July 16 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1216 – Pope Innocent III (b. 1160 or 1161)
• 1324 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
• 1342 – King Charles I of Hungary (b. 1288)
• 1546 – Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
• 1557 – Anne of Cleves, German-born fourth wife of King Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
• 1594 – Thomas Kyd, English playwright (b. 1558)
• 1647 – Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
• 1664 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
• 1686 – John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
• 1691 – François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
• 1729 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
• 1747 – Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
• 1770 – Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
• 1796 – George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
• 1831 – Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
• 1850 – Julia Glover, Irish-born actress (b. c. 1779)
• 1868 – Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (b. 1840)
• 1879 – Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
• 1882 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
• 1886 – Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
• 1896 – Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
• 1915 – Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
• 1916 – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
• 1917 – Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (b. 1847)
• 1947 – Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
• 1949 – Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
• 1953 – Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
• 1960 – Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1960 – John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
• 1976 – Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1921)
• 1979 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
• 1981 – Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1982 – Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
• 1982 – Charles Robberts Swart, South African politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
• 1985 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
• 1985 – Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
• 1990 – Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
• 1990 – Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
• 1991 – Frank Rizzo, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
• 1994 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French-Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (b. 1908)
• 1995 – May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
• 1995 – Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
• 1996 – John Panozzo, American drummer (Styx) (b. 1948)
• 1996 – Adolf von Thadden, German politician (b. 1921)
• 1998 – John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
• 1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
• 1999 – Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
• 1999 – Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
• 2001 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2002 – John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Celia Cruz, Cuban salsa singer (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Carol Shields, American-born Canadian novelist (b. 1935)
• 2004 – George Busbee, American politician, 77th Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Charles Sweeney, American general (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist and entertainer (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, American politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
• 2007 – Caterina Bueno, Italian singer and folk music historian (b. 1943)
• 2008 – Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)
• 2010 – James Gammon, American actor (b. 1940)