Deaths in History on July 16

Anne of Cleves

1557 Anne of Cleves, Queen of England (1539-40), 4th wife of Henry VIII, dies most likely of cancer at 41

1590 Bartholomaeus of Braga [Fernandez], Dominican theologian and Archbishop Emeritus of Braga, dies at 76

Thomas Kyd

1594 Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (The Spanish Tragedy), dies at 35

1647 Masaniello [Tommaso Aniello], Italian fisherman and leader of the 1647 Naples revolt against the rule of Habsburg Spain, assassinated by a group of grain merchants at 27
1664 Andreas Gryphius, German lyric poet and dramatist, dies at 47
1686 John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 Francois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois), dies at 82

1698 Cristoph Kaldenbach, Prussian poet, dies at 84
1730 Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies
1736 Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1747 Giuseppe Maria Crespi, painter/etcher, dies
1764 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
1770 Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1782 Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden and wife of Adolf Frederik, dies at 61
1796 George Howard, British field marshal, dies at 78
1831 Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1843 Hubert Matthijs Adriaan Jan van Asch van Wijck, Dutch lawyer and politician, dies at 68
1857 Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies
1864 Victor Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies in battle at 27
1871 Tad Lincoln, youngest son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, dies at 18
1879 Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)

Mary Todd Lincoln

1882 Mary Todd Lincoln, American wife of Abraham Lincoln and US First Lady (1861-65), dies of a stroke at 63

1886 Ned Buntline [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
1887 Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73
1889 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83
1890 Gottfried Keller, German-Swiss novelist and poet, dies at 70
1896 Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74

1896 William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
1897 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies at 1897
1905 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69

Ellen G. White

1915 ellen white, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, dies at 87

1916 Victor Horsley, English physician and neuroscientist, dies while serving in Iraq in WWI at 59
1918 José de Diego, Puerto Rican patriot and advocate for Puerto Rico's independence from Spain and the U.S., dies at 52
1923 Louis Couperus, Dutch poet and writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
1931 Alice Pike Barney, American painter, dies at 74
1934 Alaska P. Davidson, America's first female FBI agent, dies at 66
1939 Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Zen student, dies
1944 Johannes Post, Dutch farmer and resistance fighter (passage fight), executed at 37
1947 Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria at 77
1949 Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian philosopher, playwright and poet, dies at 83
1953 Hilaire Belloc, Anglo-French author (Path to Rome), dies at 82
1955 Jean de Merode [Marie-Louise Courtenay], Belgian princess, dies at 81
1960 John P. Marquand, American writer (The Late George Apley), dies at 66

Albert Kesselring

1960 Albert Kesselring, German general during World War II (Commander-in-Chief South and West), dies of a heart attack at 74

1962 Jan Romein, Dutch historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies at 68
1971 H T Tsiang, dies at 65
1973 Nine van de Schaaf, Dutch author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91

1976 Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93
1980 Robert Brackman, American artist, dies at 81
1982 Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies
1982 C. R. Swart, South African politician (1st State President of South Africa 1961-67), dies at 88
1985 Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1990 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), dies at 62
1991 Cornelis Z Forster [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
1991 Frank Rizzo, American politician (Mayor-D-Philadelphia, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70
1991 Robert Motherwell, American painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
1992 Patrick Meaney, British businessman and CEO (Rank Organization), dies at 67
1994 M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78
1994 Julian Schwinger, American physicist (1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum electrodynamics), dies at 76
1995 Eleanore "May" Sarton, Belgian-American writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83
1995 Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
1995 Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83
1995 Stephen Spender, English poet and critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness), dies at 86
1996 Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1997 Dora Maar, French photographer, painter and poet, lover of Picasso, dies at 89
1998 John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)

John F. Kennedy Jr.

1999 John F. Kennedy Jr, American magazine publisher (George), lawyer and son of JFK, dies in a plane crash at 38

2001 Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2002 John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist (The Stone Diaries) and short story writer, dies at 68
2004 George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2006 Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2013 Barun De, Indian historian, dies at 80
2019 John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975-2010), dies from complications of a stroke at 99

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