History Deaths on October 16

Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591)

#Joseph_Solomon_Delmedigo

Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725)

#Gerard_Majella

Nicholas V, antipope of Rome (b. 1260)

#Antipope_Nicholas_V

Lullus, archbishop of Mainz (b. 710)

#Lullus

Dan Dailey, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1913)

#Dan_Dailey

Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)

#Mel_Carnahan

Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter (b. 1981)

#Toše_Proeski

Etta Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)

#Etta_Jones

François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)

#François_de_Malherbe

Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919)

#Art_Blakey

Haritina Korotkevich, Russian heroine (b. 1882)

#Haritina_Korotkevich

Amadeus V, count of Savoy (b. 1249)

#Amadeus_V,_Count_of_Savoy

Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895)

#Jakov_Gotovac

Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (b. 1915)

#Moshe_Dayan

John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)

#John_A._Durkin

Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)

#Jon_Postel

Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (b. 1978)

#Dan_Wheldon

John Cook, English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1608)

#John_Cook_(regicide)

Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (b. 915)

#Al-Hakam_II

Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)

#Jean_de_Brunhoff

George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)

#George_O'Hara_(actor)

László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)

#László_Papp

Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (b. 1383)

#Anne_of_Gloucester

Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)

#Ralph_Rose

Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (b. 1886)

#Leo_G._Carroll

Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (b. 1921)

#Frank_Moore_Cross

Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609)

#Raimondo_Montecuccoli

Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor (b. 1909)

#Gene_Krupa

Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (b. 1687)

#Sylvius_Leopold_Weiss

Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)

#Deborah_Kerr

Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)

#Robert_Fergusson

Robin Boyd, Australian architect and educator, designed the Domain Park Flats (b. 1919)

#Robin_Boyd_(architect)

George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)

#George_Marshall

Louis the Child, king of Sicily (b. 1338)

#Louis,_King_of_Sicily

Hugh Latimer, English bishop and saint (b. 1487)

#Hugh_Latimer

Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)

#Cornel_Wilde

Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)

#Eddie_Yost

Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926)

#Allen_Forte

Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)

#Mario_Del_Monaco

Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator (b. 1914)

#Jorge_Bolet

Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755)

#Marie_Antoinette

Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914)

#Ellis_Kinder

Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)

#Joseph_Leycester_Lyne

Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)

#Hale_Boggs

John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946)

#John_Dunsworth

Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934)

#Seppo_Kuusela

Shams al-Din Juvayni, Persian statesman, vizier and minister of finance of the Ilkhanate

#Shams_al-Din_Juvayni

Jakub Bart-?išinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856)

#Jakub_Bart-?išinski

Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)

#Victor_Amadeus_III_of_Sardinia

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)

#Effie_Adelaide_Rowlands

Nicholas Ridley, English bishop and martyr (b. 1500)

#Nicholas_Ridley_(martyr)

Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (b. 1903)

#Johan_Borgen

Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)

#Jason_Bernard

Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923)

#Roy_Dotrice

Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)

#Jules_Rimet

James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist (b. 1907)

#James_A._Michener

Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)

#Pierre_Salinger

Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (b. 1739)

#Grigory_Potemkin

Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885)

#Vittorio_Gui

William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)

#William_Allen_(cardinal)

John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926)

#John_Spencer-Churchill,_11th_Duke_of_Marlborough

Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)

#Liaquat_Ali_Khan

Nick Begich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

#Nick_Begich

Nev?ehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1666)

#Nev?ehirli_Damat_Ibrahim_Pasha

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562)

#Jan_Pieterszoon_Sweelinck

Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)

#Ed_Lauter

Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (b. 1898)

#Shirley_Booth

Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer (b. 1916)

#Laurel_Martyn

Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founded the breslov hasidic group (b. 1772)

#Nachman_of_Breslov

Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)

#Anna_B._Eckstein

Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1621)

#Isaac_van_Ostade

Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)

#Audra_Lindley

Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472)

#Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder

John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)

#John_Hunter_(surgeon)

Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760)

#Veerapandiya_Kattabomman

Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724)

#Eva_Marie_Veigel

Luca Signorelli, Italian painter (b. c.1450)

#Luca_Signorelli

Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)

#Barbara_Billingsley

Gregory XIV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1535)

#Pope_Gregory_XIV

Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)

#Gaston_Bachelard

Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823)

#Théodore_Barrière

John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)

#John_Wentworth_(Illinois)

Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965)

Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964)

Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921)

Memduh Ün, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)

Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)

William James, Australian general and physician (b. 1930)

James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940)

Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)

Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)

Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)

Robert B. Rheault, American colonel (b. 1925)

George Hourmouziadis, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1932)

Govind Purushottam Deshpande, Indian playwright and academic (b. 1938)

Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923)

Mario Gallegos, Jr., American firefighter and politician (b. 1950)

Eyedea, American rapper and producer (b. 1981)

Dagmar Normet, Estonian author and translator (b. 1921)

Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (b. 1936)

John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)

Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)

Avni Arba?, Turkish painter (b. 1919)

Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)

Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921)

Eric Malpass, English author (b. 1910)

Scott O'Dell, American journalist and author (b. 1898)

Walter Farley, American author and educator (b. 1915)

Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921)

Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (b. 1906)

Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)

Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)

John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)

Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and war criminal (b. 1900) Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877) Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890) Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903) Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882) Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893) Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (b. 1894) Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892) Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician (b. 1887) Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893)

Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French Governor of Louisiana (b. 1658)

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Irish-English soldier and politician (b. 1621)

Pedro González de Lara, Castilian magnate

Fujiwara no Kenshi, Japanese empress (b. 994)

Fú Ji?n, Chinese emperor (b. 337)