Deaths on 16 March
2000s
Émilie Dequenne
2025
Belgian actress (1981–2025)
Jesse Colin Young
2025
American musician (1941–2025)
Dick Dale
2019
American surf rock guitarist (1937–2019)
Louise Slaughter
2018
American politician (1929–2018)
Lewis Rowland
2017
American neurologist
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
2016
Russian-American poet and mathematician
Frank Sinatra Jr.
2016
American singer, songwriter, and conductor (1944–2016)
Jack Haley (basketball)
2015
American professional basketball player (born 1964)
Don Robertson (songwriter)
2015
American songwriter and pianist (1922–2015)
Gary Bettenhausen
2014
American racing driver
Donald Crothers
2014
Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy
2014
Sierra Leonean actor, director and playwright (1936–2014)
Steve Moore (comics)
2014
British comics writer (1949–2014)
Alexander Pochinok
2014
Russian politician (1958–2014)
Jamal Nazrul Islam
2013
Bangladeshi theoretical physicist and mathematician (1939-2013)
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz
2013
Argentine lawyer, businessman, and economist (1925–2013)
Yadier Pedroso
2013
Cuban baseball player (1986–2013)
Ruchoma Shain
2013
Marina Solodkin
2013
Israeli politician (1952–2013)
Frank Thornton
2013
English actor (1921–2013)
Donald E. Hillman
2012
Takaaki Yoshimoto
2012
Japanese poet and philosopher
Richard Wirthlin
2011
American pollster
Ksenija Pajčin
2010
Musical artist
Bill Brown (cricketer)
2008
Australian cricketer (1912–2008)
Ivan Dixon
2008
American actor, director, producer (1931–2008)
Gary Hart (wrestler)
2008
American professional wrestler and manager (1942–2008)
Manjural Islam Rana
2007
Bangladeshi cricketer (1984–2007)
Todd Bell
2005
American football player (1958–2005)
Ralph Erskine (architect)
2005
British architect (1914–2005)
Dick Radatz
2005
American baseball player (1937–2005)
Vilém Tauský
2004
Rachel Corrie
2003
American activist and diarist (1979–2003)
Ronald Ferguson (polo)
2003
British Army officer (1931–2003)
Bob Wollek
2001
French racing driver (1943–2001)
Thomas Ferebee
2000
United States Air Force officer (1918–2000)
Pavel Prudnikau
2000
Belarusian writer
Michael Starr (politician)
2000
Canadian politician
Carlos Velázquez (baseball)
2000
Puerto Rican baseball player (1948–2000)
1900s
Gratien Gélinas
1999
Canadian author, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator
Derek Barton
1998
English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Esther Bubley
1998
American photographer
Eric Show
1994
American baseball player (1956-1994)
Yves Rocard
1992
French physicist
Chris Austin
1991
American musician
Jean Bellette
1991
Australian artist (1908–1991)
Ernst Bacon
1990
American composer and musician (1898–1990)
Jigger Statz
1988
American baseball player (1897–1988)
Mickey Thompson
1988
American racing driver (1928–1988)
Roger Sessions
1985
American composer, critic, and teacher of music (1896–1985)
Eddie Shore
1985
Canadian ice hockey player (1902–1985)
Arthur Godfrey
1983
American radio personality and television entertainer (1903–1983)
Fred Rose (politician)
1983
Canadian politician (1907–1983)
Jean Monnet
1979
European statesman
Kamal Jumblatt
1977
Lebanese politician and author; founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (1917–1977)
T-Bone Walker
1975
American blues musician and singer-songwriter (1910–1975)
Pie Traynor
1972
American baseball player, broadcaster, and manager (1898–1972)
Bebe Daniels
1971
American actress, singer, dancer, writer, producer (1901–1971)
Thomas E. Dewey
1971
American politician (1902–1971)
Tammi Terrell
1970
American singer-songwriter (1945–1970)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
1968
Italian-Jewish composer (1895–1968)
Gunnar Ekelöf
1968
Swedish poet and writer (1907–1968)
Thomas MacGreevy
1967
Irish poet
Alice Herz
1965
German feminist and pacifist (1882–1965)
Laura Adams Armer
1963
American artist and writer
Geng Chen (general)
1961
Chinese military officer
Václav Talich
1961
Czech conductor, violinist and musical pedagogue (1883–1961)
Leon Cadore
1958
American baseball player (1891–1958)
Constantin Brâncuși
1957
Romanian sculptor, photographer and painter (1876–1957)
Nicolas de Staël
1955
French painter (1914–1955)
Börries von Münchhausen
1945
German poet and activist
Selma Lagerlöf
1940
Swedish author (1858–1940)
Austen Chamberlain
1937
British politician (1863–1937)
Alexander von Staël-Holstein
1937
German-Baltic orientalist
Marguerite Durand
1936
French journalist and feminist (1864–1936)
John Macleod (physiologist)
1935
Scottish biochemist and physiologist (1876–1935)
Aron Nimzowitsch
1935
Danish chess player and writer (1886–1935)
Miguel Primo de Rivera
1930
Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
August von Wassermann
1925
German bacteriologist and hygienist (1866-1925)
Gaston Calmette
1914
French journalist and newspaper editor
Charles Albert Gobat
1914
Swiss politician, lawyer and educational administrator (1843–1914)
John Murray (oceanographer)
1914
British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist (1841–1914)
Max Burckhard
1912
Theatre director (1854–1912)
John O'Leary (Fenian)
1907
Irish separatist and leading Fenian
Roy Bean
1903
American judge (c. 1825 – 1903)
1800s
Joseph Medill
1899
American newspaper editor, publisher, and politician (1823–1899)
Aubrey Beardsley
1898
English illustrator and author (1872–1898)
Samuel F. Miller (U.S. politician)
1892
19th century American politician
Hippolyte Carnot
1888
French statesman (1801–1888)
Art Croft
1884
American baseball player (1855–1884)
David Wilmot (politician)
1868
American politician and judge (1814–1868)
Félix Savart
1841
French physicist
Nathaniel Bowditch
1838
American astronomer and mathematician (1773–1838)
Henrik Gabriel Porthan
1804
Finnish professor and rector (1739–1804)
Before 1800
Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
1747
Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
George Bähr
1738
German architect
Benjamin Wadsworth (clergyman)
1737
President of Harvard College
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
1736
Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)
James Craggs the Elder
1721
British politician (1657–1721)
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
1698
Danish noble and writer (1621–1698)
John Leverett
1679
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Nova Scotia (1616-1679)
Jean de Brébeuf
1649
French Jesuit missionary and martyr (1593–1649)
Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland)
1559
16th-century English politician
Anne Neville
1485
Queen of England from 1483 to 1485
Ladislaus Hunyadi
1457
Hungarian nobleman (1431–1457)
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
1410
English nobleman and politician (c. 1373–1410)
Margaret III, Countess of Flanders
1405
Countess of Flanders from 1384 to 1405
Joan, Countess of Ponthieu
1279
Queen of Castile and León from 1237 to 1252
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
1185
King of Jerusalem from 1174 to 1185
Henry I, Count of Champagne
1181
Count of Champagne from 1152 to 1181
Adalbert of Hamburg-Bremen
1072
Archbishop of Bremen from 1043 to 1072
Heribert of Cologne
1021
German prelate
Pi Guangye
943
Chinese statesman (877–943)
Takin al-Khazari
933
10th-century Abbasid governor of Egypt
Xiao Mian
842
Tang Chinese politician
Valentinian III
455
Western Roman emperor from 425 to 455
Heraclius (primicerius sacri cubiculi)
455
AD 37
37
Calendar year