Famous Deaths on 16 Jul

Famous Deaths on 16 Jul

1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647 - Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1871 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 - Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
1896 - Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960 - John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
1982 - C.R. Swart, South African politician (b. 1894)
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1985 - Wayne King, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (b. 1901)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politician (b. 1920
1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
1992 - Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1994 - Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995 - May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
1995 - Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (b. 1948)
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2008 - Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)