Famous Deaths on October 16

1690 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43
1694 Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62
1726 Giovanni Maria Capelli, Italian composer, dies at 77
1750 Silvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist, dies at 64
1755 Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint, dies at 29
1774 Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (Scottish Poems), dies at 24
1781 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, British naval officer (b. 1705)
1791 Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman and favorite of Catherine the Great, dies at 52
1793 John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England, dies at 65

Marie Antoinette (1755-1793)

Queen of France (1774-92) who allegedly uttered the phrase "let them eat cake", beheaded at 37

1796 Victor Amadeus III of Savoy (b. 1726)
1799 Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, Belgian composer, dies at 44
1810 Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut, dies at 38
1814 Juan Jose Landaeta, Venezuelan composer, killed at 34
1817 Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies
1822 Eva Marie Veigel [La Violette], Austrian ballet dancer and wife of actor David Garrick, dies at 98
1836 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33
1849 George Washington Williams, 1st major African American historian, dies
1862 George B. Anderson, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 31
1865 Andrés Bello, Venezuelan poet, lawmaker, philosopher, and sociologist (b. 1781)
1867 Salomon Judah Rappoport, Galician-Czech rabbi and scholar (Ereg miliem), dies at 77
1877 John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83
1877 Theodore Barrière, French dramatist (b. 1823)
1880 Edward Wolff, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 64
1888 John Wentworth, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1891 Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies
1893 Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75
1893 Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta, President of France (b. 1808)
1906 Varina Howell Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States (1862-65), dies at 80
1909 Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer, dies at 53
1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
1918 Felix Arndt, American organist, pianist, arranger, and composer ("Desecration Rag"; "Nola"), dies during the Spanish Flu pandemic at 29 [1]
1919 Charles Harford Lloyd, British organist and composer, dies on his 70th birthday
1920 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1928 Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies
1937 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author (Babar the Elephant), dies at 37
1937 William Sealy Gosset, English statistician (Student's t-distribution), dies at 61
1939 Ludolf Nielsen, Danish composer, dies at 63
1942 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1944 Eric Westberg, Swedish composer, dies at 52
1944 John Eigenhuis, Dutch writer (The Dike), dies at 78

Alfred Jodl (1890-1946)

German general during World War II (head of the German High Command, signed unconditional Nazi surrender), hanged by Allied forces after the Nuremberg trials at 56

1946 Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
1946 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi politician (Austrian Chancellor 1938), war criminal (responsible for deportation of Dutch Jews), hanged at 54
1946 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS/SD), hanged at 43
1946 Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor, hanged at 51
1946 Granville Bantock, English composer and conductor (Hebridean Symphony), dies at 78

Hans Frank (1900-1946)

German Nazi Governor General of Occupied Poland, hanged by Allied forces after the Nuremberg war trials at 46

Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946)

Nazi foreign minister and war criminal, hanged at 53

1946 Wilhelm Frick, German leading Nazi official and war criminal (Minister of the Interior, responsible for concentration camps), hanged for crimes against humanity at 69

Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946)

Nazi military leader (head of the German High Command), is hanged at Nuremberg at 64

1948 Henry Foley, New Zealand cricketer (one Test for NZ, scored 2 & 2), dies at 42
1949 Hale A. VanderCook, American composer, dies at 85
1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar at 56
1956 Jules Rimet, French football administrator (3rd President of FIFA 1921-54), dies at 83

George Marshall (1880-1959)

American general and US Secretary of State (1947-49) who authored the Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953), dies at 78

1962 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water & Dreams), dies at 78
1966 George O'Hara, American silent era screenwriter and actor (The Sea Beast, The Grapes of Wrath), dies at 67
1969 Leonard Chess [Lejzor Czyż], Polish-American blues and R&B record company executive (Chess Records), dies at 52
1972 (Thomas) Hale Boggs, American politician (US Representative from Louisiana, 1947-73), presumed killed in a plane crash at 58
1972 Leo G. Carroll, British actor (Topper; Strangers On A Train; Man From U.N.C.L.E.), dies at 85
1973 Gene Krupa, American jazz and swing drummer ("Sing, Sing, Sing"), dies at 64
1974 Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, noted Carnatic musician (b. 1895)
1977 Michael Balcon, English film producer (head of Ealing Studios), dies at 81
1978 Daniel "Dan" Dailey, American dancer and actor (You're My Everything, Governor & J.J.), dies of anemia at 62
1979 Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (Lillelord), dies at 77
1980 Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83

Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)

Israeli military leader and politician (Minister of Defense 1967-74), dies of a heart attack at 66

1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies
1982 Hans Selye, Austrian-Canadian endocrinologist, dies at 75
1982 Jakov Gotovac, Croatian conductor and composer (Ero the Joker), dies at 87
1982 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67
1983 George Liberace, American violinist (The Liberace Show), dies of leukemia at 72
1983 Kelso, American racehorse (b. 1957)
1983 Øivin Fjeldstad, Norwegian conductor and composer, dies at 80
1984 Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84
1984 Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon), dies of cancer at 53
1985 Claude Stroud, American actor (Breakfast at Tiffany's; Ted Knight Show; Duke), dies at 78
1986 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian concert violinist, dies of a stroke at 65
1986 C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85
1987 Dana Suesse, American musician and songwriter ("You Ought To Be In Pictures"), dies at 77
1989 Cornel Wilde [Kornel Lajos Weisz], Hungarian-American actor (Sword of Lancelot, High Sierra, 5th Musketeer), dies at 74
1990 Art Blakey, American jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71
1990 Jorge Bolet, Cuban-born American pianist known for his performances of the work of Franz Liszt, dies at 75
1991 Boris Papandopulo, Croatian composer, dies at 78
1991 Tonny Huurdeman, singer/actress (Frills), dies

Shirley Booth (1898-1992)

American actress (Lola Delaney-Come Back, Little Sheba; Hazel), dies of natural causes at 94

1993 John Bowles, American businessman (president of Rexall Drugs), dies at 76
1995 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
1995 Murdo Alex MacLeod, Free Church of Scotland minister, dies at 60
1995 Richard Caldicot, British actor (Horse's Mouth, Strife, Mrs Thursday), dies at 87
1995 Thomas Augustine Martin, Irish academic, dies at 59
1996 Anthony Griffin, British Royal Navy admiral (Controller of the Navy, 1971–75; chairman of British Shipbuilders 1977–80). dies at 75
1996 Eric Malpass, English writer (Pentecost family books), dies at 85
1996 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst and artist, dies at 82
1996 James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68
1996 Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of a heart attack at 58
1997 Adam Kennedy, American actor (The Californians) screenwriter (The Domino Principle), novelist (Just Like Humphrey Bogart), and painter, dies of a heart attack at 75
1997 Audra Lindley, American actress (Three's Company; The Ropers;, The Relic), dies of complications from leukemia at 79
1997 James A. Michener, American author (South Pacific; Sayonara), dies of kidney failure at 90
1998 Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
1998 M. Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], Dutch poet (Phoenix), dies at 89
1999 Jean Shepherd, American writer and actor (A Christmas Story), dies at 78
2000 Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
2000 Rick Jason [Richard Jacobson], American stage and screen actor (Combat! - "Lt. Hanley"; The Fountain of Youth; Day of the Wolves), dies of a self-inflicted gunshot at 77
2001 Etta Jones, American jazz singer ("Don't Go To Strangers"), dies of cancer at 72
2001 Gotthold Gloger, German writer and painter, dies at 77
2002 Angela Dawson, American murder victim
2003 Avni Arbas, Turkish artist (b. 1919)
2003 László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2003 Stu Hart, Canadian professional wrestler and trainer, dies at 88
2004 Pierre Salinger, American newsman (ABC) and press secretary (John F. Kennedy), dies at 79
2005 "Len" Dresslar, American singer and voice actor (b. 1925)
2005 David Reilly, American singer ("God Lives Underwater"), dies at 34
2005 Eugene "Porky" Lee, American child actor (Little Rascals), dies at 71
2005 John Baines Johnston, British diplomat (British High Commissioner to Rhodesia just before independence, High Commissioner of Malaysia), dies at 87
2005 Ursula Howells, British actress (Hard Times, Girly, Murder is Announced), dies at 83
2006 Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (b. 1921)
2006 Ross Davidson, British actor (b. 1949)
2006 Tommy Johnson, American orchestral and session tuba player (theme to "Jaws"), dies from cancer and kidney failure at 71
2006 Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Ex President of Peru (b. 1936)
2007 Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking, dies at 96
2007 Deborah Kerr, British actress (From Here to Eternity; The King and I; An Affair To Remember), dies from the effects of Parkinson's disease at 86
2007 Toše Proeski, Macedonian pop music singer-songwriter and musician, dies in a car crash in Croatia at 26
2009 Robert W. Davis, American politician (Rep-R-MI, 1979-93), dies at 77
2010 Barbara Billingsley, American actress (Leave it to Beaver), dies at 94
2010 Eyedea [Micheal Larsen], American poet and rapper (Eyedea & Abilities), dies from opiate induced respiratory depression at 28
2011 Dan Wheldon, British race car driver (Indianapolis 500, 2005 & 2011), dies in crash at IndyCar World Championship at Las Vegas, Nevada at 33
2011 Pete Rugolo, American bandleader and arranger (Fugitive), dies at 95
2012 Eddie Yost, American MLB player, dies from cardiovascular disease at 86
2013 Ed Lauter, American actor (The Artist, The Number 23), dies from mesothelioma at 74
2014 John Spencer-Churchill, 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner, dies at 88
2014 Tim Hauser, American jazz singer, dies from cardiac arrest at 72
2015 John Jennings, American guitarist and music producer (Mary Chapin Carpenter; John Gorka). dies of kidney cancer at 61
2015 Mikhail Burtsev, Soviet sabre fencer (Olympic gold 1976, 1980), dies at 59
2016 Kigeli V, last King of Rwanda (1959-61), dies at 80
2016 Stuart Edwards, British guitarist (Edison Lighthouse - "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes"), dies of cancer at 73
2017 Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist (Panama Papers), killed by a car bomb at 53
2017 Roy Dotrice, British actor (A Moon for the Misbegotten, Amadeus) and narrator (A Song of Ice and Fire), dies at 94
2017 Sean Hughes, Irish stand-up comedian, writer and actor, dies at 51
2018 Berthold Leibinger, German entrepreneur (Trumpf) and philanthropist, dies at 87
2019 John Clarke, American actor (Days of Our Lives -"Mickey"), dies at 88
2020 Andrzej Pogorzelski, Polish motorcycle speedway rider (Speedway World Team Cup gold 1965, 66, 69), dies at 82
2020 Johnny Bush, American country singer, dies at 85
2020 Rodolfo Fischer, Argentine soccer striker (35 caps; San Lorenzo 271 games), dies at 76
2021 Leo Boivin, Canadian Hockey HOF defenceman (Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs) and coach (St. Louis Blues), dies at 89
2021 Pat Studstill, American football wide receiver (Pro Bowl 1965, 66; NFL receiving yards leader, record 99-yard TD reception [tied] 1966; Detroit Lions, LA Rams), dies at 83
2021 Ron Tutt, American session and touring drummer (Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris; Jerry Garcia; Neil Diamond), dies at 83
2022 Dagmar Rom, Austrian alpine ski racer (World C'ship gold slalom & giant slalom 1950; Olympic silver giant slalom 1952), dies at 94