Notable Deaths on May 16th
May 16th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
583 |
Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484) |
942 |
Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies |
1265 |
Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165) |
1434 |
Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60 |
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, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies |
1669 |
Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 |
1691 |
Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason |
1703 |
Charles Perrault, French author/fairy tale writer, dies at 75 |
1703 |
Charles Perrault, Maleficent |
1754 |
Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76 |
1762 |
Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86 |
1768 |
Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81 |
1777 |
Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds |
1778 |
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718) |
1782 |
Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies |
1790 |
Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720) |
1805 |
Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68 |
1818 |
Matthew Lewis, The Monk |
1819 |
Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75 |
1829 |
William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56 |
1830 |
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies |
1835 |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies |
1847 |
Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 |
1862 |
Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40 |
1862 |
Lev Mey, Tsarskaya nevesta |
1863 |
Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47 |
1864 |
Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered |
1880 |
Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76 |
1891 |
Ion Brătianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821) |
1892 |
John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies |
1892 |
Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74 |
1903 |
Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72 |
1904 |
N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies |
1905 |
Kirk La Shelle, The Virginian |
1910 |
Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53 |
1913 |
Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849) |
1918 |
Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64 |
1920 |
Levi P. Morton, United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824) |
1920 |
José Gómez 'Gallito', Corazón de España o El triunfo de Granero |
1924 |
Alfred Schmasow, Der Herr Papa |
1926 |
Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies |
1926 |
Mehmed VI, Vahidettin'in biat merasimi |
1927 |
Sam Bernard, Because He Loved Her |
1928 |
Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies |
1928 |
Edmund Gosse, The Lady of the Camellias |
1929 |
Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies |
1930 |
Maria Orska, Dämon und Mensch |
1931 |
Grant Clarke, Public Enemies |
1932 |
Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered |
1932 |
William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies |
1933 |
Lee Wilson Dodd, Bunker Bean |
1935 |
Panait Istrati, Kira Kiralina |
1935 |
Harriet May Mills, Votes for Women |
1937 |
Boris Korlin, The Cove of Missing Men |
1938 |
Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies |
1938 |
Gyula Zilahi, Stars of Eger |
1938 |
Jack Dougherty, Haunted Island |
1939 |
Joseph Belmont, A Good Elk |
1942 |
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies |
1942 |
Morris Gest, Camille |
1942 |
Joseph K. Watson, Land Beyond the Law |
1943 |
Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865) |
1944 |
George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78 |
1944 |
Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75 |
1944 |
Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies |
1944 |
George Ade, American author (b. 1866) |
1944 |
Daniel F. Whitcomb, Sting of the Scorpion |
1944 |
George Ade, Marse Covington |
1945 |
Fred Winter, Lyckans gullgossar |
1945 |
Fritz Hoopts, Das alte Recht |
1946 |
Lillian Knight, Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies |
1946 |
Otto Ernst Hesse, Magda |
1947 |
Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861) |
1948 |
Ralph Hepburn, The Crowd Roars |
1949 |
William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies |
1950 |
Maximilian Böttcher, Trouble Backstairs |
1951 |
Sammy Brooks, Bumping Into Broadway |
1952 |
Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v South Africa 1892), dies |
1952 |
Frances Benjamin Johnston, early American female photgrapher |
1952 |
Helmuth Strøm, Jens Langkniv |
1952 |
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Days of Heaven |
1953 |
Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910) |
1953 |
Django Reinhardt, The Matrix |
1954 |
Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61 |
1954 |
Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38 |
1954 |
Clemens Krauss, Capriccio |
1954 |
Patrick McDonald, |
1955 |
James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY |
1955 |
Sam Patterson, God's Step Children |
1955 |
James Agee, The African Queen |
1955 |
Manuel Ayulo, Roar of the Crowd |
1955 |
Hilda Spong, Divorced |
1956 |
H. B. Reese, American founder of Reese's (b. 1876) |
1957 |
Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903) |
1957 |
Daniel Carson Goodman, Irish Eyes |
1957 |
Gerald Lawrence, Captain Nighthawk |
1957 |
Eliot Ness, The Untouchables |
1958 |
Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49 |
1958 |
Leo Mittler, Look Back in Anger |
1958 |
Jeroom Verten, Slisse & Cesar |
1959 |
Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69 |
1959 |
Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894) |
1959 |
Joe Cook, Penny Wise |
1960 |
Gerda André, Regina von Emmeritz och konung Gustaf II Adolf |
1960 |
Julius Brongers, Pro domo |
1960 |
Eddie Seefeld, Die Goldfelder von Jacksonville |
1961 |
George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881) |
1962 |
Phil Ainsworth, The Chorus Girl's Romance |
1963 |
Luigi Bartolini, Bicycle Thieves |
1966 |
Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home |
1969 |
Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44 |
1972 |
Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79 |
1973 |
Ronald Jeans, Young Wives' Tale |
1975 |
Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder |
1978 |
Clark Kuney, Black Angel |
1979 |
Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 |
1979 |
Robert Florey, The Cocoanuts |
1979 |
Ludoslaw Kozlowski, Czlowiek na torze |
1980 |
Cornett Wood, Fantasia |
1980 |
Kent Mackenzie, The Exiles |
1980 |
José Calvo, A Fistful of Dollars |
1981 |
Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922) |
1981 |
Lyudmila Glazova, Nashestvie |
1981 |
Vladimir Volchik, Zoya |
1981 |
Frans van der Lingen, Die Jongen van Winslow |
1981 |
Konstantin Sorokin, Osenniye svadby |
1982 |
Jerzy Krzyszton, Kamienne niebo |
1982 |
Sidney Hickox, The Big Sleep |
1982 |
Naoe Fushimi, Oatsurae Jirokichi goshi |
1982 |
Margaret Echard, Lightning Strikes Twice |
1983 |
Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52 |
1983 |
Rachel Devirys, Les Enfants Terribles |
1983 |
Will Ahern, Picture Brides |
1984 |
Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35 |
1984 |
Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71 |
1984 |
Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions |
1984 |
Tomás Rivera, ...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him |
1984 |
Andy Kaufman, Heartbeeps |
1984 |
Ercüment Behzat Lav, A Nation Is Awaking |
1984 |
Wally West, Desert Mesa |
1985 |
Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82 |
1985 |
Hans G. Casparius, The 3 Penny Opera |
1985 |
Jean Prentis, Johanna Enlists |
1985 |
Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz |
1985 |
Bent Weidich, Dollarprinsessen |
1986 |
Irving Selbst, Birdy |
1986 |
Kosti Lehtinen, Noidan kirot |
1987 |
Jagoda Antunac, Sokol nas je volio |
1987 |
Zbigniew Nawrocki, Czas dojrzewania |
1988 |
Kay Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42 |
1988 |
Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78 |
1988 |
Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924) |
1988 |
Horst Winter, Wir waren in Berlin |
1988 |
Pat O'Hara, A Field of Honor |
1988 |
Peter Ortiz, Rio Grande |
1989 |
Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered |
1989 |
Helga Storme, Hot Water |
1989 |
Mildred Rehn, Broadway Melody of 1938 |
1989 |
Frank Maraden, The Money Pit |
1989 |
Gadi Danzig, Yaldei Hamadreigot |
1989 |
Kazimierz Blaszczynski, Wilczy bilet |
1989 |
Jack Slate, Meet Me in Las Vegas |
1990 |
Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian |
1990 |
Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53 |
1990 |
Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64 |
1990 |
Rein Aren, Hamlet |
1990 |
Jim Henson, Sesame Street |
1990 |
Luis Aldás, La devoradora |
1990 |
Sammy Davis Jr., Ocean's 11 |
1990 |
Emir Buczacki, Noce i dnie |
1990 |
Yuki Tsuchiya, Kyôdai Ken Baikurossâ |
1991 |
Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies |
1991 |
Arthur Sus, Julius Caesar |
1992 |
Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53 |
1992 |
Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960) |
1992 |
Jens Louis Petersen, Genboen |
1992 |
Marisa Mell, Danger: Diabolik |
1992 |
Vee Lawnhurst, The People vs. Larry Flynt |
1992 |
Arif Narimanbekov, Darvis parisi partladir |
1993 |
Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54 |
1993 |
Lorna Pegram, The Future That Was |
1993 |
Marv Johnson, Teenage Millionaire |
1993 |
Frank Jameson, Episode #4.1 |
1993 |
Dezsö Ákos Hamza, Szíriusz |
1994 |
Alain Cuny, French actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies aged 85 |
1994 |
Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7 |
1994 |
Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82 |
1994 |
Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66 |
1994 |
Phani Majumdar, The Legend of Hang Tuah |
1994 |
Andrew Brown, High Tide: Part 1 |
1994 |
Ernest Kerns, Safe |
1994 |
Vasek Simek, Searching for Bobby Fischer |
1994 |
Alain Cuny, La Dolce Vita |
1995 |
Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70 |
1995 |
Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82 |
1995 |
Lola Flores, Episode dated 5 February 1993 |
1995 |
Tianji Li, Springtime in a Small Town |
1995 |
Hilde Volk, Crumbles letzte Chance |
1995 |
Tadeusz Skorulski, Our Folks |
1996 |
Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60 |
1996 |
Mike Jeremy Boorda, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) commits suicide at 57 |
1996 |
Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72 |
1996 |
Gordon Halliday, Gnomes |
1997 |
Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903) |
1997 |
Patrick Aurignac, Mémoires d'un jeune con |
1997 |
James Fox, Brother Minister: The Assassination of Malcolm X |
1997 |
Puiu Calinescu, Brigada Diverse intra în actiune |
1997 |
Giuseppe De Santis, Bitter Rice |
1997 |
Önder Somer, Surtugun kizi |
1998 |
Christiane Coste, He Who Must Die |
1998 |
Pierre Cardinal, Le rouge et le noir |
1998 |
Philip Barry Jr., Friendly Fire |
1998 |
Aleksey Alekseev, There Will Be No Leave Today |
2000 |
Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988) |
2000 |
Deannie Best, Shanghai Chest |
2000 |
Truck Krone, Let's Make a Deal |
2000 |
Evald Hermaküla, Õnnelind flamingo |
2000 |
Andrzej Szczypiorski, Pokhishchenie 'Savoi' |
2001 |
Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944) |
2001 |
Joe Baker, Dumb & Dumber |
2001 |
Brian Pendleton, Episode #1.7 |
2001 |
Jerry Jarrett, Killer's Kiss |
2001 |
Roni Rios, A Praça É Nossa |
2001 |
Prince Ital Joe, Renaissance Man |
2002 |
Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899) |
2002 |
Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968) |
2002 |
Jorma Lindfors, Eight Deadly Shots |
2002 |
Helmut Schellhardt, Schuldkonto |
2002 |
Alex Rizzo, Xtreme Pro Wrestling |
2002 |
George Honour, D-Day: Turning the Tide |
2002 |
Dorothy Van, The Wedding: Part 2 |
2002 |
Mike Diffenderfer, The Endless Summer 2 |
2002 |
José Riesgo, Tristana |
2002 |
Charles Simon, Shadowlands |
2002 |
Kosan Yanagiya, Pom Poko |
2003 |
Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930) |
2003 |
Mary Bayless, It's a Wonderful Life |
2003 |
William C. Anderson, Bat*21 |
2003 |
Mark McCormack, Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America |
2003 |
Hannelore Marschall-Oehmichen, A Rat's Tale |
2004 |
Norman Beaver, Night Riders |
2004 |
June Carroll, An Angel Comes to Brooklyn |
2004 |
Tome Minami, Kagemusha |
2004 |
June Taylor, Cavalcade of Stars |
2004 |
William Wildermann, Un ballo in maschera |
2004 |
Burt Kaiser, Female Jungle |
2004 |
Harry Elton, Before My Time |
2004 |
Marika Rökk, Die Frau meiner Träume |
2005 |
Kurt Sontheimer, Die Deutschen und die Toleranz |
2005 |
Vince Viverito, The Untouchables |
2005 |
Andrew Goodpaster, Cold War: Eisenhower's Operatives |
2005 |
Rees Davies, Map Makers |
2005 |
June Lang, Wee Willie Winkie |
2006 |
Takahiro Tamura, Tora! Tora! Tora! |
2006 |
Miriam Paar, The Jack Paar Diary |
2006 |
Klaus Dahlen, Die Fotokopie |
2006 |
Clare Boylan, Making Waves |
2006 |
Jorge Porcel, Carlito's Way |
2006 |
Christophe de Ponfilly, Massoud, the Afghan |
2007 |
Alberto Verso, Ripley's Game |
2007 |
Theodore Gershuny, Silent Night, Bloody Night |
2007 |
Carroll Timothy O'Meara, Conan the Barbarian |
2007 |
Terry Ryan, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio |
2007 |
Tatyana Lavrova, Kino pro kino |
2007 |
Mimi Weber, Episode #2.12 |
2007 |
Paul Cannon, Early Retirement |
2008 |
Luisa Della Noce, Il ferroviere |
2008 |
Robert Mondavi, Mondovino |
2008 |
Andrzej Warchal, Dancing Till Dusk |
2008 |
Clément Harari, Train of Life |
2008 |
Lola Montes, The Little Sister |
2008 |
Jimmy Slyde, 'Round Midnight |
2008 |
Sandy Howard, A Man Called Horse |
2009 |
Dragoljub Markovic, Graf Bobby, der Schrecken des wilden Westens |
2009 |
Sándor Katona, Tokyo 1964: Games of the XVIII Olympiad |
2009 |
Mieczyslaw Jahoda, The Saragossa Manuscript |
2009 |
Giulio Gianini, La gazza ladra |
2010 |
Ronnie James Dio, American heavy metal vocalist (b. 1942) |
2010 |
Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (b. 1918) |
2010 |
Hank Jones, A Great Day in Harlem |
2010 |
Ken Sjogren, Star Trek |
2010 |
Tamás Végvári, Angyalok földje |
2010 |
Ronnie James Dio, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny |
2010 |
Hsiang Ting Ko, Temptress Moon |
2010 |
Zofia Wilczynska, Before Twilight |
2010 |
Horst Jaedicke, Der sechste Erdteil |
2011 |
Bob Davis, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928) |
2011 |
Bill Skiles, American comic (b. 1931) |
2011 |
Edward Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1932) |
2011 |
Renee Paris, The Lord's of Flatbush |
2011 |
Jesús Colín, De pulquero a millonario |
2011 |
Nathaniel Davis, Good Guys, Bad Guys |
2011 |
Mitsuki Nakamura, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind |
2011 |
Edward Hardwicke, Elizabeth |
2011 |
Derek Crewe, The Sun Makers: Part Four |
2011 |
Kiyoshi Kodama, Steamboy |
2012 |
James Abdnor, American senator, dies at 89 |
2012 |
Kurt Felix, Episode #1.25 |
2012 |
Ernie Chan, Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood |
2012 |
Jan Sentürk, Jeder sieht, was uns bewegt |
2012 |
Kevin Hickey, Major League II |
2012 |
Charles Schmitz, The Last Samurai |
2012 |
Chuck Brown, Crazy, Stupid, Love. |
2012 |
Béla Várady, Dakujem, dobre |
2012 |
Basia McCoy, Rude Awakening |
2012 |
Monique Mélinand, Genealogies of a Crime |
2012 |
Doug Dillard, Popeye |
2012 |
Herbert H. Breslin, Yes, Giorgio |
2012 |
Brixton Karnes, Tank Girl |
2013 |
Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and Nobel Laureate, dies at 79 |
2013 |
Dick Trickle, American race car driver, commits suicide by gunshot at 71 |
2013 |
Bernard Waber, American children's book author, dies from kidney failure at 88 |
2013 |
Bernard Waber, Ira Sleeps Over |
2013 |
Dick Trickle, 1996 Daytona 500 |
2013 |
Paul Shane, Pilot |
2013 |
Jean Durand, The House on Skull Mountain |
2013 |
Valtr Komárek, 13. komnata Valtra Komárka |
2014 |
Rolf Boysen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust II |
2014 |
Nicolai Ghiuselev, Faust |
2014 |
Éva Andor, Bob herceg |
2014 |
Viktor Sukhodrev, JFK: A President Betrayed |
2014 |
Allan R. Folsom, Blue and Broken-Harted |
2014 |
Eleonora Ezerskaya, Idealnaya zhena |
2014 |
Wieslaw Kantoch, Blisko nieba |
2014 |
Clyde Snow, Autopsy 2: Voices from the Dead |
2014 |
Marek Nowakowski, Meta |
2015 |
Adrian Robinson, Kansas City Chiefs at Pittsburgh Steelers |
2015 |
John Templeton, Harlequin Baby |
2015 |
Peter Tallberg, Ihmisoikeudet vai olympialaiset? |
2015 |
Feyodor Sakhirov, Opasnye tropy |
2015 |
Prashant Bhargava, Sangam |
2015 |
Elias Gleizer, In Therapy |
2016 |
Bealtes PR Tony Barrow who coined 'Fab Four' name dies aged 80 |
2016 |
Andre Brahic, discoverer of Neptune's rings, dies aged 73 |
2016 |
Casablanca actress Madeleine LeBeau dies at 92 |
2016 |
Former India cricketer Deepak Shodhan dies aged 87 |
2018 |
Doug Ford dies at 95, was oldest surviving Masters champion |
2018 |
Playwright Tom Murphy dies, aged 83 |
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