16 August Deaths
Published : 16 Aug 2018, 10:25
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
Deaths
AD 79 – Empress Ma, Chinese Han dynasty consort (b. 40)
856 – Theutbald I, bishop of Langres
963 – Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general (b. 944)
1027 – George I of Georgia (b. 998)
1153 – Bernard de Tremelay, fourth Grand Master of the Knights Templar
1225 – Hōjō Masako, Japanese regent and onna-bugeisha (b. 1156)
1258 – Theodore II Laskaris, Byzantine-Greek emperor (b. 1222)
1285 – Philip I, Count of Savoy (b. 1207)
1297 – John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1327 – Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1339 – Azzone Visconti, founder of the state of Milan (b. 1302)
1358 – Albert II, Duke of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 – Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1492 – Beatrice of Silva, Dominican nun[3]
1518 – Loyset Compère, French composer (b. 1445)
1532 – John, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1661 – Thomas Fuller, English historian and author (b. 1608)
1678 – Andrew Marvell, English poet and author (b. 1621)
1705 – Jacob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and theorist (b. 1654)
1733 – Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (b. 1657)
1791 – Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1836 – Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1755)
1855 – Henry Colburn, English publisher (b. 1785)
1861 – Ranavalona I, Queen consort of Kingdom of Madagascar and then sovereign (b. 1778)[4]
1878 – Richard Upjohn, English-American architect (b. 1802)
1886 – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and philosopher (b. 1836)
1887 – Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (b. 1837)
1888 – John Pemberton, American pharmacist and chemist, invented Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1893 – Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist and academic (b. 1825)
1899 – Robert Bunsen, German chemist and academic (b. 1811)
1900 – José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Portuguese journalist and author (b. 1845)
1904 – Prentiss Ingraham, American soldier and author (b. 1843)
1911 – Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (b. 1830)
1914 – Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
1916 – George Scott, English footballer (b. 1885)
1920 – Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
1921 – Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
1938 – Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
1938 – Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
1945 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
1948 – Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
1949 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
1952 – Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
1956 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
1957 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1959 – William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)
1959 – Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
1961 – Abdul Haq, Pakistani linguist and scholar (b. 1870)
1971 – Spyros Skouras, Greek-American businessman (b. 1893)
1972 – Pierre Brasseur, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1905)
1973 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1977 – Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor (b. 1935)
1978 – Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch soldier and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1888)
1979 – John Diefenbaker, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
1983 – Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1984 – Duško Radović, Serbian children's writer, poet, journalist, aphorist and TV editor (b. 1922)
1986 – Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (b. 1902)
1986 – Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian author and poet (b. 1921)
1989 – Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
1990 – Pat O'Connor, New Zealand wrestler and trainer (b. 1925)
1991 – Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1905)
1992 – Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1951)
1993 – Stewart Granger, English-American actor (b. 1913)
1997 – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (b. 1948)
1998 – Phil Leeds, American actor (b. 1916)
1998 – Dorothy West, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
2002 – Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist leader (b. 1937)
2002 – Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
2002 – John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
2003 – Idi Amin, Ugandan field marshal and politician, 3rd President of Uganda (b. 1928)
2004 – Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey player and coach (b. 1950)
2004 – Balanadarajah Iyer, Sri Lankan journalist and poet (b. 1957)
2004 – Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (b. 1907)
2004 – Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
2005 – Vassar Clements, American fiddler (b. 1928)
2005 – Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer (b. 1922)
2005 – William Corlett, English novelist and playwright (b. 1938)
2005 – Frère Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)
2006 – Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan general and dictator; 46th President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
2007 – Bahaedin Adab, Iranian engineer and politician (b. 1945)
2008 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1914)
2008 – Masanobu Fukuoka, Japanese farmer and author (b. 1913)
2010 – Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek general (b. 1923)
2011 – Mihri Belli, Turkish activist and politician (b. 1916)
2012 – Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (b. 1954)
2012 – Martine Franck, Belgian photographer and director (b. 1938)
2012 – Abune Paulos, Ethiopian patriarch (b. 1935)
2012 – William Windom, American actor (b. 1923)
2013 – David Rees, Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
2014 – Patrick Aziza, Nigerian general and politician, Governor of Kebbi State (b. 1947)
2014 – Vsevolod Nestayko, Ukrainian author (b. 1930)
2014 – Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, Italian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
2014 – Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist, author, and academic (b. 1924)
2015 – Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-American physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1947)
2015 – Anna Kashfi, British actress (b. 1934)
2015 – Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (b. 1943)
2015 – Mile Mrkšić, Serb general (b. 1947)
2016 – João Havelange, Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman (b. 1916)
2016 – John McLaughlin, American television personality (b. 1927)
Source: wikipedia