What happened on March 16 ?

37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)

455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)

1037 - Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen

1072 - Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop

1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)

1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)

1457 - László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)

1485 - Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (b. 1456)

1559 - Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)

1649 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)

1679 - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)

1721 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)

1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710)

1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (b. 1670)

1738 - George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)

1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)

1888 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)

1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)

1899 - Joseph Medill business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, (b. 1823)

1903 - Judge Roy Bean, American jurist and pioneer

1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)

1926 - Sergeant Stubby, Decorated war dog from World War I

1930 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)

1935 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)

1936 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist leader (b. 1864)

1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)

1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)

1955 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)

1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)

1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)

1970 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1946)

1971 - Thomas Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)

1975 - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)

1975 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)

1977 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)

1979 - Jean Monnet, French politician (b. 1888)

1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)

1983 - Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)

1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)

1992 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)

1996 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)

1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

2001 - Norma MacMillan, American voice actress (b. 1921)

2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)

2003 - Major Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York, (b. 1931)

2004 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)

2005 - Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)

2005 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)

2005 - Anthony George, American TV actor (b. 1921)

2005 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)

2005 - Dick Radatz, baseball player (b. 1937)