Notable Deaths on April 16th
April 16th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
69 |
Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32) |
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 |
1446 |
Filippo Brunelleschi, architect, dies |
1496 |
David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69 |
1529 |
Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake |
1619 |
Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert, [Dionisio Fiamingo], Flemish painter, dies |
1645 |
Tobias Hume, English composer |
1687 |
George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham, dies at 59 |
1689 |
Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640) |
1743 |
Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law), dies at 69 |
1756 |
Jacques Cassini, Fr astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79 |
1760 |
Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward |
1783 |
Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719) |
1788 |
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707) |
1825 |
John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84 |
1828 |
Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82 |
1830 |
József Katona, Bánk bán |
1846 |
Domenico Dragonetti, composer, dies at 83 |
1850 |
Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies at 88 |
1858 |
Johann Baptist Cramer, Ger/Brit pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87 |
1859 |
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805) |
1860 |
Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples, dies |
1865 |
Robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle |
1870 |
Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies |
1876 |
Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83 |
1879 |
Bernadette, st/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France |
1881 |
George William Martin, composer, dies at 56 |
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 W Hill, US astronomer (moon orbit), dies at 76 |
1915 |
Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841) |
1916 |
Tom Horan, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust, 471 runs, 11 wickets), dies |
1920 |
John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80 |
1924 |
Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies |
1924 |
Amleto Novelli, Quo Vadis? |
1925 |
David Powell, Appearances |
1928 |
Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840) |
1929 |
Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector, dies at 57 |
1929 |
Yvonneck, Une java |
1930 |
José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894) |
1933 |
Yrjö Saarnio, Kajastus |
1938 |
Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor, dies |
1938 |
Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874) |
1938 |
August Falck, A Man There Was |
1941 |
Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician, dies |
1941 |
William E. Danforth, The Gates of Eden |
1941 |
Raymond C. Hill, The Green Flame |
1943 |
Harold J. Tannenbaum, The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress |
1943 |
Carlos Arniches, Main Street |
1944 |
Ray Hallor, Driven from Home |
1945 |
Charles E. Evans, Happy Days |
1945 |
Willie Fung, The Letter |
1946 |
Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884) |
1946 |
Charles Amberg, The Harmonists |
1947 |
Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900) |
1947 |
Nikolai Konovalov, Spring |
1948 |
James Blaine, Flaming Frontiers |
1949 |
Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 |
1949 |
Brian Marlow, Bad Girl |
1951 |
Emile Erens, Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at 85 |
1951 |
Adolph Bolm, Danse macabre |
1951 |
Arno Dosch, Our Mutual Girl, No. 33 |
1951 |
Jack Carr, Four Shall Die |
1952 |
George Bunny, The Lost World |
1953 |
Gerda Krum-Juncker, The Hostage |
1953 |
E.M. Newman, High Spots of the Far East |
1953 |
Bruce Sievier, Sweet and Lowdown |
1954 |
Daniil Pokras, Traktoristy |
1954 |
George Harris, Birthday Greetings |
1955 |
Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded |
1955 |
Robert Gill, They Who Dare |
1956 |
Jean de Marguenat, Le gardian |
1958 |
Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920) |
1958 |
Donald Grayson, Outlaws of the Prairie |
1958 |
W. Kerr Scott, Highway 301 |
1958 |
McLean Nisbet, Mrs. Parkington |
1959 |
Charles Halton, dies at 83 |
1959 |
Antoni Fertner, Ada, Don't Do That! |
1959 |
Charles Halton, The Best Years of Our Lives |
1959 |
Adele St. Mauer, The Gay Deception |
1960 |
Mihály Fekete, A vágy |
1961 |
Julius Pinschewer, KIPHO |
1963 |
Al Goering, The Day of the Locust |
1964 |
Roy Chanslor, Cat Ballou |
1967 |
Glen Barnes, Tarzan Finds a Son! |
1967 |
Shaheed Latif, Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi |
1968 |
Edna Ferber, American author (American Beauty), dies at 82 |
1968 |
Fay Bainter, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair), dies at 76 |
1970 |
Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892) |
1972 |
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72 |
1976 |
Frank Paul Sylos, Suddenly |
1978 |
Lucius D Clay, gen/gov US zone W-Germany (airlift), dies at 80 |
1978 |
Lucius D. Clay, The Big Truth |
1978 |
Edith Willkie, Episode #11.28 |
1978 |
Ralph Bushman, Our Hospitality |
1979 |
Maria Caniglia, Mad About Opera |
1980 |
Alf Sjöberg, Miss Julie |
1980 |
Harry Hutchinson, Juno and the Paycock |
1980 |
Nellie Duran, South of Pago Pago |
1980 |
Jerzy Procner, Dezerter |
1980 |
Morris Stoloff, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
1981 |
Eric Hollies, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 44 wickets), dies |
1981 |
Bob Hite, Monterey Pop |
1981 |
Stuart Higgs, A Streetcar Named Desire |
1981 |
Friedrich Karl Kaul, Auf der Flucht erschossen |
1981 |
Bernice Hansen, I Love to Singa |
1981 |
Evgeniy Grigorev, Novgorodtsy |
1981 |
Stanislaw Libner, Zbieg |
1982 |
Rudolf Seiß, Hulla di Bulla |
1982 |
Madeleine Desdevises, The Hussy |
1983 |
Dmitriy Meskhiev, The Lady with the Dog |
1983 |
David Mauro, The Ambushers |
1984 |
Byron Haskin, The War of the Worlds |
1984 |
Simon Spies, |
1985 |
Scott Brady, [Gerald Tierney], actor (Shotgun Slade), dies at 60 |
1985 |
Tadeusz Bartosik, It Started Yesterday |
1985 |
Scott Brady, Gremlins |
1985 |
Leon Collins, Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered |
1985 |
Jack Albin, A Streetcar Named Desire |
1986 |
Niyaz Dautov, Silva |
1986 |
Pia Colombo, Episode dated 30 May 1960 |
1986 |
Billie Bellport, Fibbing Fibbers |
1987 |
Robert R. Hoag, Ben-Hur |
1987 |
Reed N. Haythorne, The Human Adventure |
1988 |
Abu Jihad, [Khalil al-Wazzir], PLO-leader, murdered |
1988 |
Clifford Roach, cricketer (16 Tests early in WI cricket history), dies |
1988 |
Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (soc-dem), dies at 90 |
1988 |
Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos |
1988 |
Warde Donovan, dies at 72 |
1988 |
Alphonse Kehrer, The Wonderful Crook |
1988 |
Warde Donovan, The Convict's Revenge |
1988 |
Toni van Eyck, Was wissen denn Männer |
1988 |
Bobby Thompson, Bobby Thompson: The Little Waster |
1988 |
Lucile Taft, The Criminal's Thumb |
1988 |
Haruo Shikanai, The Adventures of Milo and Otis |
1989 |
Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies |
1989 |
Peter Sherwood, Mad Dog Morgan |
1989 |
David Bond, The Return of the Living Dead |
1989 |
Jocko Conlan, Game 7 |
1990 |
Islin Auster, Cheating Blondes |
1991 |
David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 |
1991 |
Warren Bush, The Desert Whales |
1991 |
David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia |
1991 |
Vera Mourdant, The Wizard of Oz |
1991 |
Ron Hays, Grease |
1992 |
Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72 |
1992 |
Frank Killmond, dies at 58 |
1992 |
Neville Brand, American actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71 |
1992 |
Skeets Herfurt, Songs of Jimmy McHugh |
1992 |
Andy Russell, Make Mine Music |
1992 |
Neville Brand, Stalag 17 |
1992 |
Paul Hammerich, Den næstbedste løsning 1966-71 |
1992 |
Alfreda Hodgson, The Midsummer Marriage |
1992 |
Tim Kramer, Gayracula |
1993 |
John P W Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77 |
1993 |
Josef Greindl, Die heimliche Ehe |
1993 |
Rhea Le Fort, Souls for Sale |
1993 |
Taft Rice, Temptation |
1993 |
Herbert Purdom, Such a Lovely Funeral |
1994 |
John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75 |
1994 |
Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80 |
1994 |
Ron Vawter, US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at 45 |
1994 |
Samuel Selvon, author, dies at 70 |
1994 |
John McLiam, First Blood |
1994 |
Samuel Selvon, Pressure |
1994 |
Ron Vawter, The Silence of the Lambs |
1994 |
Allan Snyder, Rosemary's Baby |
1994 |
Ralph Ellison, Ralph Ellison: An American Journey |
1995 |
Arthur English, comedian, dies at 75 |
1995 |
Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide |
1995 |
Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80 |
1995 |
Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster, dies at 86 |
1995 |
Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982) |
1995 |
Elida Gay Palmer, A Bully in 1900 |
1995 |
Klaus Glowalla, Der gemachte Mann |
1995 |
Cy Endfield, Zulu |
1995 |
Arthur English, Are You Being Served? |
1995 |
Alfred Ryder, True Grit |
1996 |
Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73 |
1996 |
Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer, dies at 89 |
1996 |
Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62 |
1996 |
Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipowner, dies at 86 |
1996 |
Irasema Dilián, Wuthering Heights |
1996 |
Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Gilles' Wife |
1996 |
Lucille Bremer, Meet Me in St. Louis |
1996 |
Stavros Niarchos, |
1996 |
François-Régis Bastide, Le troisième concerto |
1997 |
Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon, dies at 66 |
1997 |
Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82 |
1997 |
Michael Stroka, actor (Aristede-Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 57 |
1997 |
Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938) |
1997 |
Daisy Keith, The Wild One |
1997 |
John Benson, The Blob |
1997 |
Will Jim Hatton, The Whistle |
1997 |
Sam Waagenaar, Der Fall Mata Hari |
1997 |
Emery Deutsch, La Vie de Bohème |
1997 |
Bernard Bordeleau, Bonheur d'occasion |
1997 |
Roland Topor, The Tenant |
1997 |
Emilio Azcarraga, Camara escondida |
1998 |
Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913) |
1998 |
Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920) |
1998 |
Bud Brill, Car Wash |
1998 |
Henry E. Brill, Captain Carey, U.S.A. |
1998 |
Marie Quillan, Hurricane Horseman |
1998 |
Duke Goldstone, Jasper in a Jam |
1998 |
Mitsuyo Hara, Jihi shinchô |
1998 |
Ronald Millar, Scaramouche |
1998 |
Sally Curtice, My Own Private Idaho |
1999 |
Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946) |
1999 |
Tarida Gloria, Salah masuk |
1999 |
Charles McKimson, The Bugs Bunny Show |
1999 |
Regis Cordic, The Transformers: The Movie |
1999 |
Anne Zamberlan, Charlotte for Ever |
1999 |
Margaret Tait, A Portrait of Ga |
1999 |
Zoë Lund, Ms .45 |
1999 |
Rudi Fehr, Dial M for Murder |
1999 |
Carl Janson, Last Stand |
1999 |
Fritz Lehmann, Es lebe das Leben |
2000 |
Jean-Pierre Dautel, Alouette |
2001 |
Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917) |
2001 |
Robert Osterloh, The Wild One |
2001 |
Michael Ritchie, Fletch |
2001 |
Eric Frank, Brother, Can You Spare an Arrowhead? |
2001 |
Giacomo Gentilomo, Hercules Against the Moon Men |
2001 |
Klaus Kindler, Was ihr wollt |
2002 |
Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927) |
2002 |
Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946) |
2002 |
Alexander Doré, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
2002 |
Clarissa Mancuso, Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style |
2002 |
Herbert Wernicke, Giulio Cesare |
2002 |
Robert Urich, Magnum Force |
2002 |
Dezydery Galecki, U Pana Boga za piecem |
2002 |
Bill Carney, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids |
2003 |
Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor, dies of multiple myeloma at 72 |
2003 |
Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909) |
2003 |
Graham Jarvis, Misery |
2003 |
Charles Gagnon, The Eighth Day |
2003 |
Lili Muráti, Doctor Zhivago |
2003 |
Jan Scott, Orphan Train |
2004 |
Warde Q. Butler, To Dance with the White Dog |
2004 |
Carlos Castaño, The True Story of Killing Pablo |
2004 |
Monty Laird, Universal Soldier |
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) |
2005 |
Marla Ruzicka, Episode dated 27 May 2003 |
2005 |
Helen Lloyd Breed, The Witches of Eastwick |
2005 |
Volker Vogeler, Yankee Dudler |
2005 |
Dave Heather, The Gondoliers |
2005 |
Kay Walsh, Oliver Twist |
2005 |
Gerald Milton, Forty Guns |
2005 |
Don B. Ray, 'V' for Vashon: The Son |
2005 |
Wataru Takada, Flic |
2006 |
Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983) |
2006 |
Howard DuVall, Volcano |
2006 |
Malcolm Atterbury Jr., Ghost Dad |
2006 |
Edward Joseph, The Prince and the Showgirl |
2006 |
Brett Goldin, Slash |
2006 |
John Godey, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 |
2006 |
Kurt Mühlenhaupt, Mein Bruder Willi |
2006 |
Francisco Adam, Episode #3.1 |
2006 |
John B. Fetzer, Windows of Heaven |
2006 |
Silvia Caos, Culpas ajenas |
2006 |
Philippe Castelli, Monsieur Gangster |
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 |
Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre |
2007 |
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958) |
2007 |
Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961) |
2007 |
Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b. 1930) |
2007 |
G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954) |
2007 |
Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909) |
2007 |
Tony Hoffman, Se7en |
2007 |
Camilla Stull, Boys Do Cry |
2007 |
Ariane Borg, Tovaritch |
2007 |
Len Sampson, Alias Nellie Handley |
2007 |
Seung-hui Cho, Snapshot: Six Months of the Korean American Male |
2007 |
Hannah Botha, Wolhaarstories |
2007 |
Tran Bach Dang, Tunnels of Vietnam |
2007 |
Christo Christov, Cyklopat |
2008 |
Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917) |
2008 |
Joseph Solman, American painter |
2008 |
Bill White Jr., Alarm at Pleasant Valley |
2008 |
Edward Lorenz, The Revenge of the Dead Indians |
2008 |
Joe Feeney, Tribute to Bing Crosby |
2008 |
Dalton Sandifer, The All-New Popeye Hour |
2008 |
'Paddy' Barthropp, 'Laddie' Lucas |
2008 |
Woody Brown, Liquid Stage: The Lure of Surfing |
2008 |
Conxita Bardem, El pianista |
2008 |
Pedro Bandeira-Freire, Contrato |
2009 |
Eduardo Rózsa Flores, Chico |
2009 |
Esko Kulovaara, Rannikolta rannikolle |
2009 |
Jim Hutchison, Time Piece |
2009 |
James D. Houston, Farewell to Manzanar |
2010 |
Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (b. 1949) |
2010 |
Daryl Gates, Post No Bills |
2010 |
Anabel Shaw, Gun Crazy |
2010 |
Halil Elohev, Saint Clara |
2010 |
Péter Popper, Aczél |
2010 |
Robert Gribbon, One Life to Live |
2010 |
Dick Top, Der Mörder |
2010 |
Sid Conrad, General Hospital |
2010 |
Lee Stork, Many Happy Returns |
2010 |
Carlos Franqui, Improper Conduct |
2010 |
Vicente Haro, Earth |
2010 |
Mariano Artau, Mami |
2011 |
John Bowring, Go Before You Come |
2011 |
Anthony Lasome, Tank Battles of Korea |
2011 |
William Rusher, How to Win Arguments |
2011 |
Sol Saks, Bewitched |
2011 |
Zane Cronjé, Yankee Zulu |
2011 |
Daniel Vece Jr., X Day: The Invasion of Japan |
2011 |
Geoff Miller, Fast Copy |
2012 |
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping Magnate, dies at 98 |
2012 |
Ageeth Scherphuis, Diverse maatschappelijke en levensbeschouwelijke onderwerpen |
2012 |
Alan Hacker, Alcina |
2012 |
Carlo Petrini, Centravanti nato |
2012 |
David Peat, The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright |
2012 |
Walter Gordon, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords |
2012 |
Sari Barabas, Die Dubarry |
2012 |
Gyöngyi Polónyi, Tanulmány a nökröl |
2012 |
Teddy Charles, Episode #1.19 |
2012 |
Mærsk McKinney Møller, Episode dated 23 November 2003 |
2012 |
György Palásthy, Meztelen diplomata |
2012 |
Nan Pollard, The Paint Job |
2013 |
Pat Summerall, American NFL player and sportscaster, dies from cardiac arrest at 82 |
2013 |
Rita MacNeil, Last Night |
2013 |
Bob Yates, 1963 AFL Championship Game |
2013 |
George P. Horse Capture, I'd Rather be Powwowing |
2013 |
Edwin Shirley, Becoming Queen |
2013 |
Pat Summerall, The Replacements |
2013 |
George Beverly Shea, The Mighty Fortress |
2013 |
Dave Ismay, Covent Garden |
2014 |
Peter Schiff, Goldene Zeiten |
2014 |
Richard Greenfield, Episode dated 9 February 2006 |
2015 |
Lee Remmel, Leaders of the Pack |
2015 |
Stanislav Gross, Episode dated 11 November 2005 |
2015 |
Nimal Mendis, Village in the Jungle |
2015 |
Ollie Brown, Game 4 |
2015 |
Giuseppe Zigaina, The Decameron |
2015 |
Johnny Kemp, Love & Basketball |
2016 |
London Underground's 'Mind The Gap' voice artist Phil Sayer dies aged 62 |
2016 |
Iconic African photographer Malick Sidibe of Mali dies at the age of 80 |
2016 |
Acclaimed expert on energy and engineering Sir David MacKay dies aged 48 |
2017 |
World's oldest person Emma Morano dies in Italy aged 117 |
2018 |
R Lee Ermey, Full Metal Jacket actor, dies aged 74 |
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