August 16 Deaths |
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| August 16th, 2007 (August 16 2007) | Death | Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (born in 1924) | |
| August 16th, 2007 (August 16 2007) | Death | Bahaedin Adab, Iranian MP (born in 1945) | |
| August 16th, 2007 (August 16 2007) | Death | The Missing Link, professional wrestler (born in 1939) | |
| August 16th, 2006 (August 16 2006) | Death | Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (born in 1944) | |
| August 16th, 2006 (August 16 2006) | Death | Herschel Green, American pilot (born in 1920) | |
| August 16th, 2006 (August 16 2006) | Death | Jon Nodtveidt, Swedish musician (born in 1975) | |
| August 16th, 2006 (August 16 2006) | Death | Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (born in 1912) | |
| August 16th, 2005 (August 16 2005) | Death | Joe Ranft, American animator (born in 1960) | |
| August 16th, 2005 (August 16 2005) | Death | Frere Roger, Swiss monk and mystic (born in 1915) | |
| August 16th, 2005 (August 16 2005) | Death | Vassar Clements, American musician (born in 1928) | |
| August 16th, 2005 (August 16 2005) | Death | William Corlett, English children s writer(born in 1938) | |
| August 16th, 2005 (August 16 2005) | Death | Vicky Moscholiou, Greek singer (born in 1943) | |
| August 16th, 2004 (August 16 2004) | Death | Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey coach (born in 1950) | |
| August 16th, 2004 (August 16 2004) | Death | Carl Mydans, American photographer (born in 1907) | |
| August 16th, 2004 (August 16 2004) | Death | Robert Quiroga, American boxer (born in 1969) | |
| August 16th, 2003 (August 16 2003) | Death | Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (born in 1928) | Idi Amin Quotes |
| August 16th, 2002 (August 16 2002) | Death | Jeff Corey, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| August 16th, 2002 (August 16 2002) | Death | Abu Nidal, Palestinian political leader (born in 1937) | |
| August 16th, 2002 (August 16 2002) | Death | John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (born in 1933) | |
| August 16th, 1999 (August 16 1999) | Death | Pee Wee King, American country musician and songwriter (born in 1914) | |
| August 16th, 1997 (August 16 1997) | Death | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (born in 1948) | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes |
| August 16th, 1997 (August 16 1997) | Death | Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright and actor (born in 1915) | |
| August 16th, 1995 (August 16 1995) | Death | J.P. McCarthy, American radio personality (born in 1933) | |
| August 16th, 1993 (August 16 1993) | Death | Stewart Granger, British film actor (born in 1913) | |
| August 16th, 1991 (August 16 1991) | Death | Shamu, One of the famous whales that star at SeaWorld (born in 1975) | |
| August 16th, 1991 (August 16 1991) | Death | Luigi Zampa, Italian film director (born in 1905) | |
| August 16th, 1990 (August 16 1990) | Death | Pat O Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (born in 1925) | |
| August 16th, 1989 (August 16 1989) | Death | Amanda Blake, American actress (born in 1929) | |
| August 16th, 1986 (August 16 1986) | Death | Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (born in 1921) | |
| August 16th, 1983 (August 16 1983) | Death | Earl Averill, American baseball player (born in 1902) | |
| August 16th, 1979 (August 16 1979) | Death | John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (born in 1895) | |
| August 16th, 1978 (August 16 1978) | Death | Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (born in 1888) | |
| August 16th, 1977 (August 16 1977) | Death | Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (born in 1935) | Elvis Presley Quotes |
| August 16th, 1975 (August 16 1975) | Death | Vladimir Kuts, Ukrainian-born runner (born in 1927) | |
| August 16th, 1973 (August 16 1973) | Death | Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1888) | |
| August 16th, 1972 (August 16 1972) | Death | Pierre Brasseur, French actor (born in 1905) | |
| August 16th, 1971 (August 16 1971) | Death | Spyros Skouras, Greek-American movie executive, chairman of the Twentieth Century Fox (born in 1893) | |
| August 16th, 1961 (August 16 1961) | Death | Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (born in 1870) | |
| August 16th, 1959 (August 16 1959) | Death | Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (born in 1879) | |
| August 16th, 1957 (August 16 1957) | Death | Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (born in 1881) | |
| August 16th, 1956 (August 16 1956) | Death | Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (born in 1882) | Bela Lugosi Quotes |
| August 16th, 1952 (August 16 1952) | Death | Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (born in 1866) | |
| August 16th, 1951 (August 16 1951) | Death | Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (born in 1887) | |
| August 16th, 1949 (August 16 1949) | Death | Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (born in 1900) | |
| August 16th, 1948 (August 16 1948) | Death | Babe Ruth, American baseball player (born in 1895) | Babe Ruth Quotes |
| August 16th, 1938 (August 16 1938) | Death | Robert Johnson, American blues singer and guitarist (born in 1911) | |
| August 16th, 1938 (August 16 1938) | Death | Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (born in 1864) | |
| August 16th, 1921 (August 16 1921) | Death | King Peter I of Serbia (born in 1844) | |
| August 16th, 1907 (August 16 1907) | Death | James Hector, Scottish geologist (born in 1834) | |
| August 16th, 1900 (August 16 1900) | Death | Eca de Queiroz, Portuguese writer (born in 1845) | |
| August 16th, 1899 (August 16 1899) | Death | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (born in 1811) | |
| August 16th, 1893 (August 16 1893) | Death | Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (born in 1825) | |
| August 16th, 1888 (August 16 1888) | Death | John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (born in 1831) | |
| August 16th, 1886 (August 16 1886) | Death | Sri Ramakrishna, Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda (born in 1836) | Swami Vivekananda Quotes |
| August 16th, 1855 (August 16 1855) | Death | Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?) | |
| August 16th, 1836 (August 16 1836) | Death | Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (born in 1755) | |
| August 16th, 1791 (August 16 1791) | Death | Charles-Francois de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (born in 1719) | |
| August 16th, 1733 (August 16 1733) | Death | Matthew Tindal, English deist (born in 1657) | |
| August 16th, 1705 (August 16 1705) | Death | Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and scientist (born in 1654) | |
| August 16th, 1678 (August 16 1678) | Death | Andrew Marvell, English poet (born in 1621) | Andrew Marvell Quotes |
| August 16th, 1661 (August 16 1661) | Death | Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (born in 1608) | |
| August 16th, 1532 (August 16 1532) | Death | John, Elector of Saxony (born in 1468) | |
| August 16th, 1518 (August 16 1518) | Death | Loyset Compere, French composer | |
| August 16th, 1445 (August 16 1445) | Death | Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (born in 1424) | |
| August 16th, 1443 (August 16 1443) | Death | Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (born in 1434) | |
| August 16th, 1419 (August 16 1419) | Death | Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (born in 1361) | |
| August 16th, 1358 (August 16 1358) | Death | Duke Albert II of Austria (born in 1298) | |
| August 16th, 1327 (August 16 1327) | Death | Roch, French saint (born in 1295) | |
| August 16th, 1297 (August 16 1297) | Death | John II of Trebizond (born in 1262) | |
| August 16th, 1027 (August 16 1027) | Death | Giorgi I, King of Georgia (born in 998) | |
