Famous Deaths on 16 Jun

Famous Deaths on 16 Jun

1216 - Pope Innocent III
1397 - Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (b. 1358)
1468 - Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. ca. 1395)
1622 - Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
1623 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
1666 - Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator, and diplomat (b. 1608)
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed)
1707 - Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
1722 - John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
1749 - Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
1752 - Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
1777 - Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
1778 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779 - Sir Francis Bernard, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
1792 - Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
1824 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
1849 - Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
1850 - William Lawson explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
1855 - John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
1858 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
1866 - Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
1869 - Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
1872 - Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
1878 - Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
1881 - Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
1881 - Sir Josiah Mason, English manufacturer (b. 1795)
1885 - Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
1925 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
1925 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (b. 1903)
1928 - Dr. Mark Keppel, County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
1929 - Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
1930 - Ezra Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch founder (b. 1866)
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor (b. 1860)
1939 - Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
1940 - DuBose Heyward, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 - Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
1945 - Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
1952 - Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
1953 - Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
1955 - Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
1958 - Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
1959 - George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
1961 - Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
1969 - Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
1970 - Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
1970 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
1971 - Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
1977 - Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
1979 - Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
1979 - Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
1981 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
1982 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
1984 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
1986 - Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
1988 - Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor, and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. (b. 1946)
1990 - Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
1994 - Kristen Pfaff, American bass guitarist (Hole) (b. 1967)
1996 - Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
1996 - Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
1999 - David Edward Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
2000 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2003 - Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
2003 - Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2004 - Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1912)
2005 - Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
2006 - Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
2006 - Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
2007 - Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, (b. 1931)
2007 - Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
2008 - Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
2008 - Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)