Famous Deaths on 16 Apr

Famous Deaths on 16 Apr

1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
1850 - Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
1879 - Bernadette Soubirous, French shepherd girl (b. 1844)
1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
1899 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b 1875)
1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
1904 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
1928 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1930 - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
1947 - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
1970 - Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1978 - Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
1985 - Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
1991 - David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
1992 - Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
1992 - Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)
1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
1995 - Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
1996 - Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
1998 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
1999 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
2003 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
2005 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
2006 - Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
2007 - Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
2007 - Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
2007 - Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre
2007 - Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
2007 - Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
2007 - Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
2007 - G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
2007 - Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b. 1930)
2008 - Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
2008 - Joseph Solman, American painter
69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy