What happened on November 16 ?

1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland, wife of King Malcolm Canmore

1240 - Edmund Rich, St. Edmund of Canterbury

1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207)

1328 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)

1613 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)

1628 - Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer

1695 - Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)

1724 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702)

1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)

1773 - John Hawkesworth, English writer

1779 - Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716)

1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)

1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)

1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746)

1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)

1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)

1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844)

1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)

1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)

1922 - Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)

1939 - Pierce Butler, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866)

1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)

1961 - Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House (b. 1882)

1973 - Alan Watts, English writer (b. 1915)

1981 - William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)

1982 - Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)

1993 - Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)

1994 - Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899)

1994 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)

1999 - Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)

2000 - DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)

2003 - Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)

2005 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

2005 - Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)

2005 - Donald Watson, founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910)