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August 16 Deaths in History - August 16 Birthdays - August 16 Events
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August 16, 2004 J. Irwin Miller, American Businessman August 16, 2003 Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator, dies at 78 August 16, 2002 Jeff Corey, actor/teacher, blacklisted actor during the McCarthy era, dies at 88 August 16, 1998 Dorothy West, writer, The Wedding, dies at 91 August 16, 1998 Phil Leeds, actor, Ally McBeal, dies at 82 August 16, 1997 Gerard McLarnon, actor and writer, dies at 82 August 16, 1996 Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31 August 16, 1996 Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72 August 16, 1995 John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89 August 16, 1995 John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62 August 16, 1995 Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician, dies at 36 August 16, 1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74 August 16, 1994 Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40 August 16, 1994 Henry Geldzahler, U.S. critic, dies August 16, 1994 John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73 August 16, 1993 Irene Sharaff, U.S. costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83 August 16, 1993 Joseph Towers, U.S. pilot, dies August 16, 1993 Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80 August 16, 1993 Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56 August 16, 1992 Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack August 16, 1991 Frederic Mares, Spanish sculptor, dies August 16, 1991 Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43 August 16, 1991 Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16 August 16, 1991 Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer August 16, 1989 Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58 August 16, 1988 Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75 August 16, 1986 John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45 August 16, 1984 Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87 August 16, 1978 Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies, dies at 90 August 16, 1977 Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment/drugs at Graceland at 42 August 16, 1976 Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83 August 16, 1974 Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies August 16, 1973 Selman A Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85 August 16, 1973 Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54 August 16, 1972 John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39 August 16, 1971 Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78 August 16, 1969 Russ Bender, actor and writer (Air Patrol, Strangler), dies at 59 August 16, 1968 Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71 August 16, 1966 Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58 August 16, 1965 Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64 August 16, 1964 Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68 August 16, 1959 Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74 August 16, 1959 William "Bull" F Halsey, U.S. vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies August 16, 1958 Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85 August 16, 1956 Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73 August 16, 1951 Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63 August 16, 1949 Margaret Mitchell, U.S. writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48 August 16, 1948 Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (New York Yankees), dies in New York at 53 August 16, 1946 Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism) August 16, 1945 Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29 August 16, 1945 Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies August 16, 1944 Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28 August 16, 1940 Billy Fiske, U.S. RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries August 16, 1940 Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 August 16, 1938 Robert Johnson, U.S. Delta-blues singer and guitarist, poisoned at 27 August 16, 1929 Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70 August 16, 1920 J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies August 16, 1911 Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68 August 16, 1910 Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69 August 16, 1900 Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies August 16, 1900 Jose de Queiros, Portuguese writer (Bullock Maias), dies at 54 August 16, 1894 Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70 August 16, 1886 Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50 August 16, 1870 Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80 August 16, 1864 John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31 August 16, 1854 Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies August 16, 1831 Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30 August 16, 1825 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Statesman August 16, 1824 Charles Thomson, American Public Servant August 16, 1807 Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72 August 16, 1799 Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61 August 16, 1786 Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80 August 16, 1748 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer, dies at 63 August 16, 1738 Joe Miller, English comic, dies August 16, 1705 Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50 August 16, 1678 Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57 August 16, 1675 Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies August 16, 1661 Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53 August 16, 1603 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62 August 16, 1532 Johan de Standvastige, monarch of Saxon (Schmalkaldisch), dies August 16, 1508 Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, Ger viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41 August 16, 1419 Wenzel/Vaclav IV, [Wenceslas], drunken RC German king, dies at 58 |