Boyd, Australian architect (b. 1919)
  • 1972 – Nick Begich, American politician (b. 1932)
  • 1972 – Hale Boggs, American politician (b. 1914)
  • 1972 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1886)
  • 1973 – Gene Krupa, American drummer and composer (b. 1909)
  • 1974 – Chembai, Indian singer (b. 1895)
  • 1975 – Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885)
  • 1978 – Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 1979 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
  • 1981 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)
  • 1981 – Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American ornithologist (b. 1906)
  • 1982 – Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
  • 1983 – Kelso, American race horse (b. 1957)
  • 1983 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)
  • 1986 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921)
  • 1989 – Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
  • 1990 – Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919)
  • 1990 – Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist (b. 1914)
  • 1991 – Ole Beich, Danish bass player (Guns n Roses and L.A. Guns) (b. 1955)
  • 1992 – Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)
  • 1996 – Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
  • 1996 – Eric Malpass, English author (b. 1910)
  • 1997 – Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
  • 1997 – James A. Michener, American author (b. 1907)
  • 1998 – Jon Postel, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
  • 1999 – Jean Shepherd, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
  • 2000 – Mel Carnahan, American politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)
  • 2003 – Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919)
  • 2003 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler (b. 1915)
  • 2003 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
  • 2004 – Pierre Salinger, American politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
  • 2005 – Elmer Dresslar, Jr., American voice actor and singer (b. 1925)
  • 2005 – Ursula Howells, English actress (b. 1922)
  • 2005 – Eugene Gordon Lee, American actor (b. 1933)
  • 2005 – David Reilly, American singer-songwriter (God Lives Underwater) (b. 1971)
  • 2006 – Ross Davidson, Scottish actor (b. 1949)
  • 2006 – Tommy Johnson, American tuba player (b. 1935)
  • 2006 – John Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician (b. 1936)
  • 2006 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
  • 2007 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
  • 2007 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1981)
  • 2007 – Barbara West, English survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (b. 1911)
  • 2010 – Eyedea, American rapper and producer (Eyedea & Abilities and Face Candy) (b. 1981)
  • 2010 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
  • 2011 – Dan Wheldon, English race car driver (b. 1978)
  • 2012 – James Conte, American politician (b. 1959)
  • 2012 – John A. Durkin, American politician (b. 1936)
  • 2012 – Mario Gallegos, Jr., American politician (b. 1950)
  • 2012 – Aleksandr Koshkyn, Russian boxer (b. 1959)
  • 2012 – Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923)
  • 2012 – Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)