April 16 -Deaths

Deaths

• 69 – Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
• 665 – Fructuosus of Braga
• 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 (b. 1640)
• 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)
• 1850 – Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
• 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
• 1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church and visionary of Lourdes, France during 1858 (b. 1844)
• 1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
• 1899 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
• 1904 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
• 1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
• 1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
• 1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
• 1928 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
• 1930 – José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
• 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
• 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
• 1947 – Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
• 1955 – David Kirkwood, Scottish labor leader (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
• 1968 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
• 1978 – Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Sir David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
• 1996 – Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
• 2003 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
• 2006 – Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
• 2007 – Seung-Hui Cho, American spree killer (b. 1984)
• 2007 – Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian instructor of French at Virginia Tech (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Holocaust survivor (b. 1930)
• 2007 – G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
• 2008 – Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Joseph Solman, American painter (b. 1909)
• 2010 – Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (b. 1949)