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Deaths on August 16

1419 : Wenzel/V clav IV, [Wenceslas], drunken RC German king, dies at 58
1508 : Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, Ger viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41
1532 : Johan de Standvastige, monarch of Saxon (Schmalkaldisch), dies
1603 : Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62
1661 : Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53
1675 : Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
1678 : Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57
1705 : Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50
1738 : Joe Miller, English comic, dies
1748 : Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer, dies at 63
1786 : Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80
1799 : Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61
1807 : Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72
1831 : Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30
1854 : Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
1864 : John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31
1870 : Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80
1886 : Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50
1894 : Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
1900 : E‡a de Queiroz, writer, dies
1900 : Jos‚ de Queir¢s, Portuguese writer (Bullock Maias), dies at 54
1910 : Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69
1911 : Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68
1920 : J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
1921 : Peter I Karadjordjevic, king of Serbia/Yugoslavia, dies [or 8/26]
1929 : Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70
1938 : Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1939 : Ron Oxenham, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia, 14 wickets), dies
1940 : Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries
1940 : Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75
1944 : Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28
1945 : Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29
1945 : Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
1946 : Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)
1948 : Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in NY at 53
1949 : Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48
1951 : Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63
1956 : Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73
1958 : Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85
1959 : Pedro Humberto Allende Sar¢n, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
1959 : William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies
1960 : Errol Holmes, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for England 1935), dies
1964 : Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68
1965 : Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64
1966 : Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58
1968 : Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71
1969 : Russ Bender, actor/writer (Air Patrol, Strangler), dies at 59
1971 : Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78
1972 : John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39
1973 : Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
1973 : Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54
1974 : Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies
1976 : Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83
1977 : Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment/drugs at Graceland at 42
1978 : Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at 90
1984 : Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87
1986 : John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
1988 : Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75
1989 : Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58
1991 : Frederic Mar‚s, Spanish sculptor, dies
1991 : Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43
1991 : Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16
1991 : Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
1992 : Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
1993 : Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
1993 : Joseph Towers, US pilot, dies
1993 : Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80
1993 : Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56
1994 : Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
1994 : Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
1994 : Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
1994 : John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73
1995 : John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89
1995 : John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62
1995 : Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician, dies at 36
1996 : Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31
1996 : Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72
1997 : Gerard McLarnon, actor/writer, dies at 82

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