Famous Deaths on 16 May

Famous Deaths on 16 May

1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
1569 - Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 - William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657 - Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667 - Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1596)
1691 - Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)
1703 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
1778 - Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
1782 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
1790 - Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
1830 - Joseph Fourier, French scientist (b. 1768)
1891 - Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1913 - Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
1920 - Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
1926 - Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
1943 - Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
1944 - George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
1947 - Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
1953 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (b. 1893)
1955 - James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
1956 - H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
1957 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
1959 - Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
1961 - George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
1969 - Robert R., first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)
1979 - A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)
1981 - Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)
1984 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
1984 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
1988 - Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)
1990 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)
1990 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)
1992 - Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960)
1993 - Marv Johnson, American R&B and soul singer (b. 1938)
1994 - Jack Dodson, American actor (b. 1931)
1996 - Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
1997 - Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)
2000 - Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
2001 - Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
2002 - Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
2002 - Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
2003 - Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)
583 - Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)