What happened on August 16 ?

1027 - Giorgi I, King of Georgia (b. 998)

1297 - John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)

1327 - Roch, French saint

1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)

1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)

1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)

1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of Louis XI. (b. 1424.

1518 - Loyset Compère, French composer

1532 - John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)

1661 - Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)

1678 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (b. 1621)

1705 - Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (b. 1654)

1733 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)

1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)

1876 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illusitrator (d. 1942)

1886 - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Indian guru (b. 1836)

1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)

1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)

1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)

1921 - King Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)

1938 - Robert Johnson, American singer and guitarist (b. 1911)

1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)

1948 - Babe Ruth, baseball player (b. 1895)

1949 - Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (b. 1900)

1956 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)

1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

1959 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)

1973 - Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)

1975 - Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian-born runner (b. 1927)

1977 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)

1979 - John Diefenbaker, thirteenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)

1983 - Earl Averill, baseball player (b. 1902)

1989 - Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)

1997 - Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright and actor (b. 1915)

2002 - Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (b. 1937)

2002 - Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)

2003 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)

2004 - Ivan Hlinka, Czech hockey coach (b. 1950)

2004 - Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)

2005 - Frère Roger of Taizé, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)