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October 16 Deaths in History - October 16 Birthdays - October 16 Events
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October 16, 2004 Pierre Salinger, journalist/political press officer, dies at 79 October 16, 2000 Rick Jason, actor, Combat, dies at 74 October 16, 1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78 October 16, 1998 Jon Postel, Father of the Internet, dies at 55 October 16, 1997 Audra Lindley, actress (Helen Roper-3's Company, Ropers), dies at 79 October 16, 1997 James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90 October 16, 1997 James A. Michener, American Novelist October 16, 1996 Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75 October 16, 1996 Eric Lawson Malpass, writer, dies at 85 October 16, 1996 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82 October 16, 1996 James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68 October 16, 1996 Jason Bernard, actor (judge-Liar Liar), dies of heart attack at 58 October 16, 1995 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88 October 16, 1995 Linda Goodman, astrologer, dies October 16, 1995 Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister, dies at 60 October 16, 1995 Thomas Augustine Martin, academic, dies at 59 October 16, 1994 William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87 October 16, 1993 John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76 October 16, 1992 Shirley Booth, actress (Hazel), dies of natural causes at 85 October 16, 1991 Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72 October 16, 1991 Tonny Huurdeman, singer and actress (Frills), dies October 16, 1990 Art Blakey, jazz drummer (Jazz Messengers), dies of cancer at 71 October 16, 1989 Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74 October 16, 1987 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75 October 16, 1986 Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65 October 16, 1986 C Wttewaall van Stoetwegen, CHU Member of Dutch parliament, dies at 85 October 16, 1985 Claude Stroud, actor (Hobart-Ted Knight Show, Duke), dies at 78 October 16, 1984 Ken Carpenter, TV announcer (Lux Video Theater), dies at 84 October 16, 1984 Peggy Ann Garner, actress (Ford Theater), dies at 53 of cancer October 16, 1983 George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72 October 16, 1982 Jacov Gotovac, composer, dies at 86 October 16, 1982 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67 October 16, 1981 Moshe Dayan, Israel's general/minister of Defense, dies at 66 October 16, 1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies October 16, 1981 William Holden, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 63 October 16, 1980 Carl PM Romme, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (KVP), dies at 83 October 16, 1978 Dan Dailey, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor and JJ), dies at 63 October 16, 1977 Michael Balcon, producer, dies at 81 October 16, 1973 Gene Krupa, U.S. swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64 October 16, 1972 Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80 October 16, 1962 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (Water and Dreams), dies at 78 October 16, 1959 George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78 October 16, 1959 George Marshall, American Statesman October 16, 1954 Friedrich Lubke, German politician, dies at 67 October 16, 1951 Liaquat Ali Khan, PM of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar October 16, 1949 Hale Ascher VanderCook, composer, dies at 85 October 16, 1946 Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority, hanged October 16, 1946 Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged October 16, 1946 Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54 October 16, 1946 Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged October 16, 1946 Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged October 16, 1946 Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer and conductor, dies at 78 October 16, 1946 Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged October 16, 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war criminal, hanged October 16, 1946 Julius Streicher, German District Leader (Of Sturmer), hanged October 16, 1946 Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged October 16, 1946 Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal, hanged October 16, 1946 Hermann Wilhelm Goering, German SA-leader, commits suicide at 53 October 16, 1946 Hans Frank, German Public Servant October 16, 1944 Eric Westberg, composer, dies at 52 October 16, 1944 John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78 October 16, 1942 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed October 16, 1939 Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer, dies at 63 October 16, 1920 Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer and conductor (Artemis), dies at 56 October 16, 1919 Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday October 16, 1918 Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29 October 16, 1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 October 16, 1893 Carlo Pedrotti, composer, dies at 75 October 16, 1891 Sarah Winnemucca, indian scout, dies October 16, 1880 Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64 October 16, 1877 John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83 October 16, 1867 Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi (Ereg miliem), dies October 16, 1862 George Burgwyn Anderson, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies at 31 October 16, 1849 George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies October 16, 1836 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer, dies at 33 October 16, 1817 Manuel C Piar, Curacaos/Venezulian freedom writer, dies October 16, 1814 Juan Jose Landaeta, composer, dies at 34 October 16, 1799 Antoine-Frederic Gresnick, composer, dies at 44 October 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France October 16, 1791 Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris, dies October 16, 1774 Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies October 16, 1750 Silvius Leopold Weiss, composer, dies at 64 October 16, 1726 Giovanni Maria Capelli, composer, dies at 77 October 16, 1694 Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62 October 16, 1690 Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint, dies at 43 October 16, 1688 Philips Koninck, painter/etcher, buried at 68 October 16, 1649 Isaac van Ostade, painter, buried October 16, 1621 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59 October 16, 1594 William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 October 16, 1591 Gregory XIV, [Niccolo Sfondrati], Italian Pope, dies at 56 October 16, 1570 Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered October 16, 1555 Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 October 16, 1555 Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned October 16, 1553 Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 October 16, 1473 Reinoud II van Brederode, viscount of Utrecht, dies October 16, 1333 Nicolaas V, [Pietro Rainalducci], Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies October 16, 1323 Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74 October 16, 775 Mansur, kalief of Abbasiden, dies |