Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 16 January today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for January 16
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on January 16
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 654 | Gao Jifu, Chinese politician and chancellor (b. 596) |
| 970 | Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (b. 956) |
| 1263 | Shinran Shonin, Japanese founder of the Jodo Shinshu branch of Pure Land Buddhism |
| 1289 | Buqa, Mongol minister |
| 1327 | Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician (b. 1250) |
| 1354 | Joanna of Châtillon, duchess of Athens (b. c.1285) |
| 1373 | Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (b. 1342) |
| 1391 | Muhammed V of Granada, Nasrid emir (b. 1338) |
| 1400 | John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1352) |
| 1443 | Erasmo of Narni, Italian mercenary (b. 1370) |
| 1545 | George Spalatin, German priest and reformer (b. 1484) |
| 1547 | Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477) |
| 1554 | Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480) |
| 1585 | Edward Clinton, first Earl of Lincoln, English admiral and politician (b. 1512) |
| 1595 | Murad III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1546) |
| 1659 | Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580) |
| 1710 | Higashiyama, Japanese emperor (b. 1675) |
| 1711 | Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651) |
| 1747 | Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680) |
| 1748 | Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684) |
| 1750 | Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667) |
| 1752 | Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (b. 1705) |
| 1794 | Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737) |
| 1809 | John Moore, Scottish general and politician (b. 1761) |
| 1817 | Alexander J. Dallas, Jamaican-American lawyer and politician, sixth United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1759) |
| 1834 | Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769) |
| 1856 | Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795) |
| 1864 | Anton Schindler, Austrian secretary and author (b. 1795) |
| 1865 | Edmond François Valentin About, French journalist and author (b. 1828) |
| 1879 | Octave Crémazie, Canadian-French poet and bookseller (b. 1827) |
| 1886 | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834) |
| 1891 | Léo Delibes, French pianist and composer (b. 1836) |
| 1898 | Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802) |
| 1901 | Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (b. 1825) |
| 1917 | George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837) |
| 1919 | Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, fifth President of Brazil (b. 1848) |
| 1933 | Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b. 1867) |
| 1936 | Albert Fish, American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870) |
| 1938 | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876) |
| 1942 | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850) |
| 1957 | Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, English general and politician, 16th Governor General of Canada (b. 1874) |
| 1959 | Phan Khôi, Vietnamese journalist and author (b. 1887) |
| 1961 | Max Schöne, German swimmer (b. 1880) |
| 1962 | Frank Hurley, Australian photographer, director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1885) |
| 1967 | Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic (b. 1901) |
| 1968 | Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, founded Bob Jones University (b. 1883) |
| 1969 | Vernon Duke, Russian-American composer and songwriter (b. 1903) |
| 1971 | Philippe Thys, Belgian cyclist (b. 1890) |
| 1972 | Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895) |
| 1973 | Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (b. 1907) |
| 1975 | Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888) |
| 1978 | A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890) |
| 1981 | Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908) |
| 1983 | Virginia Mauret, American musician and dancer |
| 1986 | Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892) |
| 1987 | Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928) |
| 1988 | Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, first Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899) |
| 1990 | Lady Eve Balfour, British farmer, educator, and founding figure in the organic movement (b. 1898) |
| 1995 | Eric Mottram, English poet and critic (b. 1924) |
| 1996 | Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903) |
| 1999 | Jim McClelland, Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915) |
| 2000 | Robert R. Wilson, American physicist and academic (b. 1914) |
| 2001 | Auberon Waugh, English author and journalist (b. 1939) |
| 2002 | Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916) |
| 2003 | Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918) |
| 2004 | Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930) |
| 2005 | Marjorie Williams, American journalist and author (b. 1958) |
| 2006 | Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (b. 1923) |
| 2009 | Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner (b. 1930) |
| 2010 | Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b. 1923) |
| 2012 | Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931) |
| 2013 | Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930) |
| 2014 | Gary Arlington, American author and illustrator (b. 1938) |
| 2015 | Miriam Akavia, Polish-Israeli author and translator (b. 1927) |
| 2016 | Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor (b. 1922) |
| 2017 | Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934) |
| 2018 | Ed Doolan, British radio presenter (b. 1941) |
| 2019 | John C. Bogle, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1929) |
| 2020 | Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (b. 1924) |
| 2021 | Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (b. 1929) |
| 2022 | Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Former Malian President (b. 1945) |
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