June 16 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1216 – Pope Innocent III (b. 1160 or 1161)
• 1397 – Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier and nobleman (b. 1358)
• 1468 – Jean Le Fevre, Burgundian chronicler (b. c. 1395)
• 1622 – Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)
• 1623 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
• 1666 – Richard Fanshawe, English poet, translator and diplomat (b. 1608)
• 1671 – Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader (executed) (b. 1630)
• 1707 – Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de Nemours, sovereign princess of Neuchâtel and writer (b. 1625)
• 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English general (b. 1650)
• 1749 – Johann Baptista Ruffini, Italian trader (b. 1672)
• 1752 – Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (b. 1664)
• 1752 – Joseph Butler, English philosopher (b. 1692)
• 1777 – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, French poet and dramatist (b. 1709)
• 1778 – Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
• 1779 – Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet, Governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts (b. 1712)
• 1792 – Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (b. 1738)
• 1804 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer (b. 1728)
• 1824 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (b. 1739)
• 1849 – Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, German theologian (b. 1780)
• 1850 – William Lawson, English explorer of New South Wales, Australia (b. 1774)
• 1855 – John Gorrie, American physician (b. 1803)
• 1858 – John Snow, English epidemiologist (b. 1813)
• 1862 – Hidenoyama Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 9^th Yokozuna (b. 1808)
• 1866 – Joseph Méry French poet (b. 1798)
• 1869 – Charles Sturt, English explorer (b. 1795)
• 1872 – Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman (b. 1812)
• 1878 – Crawford Long, American physician (b. 1815)
• 1881 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (b. 1801)
• 1881 – Sir Josiah Mason, English pen manufacturer (b. 1795)
• 1885 – Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818)
• 1902 – Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
• 1925 – Chittaranjan Das, Indian patriot and freedom fighter (b. 1870)
• 1925 – Emmett Hardy, American jazz cornet player (b. 1903)
• 1928 – Dr. Mark Keppel, American County Superintendent of Los Angeles County Schools from 1902-1928 (b. 1867)
• 1929 – Bramwell Booth, English 2^nd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1856)
• 1930 – Ezra Fitch, American founder of Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866)
• 1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American co-inventor of the gyrocompass (b. 1860)
• 1939 – Chick Webb, American jazz drummer and big band leader (b. 1905)
• 1940 – DuBose Heyward, American novelist (b. 1885)
• 1944 – Marc Bloch, French historian (executed) (b. 1886)
• 1945 – Aris Velouchiotis, Greek guerrilla resistance leader (b. 1905)
• 1952 – Andrew Lawson, Scottish-American geologist, the first to map the entire San Andreas Fault (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Margaret Bondfield, English politician and feminist (b. 1873)
• 1955 – Ozias Leduc, Quebec painter (b. 1864)
• 1958 – Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1895)
• 1959 – George Reeves, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1961 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
• 1967 – Reginald Denny, English stage, film, and television actor (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Harold Alexander, British military commander (b. 1891)
• 1970 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer (b. 1887)
• 1970 – Brian Piccolo, American football player (b. 1943)
• 1970 – Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1971 – Lord Reith, British broadcast executive (b. 1889)
• 1977 – Wernher von Braun, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1912)
• 1979 – Ignatius Kutu Acheamphong, Ghanaian dictator (b. 1931)
• 1979 – Nicholas Ray, American film director (b. 1911)
• 1981 – Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 1982 – James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist and songwriter (The Pretenders) (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
• 1986 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer and organist (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Miguel Piñero, Puerto Rican playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café (b. 1946)
• 1990 – Gertrude Baniszewski, American murderer of Sylvia Likens (b. 1929)
• 1990 – Megan Leigh, American porn star (b. 1964)
• 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (Hole) (b. 1967)
• 1996 – Mel Allen, American baseball announcer (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Curt Swan, American comic book artist (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Screaming Lord Sutch, British musician (b. 1940)
• 2000 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
• 2003 – Pierre Bourgault, French Canadian politician (b. 1934)
• 2003 – Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish-Swedish philosopher (b. 1916)
• 2004 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican writer (b. 1906)
• 2006 – Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist, (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani, Iranian cleric (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Mikhail Kononov, Soviet actor (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Tom Compernolle, Belgian athlete (b. 1975)
• 2008 – Mario Rigoni Stern, Italian writer, World War II veteran and Nazi concentration camp survivor (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Marc Bazin, Haitian politician (b. 1932)