September 16 - Deaths

Deaths

• 96 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
• 827 – Pope Valentine
• 1087 – Pope Victor III (b. 1026)
• 1100 – Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
• 1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
• 1380 – King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
• 1394 – Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)
• 1406 – Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
• 1498 – Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (b. 1420)
• 1589 – Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
• 1672 – Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)
• 1701 – James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
• 1736 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
• 1775 – Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
• 1782 – Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)
• 1792 – Quang Trung, Tay Son dynasty's emperor of Viet Nam (b. 1788)
• 1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
• 1824 – King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
• 1843 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b. 1770)
• 1864 – John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827)
• 1865 – Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
• 1887 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14^th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
• 1896 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
• 1898 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
• 1911 – Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
• 1925 – Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
• 1932 – Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
• 1933 – George Gore, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1944 – Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
• 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
• 1950 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
• 1957 – Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
• 1965 – Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
• 1977 – Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
• 1977 – Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
• 1978 – Lavrentis Dianellos, Greek actor (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
• 1987 – Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
• 1992 – Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)
• 1996 – McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
• 2001 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
• 2002 – James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
• 2003 – Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Michael Donaghy Poet, (b. 1954)
• 2005 – Harry Freedman, Canadian composer and music educator (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
• 2006 – Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Myles Brand, NCAA President (b. 1942)
• 2009 – Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
• 2010 – Jim Towers, English footballer (b. 1933)