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Deaths on May 16

1434 : Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1669 : Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1669 : Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42
1691 : Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1703 : Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies
1754 : Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76
1762 : Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86
1768 : Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
1777 : Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1782 : Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
1805 : Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
1819 : Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
1829 : William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
1830 : Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
1835 : Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
1847 : Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
1862 : Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
1863 : Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1864 : Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
1880 : Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76
1892 : John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
1892 : Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74
1903 : Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
1904 : N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
1910 : Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
1918 : Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64
1926 : Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
1928 : Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
1929 : Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
1932 : Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 : William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
1938 : Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
1942 : Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
1944 : George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
1944 : Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75
1944 : Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
1949 : William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
1952 : Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v S Afr 1892), dies
1954 : Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
1954 : Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
1955 : James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
1958 : Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
1959 : Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69
1966 : Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
1969 : Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
1972 : Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79
1973 : A P Gtersloh, writer, dies at 86
1975 : Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1979 : Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1983 : Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52
1984 : Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
1984 : Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71
1985 : Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1988 : Carrie Baxter, Best Bodybuilder (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42
1988 : Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42
1988 : Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
1989 : Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
1990 : Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
1990 : Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53
1990 : Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64
1991 : Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
1992 : Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
1993 : Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
1994 : Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
1994 : Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
1994 : Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
1994 : Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
1995 : Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
1995 : Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82
1996 : Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60
1996 : Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57
1996 : Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72

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