Deaths on 16 January
2000s
David Lynch
2025
American filmmaker (1946–2025)
Joan Plowright
2025
British actress (1929–2025)
Bob Uecker
2025
American baseball player and broadcaster (1934–2025)
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
2022
President of Mali from 2013 to 2020
Pedro Trebbau
2021
Venezuelan zoologist (1929–2021)
Chris Cramer
2021
British news journalist and executive (1948–2021)
Phil Spector
2021
American record producer and convicted murderer (1939–2021)
Christopher Tolkien
2020
British book editor (1924–2020)
John C. Bogle
2019
American investor and business magnate (1929–2019)
Lorna Doom
2019
American musician (1958–2019)
Chris Wilson (Australian musician)
2019
Australian musician (1956–2019)
Ed Doolan
2018
Oliver Ivanović
2018
Kosovo Serb politician
Gene Cernan
2017
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1934–2017)
Joannis Avramidis
2016
Greek-Austrian artist (1922–2016)
Ted Marchibroda
2016
American football player and coach (1931–2016)
Miriam Akavia
2015
Polish-born Israeli writer, translator and Holocaust survivor
Yao Beina
2015
Chinese singer and songwriter (born 1981)
Gary Arlington
2014
Key figure in the underground comix movement
Ruth Duccini
2014
American actress (1918–2014)
Dave Madden
2014
Canadian-born American actor (1931–2014)
Hiroo Onoda
2014
Imperial Japanese Army officer (1922–2014)
Wayne D. Anderson
2013
American college basketball coach
André Cassagnes
2013
French inventor
Gussie Moran
2013
American tennis player
Pauline Phillips
2013
20th and 21st-century American advice columnist
Glen P. Robinson
2013
American Founder of Scientific Atlanta
Joe Bygraves
2012
Jamaican-British boxer
Jimmy Castor
2012
American funk saxophonist (1940–2012)
Sigursteinn Gíslason
2012
Icelandic footballer and manager
Lorna Kesterson
2012
American mayor
Gustav Leonhardt
2012
Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor
Glen Bell
2010
American businessman and restaurateur (1923–2010)
Takumi Shibano
2010
Japanese writer (1926–2010)
Joe Erskine (American boxer)
2009
American boxer
John Mortimer
2009
British barrister and author (1923–2009)
Andrew Wyeth
2009
American visual artist (1917–2009)
Stanley Biber
2006
American physician
Marjorie Williams
2005
American journalist (1958–2005)
Kalevi Sorsa
2004
Finnish politician (1930–2004)
Richard Wainwright (politician)
2003
British politician (1918–2003)
Robert Hanbury Brown
2002
British astronomer and physicist
Auberon Waugh
2001
British journalist and novelist (1939–2001)
Robert R. Wilson
2000
American physicist (1914–2000)
1900s
Jim McClelland
1999
Australian politician
Marcia Davenport
1996
American novelist (1903–1996)
Kaye Webb
1996
British editor and publisher (1914–1996)
Eric Mottram
1995
British teacher, critic, editor and poet (1924–1995)
Lady Eve Balfour
1990
British organic farmer (1898–1990)
Andrija Artuković
1988
Convicted World War II war criminal (1899-1988)
Bertram Wainer
1987
Medical doctors from Melbourne (1928–1987)
Herbert W. Armstrong
1986
American evangelist (1892–1986)
Virginia Mauret
1983
American dancer & musician
Bernard Lee
1981
English actor (1908–1981)
A. V. Kulasingham
1978
Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician, journalist and editor
Israel Abramofsky
1975
Russian-American painter
Edgar Sampson
1973
American jazz composer, arranger, and musician
Teller Ammons
1972
American attorney and politician (1895–1972)
Ross Bagdasarian
1972
American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor (1919–1972)
Philippe Thys (cyclist)
1971
Belgian cyclist
Vernon Duke
1969
Russian-American composer and songwriter (1903–1969)
Bob Jones Sr.
1968
American evangelist and broadcaster (1883–1968)
Panagiotis Poulitsas
1968
Greek judge and archeologist (1881–1968)
Robert J. Van de Graaff
1967
American applied physicist (1901–1967)
Frank Hurley
1962
Australian photographer (1885–1962)
Ivan Meštrović
1962
Croatian sculptor and architect (1883–1962)
Max Schöne
1961
German swimmer
Phan Khôi
1959
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
1957
British Army general and colonial administrator (1874–1957)
Arturo Toscanini
1957
Italian conductor (1867–1957)
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
1942
British prince, son of Queen Victoria (1850–1942)
Villem Grünthal-Ridala
1942
Estonian writer, linguist and folklorist
Carole Lombard
1942
American actress (1908–1942)
Ernst Scheller
1942
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
1938
Indian Bengali writer (1876–1938)
Albert Fish
1936
American serial killer and rapist (1870–1936)
Bekir Sami Kunduh
1933
Turkish politician and first Minister of Foreign Affairs
Rodrigues Alves
1919
President of Brazil from 1902 to 1906
George Dewey
1917
US Navy admiral (1837–1917)
Marshall Field
1906
American businessman (1834–1906)
Jules Barbier
1901
French poet, writer and librettist (1825–1901)
Arnold Böcklin
1901
Swiss Symbolist painter (1827–1901)
Hiram R. Revels
1901
American politician (1827–1901)
Mahadev Govind Ranade
1901
Indian scholar, social reformer, judge and author
1800s
Charles Pelham Villiers
1898
British lawyer and politician (1802–1898)
Léo Delibes
1891
French composer (1836–1891)
Amilcare Ponchielli
1886
Italian opera composer (1834–1886)
Octave Crémazie
1879
Edmond François Valentin About
1865
French writer (1828–1885)
Anton Schindler
1864
Associate, secretary, and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven
Thaddeus William Harris
1856
American physician (1795–1856)
Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette
1834
French mathematician (1769–1834)
Alexander J. Dallas (statesman)
1817
American politician (1759–1817)
John Moore (British Army officer)
1809
British Army officer and politician (1761–1809)
Before 1800
Edward Gibbon
1794
British essayist, historian and politician (1737–1794)
Francis Blomefield
1752
English antiquarian (1705–1752)
Ivan Trubetskoy
1750
Russian field marshal
Arnold Drakenborch
1748
Dutch classical scholar (1684-1748)
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
1747
German poet (1680-1747)
Joseph Vaz
1711
Oratorian priest and missionary (1651–1711)
Emperor Higashiyama
1710
Emperor of Japan from 1687 to 1709
Charles Annibal Fabrot
1659
French lawyer (1580–1659)
Mariana de Jesús Torres
1635
Ecuadorian Conceptionist nun (1563–1635)
Murad III
1595
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1595
Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln
1585
English peer and landowner (1512 – c. 1585)
Christiern Pedersen
1554
Johannes Schöner
1547
German priest, mathematician, cosmographer and globe maker
George Spalatin
1545
German humanist and theologian
Erasmo of Narni
1443
Italian condottiero
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter
1400
English nobleman (c. 1352–1400)
Muhammad V of Granada
1391
Sultan of Granada (1354–1359, 1362–1391)
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
1373
English nobleman (1342–1373)
Joanna of Châtillon
1354
14th-century French noblewoman and Duchess of Athens
Nikephoros Choumnos
1327
13th and 14th-century Byzantine scholar
Buqa
1289
Mongolian minister in Iran
Shinran
1263
Japanese Pure Land Buddhist who taught one is liberated through faith alone
Polyeuctus of Constantinople
970
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 956 to 970
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i
957
Abbasid director of finance for Egypt and Syria (871–957)
Gao Jifu
654