What happened on April 16 ?

69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)

744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph

924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy

1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)

1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily

1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria

1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer

1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)

1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist

1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)

1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)

1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)

1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)

1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)

1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)

1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)

1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)

1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)

1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)

1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)

1947 - Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)

1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)

1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)

1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1978 - Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)

1985 - Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)

1991 - David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)

1992 - Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)

1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)

1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)

1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)

1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)

2001 - Michael Ritchie, American film director (b. 1920)

2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)

2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)

2002 - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)

2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)

2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)

2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)