Deaths on 16 April
2000s
Nora Aunor
2025
Filipino actress and singer (1953–2025)
Carl Erskine
2024
American baseball player (1926–2024)
Bob Graham
2024
American politician (1936–2024)
Andrew Peacock
2021
Australian politician (1939–2021)
Helen McCrory
2021
British actress (1968–2021)
Liam Scarlett
2021
British choreographer (1986–2021)
John Dawes
2021
British Lions & Wales international rugby union player and coach (1940–2021)
Harry Anderson
2018
American actor, comedian, and magician (1952–2018)
Valery Belousov
2015
Russian ice hockey player and coach
Stanislav Gross
2015
Czech politician (1969–2015)
Gyude Bryant
2014
Head of state of Liberia from 2003 to 2006
Aulis Rytkönen
2014
Finnish footballer (1929-2014)
Ernst Florian Winter
2014
American historian and politologist (1923–2014)
Charles Bruzon
2013
Gibraltarian politician and priest
Ali Kafi
2013
Algerian politician
Siegfried Ludwig
2013
Austrian politician (1926–2013)
Pentti Lund
2013
Finnish Canadian ice hockey player (1925–2013)
George Beverly Shea
2013
American gospel singer and hymn composer born in Canada (1909-2013)
Pat Summerall
2013
American football player and sportscaster (1930–2013)
Pedro Ramírez Vázquez
2013
Mexican architect (1919–2013)
Sári Barabás
2012
Hungarian operatic soprano
Marian Biskup
2012
Polish historian, author and academic
Alan Hacker
2012
Musical artist
George Kunda
2012
Zambian lawyer and politician
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller
2012
Danish shipping magnate (1913–2012)
Carlo Petrini (footballer)
2012
Italian footballer and coach (1948–2012)
Gerry Alexander
2011
Jamaican cricketer
Allan Blakeney
2011
Premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982
Sol Saks
2011
American actor and screenwriter (1910–2011)
Rasim Delić
2010
Bosnian Army general (1949–2010)
Daryl Gates
2010
American police chief (1926–2010)
Michael Martin Dwyer
2009
Irish security guard and paramilitary (1984-2009)
Eduardo Rózsa-Flores
2009
Bolivian-Hungarian-Croatian mercenary, journalist, actor
Edward Norton Lorenz
2008
American mathematician (1917–2008)
Frank Bateson
2007
New Zealand astronomer
Gaétan Duchesne
2007
Canadian ice hockey player (1962–2007)
Maria Lenk
2007
Brazilian swimmer (1915–2007)
Chandrabose Suthaharan
2007
Sri Lankan Tamil journalist
Kay Walsh
2005
English actress and dancer (1911–2005)
Graham Jarvis
2003
Canadian actor (1930–2003)
Graham Stuart Thomas
2003
English horticulturalist and garden designer
Billy Ayre
2002
English footballer and manager
Ruth Fertel
2002
American businesswoman (1927–2002)
Robert Urich
2002
American actor and producer (1946–2002)
Robert Osterloh
2001
American actor (1918–2001)
Michael Ritchie (filmmaker)
2001
American film director (1938–2001)
Alec Stock
2001
English football manager (1917–2001)
1900s
Skip Spence
1999
Canadian-American musician (1946–1999)
Alberto Calderón
1998
Argentine mathematician
Fred Davis (snooker player)
1998
English former professional snooker player, 8-time world champion
Marie-Louise Meilleur
1998
Canadian supercentenarian (1880–1998)
Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid
1997
Colombian politician
Roland Topor
1997
French writer, screenwriter, actor and painter
Lucille Bremer
1996
American actress (1917–1996)
Paul-Émilien Dalpé
1994
Canadian trade unionist (1919–1994)
Ralph Ellison
1994
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1913–1994)
Neville Brand
1992
American actor (1920–1992)
Alexandru Nicolschi
1992
Romanian communist activist and intelligence officer
Andy Russell (singer)
1992
American singer (1919–1992)
David Lean
1991
English filmmaker and editor (1908–1991)
Jocko Conlan
1989
American baseball umpire (1899–1989)
Kaoru Ishikawa
1989
Japanese business theorist
Miles Lawrence
1989
English cricketer
Hakkı Yeten
1989
Turkish footballer (1910–1989)
Khalil al-Wazir
1988
Palestinian military leader, founder of Fatah (1935–1988)
Youri Egorov
1988
Soviet and Monegasque classical pianist (1954 - 1988)
Scott Brady (actor)
1985
American actor (1924–1985)
Morris Stoloff
1980
American composer (1898–1980)
Lucius D. Clay
1978
United States Army general (1898–1978)
István Kertész (conductor)
1973
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
Yasunari Kawabata
1972
Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
Frank O'Connor (public servant)
1972
Australian public servant
Richard Neutra
1970
Austrian-American architect (1892–1970)
Péter Veres (politician)
1970
Hungarian politician and writer
Hem Vejakorn
1969
Thai artist and writer (1904–1969)
Fay Bainter
1968
American actress (1893–1968)
Edna Ferber
1968
American novelist and playwright (1885–1968)
Eric Lambert (author)
1966
Australian author and communist (1918–1966)
Francis Balfour (colonial administrator)
1965
British military officer and colonial administrator
Sydney Chaplin
1965
English actor (1885–1965)
Carl Hovland
1961
American psychologist (1921–1961)
Mihály Fekete
1960
Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director
Rosalind Franklin
1958
British X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
Pieter van der Hoog
1957
David Kirkwood
1955
Scottish politician, trade unionist and socialist activist (1872–1955)
Eduard Oja
1950
Estonian composer and conductor
Anders Peter Nielsen
1950
Danish sport shooter (1867–1950)
Rudolf Höss
1947
Nazi commandant of Auschwitz (1901–1947)
Arthur Chevrolet
1946
American racing driver (1884–1946)
Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1942
Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg from 1913 to 1942
Denis St. George Daly
1942
Irish polo player
Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
1941
British industrialist, economist, politician, and writer (1880–1941)
Tony D'Arcy
1940
Irish republican activist (died 1940)
Steve Bloomer
1938
English footballer and manager (1874–1938)
Jay Johnson Morrow
1937
United States Army general
Panait Istrati
1935
Romanian writer (1884–1935)
José Carlos Mariátegui
1930
Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)
Henry Birks
1928
Canadian businessman (1840–1928)
Roman Steinberg
1928
Estonian wrestler (1900–1939)
Stefan Nerezov
1925
Bulgarian army general (1867–1925)
Nelson W. Aldrich
1915
American politician (1841–1915)
George William Hill
1914
American mathematical astronomer (1838–1914)
Maximilian Kronberger
1904
German poet
Samuel Smiles
1904
British author (1812–1904)
1800s
Emilio Jacinto
1899
Filipino revolutionary (1875–1899)
Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski
1888
Polish scientist
Bernadette Soubirous
1879
French Roman Catholic saint (1844–1879)
Alexis de Tocqueville
1859
French diplomat, political philosopher and historian (1805–1859)
Marie Tussaud
1850
French wax museum founder (1761–1850)
Domenico Dragonetti
1846
Musical artist
Francisco Goya
1828
Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
Before 1800
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1788
French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist (1701–1788)
Christian Mayer (astronomer)
1783
Czech-German astronomer
Jacques Cassini
1756
French astronomer (1677-1756)
Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino
1742
Italian poet and opera librettist (1672–1742)
Aphra Behn
1689
English playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
1687
17th-century English statesman and poet
Tobias Hume
1645
Scottish composer, viol player and soldier
Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau
1640
French abbess
Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset
1587
English noblewoman and courtier (before 1510–1587)
Charles II, Duke of Savoy
1496
Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496
John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
1375
English nobleman and soldier (1347–1375)
Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
1234
English nobleman
Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg)
1198
Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198
Adelaide del Vasto
1118
Countess of Sicily (1089–1101) and Queen of Jerusalem (1112–1117)
Sviatopolk II of Kiev
1113
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1093 to 1113
Sikelgaita
1090
11th-century Lombard princess
Fructuosus of Braga
665
Bishop of Dumio and Archbishop of Braga
AD 69
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