May 16 - Deaths

Deaths

• 583 – Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
• 1265 – Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
• 1569 – Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
• 1620 – William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
• 1657 – Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
• 1667 – Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
• 1669 – Pietro da Cortona, Italian architect (b. 1596)
• 1691 – Jacob Leisler, American colonist (b. 1640)
• 1703 – Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
• 1778 – Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
• 1782 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
• 1790 – Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
• 1830 – Joseph Fourier, French scientist (b. 1768)
• 1882 – Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1799)
• 1891 – Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
• 1913 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
• 1920 – Levi P. Morton, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 – Mehmed VI, last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
• 1943 – Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
• 1944 – George Ade, American author (b. 1866)
• 1947 – Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
• 1953 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
• 1954 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (b. 1893)
• 1955 – James Agee, American writer (b. 1909)
• 1956 – H. B. Reese, American confectioner, founder of Reese's (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
• 1959 – Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
• 1961 – George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
• 1969 – Robert R., American teenager, first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)
• 1975 – Al Helfer, American radio sportscaster (b. 1911)
• 1979 – A. Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)
• 1981 – Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)
• 1984 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
• 1984 – Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)
• 1990 – Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (b. 1925)
• 1990 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (b. 1936)
• 1992 – Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b. 1960)
• 1993 – Marv Johnson, American R&B and soul singer (b. 1938)
• 1996 – Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (b. 1939)
• 1997 – Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Bodacious the Bull, rodeo bull (b. 1988)
• 2001 – Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
• 2002 – Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
• 2002 – Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
• 2003 – Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)
• 2008 – David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Robert Mondavi, American winemaker (b. 1913)
• 2010 – Ronnie James Dio, American heavy metal vocalist (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (b. 1918)