General Events and Observations of July 16

1324: Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342: King Charles I of Hungary
1546: Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557: Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1515)
1594: Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647: Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664: Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
1686: John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691: François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
1729: Johann David Heinichen, German composer (b. 1683)
1747: Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1770: Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1796: George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1831: Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1879: Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882: Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886: Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist (b. 1823)
1896: Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic (b. 1822)
1915: Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916: Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917: Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (b. 1847)
1947: Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain) (b. 1912)
1949: Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953: Hilaire Belloc, English writer (b. 1870)
1960: Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960: John P. Marquand, American novelist (b. 1893)
1976: Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979: Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981: Harry Chapin, American musician (b. 1942)
1982: Patrick Dewaere, French actor (b. 1947)
1985: Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1985: Wayne King, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (b. 1901)
1989: Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
1990: Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990: Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991: Frank Rizzo, American politician (b. 1920
1991: Robert Motherwell, American painter (b. 1915)
1992: Buck Buchanan, American football player (b. 1940)
1994: Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1994: Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster (b. 1908)
1995: May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet (b. 1912)
1995: Stephen Spender, English poet (b. 1909)
1996: Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1996: John Panozzo, American musician (Styx) (b. 1948)
1998: John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999: Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
1999: John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
2001: Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001: Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002: John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003: Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2003: Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2004: George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005: Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2005: Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005: Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2006: Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006: Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)

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