What happened on October 16 ?

1355 - Louis, King of Sicily, felled by the Black Death

1553 - Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter (b. 1472)

1555 - Hugh Latimer, English protestant (martyred)

1591 - Pope Gregory XIV (b. 1535)

1594 - William Cardinal Allen, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1532)

1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer (b. 1562)

1628 - François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)

1649 - Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter (b. 1621)

1655 - Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and music theorist (b. 1591)

1750 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)

1755 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (b. 1725)

1781 - Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)

1793 - Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (executed) (b. 1755)

1796 - Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)

1810 - Nachman of Breslov, founder of Breslov Hasidut (b. 1772)

1865 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)

1877 - Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)

1888 - John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)

1893 - Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)

1937 - Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)

1946 - Hans Frank, German war criminal (b. 1900)

1946 - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal (b. 1877)

1946 - Alfred Jodl, German military officer (b. 1890)

1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)

1946 - Wilhelm Keitel, German military officer (b. 1882)

1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, German politician (b. 1893)

1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi ideologist (b. 1893)

1946 - Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal (b. 1892)

1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader (b. 1894)

1946 - Julius Streicher, German propagandist (b. 1887)

1959 - George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880)

1962 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (b. 1884)

1966 - George O'Hara, American actor (b. 1899)

1972 - Hale Boggs, U.S. Congressman from Louisiana (b. 1914)

1972 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1892)

1973 - Gene Krupa, American musician (b. 1909)

1978 - Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1913)

1979 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)

1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)

1983 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer (b. 1895)

1983 - Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)

1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)

1989 - Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)

1990 - Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (b. 1919)

1992 - Shirley Booth, American actress (b. 1898)

1994 - Raul Julia, American actor (b. 1940)

1996 - Eric Malpass, English novelist (b. 1910)

1996 - Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)

1997 - James Michener, American writer

1998 - Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)

1999 - Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (b. 1921)

2000 - Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)

2002 - Angela Dawson, American activist

2003 - Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)

2003 - Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1915)

2003 - László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)

2004 - Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)

2005 - "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)

2005 - David Reilly, American Singer (God Lives Underwater), (b. 1971)

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