Deaths on 16 September
2000s
Robert Redford
2025
American actor and director (1936–2025)
Song Binbin
2024
Chinese revolutionary (1947–2024)
Jane Powell
2021
American actress (1929–2021)
Clive Sinclair
2021
English entrepreneur and inventor (1940–2021)
Maxim Martsinkevich
2020
Russian neo-Nazi activist (1984–2020)
H. S. Dillon
2019
Indonesian politician (1945–2019)
James B. Thayer
2018
United States Army general (1922–2018)
Marcelo Rezende
2017
Brazilian journalist and television presenter (1951–2017)
Arjan Singh
2017
Marshal of the Indian Air Force
Tarık Akan
2016
Turkish actor and film producer
Edward Albee
2016
American playwright (1928–2016)
Gabriele Amorth
2016
Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
2016
President of Italy from 1999 to 2006
W. P. Kinsella
2016
Canadian author (1935–2016)
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus
2016
French-American businessman (1932–2016)
António Mascarenhas Monteiro
2016
President of Cape Verde from 1991 to 2001
Guy Béart
2015
French singer and songwriter
Julio Brady
2015
U.S. Virgin Islands judge, politician and attorney
Kurt Oppelt
2015
Austrian figure skater (1932–2015)
Allan Wright
2015
British flying ace (1920–2015)
Scott Adams (American football)
2013
American football player (1966–2013)
Ratiba El-Hefny
2013
Musical artist
Patsy Swayze
2013
American choreographer and dancer (1927–2013)
Roman Kroitor
2012
Canadian filmmaker (1926–2012)
Julien J. LeBourgeois
2012
Friedrich Zimmermann
2012
German politician (1925–2012)
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
2011
American blues vocalist, harmonica player and drummer (1936–2011)
Enamul Haque Chowdhury
2011
Bangladeshi politician
George N. Parks
2010
American conductor
Jim Towers
2010
English footballer
Myles Brand
2009
American academic administrator (1942-2009)
Ernst Märzendorfer
2009
Austrian conductor (1921–2009)
Mary Travers
2009
American folk singer (1936–2009)
Norman Whitfield
2008
American musical artist and producer (1940–2008)
Robert Jordan
2007
American fantasy writer (1948–2007)
Floyd Curry
2006
Canadian ice hockey player
Zsuzsa Körmöczy
2006
Hungarian tennis player (1924–2006)
Harry Freedman
2005
Canadian musician (1922–2005)
Gordon Gould
2005
American physicist (1920–2005)
Michael Donaghy
2004
American poet
Sheb Wooley
2003
American musician and actor (1921–2003)
James Gregory (actor)
2002
American actor (1911–2002)
Samuel Z. Arkoff
2001
American producer of B movies (1918–2001)
1900s
McGeorge Bundy
1996
American diplomat and academic (1919–1996)
Gene Nelson
1996
American actor, dancer, screenwriter, director (1920–1996)
František Jílek
1993
Czech conductor (1913–1993)
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
1993
Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner for Indigenous rights
Millicent Fenwick
1992
American politician (1910–1992)
Olga Spessivtseva
1991
Russian ballet dancer (1895–1991)
Christopher Soames
1987
British politician (1920–1987)
Louis Réard
1984
French automobile engineer and fashion designer (1896–1984)
Richard Brautigan
1984
American writer (1935–1984)
Jean Piaget
1980
Swiss psychologist (1896–1980)
Marc Bolan
1977
English guitarist and singer (1947–1977)
Maria Callas
1977
American-born Greek soprano (1923–1977)
Bertha Lutz
1976
Brazilian scientist and politician (1894–1976)
Víctor Jara
1973
Chilean folk singer, teacher, theatre director, and political activist (1932–1973)
Ahn Eak-tai
1965
South Korean composer (1906–1965)
Fred Quimby
1965
American animation producer (1886–1965)
Hasan Polatkan
1961
Turkish politician (1915–1961)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu
1961
Turkish politician (1910–1961)
Leo Amery
1955
British Conservative politician (1873–1955)
Pedro de Cordoba
1950
American actor (1881-1950)
James Jeans
1946
English physicist, astronomer and mathematician (1877–1946)
John McCormack (tenor)
1945
Irish tenor (1884–1945)
Gustav Bauer
1944
Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to 1920
Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington
1940
English politician and governor (1860–1940)
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
1936
French polar explorer, scientist, Olympic sailer and medical doctor
George Gore
1933
American baseball player (1854–1933)
Peg Entwistle
1932
American actress (1908–1932)
Ronald Ross
1932
British Indian medical doctor and Nobel laureate (1857–1932)
Omar al-Mukhtar
1931
Libyan resistance leader (1858–1931)
Leo Fall
1925
Austrian composer
Alexander Friedmann
1925
Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician (1888–1925)
Maria Nikiforova
1919
Ukrainian anarchist (1885–1919)
C. X. Larrabee
1914
American businessman
Edward Whymper
1911
English mountaineer (1840–1911)
1800s
Ramón Emeterio Betances
1898
Puerto Rican independence advocate (1827–1898)
Antônio Carlos Gomes
1896
Brazilian composer (1836–1896)
Pavlos Kalligas
1896
Greek jurist, writer and politician (1814–1896)
Sakaigawa Namiemon
1887
Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1841)
Christian de Meza
1865
Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)
1845
Irish writer and activist
Ezekiel Hart
1843
Canadian Jewish entrepreneur and politician
Louis XVIII
1824
King of France from 1814 to 1824
John Jeffries
1819
American physician and scientist (1744–1819)
Nicolas Baudin
1803
French explorer (1754–1803)
Before 1800
Quang Trung
1792
2nd emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty of Vietnam (r. 1788–92)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
1736
Physicist and engineer (1686–1736)
James II of England
1701
King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1685 to 1688
Anne Bradstreet
1672
Anglo-American poet (1612–1672)
Mary Stuart (1605–1607)
1607
English-Scottish princess
Michael Baius
1589
Belgian theologian
Catherine Jagiellon
1583
Queen of Sweden from 1568 to 1583
Peter Niers
1581
German serial killer (c. 1540–1581)
Tomás de Torquemada
1498
Grand Inquisitor of Spain (1420–1498)
Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev
1406
Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' (1375–1406)
Antipope Clement VII
1394
Antipope from 1378 to 1394
Charles V of France
1380
King of France from 1364 to 1380
William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton
1360
English nobleman (c. 1312–1360)
John IV, Duke of Brittany
1345
Duke of Brittany from 1365 to 1399
Philip III of Navarre
1343
King of Navarre from 1328 to 1343
Pandulf Verraccio
1226
13th-century Bishop of Norwich
Vitalis of Savigny
1122
French catholic saint and preacher (1060–1122)
Bernold of Constance
1100
German chronicler (c.1054–1100)
Pope Victor III
1087
Head of the Catholic Church from 1086 to 1087
Pope Martin I
655
Head of the Catholic Church from 649 to 655
Severus II
307
Roman emperor from 306 to 307