Deaths on 16 July
2000s
Connie Francis
2025
American singer and actress (1937–2025)
Joe Bryant
2024
American basketball head coach and player (1954–2024)
Norm Hewitt
2024
New Zealand rugby union player (1968–2024)
David Morrow (commentator)
2024
Australian sports commentator (1953–2024)
Kevin Mitnick
2023
American hacker (1963–2023)
Biz Markie
2021
American rapper and singer (1964–2021)
Tony Taylor (baseball)
2020
Cuban baseball player (1935–2020)
John Paul Stevens
2019
United States Supreme Court justice from 1975 to 2010
George A. Romero
2017
American filmmaker (1940–2017)
Denis Avey
2015
British Army soldier during World War II (1919–2015)
Evelyn Ebsworth
2015
British chemist and academic
Alcides Ghiggia
2015
Uruguayan footballer (1926-2015)
Jack Goody
2015
English social anthropologist (1919–2015)
Karl Albrecht
2014
German entrepreneur (1920–2014)
Mary Ellen Otremba
2014
American politician
Johnny Winter
2014
American blues guitarist and singer (1944–2014)
Heinz Zemanek
2014
Austrian computer pioneer
Talia Castellano
2013
American internet celebrity
Alex Colville
2013
Canadian artist (1920–2013)
Marv Rotblatt
2013
American baseball player (1927–2013)
William Asher
2012
American film and television producer, director, and screenwriter (1921–2012)
Stephen Covey
2012
American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker
Gilbert Esau
2012
American politician
Ed Lincoln
2012
Brazilian musician, composer and arranger
Masaharu Matsushita
2012
Japanese businessman (1912–2012)
Kitty Wells
2012
American country music singer (1919–2012)
Forrest Blue
2011
American football player (1945–2011)
Jo Stafford
2008
American singer (1917–2008)
Lindsay Thompson
2008
Australian politician (1923–2008)
Caterina Bueno
2007
Italian singer and folk music historian
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller
2006
American politician (1948–2006)
Pietro Consagra
2005
Italian sculptor (1920–2005)
Camillo Felgen
2005
Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, DJ, and TV presenter
George Busbee
2004
American politician (1927-2004)
Charles Sweeney
2004
United States Air Force general (1919 – 2004)
Celia Cruz
2003
Cuban singer (1925–2003)
Carol Shields
2003
Canadian writer
John Cocke (computer scientist)
2002
American computer scientist and mathematician
Terry Gordy
2001
American professional wrestler (1961–2001)
Morris (cartoonist)
2001
Belgian comics artist
1900s
John F. Kennedy Jr.
1999
American attorney and magazine publisher (1960–1999)
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
1999
Wife of John F. Kennedy Jr. (1966–1999)
Alan Macnaughton
1999
Canadian politician (1903–1999)
John Henrik Clarke
1998
African-American historian (1915–1998)
Adolf von Thadden
1996
German politician (1921–1996)
May Sarton
1995
Belgian and American writer (1912–1995)
Stephen Spender
1995
English poet and man of letters (1909–1995)
Julian Schwinger
1994
American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
Buck Buchanan
1992
American football player (1940–1992)
Meindert De Jong
1991
American writer (1906–1991)
Robert Motherwell
1991
American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker (1915–1991)
Frank Rizzo
1991
American police officer and politician (1920–1991)
Robert Blackburn (educationalist)
1990
Irish educationalist
Miguel Muñoz
1990
Spanish footballer and manager (1922–1990)
Herbert von Karajan
1989
Austrian conductor (1908–1989)
Heinrich Böll
1985
German writer (1917–1985)
Wayne King
1985
American songwriter and bandleader (1901–1985)
C. R. Swart
1982
South African politician (1894–1982)
Harry Chapin
1981
American singer-songwriter and activist (1942–1981)
James Scott Douglas
1969
British racing driver and baronet
Boris Artzybasheff
1965
Russian and American artist (1899–1965)
Rauf Orbay
1964
Turkish naval officer and diplomat (1881–1964)
Albert Kesselring
1960
German military officer (1885–1960)
John P. Marquand
1960
American novelist (1893–1960)
Herms Niel
1954
German composer (1888–1954)
Hilaire Belloc
1953
French-English writer (1870–1953)
Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)
1949
Russian poet and playwright (1866–1949)
Saul Raphael Landau
1943
Polish Jewish lawyer and Zionist activist
Bartholomeus Roodenburch
1939
Dutch swimmer
Zheng Zhengqiu
1935
Chinese film producer (1889–1935)
Philipp Scharwenka
1917
Musical artist
Ellen G. White
1915
American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
1800s
Edmond de Goncourt
1896
French writer and critic (1822–1896)
Ned Buntline
1886
American novelist
Rosalía de Castro
1885
Spanish Galician poet, writer (1837–1885)
Mary Todd Lincoln
1882
First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Edward Deas Thomson
1879
Australian politician (1800–1879)
Dmitry Pisarev
1868
Russian writer and nihilist philosopher (1840–1868)
Sarah Allen (missionary)
1849
First missionary woman of the AME (1764–1849)
Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron
1831
French general (1763–1831)
Before 1800
George Howard (British Army officer)
1796
British soldier and politician (1718–1796)
Francis Cotes
1770
English painter (1726–1770)
Giuseppe Crespi
1747
Italian painter (1665–1747)
Johann David Heinichen
1729
German composer and music theorist
François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois
1691
Secretary of State for War under Louis XIV
John Pearson (bishop)
1686
17th century English theologian and scholar
Andreas Gryphius
1664
German poet and dramatist
Masaniello
1647
Italian fisherman and leader of the Neapolitan Revolt of 1647
Isabella de' Medici
1576
Italian noblewoman (1542–1576)
Anne of Cleves
1557
Queen of England in 1540
Anne Askew
1546
English Protestant martyr (1521–1546)
João da Nova
1509
Portuguese-Galician explorer (1460–1509)
Al-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt
1344
Al-Malik al-Nasir
Charles I of Hungary
1342
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1308 to 1342
Emperor Go-Uda
1324
Emperor of Japan from 1274 to 1287
Pope Innocent III
1216
Head of the Catholic Church from 1198 to 1216
William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
1212
Scottish noble (died 1212)
Irmgard of Chiemsee
866
Beatified German nun (c.831-866)
Sisenandus of Beja
851
Christian deacon and martyr
Fulrad
784
French religious leader