16 March Deaths
Published : 16 Mar 2017, 12:41
March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).
Deaths
AD 37 – Tiberius, Roman emperor (b. 42 BC)
455 – Valentinian III, Roman emperor (b. 419)
455 – Heraclius, Roman courtier (primicerius sacri cubiculi )
842 – Xiao Mian, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
933 – Takin al-Khazari, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt
1021 – Heribert of Cologne, German archbishop and saint (b. 970)
1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop (b. 1000)
1181 – Henry I, Count of Champagne
1185 – Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)
1279 – Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1216)
1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1276)
1410 – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1373)
1457 – Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian politician (b. 1433)
1485 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1559 – Anthony St. Leger, English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1649 – Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (b. 1593)
1679 – John Leverett, English general and politician, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
1721 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1657)
1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1710)
1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American minister and academic (b. 1670)
1738 – George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (b. 1666)
1747 – Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1690)
1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American captain and mathematician (b. 1773)
1841 – Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (d. 1791)
1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801)
1892 – Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
1899 – Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
1903 – Roy Bean, American lawyer and judge (b. 1825)
1912 – Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
1914 – Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)
1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
1914 – John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841)
1925 – August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
1930 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
1935 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
1936 – Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
1937 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)
1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1955 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
1957 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1876)
1961 – Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (b. 1903)
1961 – Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor (b. 1883)
1963 – Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (b. 1874)
1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907)
1971 – Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901)
1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902)
1975 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
1979 – Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888)
1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (b. 1898)
1983 – Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
1983 – Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1985 – Roger Sessions, American composer, critic, and educator (b. 1896)
1985 – Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1988 – Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (b. 1928)
1990 – Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1898)
1991 - Jean Bellette, Australian artist (b. 1908)
1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
1998 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1998 – Esther Bubley, American photographer (b. 1921)
1999 – Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
2000 – Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
2000 – Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (b. 1911)
2000 – Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1910)
2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
2003 – Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979)
2003 – Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (b. 1931)
2004 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
2005 – Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
2005 – Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed The London Ark (b. 1914)
2005 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2007 – Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1912)
2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
2008 – Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (b. 1942)
2011 – Richard Wirthlin, American religious leader (b. 1931)
2012 – Donald E. Hillman, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
2012 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (b. 1924)
2013 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939)
2013 – José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (b. 1925)
2013 – Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (b. 1914)
2013 – Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (b. 1952)
2013 – Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921)
2014 – Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (b. 1941)
2014 – Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (b. 1937)
2014 – Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (b. 1936)
2014 – Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (b. 1949)
2014 – Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958)
2015 – Jack Haley, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1964)
2015 – Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
2016 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (b. 1924)
2016 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and actor (b. 1944)
Source: Wikipedia